Konrad Peszynski

Associate Professor Konrad Peszynski

Undergraduate Business Program Director

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Awards:
2014 – Teaching Excellence Award - Priority area – High impact strategies for progression, retention and attainment, Higher Education - For sustained excellence through student-centred teaching that engages students to promote high levels of attainment in the discipline of supply chain management.
2008 - Best Paper Award - ACS Environmental Sustainability in ICT Molla, A, Cooper, V, Corbitt, B, Deng, H, Peszynski, K, Pittayachawan, S, & Teoh, S Y (2008). E-readiness to g-readiness: developing a green information technology readiness framework. Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Christchurch, New Zealand.
2006 - PhD Thesis nominated by the School of Information Systems at Deakin University for the ACPHIS (Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems) medal for best Australian PhD in Information Systems.
2004 - Received the inaugural Vice-Chancellors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching and Learning at Deakin University.
2004 - Nominated for the Australian Awards for University Training for an innovative and practical approach to team teaching in large, first year classes.

Industry Experience:
Current Teaching Responsibilities

INTE1208 – eProcurement and Supply Chain Technologies
ISYS2394 – Globalisation and Business IT
ISYS2380/ISYS2381 - Business Globalisation: A Study Abroad - Canada

Past Teaching Responsibilities:
OMGT2088 – International Logistics
ISYS2396 – Professional Business Practice
ISYS2391 - Strategic Information Systems and Accounting
ISYS2396 - Enterprise Systems

Non-academic positions

  • Education Integrator
  • GS1 Australia
  • , Australia
  • 2005 – 2006

Supervisor projects

  • Design and Development of Serious Games for Accounting Education
  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Ethic Education and Serious Games: A New Code of Ethics
  • 6 Oct 2022
  • Platform business models vs. value chains: examining the principles of value creation, destruction and redistribution in the rideshare market owing to the emergence of the digital business models in the platform economy: a discovery approach
  • 4 Feb 2021
  • Examining the Usage of Persuasive System Design to Drive Motivation for Learning Programming
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • the antecedents and outcomes of adopting e-markets by SMEs: a study in Vietnam
  • 21 May 2019
  • Factors Influencing Early Supplier/Contractor Involvement in Public Procurement and Their Impacts on the Outcome of the Partnership
  • 11 May 2018
  • Exploring the Adoption of Building Information Modelling Technology using the TOE Framework in the Saudi Construction Industry
  • 1 Nov 2017
  • Antecedents and Consequences of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) Success: A South Korean Perspective
  • 18 Aug 2017
  • The Enablers and Outcomes of Logistics Benefits of Clusters
  • 5 Jun 2017
  • Modelling the Factors Affecting Urban Residential Fires - A Case Study of Melbourne
  • 7 Mar 2016
  • Managing demand and supply in Chinese fashion apparel firms: an exploratory study under the fourth industrial structural change
  • 3 Sep 2015
  • The Role of Power on Procurement and Supply Chain Management Systems in a Humanitarian Organisation
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Situational Incompetence: an investigation into the causes of failure of a large scale IT project
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Exploring agile supply chain for creating innovative products closer to the end-user
  • 5 Feb 2013

Teaching interests

Supply chain management, eBusiness, e-learning, information systems implementation, strategy and policy, the social aspects of information and the relationship of culture to information.

Research interests

Information Systems, Business and Management, Library and Information Studies, Transportation and Freight Services, Other Information and Computing Sciences, Public Health and Health Services

Dr Peszynski's specific research interests include supply chain management and associated technologies, eBusiness, eProcurement and the social aspects of information.

His PhD titled “Power and Politics in a System Implementation” was awarded in 2006 at Deakin University (Victoria, Australia). His PhD had a strong focus on the social issues surrounding systems implementation. The study aimed to identify the role of power and politics in systems implementation.

Since joining RMIT, Konrad has been involved in the School of Business IT and Logistics and teaches into the Masters of Strategic Procurement, Masters of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Masters of Business (Information Technology) and the Masters of Commerce.

He has successfully supervised PhD candidates and Masters of Research candidates as either the senior supervisor or the associate supervisor. Konrad is currently the Higher Degree by Research Coordinator in the School of Business IT and Logistics.

Research Projects
January 2010 - December 2010, Business Value of Web 2.0 within Australia in 2010. Project conducted by Professor Mohini Singh, Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Dr Konrad Peszynski, and Dr Paul Cerotti, University Research Seed Funding
January 2010 - June 2010, Solutions to delivery optimization and cost issues in the company's Bayswater hub and spoke structure.
January 2007- December 2007, E-business assimilation and its effects on the growth and export performance of Australian horticulture firms. RMIT Emerging Researcher Grant.
October 2006 -December 2007, E-business assimilation and its effects on the growth and export performance of Australian horticulture firms. RMIT Emerging Researcher Grant, Joint project with Konrad Peszynski.
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.