Assoc. Prof. Kristijan Krkač, PhD (b. 1970) has been a tenured professor at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM) since 2003. Before joining ZSEM, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb (1996-2017). He was a visiting professor in France 2010-2014 (Science Po Lille), in Latvia (RISEBA University) and in Italy (H-FARM College).
His research interests are mainly in the areas of business ethics, CSR and sustainability, and in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. To date, he has published 17 authored and 11 edited books (textbooks, conference and symposium proceedings, journal issues and two encyclopedias as a section editor). He is the author and co-author of more than 150 original scientific, professional and review articles, book chapters and encyclopedia articles. He has published with Palgrave MacMillan, De Gruyter, Springer, Routledge, Ashgate, Emerald, Rowman & Littlefield and the Austrian Society of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His books in English include: A Custodian of Grammar, Essays on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Morphology (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), Conversations on Ethics and Business. A Guide to Thinking about Workplace Ethics (with R. Richards, and B. Jalšenjak, Cambridge: Ethics International Press, 2023) and Alone amidst the ruins of the future – Philosophy and unsustainability of multiple simultaneous disasters (Zagreb: MATE, 2025).
He was an editor of the Social Responsibility Journal (Emerald) and was a member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals (e.g. Technological Sustainability, Emerald, UK) and conferences (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America) and section editor for two CSR encyclopedias (Springer Verlag, Berlin). He is a regular reviewer for several philosophy and business ethics journals in Europe and North America.
His notable ideas include the pragmatic/morphological analysis of L. Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, the criterion of automatic lying, the reformulated concept of social irresponsibility and the model of alerting to multiple simultaneous natural and unnatural disasters (Krkač, 2025).
A full biography and bibliography are available at the following link.