PROGRAM 2025

4th December 2025 (Hall 15 (Congress Hall, Faculty of Economic and Business Zagreb)

13:30 - 14:00    REGISTRATION (in the front of the Hall 15)

14:00 – 14:15   CONFERENCE OPENING

                             Representative of Management Board FEB Zagreb 

                             Prof. Ivan Kovač, PhD President of the Editorial Board of Trade Perspectives 2025

                             Petar Mišević, PhD, Advisor to the President, Croatian Chamber of Economy 

14:15 – 15:45  Panel ''CHALLENGES AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN GLOBAL TRADE''’’

                            Moderator: Prof. Tonći Lazibat, PhD 

                             Panelists:

                                               Marko Babić, PhD

                                               Prof. Mirko Bilandžić, PhD

                                               Hrvoje Čeović, PhD

                                               Hrvoje Ivić 

                                               Nenad Mađerić       

                                               Ivan Markotić, PhD

                                               Prof. Ivan Miloloža, PhD

                                               Assoc. Prof. Petar Mišević, PhD

                                               Krešimir Rukavina

                                               Staša Zovko

15:45– 16:00    REFRESHMENT BREAK (in the front of  Hall 15)

16:00 – 17:45    Presentations of selected papers (Chair: Associate Professor Mate Damić, PhD) 

                      1.        HUMAN-CENTRIC DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: BUILDING RESILIENCE FOR THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL BUSINESS

                                 RENATA KORSAKIENE (Head of Department of Management at Faculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)

                      2.       CONTEMPORARY RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN HIGH  STAKES ENVIRONMENTS

                                IVANA POKRAJČIĆ (Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, University of Defense and Security “Dr. Franjo Tuđman”)

                      3.       EU ENERGY POLICY AND CHALLENGES IN DIVERSIFYING NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CHAIN TRADE POST-2027

                                VELJKO MIJUŠKOVIĆ (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics)

                      4.      DOES TOURISM CONTRIBUTE TO REAL ESTATE BUBBLE? - CASE OF CROATIA

                               MARKO TURKALJ (Coastventure S.L., Costa Adeje, Santa Cruz de Tenerife​)

                      5.      ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND MODERN CHALLENGES OF THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

                               RADENKO MARIĆ (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics in Subotica)

                     6.       APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACROSS FMCG SUPPLY CHAINS: A CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONS AND EFFICIENCY GAINS

                                KRISTINA PETLJAK (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business)

                     7.       ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND USER EXPERIENCE: EVALUATING ITS IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF FASHION E-COMMERCE

                                INES DUŽEVIĆ (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business)

19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (for registered authors)