› Alexander Grudzinskiy

Грудзинский Александр Олегович

Professor, Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Director of the Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Head of the Department of University Management and Innovation in Education, Lobachevsky University, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

 

Education, Degree, Title

Alexander Grudzinskiy graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1977. His Candidate of Sciences degree in Physics and Mathematics (1985) followed a postgraduate course at the Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). He received his Doctor of Sciences degree in Sociology from the Saint Petersburg University in 2005 and the title of Professor from Lobachevsky University in 2006.

 

Professional activities 

Alexander Grudzinskiy started his academic carrier at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Lobachevsky University in 1979. Since that time, he worked at Lobachevsky University in different positions. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education (1987-2012), the Dean of the Faculty of Management and Business (1994-2014), the Vice-Rector for International Affairs (2003-2012), and the First Vice-Rector (2012-2015). He was the Executive Director of the Academic Excellence Program of the Lobachevsky University aimed at reaching leading positions among the world’s research and education centers in 2013-2015 (“5-100” Program). Starting 2014, he is the Director of the Institute Economics and Entrepreneurship and the Head of the Department of University Management and Innovation in Education.

He was the Visiting Research Fellow at the Danish Technical University in 1990-1991.

Alexander Grudzinskiy is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal «Vestnik (Bulletin) of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod: Social Sciences Series», the member of Editorial Board of the Journal “University Management: Practice and Analysis”, the member of International Council of the Journal “Higher Education in Russia”, and the member of Editorial Council of the Journal “Science. Innovation. Education”.

Prof. Grudzinskiy’s scientific interests include sociology of management, sociology of education, university management, and knowledge transfer.

 

International activities

Alexander Grudzinskiy is the member of the Bologna Working Group of Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science (from 2014). He is the Russian representative in the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) Advisory Group 1 on international cooperation.

He is the member of the Heads of University Management & Administration Network Europe (HUMANE) and represents Russia in the HUMANE Round Table (HUMANE Assembly).

During the period of 2002-2010, he was the member of the Deans and European Academics Network (DEAN) Executive Committee.

He is an originator, project team member, and coordinator of many international projects in the framework of the European Tempus and Erasmus Plus Programmes, US-RF EURECA Program, and others.

 

Selected Publications

In English

  • Grudzinskiy А., Zakharova L., Bureeva N., Leonova I., Mahalin A. Personal Competences of Succession Pool for Management Positions within University Competitiveness Enhancement: Meaning and Identifications // Procedia — Social and Behavioral Sciences. V. 214. 2015. pp. 586-595. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815061194
  • Grudzinskiy A., Petrova O. Comparative Method of Diagnostics of Organizational Culture of Innovative University// Asian Social Science; Vol. 11, 2015, No. 3; pp.224-230. URL: http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/43909/23955
  • Grudzinskiy A., Bedny A. Raising Innovators as a Major Task of Leading Universities//Going Global: Knowledge-Based Economies for 21st Century Nations, Edited by Mary Stiasny and Tim Gore, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, V.3, 2014, pp. 5-12
  • Grudzinskiy A., Bedny A. Innovation Infrastructure of University as Laboratory for Training Innovators // Knowledge Transfer. The New Core Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions Practice and Perspectives in Russia and Germany, Gabriele Gorska (Ed.). 2012. Kassel University Press GmbH, Kassel. pp. 47-60
  • Grudzinskiy A. The University as an Entrepreneurial Organization // Russian Education and Society. A Journal of Translations, January 2005. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, NY 10504
  • Groudzinski A. A project-oriented approach to university management. //Entrepreneurialism and the transformation of Russian universities. UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 7-9 Rue Eugene Delacroix, 75116, Paris, 2004, pp. 122-137
  • Grudzinskiy A. Responding to new consumers / Proceedings of the Deans’ European Academic Network Third Annual Conference, Berlin 8-10 October 2001, Freie Universitat Berlin, pp. 43-53

 

In Russian

  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Chuprunov Е.V. (2016). [Strategic change of universities for enhancing competitiveness]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 3, pp. 132-140. (In Russ.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Chuprunov E.V. (2016). [Organizational change at university for reaching the strategic development goal].Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 3, pp. 117-123. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Malinin V.A. (2015). [Integration of shool and HEI in innovative knowledge society: “entrepreneurial” model].Vestnik Nizhegorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. N.I. Lobachevskogo. Seriya: Sotsial’nye nauki [Vestnik of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. Series: Social Sciences]. No. 1 (37), pp. 201-210. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Bedny A.B. (2014). [Innovative university and his graduate – innovator].Sotsiologiya obrazovaniya [Sociology of education]. No. 5, pp. 45-54. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Bedny A.B., Grudzinskiy A.O. (2014). [Internationalization as a driver for university innovative development].Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 4-5, pp. 114-120. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Zakharova L.N., Saralieva Z.M. (2014). [Technology of fundamental functional competences model development for the University personnel in the context of improving competitiveness].Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 1, pp. 24-32. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Petrova O.V. (2014). [Comparative method for diagnosing organizational culture of innovative University]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 2, pp. 37-42. (In Russ.)
  • Chuprunov E.V., Grudzinskiy A.O. (2013). [Technology of successful university acquisition: the experience of Lobachevsky state university of Nizhni Novgorod].Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 4, pp. 21-26. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Chuprunov E.V., Strongin R.G.,Grudzinskiy A.O. (2013). [A concept and an experience of innovative university strategy development]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 8-9, pp. 11-18. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Bednyi A.B. (2012). [A concept of innovative university: a tetrahedron model].Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 12, pp. 29-36. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Bedny B.I., Plekhova Y.O., Bedny A.B. (2012). [The role and the structure of innovation entrepreneurship education in a research university].Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 3(79), pp. 56-63. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Chuprunov E.V., Grudzinskiy A.O. (2012). [A development of innovative thinking – a new impulse toward “university-high school” cooperation]. Shkola budushchego [The School of the Future]. No. 3, pp. 3-7. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Krasnodubskaya S.V. (2012). [An accelerated higher education for the gifted children].Shkola budushchego [The School of the Future]. No. 3, pp. 8-13. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Chuprunov E.V., Grudzinskiy A.O., Grebenev I.V. (2011). [What a role innovative universities might play in “Our New School” National educational program].Alma Mater (Vestnik vysshei shkoly) [Alma Mater (High School Herald)]. No. 5, pp. 11-17. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Bedny A.B. (2010). [University knowledge transfer for a sustainable growth].Alma Mater (Vestnik vysshei shkoly) [Alma Mater (High School Herald)]. No. 9, pp. 25-28. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Chuprunov E.V., Grudzinskiy A.O., Malinin V.A. (2010). [Innovative university and a new school: the guidelines of development].Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 4, pp. 3-7. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (2009). [A European dimension in the university management development].Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 9, pp. 86-92. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Bednyi A.B. (2009). [Knowledge transfer as an innovative university function].Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 9, pp. 66-71. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Strongin R.G.,Grudzinskiy A.O. (2008). [A project-oriented management of an innovative university]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 4, pp. 26-31. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Strongin R.G.,Petrov A.V., Grudzinskiy A.O. (2007). [Quality assurance in education: a policy and system (an experience of Nizhni Novgorod University)]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 11, pp. 3-9. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O., Mashina I.A. (2007). [Recognition of non-formal and informal learning in a context social institute of education transformation].Vestnik Nizhegorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. N.I. Lobachevskogo. Seriya: Sotsial’nye nauki [Vestnik of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. Series: Social Sciences]. No. 4, pp. 11-20. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Strongin R.G.,Grudzinskiy A.O. (2006). [Innovative university: a new approach to management]. Analiticheskii vestnik. Sovet Federatsii Federal’nogo sobraniya Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Analiticheskoe upravlenie apparata Soveta Federatsii. Seriya: Osnovnye problemy sotsial’nogo razvitiya Rossii. Vysshee professional’noe obrazovanie i kadrovaya politika v sovremennoi Rossii [Analytical Bulletin of the Russian Federation Council. Series: Main problems of Russian social development. Higher professional education and personnel development policy of the modern Russia]. No. 25 (313), pp. 51-62. (In Russ.)
  • Strongin R.G.,Maksimov G.A., Grudzinskiy A.O. (2006). [University as an integrator in the knowledge based society]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 1, pp. 15-27. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Balabanova E.S., Bednyi A.B. (2005). [Сoncentration of the property in the agriculture – a path toward an effective enterprise]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 4, pp. 69-78. (In Russ.)
  • Strongin R.G.,Grudzinskiy A.O. (2004). [Mission of the Nizhni Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 3, pp. 21-26. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Balabanova E.S., Pekushkina O.A. (2004). [European technology transfer: cooperation without “a brain drain”]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 11, pp. 123-131. (In Russ.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (2004). [Strategic university management: from a plan to an innovative mission]. Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 1(30), pp. 9-20. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (2003). [A concept of a project-oriented university].Universitetskoe upravlenie: praktika i analiz [University Management: Practice and Analysis]. No. 3(26), pp. 24-37. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (2003). [University as an entrepreneurial organization]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 4, pp. 113-121. (In Russ.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Balabanova E.S., Kudryashov Yu.G. (2002). [Modernization of enterprises: factors and tendencies]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 6, pp. 18-28. (In Russ.)
  • Khokhlov A.F., Strongin R.G.,Grudzinskiy A.O. (2002). [A project-oriented university]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher Education in Russia]. No. 2, pp. 3-11. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O.,Balabanova E.S. (2001). [Institutional conditions for technology transfer]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological studies]. 4, pp. 39-48. (In Russ.)
  • Grudzinski A.O. (1999). [Commercialization of research and higher education]. Vestnik Rossiiskogo Universiteta Druzhby narodov [RUDN Journal]. 4 (1-2), pp. 78-82. (In Russ.)
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (1997). [Technology transfer as a profession]. «Kommertsializatsiya tekhnologii: Rossiiskii i mirovoi opyt». M.: ANKh pri Pravitel’stve RF [“Commercialization of technologies: a Russian and world experience. Moscow. The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration]. Pp. 247-258. (In Russ.)

 

 Monographs

In Russian

  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (et al.) (2016) Sotsial’nye problemy regiona [Social problems of the region]. N. Novgorod: NISOTS , 244 p.
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (et al.) (2005) Upravlenie v vysshei shkole: opyt, tendentsii, perspektivy. Analiticheskii doklad [Management in Higher Educatijn: an experience, tendencies, and future trends. Analytical report]. Moscow: Logos , 541 p.
  • Grudzinskiy A.O. (2004) Proektno-orientirovannyi universitet. Professional’naya predprinimatel’skaya organizatsiya vuza [Project-oriented university. Professional entrepreneurial organization of HEI]. N. Novgorod: N.Novgorod Univ. Publ., 370 p.

 

Identifiers

  • Russian Science Index (РИНЦ) Author ID: 304675
  • Scopus Author ID: 6506510582
  • WoS Researcher ID: S-5236-2016
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