Department of Corporate Leadership and Marketing

We are delighted to welcome you to the webpage of the Department of Corporate Leadership and Marketing at Széchenyi István University. Our Department aims to provide high quality education and research in the field of management and marketing, contributing to the success of our students and partners. Our wide range of educational offerings covers all aspects of management and leadership. We impart up-to-date knowledge known in the world of business and enterprise, so that our students can start their careers in the workplace with skills they can apply.

We are proud that our department is the largest team in the faculty, which has made significant progress in recent years. Today, in addition to more than 30 professional full-time colleagues, we have at least 20 external partners (business leaders, corporate experts, consultants) supporting our teaching and research work, providing the most up-to-date and practical knowledge to our students.

Under the leadership of Dr. Attila Kurucz, our department is committed to excellence and innovation. All of our instructors and researchers possess high-level professional knowledge and experience, which they are happy to share with our students and partners. Furthermore, our scientific results are published in internationally respected conferences, journals and books.

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Attila Kurucz PhD, head of department

Research profile

Our research focuses on topics related to the way companies are operating. These include digitalisation, managerial decisions, business processes, innovation, business communication, organisational development, consumer behaviour and marketing analysis of markets.

Through these, we aim to enrich the professional community with new and valuable scientific results. We are also connected to global trends, so our research focuses on sustainability, equality, diversity and other economic trends.

Our departmental news

Departmental secretariat

Zsófia Kiss-Csörnyei
Faculty secretarial assistant

Our lecturers

Attila Kurucz PhD
Head of department, associate professor
Almelhem Marah Samir Nayif
Assistant lecturer
Judit Bilinovics Sipos
Assistant lecturer
Tihana Czakó-Vasic
Assistant lecturer
László Buics PhD
Associate professor
Adrienn Dernóczi-Polyák PhD
Associate Dean, associate professor
Tibor Dőry PhD
Associate professor
Boglárka Eisingerné Balassa PhD
Associate professor
Gábor Élő PhD
Associate professor
Szandra Gobos PhD
Senior lecturer
Nikolett Gyurián Nagy PhD
Associate professor
Péter Huszka PhD
Associate professor
Szonja Jenei PhD
Senior lecturer
László Józsa PhD
Professor
Veronika Keller PhD
Associate professor
Petra Kézai PhD
Senior lecturer
Tamás Kolossváry PhD
Senior lecturer
Viktória Magyar-Stifter PhD
Senior lecturer
Ilona Papp PhD
Associate professor
Petra Platz PhD
Senior lecturer
Szabolcs Rámháp PhD
Associate professor
Edit Süle PhD
Associate professor
Zsolt Roland Szabó PhD
Associate professor
Eszter Szabó-Szentgróti Eszter PhD
Associate professor
Gábor Szabó-Szentgróti PhD
Associate Dean, associate professor
Zoltán Szegedi PhD
Professor emeritus
László Tamándl PhD
Associate professor
Tamás Vinkóczi PhD
Associate professor
Patrícia Horváth
Assistant lecturer
Andrea Kárpáti
Assistant lecturer
Veronika Nagy
Assistant lecturer
Irma Potháczky Rácz
Assistant lecturer
Rejeb Abderahman
Research fellow
Nikolett Szabó-Cseszneki
Assistant lecturer