Presently, I mainly engage in management education, with my last academic affiliation having been Executive Professor of General Management and Leadership at Florida Gulf Coast University. Born in Vienna, Austria, B.Sc. in Chemistry (1964), M.B.A. (1969), Ph.D. (1974, (majoring in econometrics), I worked in Finance and Administration of BASF SE, the German multinational chemicals manufacturer, from 1970 to 1999, and then started teaching, with asssignments at Emory, Worms (Germany), Lucerne (Switzerland) and several others.
Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation i... more Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation in Executive Education with a unique global scope. This book integrates studies and experiences of 32 distinguished scholars from 15 countries who are working in the development of theories and practices to advance a human centered management paradigm. The discussion presents a well-balanced outlook that combines and contrasts research and models from developed and developing countries and the visions of 10 women and 22 male authors from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Organizations need an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within a... more Organizations need an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within all the phases of its process in order to analyze, understand, select, and integrate ideas in a business model. Management Control Systems, as a part of the structural capital, can be utilized as knowledge integration mechanisms that provide: i) a dialog among internal or external actors of the creative process; ii) a knowledge repository for data and other information required in the selecting process; iii) representation of the new ideas into a business model. Using a multi-method case study, this article tries to analyze the role of knowledge integration played by Management Control Systems (MCS). With the perspective of the Levers of Control (Simons, 1995), MCS are recognized as the sum of belief, boundary, diagnostic and interactive systems that could be used to manage the creative process. We apply the Appreciative Inquiry model on creativity (Cooperrider, Srivastva, 1987) which recognizes four steps: Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Creativity is then classified based on the problem's characteristic using Unsworth's model (2001) which separates closed and open problems. Results show that in the early phases of the creativity process more structured problems are faced using diagnostic and boundary tools, while problems that are more open are faced using interactive and belief approaches. In the design phase, a dynamic tension between interactive and diagnostic systems is always preferred. The final phase (Destiny) requires diagnostic approaches in all cases. On this foundation, the paper aims to contribute to the literature on innovation and intangible assets. It is our opinion that the results could also be used by managers and entrepreneurs involved in the creative process in order to improve a companies\u2019 ability to face change
This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make pres... more This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make presentations discussing the interface between business and public goods and how a better articulation o...
Natural and man-made crises and disasters often cause untold destruction, but also provide multip... more Natural and man-made crises and disasters often cause untold destruction, but also provide multiple opportunities for economic redevelopment post the crisis. Like other crises the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public and private entities to become engaged in significant redevelopment efforts. Policymakers in some countries view these efforts as an opening for not only including other issues such as deficits in infrastructure and the social systems, but also for redefining their political priorities towards a “green economy”. While pursuing various policy objectives at the same time is a prudent undertaking, it seems rather questionable that politicians, under the pressure of ecological activism, would evaluate all crisis policy measures by their effect on environmental outcomes. We are seeing this in the European Union (EU) as it is about to couple its Recovery and Resilience Facility (financed through the “Next Generation EU Recovery Fund”) with its Green Deal. In the U.S., so far,...
Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
Regulating land use and the biodiversity of a region requires lasting accords between those who m... more Regulating land use and the biodiversity of a region requires lasting accords between those who make the decisions and those who are affected by the rules and regulations. In Africa, these accords depend on the effectiveness of the collective efforts of the representatives of the legal authorities and the civil society (the traditional leaders in the tribal system). In this study, we investigated the role of tribal leaders in conserving biodiversity (which is a base for obtaining accords with statutory regulations), the value of biodiversity for the tribal communities, and the role of the interaction between tribal leaders and legal authorities in successfully implementing the objectives of biodiversity. Successful collaboration requires indigenous regulatory systems to be merged with existing modern or statutory laws to ensure sustainable land use, the conservation of natural resources, and the promotion of biodiversity. To examine this relationship, we conducted in-depth interview...
Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation i... more Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation in Executive Education with a unique global scope. This book integrates studies and experiences of 32 distinguished scholars from 15 countries who are working in the development of theories and practices to advance a human centered management paradigm. The discussion presents a well-balanced outlook that combines and contrasts research and models from developed and developing countries and the visions of 10 women and 22 male authors from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Organizations need an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within a... more Organizations need an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within all the phases of its process in order to analyze, understand, select, and integrate ideas in a business model. Management Control Systems, as a part of the structural capital, can be utilized as knowledge integration mechanisms that provide: i) a dialog among internal or external actors of the creative process; ii) a knowledge repository for data and other information required in the selecting process; iii) representation of the new ideas into a business model. Using a multi-method case study, this article tries to analyze the role of knowledge integration played by Management Control Systems (MCS). With the perspective of the Levers of Control (Simons, 1995), MCS are recognized as the sum of belief, boundary, diagnostic and interactive systems that could be used to manage the creative process. We apply the Appreciative Inquiry model on creativity (Cooperrider, Srivastva, 1987) which recognizes four steps: Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Creativity is then classified based on the problem's characteristic using Unsworth's model (2001) which separates closed and open problems. Results show that in the early phases of the creativity process more structured problems are faced using diagnostic and boundary tools, while problems that are more open are faced using interactive and belief approaches. In the design phase, a dynamic tension between interactive and diagnostic systems is always preferred. The final phase (Destiny) requires diagnostic approaches in all cases. On this foundation, the paper aims to contribute to the literature on innovation and intangible assets. It is our opinion that the results could also be used by managers and entrepreneurs involved in the creative process in order to improve a companies\u2019 ability to face change
This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make pres... more This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make presentations discussing the interface between business and public goods and how a better articulation o...
Natural and man-made crises and disasters often cause untold destruction, but also provide multip... more Natural and man-made crises and disasters often cause untold destruction, but also provide multiple opportunities for economic redevelopment post the crisis. Like other crises the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public and private entities to become engaged in significant redevelopment efforts. Policymakers in some countries view these efforts as an opening for not only including other issues such as deficits in infrastructure and the social systems, but also for redefining their political priorities towards a “green economy”. While pursuing various policy objectives at the same time is a prudent undertaking, it seems rather questionable that politicians, under the pressure of ecological activism, would evaluate all crisis policy measures by their effect on environmental outcomes. We are seeing this in the European Union (EU) as it is about to couple its Recovery and Resilience Facility (financed through the “Next Generation EU Recovery Fund”) with its Green Deal. In the U.S., so far,...
Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
Regulating land use and the biodiversity of a region requires lasting accords between those who m... more Regulating land use and the biodiversity of a region requires lasting accords between those who make the decisions and those who are affected by the rules and regulations. In Africa, these accords depend on the effectiveness of the collective efforts of the representatives of the legal authorities and the civil society (the traditional leaders in the tribal system). In this study, we investigated the role of tribal leaders in conserving biodiversity (which is a base for obtaining accords with statutory regulations), the value of biodiversity for the tribal communities, and the role of the interaction between tribal leaders and legal authorities in successfully implementing the objectives of biodiversity. Successful collaboration requires indigenous regulatory systems to be merged with existing modern or statutory laws to ensure sustainable land use, the conservation of natural resources, and the promotion of biodiversity. To examine this relationship, we conducted in-depth interview...
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