Education
2000
- 2006
Habilitation (Venia legendi in Business Administration), Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1996
Completion of doctoral studies. Title of dissertation thesis: Knowledge-Management and Knowledge-Controlling in Learning Organizations - a system-theoretical approach
1994
- 1996
Doctoral studies in business administration and social sciences. Focus: Organizational Learning and Management Control. Graduation "summa cum laude", Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1989
- 1994
Degree program in business mathematics, University of Ulm. Focus: Management, Operations Research. Graduation "summa cum laude"
Career
since 2009
Academic Director MAS/MBA International Management
since 2008
Appointment to Head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and to Member of University Management of the Hochschule Liechtenstein (University of Liechtenstein), Vaduz
2007
Interim professorship and director of the Department of Human Resources and Organization at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr (University of Lahr), Lahr, Germany
since 2007
Chair for International Management at the Institute of Entrepreneurship, Hochschule Liechtenstein (University of Liechtenstein), Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein
2006
- 2007
Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
2006
Completion of the habilitation procedure. Lecture on Strategic Management in the area of tension between economic theory construction and management consultancy. Consentaneous conferment of the venia legendi Business Administration
2005
- 2006
Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
2005
Habilitation (Post-doctoral qualification). Title: Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership - A Strategic Framework. Habilitation thesis completed on 12-12-05. Venia legendi in Business Administration on 08-08-06, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1999
- 2005
Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management, Management Control and Consulting, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1999
- 2000
Internal direction of the Department of Strategic Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in the course of the replacement of Prof. Dr. Rolf Eschenbach
1995
- 1999
Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1994
- 1995
Project Assistant and Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
1991
- 1993
Teaching Assistant at theUniversity of Ulm (Business and Mathematics)
1991
Internship at Operations Research, University of Ulm
Visiting Academic
1998
- 1999
Visiting researcher (Schumpeter visiting professorship) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge/Mass.
1997
Study and research visit at the Organizational Learning Center, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/Mass.
Honors
2009
"Best Paper Award" at the European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC) for the article "The Meaning of Intangible Assets: New Insights into Company Succession in SMEs" (together with S. Durst)
2007
Award "Top-Publication 2006" granded by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for "Bridging "The Great Divide": Nonaka`s Synthesis of "Western" and "Eastern" Knowledge Concepts Reassessed". In: Organization, Special Issue on the Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge Management: Consequences for Organization Theory and Practice, 14, 1, 101 - 122 (together with H. Helting)
2002
"Innovative Teaching Award" at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for the lecture "Organizational Learning - Theory and Practice" (together with H. Helting)
2000
"CEO of the future"-award granted by Manager Magazin and McKinsey Germany
1997
Stephan-Koren-Award for the best doctoral thesis of the year 1996 and the included scientific research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration from the Association of Professors at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Memberships
since 2008
Academy of Management
since 2008
Member of the editorial board, Journal of Knowledge Management
since 2008
Member of The New Club of Paris
since 2006
Business Management Research Institute
since 2005
European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
since 2005
European Academy of Management (EURAM)
since 2004
System Dynamics Society
since 2004
German Academic Association for Business Research
since 2001
Founder and Speaker of the Executive Board "Plattform Wissensmanagement" (www.pwm.at)
since 1998
Schumpeter Association
since 1998
Strategic Management Society
since 1997
Society for Organizational Learning (Sol)
since 1996
Point Management (Alumin organization of the Department of Strategic Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
since 1993
Studium & Praxis (Alumni organization of University of Ulm)