The Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek aims to educate students for academic research careers in business. Over 13 generations, the programme has enrolled over 260 candidates and engages 19 professors. Students take required courses and electives while visiting important places in Europe and participating in international conferences to broaden their knowledge and cultural understanding beyond the classroom. The goal is to develop well-educated managers and train future professors through a combination of teaching and research.

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During the fifty years of its existence, the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, as one of the key components of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek,
has gained a significant reputation in the academic community as a modern institution open to society; the Faculty interested in co-operation and
readytochangeandadapttothechallengesofthetimeinwhichweliveandwork.ThevisionoftheFacultyisbecomingmorecomplexastimepasses.
Today's faculty must, of course, pursue knowledge for its own benefit and create a stimulating intellectual environment for students, but at the same
time, it must work even more and even harder to act as the driving force of economic growth, become the central node in urban and regional
development, participate in creating social equality, spread research impact, deal with global problems, become an international entity, while
maintaining a responsibility to create benefits to the wider social community. The Faculty of Economics in Osijek has been successfully tackling such
complexanddemandingtasksanditwasacknowledgedinitsjubileeyearof2011whentheFacultywasranked53rdinthetop100businessschoolsin
Europe and 13th in the 300 best business schools in the world. The Faculty of Economics in Osijek is a higher education institution particularly
dedicated to international cooperation in the fields of teaching and research, supported by numerous faculty activities out of which postgraduate
study programmes, especially the doctoral one, are of utmost importance. Students enrolled in the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in
Management have visited important places such as universities (Paris, Pforzheim), the European Community institutions (Brussels, Luxembourg,
Strasbourg), the famous Louvre, Orsay (Paris), the National Gallery and the Tate (London), Vatican City, Prado (Madrid), the Rijksmuseum
(Amsterdam), the Modern National Gallery (Budapest), Leopold Museum, Albertina, Belvedere, Schönbrunn (Vienna), Gulbekian (Lisbon), the
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and in the last 13 years they have been participating in international conferences organized by the Faculty of
Economics in Osijek and its partners in Poreč and Opatija. It has been proven that such study visits is is broadening our horizons, enriching our souls,
and teaching us about new places and other cultures. Travelling also enables us to learn more about ourselves through experience extending our
boundaries because otherwise we solely live in the physical and emotional comfort of our own home. Every year, postgraduate students, Alumni and
professorsenjoydiscoveringtheworldeachfromtheirownposition.Sofar,atotalof470enrolledpostgraduatestudentshaveconductedstudytrips,
duringwhichtheyhavenotonlyextendedandacquirednewknowledge,buttheyhavealsogaineddeepinsightintothelife,historyandcultureofthe
countriestheyhavevisited.
Foreword
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The Faculty of Economics in Osijek was founded in 1961 to continue conducting the activities
carried out bythe Centre for Economic Studies (founded in 1959) and the School of Economics
(founded in 1960). Between 1961 and 1974, the Faculty carried out its activities within the
University of Zagreb, and since 1975 it has been a constituent unit of the University of Osijek.
The Faculty of Economics in Osijek has gone a long way since its foundation and become a
modern faculty that relies on all contemporary achievements in teaching and the scientific
process.
It has also become an important educational and research institution with clearly defined
objectives and tasks including specific higher education of economists at three levels:
undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate specialist and doctoral studies. Over the last 50
years,theFacultyof EconomicsinOsijekhas beenactivelyimprovingthe system of studying at
all levels following modern international trends in the creation of highly qualified experts in
the field of economics. Nobody can predict what the future will bring. However, at the Faculty
of Economics, we believe in planning, preparing and taking our destiny into our own hands,
providing students with holistic education in order to maximize their chances of success in
theirownfuture.
The Faculty of Economics
in Osijek today
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4. Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management
The first Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management, launched in 2007, is the peak of the educational programme of the Faculty of
Economics in Osijek. In the spirit of the Bologna process, the Faculty of Economics in Osijek has managed to achieve the unique higher education
vertical in the field of Management. It started with the undergraduate study programme, continued with the graduate degree and it is currently
offering a postgraduate specialist study programme in Organization and Management. For the most ambitious doctoral candidates, it also offers the
PostgraduatedoctoralstudyprogrammeinManagementinwhichtheworldofpracticemeetstheworldoftheory.
This study is intended for postgraduate education of people coming from the business community as well as from other fields, for training younger
research assistants working at various faculties and higher education institutions as well as scientific and other institutes. The study is recommended
for candidates who have graduated from other faculties or higher education institutions and whose professional pursuits are related to organization
and management functions. In this case, the candidate is obliged to pass courses that provide him/her with basic knowledge of the scientific field of
studydependingontheundergraduatestudyprogrammehe/shecompleted.
For researchers trying to discover something new, the collaborative spirit at the postgraduate doctoral study programme of the Faculty of Economics
inOsijekispresenttohelpthemoutintheirresearchendeavours.Forteacherswhowanttoputtheirideasintopractice,theprogrammeislinkedwell
toalargenetworkofbusinesspartners.
The goal of the programme is to prepare teachers of the future for top schools. New PhD holders with their research results and insights expressed by
writing,speakingandteachinghelpthebusinessworldtoexpressitself.
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About the Postgraduate doctoral study programme
The goal of the doctoral programme is to educate students for an academic research career in the field of business through teaching and direct
research. In line with general faculty values and strategies, the doctoral programme is based on the following: generation of a broad base of
intellectual capital, innovative educational experience, collaborative relationships with students as active contributors, and linking theory and
practicebasedonaction-basedlearning.
The concept of the doctoral study programme is based upon the programmes of American and European universities and has a good response from
PhD candidates from all over the Republic of Croatia because it successfully combines the teaching and research component of academic activity. The
Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management emphasizes the obligatory courses of Economics for Managers, Organizational Behaviour,
Operational Management, Marketing Management and Information Management with the support of 15 elective courses that allow additional
profilingofadoctoralcandidate.
Students who enrol in the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek are placed in an intensive
intellectual environment that requires full engagement in the study. In their efforts, they are assisted by Faculty staff that often joins them in working
on projects or as co-authors in particular publications. A practical side of the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management takes into
accountstudents'interests,theirlivesandwork,theirhopes,theirdesiresandtheirgoals.
Management skills are needed for anyone who is in the top position. For example, top positions in manufacturing, trade, healthcare, education, real,
non-profit, recreational and scientific organizations include managerial accountability. Management is equally applicable to self-employment, small
business,nationalaffairs,governmentorganizationsandmultinationalcompanies.
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Strong support for the programme's performance and presentation of research papers is provided by foreign professors, especially in the
organization of scientific conferences and publishing book titled “Interdisciplinary Management Research// Interdisziplinäre Management
Forschung“, a series of editions indexed in prestigious international databases such as Thomson ISI, RePEc, Econ Papers, and Socionet. The statistics
reveal that since the beginning of the doctoral program more than 260 candidates have been enrolled; 19 professors are engaged in the programme
and the list of cities that have been visited as part of the experience outside the classroom includes travelling abroad, such as to Madrid, Lisbon,
Barcelona,Amsterdam,Rome,London,Vienna,Copenhagen,Brussels,Istanbul,ortoPorečandOpatijainCroatia.
The philosophy of mentorship
Every year, less than 30 students from a wide range of interested candidates are recruited, with on-going mentoring of eminent professors. For the
time being, this is a major foundation of the ex-postgraduate Master's Degree in Management, the Postgraduate specialist study programme in
OrganizationandManagement,andotherinterestedcandidatesforwhichweofferaPhDdegree.
Intellectual challenge, collegial spirit
Students admitted to the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek are in an intensive
intellectual environment that requires full engagement in the study. Unlike other postgraduate programmes that offer principles, methods, and
techniquesofdirectuseinthebusinessworld,thedoctoralprogrammerequiresstudentstodivergeabitfromtheeverydaybusinessworldandfocus
on questioning and research into why this world functions in the way it does as well as on asking and tackling the long-term issues that bridge theory
and practice. A distinguishing feature of studying at the Postgraduate study programme at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek is the collegial spirit and
non-competitivenatureofthecommunity.Studentsworkonprojectswiththeirprofessorsandsuchteamworkisacommonoccurrence.
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Leadership
There have been 13 generations of PhD students enrolled in the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management. The programme follows
the Bologna Process proposals aiming at developing a manager who will demonstrate his/her leadership by his/her example: people with a sense of
social responsibility, with great aspirations and desire to stand out from the crowd by differentiating themselves from others. As global business
continuous to develop, these students acquire leadership skills for dynamic jobs where they are partners and respected members who understand
the world as one big community. During the past years, many students have been professionally profiled and gained significant acknowledgments as
individuals in terms of career advancement in their communities, as well as awards by the City of Osijek. The journal Lider has included two PhD
candidates coming from the Postgraduate doctoral study in Management among the 500 most influential women in the field of management. As
family business leaders, it is important for our PhD students to be constantly informed about the trends in education theory. For them, leadership is
not a question, it is the reality. In order to remain competitive and maintain their company, they understand that education is a lifetime process and
notaneventandassuchtheypursuetheknowledgebeyondundergraduateandgraduatelevels.
Well-educated management
The concept of studying at our Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management is bound to develop well-educated managers who will be
abletoaddressrealchallengesintheglobalbusinessenvironmentoftodayandtomorrow.Ourexpertsteachstudentstoidentifyproblemsinallareas
of their organization, marketing, finance, supply chain, management - and find solutions that will bring the whole organization to a higher level. In
terms of practicality and flexibility, the postgraduate doctoral study programme is tailored to adjust to the needs of students. The form of a lecture
one week a month (Saturday and Sunday is free) allows students in Osijek and our canters in Slavonski Brod and Poreč to attend lectures and maintain
mutual friendship and cooperation. The renewed and modernized Faculty of Economics in Osijek provides the opportunity to use information
technology.
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Reputation of the postgraduate doctoral study programme
Our reputation is based on the Faculty of Economics in Osijek and its cooperation with partners from Croatia and abroad. Also, the Graduate study
programme in Management creates its own vertical profile from the undergraduate, graduate, and specialist postgraduate study programmes to the
doctoral study programmein Management.This verticalis supported byforeignprofessors engaged in our programmes as wellas professors who are
supporters to the management programme. The results of such cooperation are reflected in numerous expert excursions of postgraduates (to the
European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels, Leonardo de Vinci, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinciin Paris, cultural exhibitions in Paris, Vienna,
Budapest, Rome, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences (and the Baden Chamber of Commerce), Poreč (international conferences), and Opatija
(internationalconferences).
Team approach
Postgraduate studies do not only demonstrate teaching activity but offer an arena where participants get global perspectives. All these activities
bring students into a team collaboration position in which postgraduates exchange experience with team members, develop their personal
knowledge,developafriendshipthatcreatesthebasisforthenetworkoflifelonglearning.Eachmemberoftheteamisexpectedtomakeasignificant
contributiontothelearningoftheothermember,andtogethertheyshouldcontributetoasuccessfulproject.
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Curriculum
Management covers a wide range of disciplines that include quantitative methods, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and economics. The
importance of management studies cannot be overestimated. Whatever your interest is in life and work, whatever your future hopes, desires, and
goals are, management will help you follow them. Managerial skills are required for everyone in the top position. For example, top positions in
manufacturing, trade, healthcare, education, real, non-profit, recreational and scientific organizations include managerial accountability.
Managementisequallyapplicabletoself-employment,smallbusiness,nationalaffairs,governmentorganizationsandmultinationalcompanies.
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Link to the world
Yourcareerwillcertainlytakeyoutosomeofthemajorcentersofglobaleconomicactivities.Ifyoufeeltheneedforagreaterunderstandingofhowto
be effective in both the international and national contexts, if you want to find out more about global affairs and giant global corporations driving
them,weoffercoursesininternationaleconomyandthroughscientificconferencesweconnectyouwiththeglobal(academic)community.
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Course tle – semester Teachers and associates L S E ECTS
Ekonomika za managere
Managerial Economics
Prof.dr.sc. Ivan Ferenčak
Izv.prof.dr.sc. Boris Crnković 20 10 – 4
Operacijski management
Opera ons Management
Prof.dr.sc. Dražen Barković, professor
emeritus 20 10 10 4
Organizacijsko ponašanje
Managing Organisa onal Behavior Prof.dr.sc. Željko Turkalj 20 10 10 4
Informacijski management
Informa on Management Izv.prof.dr.sc. Jerko Glavaš 20 10 10 4
Marke ng management
Marke ng Management Prof. dr. sc. Mane Medić 20 10 10 4
Ukupno 100 50 30 20
Core courses with contact hours and ECTS credits in 1. semester
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Elective courses with contact hours and ECTS credits
Course tle – semester Teachers and associates L S E ECTS
Financije
Finance
Prof.dr.sc. Branimir Marković
Prof.dr.sc. Branko Ma ć 20 5 5 3
Financijski management
Finance Management Prof.dr.sc. Branko Novak 10 10 10 3
Digitalni marke ng
Digital Marke ng Prof.dr.sc. Drago Ružić 10 10 10 3
Menadžerske metode i strategije
Management methods and strategies
Prof.dr.sc. Dražen Barković, professor
emeritus 10 10 10 3
Upravljanje troškovima
Cost Management Prof.dr.sc. Zdravko Tolušić 20 – 10 3
Trendovi u marke ngu
Marke ng Trends Prof.dr.sc. Drago Ružić 15 10 5 3
Globalizacija i management
Globalisa on and Management
Prof.dr.sc. Ivana Barković-Bojanić
Prof.dr.sc. Mladen Vedriš 15 15 – 3
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Management u GIS okruženju
Management in GIS environment Prof.dr.sc. Mladen Jurišić 10 – 10 2
Međunarodna makroekonomija –
izabrana poglavlja
Interna onal Macroeconomics –
selected chapters Prof.dr.sc. Đula Borozan 10 10 – 2
Međunarodno trgovačko pravo
Interna onal Business Law Dr.sc. Marko Babić 10 10 – 2
Projektni management –
interdisciplinarno područje znanos
Project management – Interdisciplinary
field of science Prof.dr.sc. Josip Mesarić 15 – 10 2
Management ljudskih resursa
Human Resources Management Prof.dr.sc. Antun Šundalić 10 10 – 2
Liderstvo
Leadership Izv.prof.dr.sc. Željko Požega 10 10 – 2
Modul po izboru na Fakultetu
Elec ve module at the Faculty of
Economics in Osijek 2
Modul po izboru na Sveučilištu
Elec ve module at Josip Juraj
Strossmayer University 2
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Obligatory and supplementary group ac vi es
(Research)
Scien fic training ECTS
Recognising and crea ng a research topic (desk research)* 15
Conduc ng research (field research)* 15
Sta s cal data processing* 10
Paper cited in secondary publica ons - category A1 (co-author) 20
Paper cited in secondary publica ons - category A2 (co-author) 10
Paper published in interna onal conference proceedings – category A3 (co-author) 5
Paper published in na onal scien fic conference proceedings (co-author) 3
Summary published in a book of summaries 1
Scien fic presenta on
Oral presenta on at an interna onal conference 10
Poster at an interna onal conference 5
Oral presenta on at a na onal scien fic conference 5
Poster at a na onal scien fic conference 3
Training at a foreign scien fic ins tu on (with a minimum dura on of 30 days) 15
Training at another university or ins tute in Croa a 10
Researcher in na onal projects 10
Researcher in interna onal projects 10
Awards and recogni ons for scien fic work** 10
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Doctoral disserta on
Doctoral disserta on proposal 10
Doctoral disserta on 30
Professional ac vi es
Par cipa on in professional seminars, conferences, round-table discussions, forums 3
Public lecture on the doctoral disserta on topic 2
Involved in study design (co-author) 3
Awards and recogni ons for professional work** 4
Teaching ac vi es
University textbook (co-author) 10
Book (co-author) 10
In-house course materials 5
Classes in undergraduate or graduate studies (seminars or exercises) 4***
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Conferences
Scientific conferences organized in partnership with German University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim are an especially important activity and
communication performace of undergraduate study of Management whose outcomes are published yearly in the book entitled Interdisciplinary
ManagementResearchInterdisciplinäreManagementforschungpresentedtotheauthorspriortotheopeningandclosingofeveryconference.
The mentioned must be mostly appreciated by those who had to do with conferences and conference proceedings published as a book containing all
papers. Text revising and editing often takes a year or two before made legible since there are significant differences between a speech delivered in a
workshop or when presenting a paper and its written transcript. Experience tells us what the central topic of the conference is based on: intelligible
communication–itdoesn'tmatterwhatissaid,butmoreimportant,howitissaid.
Ifappliedtopedagogicalanddidacticissues,thefocusisnotsomuchoncontentsandobjectives,butmoreontypesofmediation,waysandmethods.
Finally, when literally translated a method means a way of doing something, i.e. a procedure, and it is not arbitrary: the method always signifies an
orderlyarrangedsystematicproceduredeterminedinaccordancewithscientificpractices.
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Scientific conferences organized in partnership with German University of Applied
Sciences Pforzheim are an especially important activity and communication
performace of undergraduate study of Management whose outcomes are
published yearly in the book entitled Interdisciplinary Management Research
Interdisciplinäre Managementforschung presented to the authors prior to the
openingandclosingofeveryconference.
The mentioned must be mostly appreciated by those who had to do with
conferencesandconferenceproceedingspublishedasabookcontainingallpapers.
Text revising and editing often takes a year or two before made legible since there
are significant differences between a speech delivered in a workshop or when
presenting a paper and its written transcript. Experience tells us what the central
topic of the conference is based on: intelligible communication – it doesn't matter
whatissaid,butmoreimportant,howitissaid.
If applied to pedagogical and didactic issues, the focus is not so much on contents
and objectives, but more on types of mediation, ways and methods. Finally, when
literallytranslatedamethodmeansawayofdoingsomething,i.e.aprocedure,and
it is not arbitrary: the method always signifies an orderly arranged systematic
proceduredeterminedinaccordancewithscientificpractices.
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Short description of programme progression conditions
The postgraduate doctoral study programmein Management lasts for threeacademicyears and carries180 ECTS credits. Within the framework of the
postgraduate doctoral study programme, ECTS credits are acquired through activities categorised into six groups, the first four of which are obligatory
andthelasttwosupplementary,asfollows:
• Obligatoryactivities
• Coreandelectivemodules
• Scientifictraining
• Scientificpresentation
• Doctoraldissertation
• Supplementaryactivities
• Professionalactivities
• Teachingactivities
IneachgroupofobligatoryactivitiesstudentshavetoearnaminimumofECTScredits.Thegroupcomprisingobligatoryactivitiescarriesaminimumof
140ECTScreditsandtheremaining40ECTScreditshavetobeearnedinthegroupofobligatoryactivitiesorinthegroupofsupplementaryactivities.In
order to gain the remaining 40 ECTS credits, a student may opt for supplementary activities, i.e., professional activities, and be awarded 10 ECTS
credits, and teaching activities, and be awarded 30 ECTS credits, which makes the total of 40 ECTS credits awarded to a student in the group consisting
ofsupplementaryactivities.
In addition, those 40 ECTS credits can be earned through a combination of obligatory and supplementary activities, i.e., 10 ECTS credits in elective
courses, 10 in scientific training, 10 in scientific presentation, 5 in professional activities, and 5 in teaching activities. Through research and other
activities,astudentcanearnmoreECTScreditsthanthemaximumnumberofECTScreditsstatedbelow;however,withinthetotalnumberof180ECTS
creditsearnednogroupsofactivitiescanaccountformorethanthemaximumnumberofECTScreditsstatedforeveryindividualgroupasfollows:
• Coreandelectivemodules-aminimumof30andamaximumof50ECTScredits
• Scientifictraining-aminimumof60andamaximumof100ECTScredits
• Scientificpresentation-aminimumof10andamaximumof30ECTScredits
• Doctoraldissertation-aminimumof40andamaximumof40ECTScredits
• Professionalactivities-amaximumof10ECTScredits
• Teachingactivities-amaximumof30ECTScredits
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20. Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Economics in Osijek
Trg Ljudevita Gaja 7
31 000 Osijek
http://efos.management/
Head of the Postgraduate doctoral study programme in Management
Željko Tukalj, Ph.D., Full Professor in Tenure
e-mail: turkalj@efos.hr
Head of the Administration Office
Slobodanka Stjepamović, M.Sc.
e-mail: sstjepa@efos.hr
Dražen Barković, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: barkovic@efos.hr
Contact for Slavonski Brod
Milan Stanić, Ph.D.
e-mail: milan.stanic@vusb.hr