With his education and extensive professional experience, Mr Płoszajski conducts research at the Warsaw School of Economics, advises corporations, and serves on the Supervisory Board of Inter Cars S.A.rd.
He holds a degree in Management from the University of Łódź and Harvard Business School, USA. Mr Płoszajski received scholarships from The Ford Foundation, The British Academy, CNRS of Paris, The Swiss Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and DAAD.He was a Research Scholar at Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in USA.
In 1971−1998, he worked as a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), serving as Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology from 1987 to 1991. In 1993−1998, he was General Director of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Emeritus of the Warsaw School of Economics. In 1994–2018, Mr Płoszajski was the Head of the Chair of Management Theory of the Warsaw School of Economics.
Pro-Rector for International Cooperation in the 2005−2008 term of office. Founder of the Polish-Japanese Management Centre and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Centre at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Lecturer for the Executive MBA programme at the Warsaw School of Economics. Author of over 220 publications. Recently his research has focused on the concept of New Economy, technology and its impact on business models, artificial intelligence, hypercompetitive strategies, prosumption and ‘new consumer’ marketing. Adviser to and lecturer at a number of Polish and international corporations, including: Samsung, HP, PZU SA, PKO SA, BreBank, Millenium Bank, BNP Paribas, Kredyt Bank, Orlen, Lotos, Mastercard, Masterfood, Microsoft, UNIBEP, TP SA, Orange, Era, ING, Sybase, Wolters Kluwer, P&G, L’Oreal, McKinsey, Auchan, Kompania Piwowarska, Lafarge, Microsoft, and IBM. Member of the Advisory Board at CIONET (Chief Information Officer Network). He received the Digital Shapers 2018 Award (in Education), Special Economics Personality (2017) Award from the Northern Chamber of Commerce of Szczecin, and
a Medal for outstanding performance in banking from the Polish Bank Association (2017). He was awarded the Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
He is an independent member of the Supervisory Board.