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Matija Marić, PhD, is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization and Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. He worked as a collaborator on several projects, among which the most important is the project Fostering Innovative Work Behaviour of Public Employees by Using Work Design Interventions – INPUBWORK (principal investigator: Prof. Tomislav Hernaus, Ph.D.). In addition to doctoral studies, he further developed his research capabilities at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana and through research workshops at BI Norwegian Business School in Norway, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and Coller School of Management in Israel. So far, he has published articles in the scientific journals Journal of Managerial Psychology, Social Research, and Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, two chapters in international books, and presented several papers at international scientific conferences. 

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Tomislav Hernaus is a Full Professor at the Department of Organization and Management, Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zagreb and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Economics and Business of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California, USA) and BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway).  His multi-level research interests include organization design and paradox theory, business process management, human resources (HR) organization, work design, job interventions, innovative work behavior, and knowledge hiding. His work has been published in highly-ranked academic journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Knowledge Management, Expert Systems with Applications, Business Process Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Employee Relations, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and European Management Journal. In addition, he co-authored and co-edited seven scholarly books and textbooks (e.g., Becoming an organizational scholar: Navigating the Academic odyssey, Designing organizations: Structure, processes, jobs; Workplace creativity and innovation: A work design perspective; Business process management: Organizational and IT approach).

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Valentina Vučković is an Associate Professor at Department of Economic Theory. She has extensive experience as a researcher and domain expert on competitive national, regional, and international projects. Currently, she serves as a researcher on the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project "Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development (DEVELOPER)" (led by Paško Bilić, PhD) and on the University of Zagreb project examining institutional support for foreign entrepreneurs and digital nomads in Croatia. Since early 2024, she has also worked as an expert on the "Green Agenda: Decarbonising the electricity sector in the Western Balkans" project (implemented for GIZ, IRMO, and CETEOR) and served as an international project evaluator for the Latvian Council of Science.

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Nikolina holds a PhD in service innovation from the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Center at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which she obtained under the mentorship of Prof WB Lee, Prof Eric Tsui and Prof Eng Chew. Her doctoral research focused on applying theories of practice and design thinking to modelling and enhancing smart services. At PolyU, she also gained four years of professional experience in teaching and coordinating higher education projects that have received multiple international awards (details in the Curriculum Vitae). Her research interests include service innovation, design thinking, knowledge dynamics in the 5th Industrial Revolution, digital work, and innovation ecosystems. She is passionate about promoting a human-centred approach to innovation and (digital)work in business and educational contexts.

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