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Jovanović has been the president of Megatrend International Expert Consortium Ltd. in London since 1991. He served in two mandates, as a member of Euro-Asia Management Studies Association Executive Committee (Tokyo and Berlin).
Jovanović has been the president of Megatrend International Expert Consortium Ltd. in London since 1991. He served in two mandates, as a member of Euro-Asia Management Studies Association Executive Committee (Tokyo and Berlin).

== Controversy ==

On June 1, 2014, a group of Serbian academics based in the UK published an article claiming that parts of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia [[Nebojša Stefanović]]'s doctoral dissertation were plagiarized.<ref>http://balkanist.net/getting-a-phd-in-serbia-has-never-been-easier-the-case-of-minister-of-internal-affairs-nebojsa-stefanovic/</ref> The controversy escalated even further when other academics raised serious doubts that Megatrend's rector and Stefanović's mentor Mića Jovanović was never awarded a doctorate himself.<ref>http://pescanik.net/rektor-mica-baron-minhauzen-ili-kako-je-ministrov-mentor-zagubio-doktorat/</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140909182703/http://inserbia.info/today/2014/06/breaking-megatrend-rector-mica-jovanovic-does-not-have-london-phd-minister/</ref> Jovanović's alleged mentor Stephen Wood of the [[University of Leicester]] denounced him claiming his thesis failed and was not resubmitted.

On June 12, 2014, Serbian Ministry of Education confirmed Megatrend's rector had forged his PhD at LSE. In the wake of these findings, ministry of education called on rector Jovanović to resign. He also called on relevant authorities to determine whether there were elements of criminal offense.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140909182703/http://inserbia.info/today/2014/06/breaking-megatrend-rector-mica-jovanovic-does-not-have-london-phd-minister/</ref><ref>http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2014&mm=06&dd=12&nav_id=90654</ref> Jovanovic resigned the following day.<ref>http://inserbia.info/today/2014/06/mica-jovanovic-resigns-over-fake-phd-claim/</ref> More recently, he declared to have quit Serbia.<ref>http://www.alo.rs/vesti/aktuelno/mica-napustio-sam-sps-i-srbiju/67507</ref><ref>http://www.e-novine.com/entertainment/entertainment-vesti/109102-Spona-Tadievih-prepona.html</ref>


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==

Revision as of 19:32, 7 September 2016

Mića Jovanović is a Serbian professor and director of the Forum for Security and Democracy in Serbia.

Early life

Jovanović was born in Knjaževac, Eastern Serbia, in 1953. He completed high school in Bor (1972) and graduated from the Graduate School of Political Sciences in Belgrade (1976). He got his Master Degree in the fields of Sociology of Work from the same school (1979). Jovanović stated that gained his PhD degree at the University of Maribor (Slovenia) in 1991 in the field of Organizational Sciences. Jovanović started his university career immediately upon graduation in 1976, and became university professor in 1996.

Career

From 1976 and 1991, he worked at the University of Belgrade (with interruptions due to his engagements in the U.K.), and from 1991 at Megatrend Business School, he became a university professor there in 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Management in Zaječar. In 1999, he became Rector of Megatrend University of Belgrade.

From 1983 until 1989, Jovanović gave lectures on self-management and work motivation at various foreign universities: London School of Economics (1983), Bradford University (1983), Portsmouth Polytechnics (1983), Freie Universität Berlin (1987), Okayama University, Japan (1989), University of Tokyo (1991), École supérieure de commerce, Grenoble (1997), Seoul National University (1998). Between 1983 and 1989 he was a member of the research team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the project called "The Future of Work in the Automotive Industry with a View to an Impact of Robotization to the Labour".

Jovanović has been the president of Megatrend International Expert Consortium Ltd. in London since 1991. He served in two mandates, as a member of Euro-Asia Management Studies Association Executive Committee (Tokyo and Berlin).

Awards and honors

In 2012, Jovanovic was awarded by the Universidad del Norte of Paraquay with Doctoris Honoris Causa. He was decorated by King of Spain Juan Carlos I with the Order of Civil Merit, in February 2013.[citation needed]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Sociologija samoupravljanja, Tribina, Beograd, 1982.
  • 69 lekcija o menadžmentu, Megatrend, Beograd, 1991.
  • Work Motivation and Self-Management, Megatrend IEC, London, 2002.
  • Interkulturni menadžment, Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2002.
  • Biznis kao umetnost življenja, Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2008.
  • Business as Life Style, Megatrend International Expert Consortium Limited, London, 2008.
  • Uvod u biznis, Megatrend, univerzitet, Beograd, 2008.
  • Radna motivacija u prvim godinama sovjetske vlasti – istorijski esej iz XX veka, Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2008.
  • Um caruje – Istorija Megatrend univerziteta, Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2010.
  • Lifestyle in Globalization (ed.), Megatrend University, Belgrade, 2013.

Co-authored books

  • What is Behind the Japanese Miracle (with Sung-Jo Park), Megatrend IEC, London–Berlin–Tokyo, 1992.
  • Organizaciono ponašanje (with Mirjana Petković), Megatrend / Ekonomski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 1992.
  • Strategijski menadžment (with Ana Langović), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2001.
  • Upravljanje projektima (with Ana Langović), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2001.
  • Organizaciono ponašanje (with Momčilo Živković and Tatjana Cvetkovski), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2003.
  • Upravljanje ljudskim resursima (with Živko Kulić and Tatjana Cvetkovski), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2004.
  • Preduzetništvo (with Momčilo Živković and Ana Langović), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2004.
  • Interkulturni izazovi globalizacije (with Ana Langović), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2006.
  • Global Cultural and Economic Research (with Sung-Jo Park), Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  • System Transformation in Comparative Perspektive (with Lee Dalgon, Oh Yeon-Cheon, Sung-Jo Parkom, Bernhard Seligerom), Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  • Pre Velikog praska (with Igor Bogdanoff and Grichka Bogdanoff), Megatrend univerzitet, Beograd, 2006.

References