Mateja Bodlaj
PhD

Mateja Bodlaj is an Associate Professor for marketing at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana. Before the employment at the faculty she has worked as a program manager in a marketing department. She received her PhD in 2009 with the topic on the relationship between market orientation, innovation and business performance. She has cooperated in several marketing courses; currently she teaches Principles of Marketing, Marketing Planning, Small Business Marketing, and Pricing Strategies. Her main research topics are related to market orientation, small business marketing, and export performance of SMEs. Her articles have been published in journals, such as Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of East European Management Studies, Journal of Business Economics and Management, and Economic Business Review, as well as a part of the monograph European Retail Research. She is a member of editorial board of the Slovenian scientific marketing journal Akademija MM. She is a member of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) and the Slovenian Marketing Association (SMA).

• BODLAJ, Mateja, & ČATER, Barbara (2022).
  Responsive and proactive market orientation in relation to SMEs’ export venture performance: The mediating role of marketing capabilities
  Journal of Business Research, 138, 256-265

• BODLAJ, Mateja, KADIC-MAGLAJLIC, Selma, & VIDA, Irena (2020).
  Disentangling the impact of different innovation types, financial constraints and geographic diversification on SMEs' export growth.
  Journal of Business Research, 108, 466-475. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.10.043

• BODLAJ, Mateja, ČATER, Barbara.
  The impact of environmental turbulence on the perceived importance of innovation and innovativeness in SMEs.
  Journal of small business management. Nov. 2019, vol. 57, iss. s2, 417-435. ISSN 0047-2778.

• BODLAJ, Mateja, VIDA, Irena.
  Factors underlying cultural and psychical distance in cross-national activities of export managers: Qualitative insights from a CEE Country. Journal for East-European Management Studies (2018).
  doi: 10.5771/0949-6181-2018-3-351

• BODLAJ, Mateja, POVŠE, Helena, VIDA, Irena.
  Cross-border relational exchange in SMEs : the impact of flexibility-based trust on export performance. Journal for East European management studies, ISSN 0949-6181, 2017, vol. 22, iss. 2, str. 199-220, doi: 10.5771/0949-6181-2017-2-1.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 23774694]

• VIDA, Irena, BODLAJ, Mateja.
  Izzivi kulturnih razlik v mednarodnem trženju : vloga psihične razdalje v odnosih izvoznik - uvoznik, (Znanstvene monografije Ekonomske fakultete). Ljubljana: Ekonomska fakulteta, Založništvo, 2016. VII, 118, 6 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-240-308-9.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 286199296]

• DMITROVIĆ, Tanja, BODLAJ, Mateja.
  Retailing in Slovenia : current landscape and trends. V: FOSCHT, Thomas (ur.), et al. European retail research : 2. Vol. 27, (European Retail Research, ISSN 1867-8785, Vol. 27, iss. 2). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. 2015, str. 93-123, tabele, graf. prik
  [COBISS.SI-ID 22199782]

• BODLAJ, Mateja, ROJŠEK, Iča.
  Marketing in small firms : the case of Slovenia. Economic and business review, ISSN 1580-0466. 2014, vol. 16, no. 2, str. 101-119.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 22287846]

• BODLAJ, Mateja.
  Do managers at two hierarchical levels differ in how they assess their company's market orientation? Journal for East European management studies, ISSN 0949-6181, 2012, vol. 17, no. 3, str. 292-312.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 21068006]

• BODLAJ, Mateja, COENDERS, Germa, ŽABKAR, Vesna.
  Responsive and proactive market orientation and innovation success under market and technological turbulence. Journal of business economics and management, 2012, vol. 13, no. 4, str. 666-687, doi: 10.3846/16111699.2011.620143.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 21306086]

• BODLAJ, Mateja.
  Market orientation and degree of novelty. Managing Global Transitions, 2011, vol. 9, no. 1., str. 63-79.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 20100070]

• BODLAJ, Mateja, ROJŠEK, Iča.
  The market orientation of Slovenian companies: Two-group comparisons. Economic and Business Review, 2010, vol. 12, no. 2, str. 89-108.
  [COBISS.SI-ID 19899622]

• BODLAJ, Mateja, VIDA, Irena.
  Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe: A case study of international expansion by a Slovenian retailer. European Retail Research, 2008, vol. 22, str. 137-157. 
  [COBISS.SI-ID 18113254]