The Department of Business Informatics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdańsk, was invited to participate in the international research World IT Project. Its purpose was to identify, compare and evaluate the organizational, technological and individual problems of IT employees around the world and confront them with the organizational culture across various civilization circles.
Research teams from academic centres involved in business informatics from 37 countries participated in the project.
The Polish research team was composed of prof. dr hab. Stanisław Wrycza (Lead Investigator), dr Damian Gajda (Country Investigator), prof. Prashant Palvia (University of North Carolina, USA) and prof. Aykut Hamit Turan (Sakarya University, Turkey). The Memorandum of Understanding defining the contents and framework for cooperation was approved in January 2014. The project itself was carried out in 2014-2018, and the final, collective research results were presented in a book published in 2020.
The first results had been published as research-in-progress two years into the project: Wrycza S., Gajda D., Palvia P., Turan AH, Information Technology Occupational Culture in Poland. Methodological, Organizational and Technological Issues, GITMA (Global Information Technology Management Association) Proceedings, GITMA World Conference August 9-10, 2016, San Diego, California.
The final results of the Polish team's research were published in Wrycza S., Gajda D., Palvia P., Information Technology Issues in Poland (Chapter 27), in: Palvia P. et al. (eds) The World IT Project World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business, 2020.
Chapter by chapter, research teams from 37 countries presented the results of their studies. More research conducted as part of the World IT Project will be published in distinguished international Business IT journals.
Translation: Wioleta Karwacka