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Tomaž Čater was born on 5 June 1976 in Brežice, Slovenia. He received his bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in 1998, 2000 and 2003, all in the field of management and organization from the School of Economics and Business University of Ljubljana. He has been employed at the same faculty since 1998, initially as an assistant, then as an assistant professor and associate professor, and from 2014 as a full professor of management. His past and present positions at the faculty include head of Distance Education, head of the Department of Management and Organization, and head of the Master Program in Sport Management. External to the faculty he was a member of the management board of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the president of the Slovenian Academy of Management (SAM).
His main fields of research, teaching and consulting are competitive advantages of firms, strategic management, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and sport management. He has also worked as a visiting professor at universities in Indiana (USA), Chemnitz and Regensburg (Germany), and Dubai (UAE), among others. He is the author or co-author of 70 scientific articles in journals, including the award-winning article in the prestigious journal Organizational Research Methods. As an advisor he has also consulted numerous companies such as Domel, Elan, Elektro Gorenjska, Petrol, Voka Snaga, Zavarovalnica Triglav and many others.
He is fluent in English and Croatian/Serbian and almost fluent in German. As much as possible, he prefers to spend his free time in close touch with nature. Despite quitting the active playing of football and basketball at the end of high school, his life has always been closely linked with sports, especially football, basketball, running and fitness. With the football team of the School of Economics and Business, he became the European champion of business football leagues in Krakow in 2017. He also enjoys traveling and learning about distant places and cultures.
Personal data
Date of birth: 5 June 1976
Place of birth: Brežice, Slovenia
Gender: male
Nationality: Slovene
Citizenship: Slovene
Education
Elementary school degree (9/1982 – 6/1990)
Institution: Elementary School Brežice
High school degree (9/1990 – 6/1994)
Institution: High School Brežice
Bachelor’s degree (10/1994 – 9/1998)
Title: B.A. (Bachelor of Arts), Economics
Master’s degree (10/1998 – 11/2000)
Title: M.Sc. (Master of Sciences), Management and Organization
Doctor’s degree (12/2000 – 10/2003)
Foreign languages
English: fluent (speaking, reading, writing)
Croatian / Serbian: fluent (speaking, reading), advanced (writing)
German: intermediate (speaking, reading, writing)
Employment
Institution: University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business
Department: Management and Organization
Positions
Teaching Assistant of Management (10/1998 – 5/2004)
Assistant Professor of Management (6/2004 – 3/2009)
Associate Professor of Management (4/2009 – 4/2014)
Functions
Head of Distance Education (10/2005 – 9/2007)
Head of the Department of Management and Organization (3/2007 – 9/2007, 10/2009 – 9/2013)
Courses
Undergraduate (university degree): Strategic Management 1 (in English language), Strategic Management 1 (in Slovene language), Tactical Planning and – Control (in Slovene language)
Postgraduate (master’s degree): Agency, Networks and Support Systems in Sport (in English language), Change Management (in Slovene language), Management in Sport (in English language), Strategic Management 2 (in English language), Strategic Management 2 (in Slovene language), Strategic Management in Sport (in English language)
Other professional functions
Editor
Foreign scientific monographs
Slovenian scientific monographs
Foreign scientific journals
Member of the editorial board
Foreign scientific journals
Reviewer
Foreign scientific journals
Academy of Management Review
Economic Research
European Management Review
Journal for East European Management Studies
Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
Management
Zagreb International Review of Economics & Business
Slovenian scientific journals
Akademija MM
Economic and Business Review
IB revija
Managing Global Transitions
Naše gospodarstvo
Organizacija
Organizer
Sodobni vidiki analize poslovanja in organizacije (conference of the Union of Economists of Slovenia in Portorož)
Member of the organizing and program committee of the 11th and 12th conference (11/2004 – 10/2006)
Chairman of the organizing and program committee of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th conference (11/2006 – 10/2012)
Work in committees and other professional bodies
Sport organizations
Member of the Business and Marketing Council of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia – Association of Sports Federations (5/2019 – 4/2023)
Associations
President
Union of Economists of Slovenia, Section for Business Analyses (7/2007 – 12/2017)
Member
Union of Economists of Slovenia, Section for Business Analyses (11/2004 – 12/2017)
Awards
Faculty and university awards
Faculty award for extraordinary academic achievements in 1996/1997 school year (School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana, 10/1997)
Faculty award for extraordinary academic achievements in 1997/1998 school year (School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana, 10/1998)
Faculty award for the best bachelor’s degree thesis in 1997/1998 school year (School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana, 10/1998)
Trimo award for the best doctor’s degree thesis in 2003/2004 school year (Trimo d.d., Trebnje, 2/2005)
EIT conference award for the best doctor’s degree thesis in 2003-2005 (Enterprise in Transition 2005: 6th International Conference, Bol, Croatia, 5/2005)
Excellent in Science 2023: award for the most prominent scientific research achievements in 2023 (Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, Ljubljana, 11/2023)
