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

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).