Innovative Management and Firm Performance: An Interdisciplinary Approach

This book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.

Maja Levi Jaksic, is a full professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences (UBFOS) and head of the Department for Technology, Innovation and Development Management. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Information Systems in Cardiff, UK; the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan; Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble, France; and Middlesex University, UK. She has published more than 20 books and monographs, about 80 articles in journals and more than 90 papers in proceedings of domestic and international scientific conferences.

Slaana Barjaktarovic Rakocevic, is an associate professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the Department of Financial Management. She is a member of the Financial Management Association (FMA), CEEMAN: (International Management Development Association) Alumni and the Serbian Association of Managers. She has authored several books as well as numerous scientific and research papers in the field of financial institutions, bank management, investment banking, financial markets, and financial analyses.

Milan Martic, is a full professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the Department of Operations Research and Statistics. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and Nitra University, Slovakia. He is the author of several books as well as numerous scientific and research papers in the field of management science and quantitative models and methods in management.