Darko Tipurić is the new president of the Croatian Society of Economists

Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Darko Tipurić, was unanimously elected as the new president of the Croatian Society of Economists.

The Croatian Society of Economists is dedicated to the promotion and development of the economic profession and science with the aim of developing the Croatian economy by involving academic, business, political, and other representatives of society in shaping economic policies for sustainable economic growth and economic success of Croatia in a broader context. The position of president of the society was previously held by Ljubo Jurčić, a doctor of economic sciences, university professor, former minister, and member of parliament.

– The new leadership brings new changes, and these changes will enhance the existing and bring closer to new trends in the economy. This means that we must not lose sight of everything that the fourth economic revolution brings in changing the economic structure and the way business models develop. The Croatian Society of Economists will continue, following its tradition, to strongly connect science on one side and practice and the economy on the other, taking into account the long-term interests of Croatia from the perspective of an organization that is not politically colored and whose actions should contribute to the overall development of our community in the future – said Tipurić for Lider.

Darko Tipurić was born on March 8, 1966, in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo in 1989. He is a recipient of the Golden Badge of the University of Sarajevo as one of the best students of his generation at the University. He obtained his master’s degree in Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo in 1991, defending his master’s thesis ‘The Phenomenon of Marketing and Marketing Science’. In 1993, he defended his doctoral dissertation ‘Interorganizational Relations in Marketing Channels’ at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. During 1991, he underwent specialized training in organizational behavior in Vienna (Wirtschaftuniversität and University of Kentucky).

Since February 1993, he has been working at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb at the Department of Organization and Management, first as an assistant, and from 1994 as a senior assistant. In mid-1997, he was elected to the scientific-teaching title of assistant professor, in 2001 to the title of associate professor, and in 2004 to the title of full professor, and in 2009 to the title of full professor in a permanent position.

He is a visiting professor at the University of Malta, the Faculty of Economics in Split and Sarajevo, the Universities of Pula and Dubrovnik, and a Visiting Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University.

He teaches courses in ‘Business Decision Making’, ‘Strategic Management’, ‘International Management’, ‘Business Strategy’, and ‘Corporate Governance’ at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

He is the author of more than a hundred scientific and professional papers in the field of management both domestically and internationally. His scientific and professional interest in recent years has focused on researching the competitiveness and strategies of Croatian companies, as well as employee shareholding, privatization, and corporate governance.

He is a recipient of four ‘Mijo Mirković’ awards for the books ‘Strategic Alliances: Achieving Competitive Advantage through Collaboration’ in 2002, ‘ESOP and Croatian Enterprises’ in 2004, ‘Supervisory Board and Corporate Governance’ in 2006, and ‘Corporate Governance’ in 2008.

– In HDE, we want to keep pace with the fundamental changes in society, base our work on connecting science and practice, and be an independent factor that will influence social and economic events.

Together with others in Croatia, we want to leave seeds where there will be no satisfaction with mediocre and irrelevant results, nor with metrics and incentives that encourage mediocrity. We need long-term and systematic efforts, discipline and innovation in work, perseverance and willingness, and, above all, the desire to change the world in order to achieve above-average achievements for all of us, collectively and individually, as a spiritual and intellectual category of accumulated knowledge and experience and its transmission.

At the same time, we need to continue to differ, to have different opinions, approaches, and attitudes. As Lippmann wrote, ‘When everyone thinks alike, it means that no one thinks enough’ – concludes Tipurić.