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.

Publications

How Personal Values Affect Social Responsibility in Higher Education Institutions
How Personal Values Affect Social Responsibility in Higher Education Institutions
Vojko Potocan, Niksa Alfirevic, Zlatko Nedelko. © 2020. 26 pages.
Recent research has investigated how personal values of university stakeholders shape social responsibility of universities. Interest of universities for their responsibility...
Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2019. 314 pages.
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 Proclaimed Values of the Education System: Results of Empirical Research in the Case of Croatia
Personal Values and Proclaimed Values of the Education System: Results of Empirical Research in the Case of Croatia
Niksa Alfirevic, Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2019. 25 pages.
The primary purpose of this chapter is to empirically analyze the relationships between the personal values of current students and the officially proclaimed values of education...
The Role of Emerging Information Technologies for Supporting Supply Chain Management
The Role of Emerging Information Technologies for Supporting Supply Chain Management
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2019. 13 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the role, importance, and actual usage of emerging information technology solutions that support and have potential to enhance...
Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility by the Employees: Evidence from Slovenia
Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility by the Employees: Evidence from Slovenia
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2019. 24 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the relationships between three underlying aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), namely economic, environmental, and...
The Role of Emerging Information Technologies for Supporting Supply Chain Management
The Role of Emerging Information Technologies for Supporting Supply Chain Management
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2018. 11 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the role, importance and actual usage of emerging information technology solutions that support and have potential to enhance...
Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility by the Employees: Evidence From Slovenia
Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility by the Employees: Evidence From Slovenia
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2018. 24 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the relationships between three underlying aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), namely economic, environmental, and...
Handbook of Research on Managerial Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations
Handbook of Research on Managerial Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations
Vojko Potocan, Mustafa C. Ünğan, Zlatko Nedelko. © 2017. 609 pages.
Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) are the fastest growing organizations in modern society. They exist in a liminal realm between public and private organizations, and because of...
Management Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations: Case of Slovenia
Management Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations: Case of Slovenia
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2017. 22 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the utilization of management solutions in non-profit organizations in Slovenia and compare their utilization with utilization of...
Priority of Management Tools Utilization among Managers: International Comparison
Priority of Management Tools Utilization among Managers: International Comparison
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2017. 12 pages.
The research outlines the relative importance of the commonly used management tools among the managerial staff in organizations in selected worldwide areas, with deeper focus on...
Personal Values as a Building Block for Social Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions
Personal Values as a Building Block for Social Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan, Nikša Alfirević. © 2017. 24 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role of personal values for social responsibility (SR) of higher education. Besides the core mission of higher education to create...
Management Practices for Processes Optimization: Case of Slovenia
Management Practices for Processes Optimization: Case of Slovenia
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2016. 17 pages.
The main purpose of this paper is to examine utilization of management practices in Slovenian industrial organizations. The focus is on examination of the level of utilization of...
Virtual Organization of Supply Chains
Virtual Organization of Supply Chains
Zlatko Nedelko, Vojko Potocan. © 2015. 20 pages.
The main purpose of this chapter is to present a possible alternative for optimization of supply chain management. The chapter discusses the virtual organization as an important...
Efficiency Theories: The State-of-the-Art
Efficiency Theories: The State-of-the-Art
Vojko Potocan, Matjaz Mulej. © 2014. 23 pages.
To some authors and scientists the concepts effectiveness and efficiency are significantly different. To others, they mean the same; while to a third group the truth about them...
Impact of Economic Culture on the Development of Enterprises
Impact of Economic Culture on the Development of Enterprises
Vojko Potocan, Zlatko Nedelko. © 2014. 16 pages.
Values of individuals, culture of groups, ethics of communities, and the resulting influential norms (i.e. VCEN) are interdependent. VCEN tend to crucially influence development...
Impact of Economic Culture on the Development of Enterprises
Impact of Economic Culture on the Development of Enterprises
Vojko Potocan, Zlatko Nedelko. © 2014. 16 pages.
Values of individuals, culture of groups, ethics of communities, and the resulting influential norms (i.e. VCEN) are interdependent. VCEN tend to crucially influence development...
Social Responsibility: A Crucial Knowledge and Ethics
Social Responsibility: A Crucial Knowledge and Ethics
Matjaz Mulej, Vojko Potocan, Zdenka Zenko, Anita Hrast, Tjasa Strukelj. © 2013. 19 pages.
Both the economic practice and education in the decades after the 2nd world war continued the previous trend toward over-specialization resulting from the huge amounts of...
Crucial Consequences of Un-Holistic Business Information
Crucial Consequences of Un-Holistic Business Information
Vojko Potocan, Matjaž Mulej. © 2011. 14 pages.
Modern business environments require innovated business concepts. Meeting them in enterprises’ functioning depends also on creation and implementation of appropriate information...
What is New with Organization of E-Business: Organizational Viewpoint of the Relationships in E-business
What is New with Organization of E-Business: Organizational Viewpoint of the Relationships in E-business
Vojko Potocan, Zlatko Nedelko, Matjaž Mulej. © 2011. 18 pages.
In modern working relations, a company can improve its business dramatically, especially with formation and performance of suitable management. An important role in the whole...
What is New with Organization of E-Business: Organizational Viewpoint of the Relationships in E-business
What is New with Organization of E-Business: Organizational Viewpoint of the Relationships in E-business
Vojko Potocan, Zlatko Nedelko, Matjaž Mulej. © 2011. 18 pages.
In modern working relations, a company can improve its business dramatically, especially with formation and performance of suitable management. An important role in the whole...
Social Responsibility: A Crucial Knowledge and Ethics
Social Responsibility: A Crucial Knowledge and Ethics
Matjaz Mulej, Vojko Potocan, Zdenka Zenko, Anita Hrast, Tjasa Strukelj. © 2011. 18 pages.
Both the economic practice and education in the decades after the 2nd world war continued the previous trend toward over-specialization resulting from the huge amounts of...
Preconditions for Requisite Holism of Information Bases for the Invention-Innovation Process Management
Preconditions for Requisite Holism of Information Bases for the Invention-Innovation Process Management
Matjaž Mulej, Vojko Potocan, Zdenka Ženko. © 2010. 15 pages.
Innovation belongs to main open issues of the modern business. Information for the invention-innovation process is an even more open issue, because informed guessing about the...