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Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author(s)/Editor(s): Zlatko Nedelko (University of Maribor, Slovenia)and Vojko Potocan (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Copyright: ©2019
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3250-7
ISBN13: 9781522532507
ISBN10: 1522532501
EISBN13: 9781522532514

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In order for organizations to be successful, managers must continuously contribute new innovations and support new business ideas and methods. Addressing the link between personal values and managerial ingenuity can accelerate innovativeness in organizations and allow a business to thrive in competitive environments.

Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities explores how a manager’s personal values can be used for the development of innovative working strategies to influence organizations and their individual employees. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the authors compare managers’ ideals between organizations worldwide to determine best leadership strategies. While highlighting topics including organizational structure, management roles, and ethics, this book is ideally designed for researchers, managers, professionals, and students seeking current research on ways to improve innovation within organizations.



Author's/Editor's Biography

Zlatko Nedelko

Zlatko Nedelko, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Management and Organization, Slovenia. His main research interests are management, leadership, business ethics, social responsibility, transitional issues and innovativeness. He was a visiting researcher at Department of Management and Organizational Behavior, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (2012), and at Vilnius Gedminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania (2014). In 2019 he was a visiting professor at Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary. He has published his articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals including but not limited to the “Journal for East European Management Studies,” the “International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management,” the “Journal of Business Economics and Management,” “Transformations in Business and Economics,” “Engineering Economics, System Practice and Action Research,” “E+M,” “Systems research and behavioral science,” the “Journal of enterprising communities, the Journal of Knowledge Economy, Management,” and “Actual problems of Economics.” He also co-authored books with Pearson, Palgrave Macmillan, IGI Global. He led several projects funded by Slovene Human Resource Development and Scholarship fund. He also led several projects aimed at scientific cooperation with the United States of America, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia, funded by Slovenian Research Agency. He also participated in other projects, like Fostering Entrepreneurship in Higher Education – FOSENTHE, EC Tempus P JP 144713, Management tools in Slovenia and Croatia, and Interreg project Slovenia – Austria entitled Smart Production. He is a member of a program group, the Entrepreneurship for innovative society (P5-0023).



Vojko Potocan
Vojko Potocan, Ph.D. (in Business), is a Full Professor of Management and Organization at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), University of Maribor (Slovenia). He earned his doctoral degree in FEB Maribor. He teaches in three universities in Slovenia and in four universities abroad (Germany, Croatia, Poland and Czech Republic). He takes part in different international scientific conferences and has conducted a number of study visits abroad. He has published over 400 texts (over 300 in foreign languages in 40 countries), including 12 books, edited proceedings and textbooks. Dr. Potocan has published over eighty articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals including but not limited to Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Management, Engineering Economics and International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.

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