After the transition from [[socialist state]] to [[parliamentary democracy]] in 1989, the question of Croatia's [[self-determination]] from Yugoslavia was raised. In 1991, shortly before the declaration of [[Croatian War of Independence|Croatian independence]] and the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]], the company's name [[Jugoton]], a [[portmanteau word]] of ''Jugoslavija'' (Yugoslavia) and ''tone'', was changed to Croatia Records. The company was inherited by the now-[[independentIndependence stateof Croatia|independent]] [[Croatia|Republic of Croatia]] and since the previous economic system was abandoned, it was [[privatization|privatized]]. Since the year of 2000, Croatia Records is managed by professionals from the [[music industry]] joined in the partnership company called AUTOR d.o.o..<ref>http://www.poslovni.hr/63664.aspx</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.burza.hr/poslovni_subjekti/subjekt/12190/?PHPSESSID= | title=Human interaction company}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hr/wwwhr/arts/music/business/index.en.html |title = WWW.HR - Croatian Homepage}}</ref> In 2001, the musician [[Miroslav Škoro]] became the leader of Croatia Records, until his [[resignation]] in 2006.<ref>[[24 sata (Croatia)|24 Sata]] newspaper, July 30, 2006: [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:ic5tXsJUODEJ:damp.nsk.hr/arhiva/vol1/880/9550/www.24sata.hr/articles/view/29967/index.html+24sata.hr/articles/view/29967/index.html]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Google cache version) {{in lang|hr}}</ref>