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Miha Škerlavaj was born on 21.11.1977. After the primary school Dragotin Kette in Ilirska Bistrica and high school in Postojna he enrolled into the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana (major in Banking & finance). In all four years of the undergraduate studies he received awards for extraordinary study achievements. During the studies he also took part in practical activities in the fields of banking and marketing. In 2001 he received the Faculty Prešeren Award for his undergraduate thesis “e-Economy: Comparison of EU and USA”. The same year he took the job of Assistant at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana (FELU) and also enrolled into the M.Sc. study of Business informatics.
In 2003 he took part in the Socrates Erasmus exchange program at Nottingham University Business School and completed his M.Sc. studies with master thesis “The impact of information-communication technologies and organizational learning on organizational performance: Theoretical and empirical analysis”. In April 2007 he defended the PhD dissertation entitled “The network perspective and performance of organizational learning: Theoretical and empirical analysis” for which he received Trimo research award. From 2007 onward he is employed as an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at FELU. In December 2008 he also received a prestigeous University of Ljubljana Best Young Professor Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Research Achievements (as one of only two young scholars in the whole University).
During the period of 2001-2007 as a member of Department for management and organization @ FELU, he collaborated at organizing and implementing the following courses: Management, Learning Organization, Knowledge Management, Organizing and decision-making, and Business research methods. His research interests involve fields of knowledge, learning and innovation networks, organizational learning, knowledge management, innovations, and strategic aspects of ICT.
He is also a member of international scientific associations Academy of Management, INSNA, EURAM, EGOS and Informing Science. His professional activities incorporate collaboration with the Centre for management development and training (Time management, Optimization of labor costs through business process reengineering and Knowledge management and innovations). He took part in several projects with users from the industry (e.g. Analysisis of organizational social networks in several organizations (2004-), Optimization of business processes and rewarding in Slovenian insurance company (2003-2004) and Analysis of strategic and cultural fit – Case of Slovenian company and its’ subsidiary in Russian Federation (2005-2006)).
So far he has published seven SSCI and SCI ranked scientific papers (among many others). His full bibliography is available here. The paper Organizational learning culture-the missing link between business process change and organizational performance has been even ranked 2nd at the list of top25 most downloaded papers in the International journal of production economics for the period January – March 2007. Currently, his main research and consulting efforts are related to the studies of organizational social networks (knowledge, learning, innovation etc.). He is also track chair at EURAM 2008 and EURAM 2009 conference of knowledge and learning networks as well as guest editor of special isue of European Journal of International Management.
