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Matej Lahovnik
PhD

Business portrait of Matej Lahovnik in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024

E: matej.lahovnik@ef.uni-lj.si

T: +386 1 589 25 32

Office hour

Thursday at 15:00

room P-332

Full Professor

Department

Academic Unit for Management and Organisation (Regular Member)

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CV

Matej Lahovnik is a full professor of management at the School of Economics and Business in Ljubljana. He is the author or co-author of several papers on the restructuring processes of firms. He has been a visiting scholar at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business and at the Caledonian Business School of the University of Glasgow. He was Minister of Economy in the Slovenian government in 2004 and in 2008-2010. In 2009, he was the government's chief negotiator on corporate governance and investment for OECD membership. As a full professor at the School of Economics and Business, he lectures in the fields of strategic management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. He is vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the Krka pharmaceutical company and a columnist in Slovenian newspapers. He coordinated the group of economists and managers who assisted the Slovenian government in preparing economic measures to deal with the Covid19 crisis. He is currently a member of the Strategic Council for Macroeconomic Issues of the Slovenian Government.

Courses

Selected projects

  • Lahovnik Matej
    Strategic factors underlying acquisitions performance in a post-communist economy : experience from Slovenia.
    Post-communist economies,vol. 17(4), 2005, pp. 503-521.

  • Matej Lahovnik
    Corporate strategies in the post-transition economy : the case of Slovenian companies.
    The journal of applied business reseach, Jan/Feb 2011, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 61-68.

  • Lahovnik Matej, Breznik Lidija
    Technological innovation capabilities as a source of competitive advantage : a case study from the home appliance industry.
    Transfomations in business and economics journal, 2014, vol. 13, no. 2 (32), pp. 144-160.

  • Matej Lahovnik
    Corporate governance in Slovenia after sixteen years of transition.
    Transformations in business and economics journal, 2010, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 118-127.

  • Breznik Lidija, Lahovnik Matej
    Renewing the resource base in line with the dynamic capabilities view : a key to sustained competitive advantage in the IT industry.
    Journal for East European Management Studies, 2014, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 453-485