Ansgar Zerfass

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Ansgar Zerfaß (born October 11, 1965 in Solingen ) is a German communications and media scientist.

Life

In 1990, Zerfaß graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a degree in business administration and communication . In 1995 he received his doctoral thesis in corporate management and public relations. Foundation of a theory of corporate communication and public relations for Dr. rer. pole. PhD . As a research assistant at the chair for corporate management at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg with Horst Steinmann , he was a full-time lecturer for six years. He then held managerial positions in corporate communications and political consulting for ten years, most recently as a member of the management of MFG Baden-Württemberg mbH in Stuttgart, the Baden-Württemberg competence center for IT and media. In addition, he worked as a lecturer at several universities and completed his habilitation in Erlangen-Nuremberg for communication studies under the mentorship of Winfried Schulz .

Zerfaß is a university professor at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig . Since 2006 he has been Professor of Communication Management there and was appointed Professor of Strategic Communication in autumn 2014. Since 2013 he has also been Professor in Communication and Leadership at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo.

Zerfaß is u. a. Editor of the International Journal of Strategic Communication (USA), Plank Scholar at the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at the University of Alabama , Past President of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) in Brussels, initiator and member of the academic management team Society for Business Management and Communication ; Scientific advisory board of the Corporate Communication Cluster Vienna in Austria as well as scientific advisor of the Communication Benchmarking Initiative in Germany. He is also an advisory board member of the Leipzig Public Relations Student Association. He is the author and editor of 35 books and more than 340 specialist articles as well as studies in the research fields of communication management , corporate communication , public relations , innovation communication and integrated communication .

The European Communication Monitor , which is considered to be the world's largest empirical study on strategic communication, was launched by him in 2007. Since then, it has been implemented annually with a research team from several European universities and is now supplemented by the North American Communication Monitor, the Latin American Communication Monitor and the Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor , so that the study series in each survey wave more than 5,000 respondents and more than 80 Spanning countries.

Zerfaß has received several prizes for his research projects, including the Pathfinder Award from the Institute for Public Relations, USA (2014), the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Science Award from the Public Relations Society of America (2015) and the Hermann Weiler Foundation award , Nuremberg (1998), the Albert Oeckl Prize of the DPRG (1995) and the Ludwig Schunk Prize for Economics from the University of Giessen (1997). With communication campaigns, Zerfaß won the German PR Prize in 2000, the German Multimedia Award in 2005 and the PR Report Award in 2010. In 2005 he was awarded the title of PR Head of the Year . In 2010 he took first place in the ranking of German-speaking PR professors. Zerfaß students have been honored several times by various institutions as authors of the best theses in the field of corporate communication in Germany and Europe.

Zerfaß worked for several years as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. In his former role as managing director of the Institute for Communication and Media Studies, Zerfaß tried to reorganize communication and media studies at the University of Leipzig from 2011, which was initially controversial. The concept for the restructuring of the institute was later adopted by mutual agreement with minor revisions by all departments, faculty and rectorate involved and gradually implemented from 2012.

Fonts (selection)

  • Rupert Ahrens, Helmut Scherer, Ansgar Zerfaß (eds.): Integrated communication management. Conceptual basics and practical experience. FAZ Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Günter Bentele, Horst Steinmann, Ansgar Zerfaß (eds.): Dialog-oriented corporate communication. Basics - practical experience - perspectives. VISTAS Verlag, Berlin 1996.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß: corporate management and public relations. Foundation of a theory of corporate communication and public relations. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996.
  • Michael Krzeminski, Ansgar Zerfaß (Ed.): Interactive corporate communication. Internet, intranet, databases, online services and business TV as the building blocks of successful public relations. FAZ Institute, Frankfurt am Main. 1998 (2nd unchanged edition 1999).
  • Klaus Haasis, Walter Strommer, Ansgar Zerfaß (eds.): Digital value creation. Internet and e-business as an opportunity for medium-sized companies. 2nd, completely revised edition. dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg 2002.
  • Peter A. Bruck, Z. Karssen, A. Buchholz, A. Zerfass (Eds.): E-Content - Technologies and Perspectives for the European Market. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2005.
  • Claudia Mast , Walter Zerfaß (Ed.): Successfully implementing new ideas. The innovation communication manual. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Dietrich Boelter: The new opinion makers . Weblogs as a challenge for campaigns, marketing, PR and media. Nausner & Nausner, Graz 2005.
  • Manfred Piwinger, Ansgar Zerfaß (Hrsg.): Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2007.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Martin Welker, Jan Schmidt (eds.): Communication, participation and effects in the social web. Volume 1: Basics and methods: From society to the individual. Volume 2: Strategies and applications: perspectives for business, politics, journalism. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2008.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Betteke van Ruler, Krishnamurthy Sriramesh (eds.): Public Relations Research. European and International Perspectives and Innovations. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Kathrin M. Möslein (ed.): Communication as a success factor in innovation management. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • Klaus Möller, Manfred Piwinger, Ansgar Zerfaß (ed.): Intangible assets - valuation, reporting and communication. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2009.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß: corporate management and public relations. Foundation of a theory of corporate communication and public relations. 3. Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Jörg Pfannenberg, Ansgar Zerfaß (ed.): Value creation through communication: Strategic communication controlling in corporate practice. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Werner Süss, Ansgar Zerfaß, Lisa Dühring: Corporate branding in the field of tension between corporate and marketing communication. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Lars Rademacher, Stefan Wehmeier (eds.): Organizational communication and public relations. Research paradigms and new perspectives. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Ansgar Zerfass, Kim Jeong-Nam (Eds.): Current Trends and Emerging Topics in Public Relations and Communication Management. Routledge, New York 2013.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Juliane Kiesenbauer: Strategists, visionaries and networkers in corporate communications . Next-generation heads of communications and protagonists in close-up. Monsenstein + Vannerdat, Münster 2014.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Thomas Pleil (Ed.): Handbuch Online-PR. Strategic communication on the internet and social web. 2nd Edition. UVK, Constance 2014.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Manfred Piwinger (Hrsg.): Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation. 2nd, completely revised edition. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2014.
  • Derina R. Holtzhausen, Ansgar Zerfass (Ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication . Routledge, New York 2015.
  • Andrea Catellani, Ansgar Zerfass, Ralph Tench (eds.): Communication Ethics in a Connected World. PIE Peter Lang, Brussels 2015.
  • Peggy S. Brønn, Stefania Romenti, Ansgar Zerfass (eds.): The Management Game of Communication. Emerald, Bingley 2016.
  • Ralph Tench, Dejan Verčič, Ansgar Zerfass, Angeles Moreno, Piet Verhoeven: Communication Excellence - How to Develop, Manage and Lead Exceptional Communications. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2017.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Sophia C. Volk, (2019). Communication management toolbox. Thinking tools and instruments for managing corporate communications . Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2019.
  • Howard Nothhaft, Dejan Verčič, Kelly P. Werder, Ansgar Zerfass (Eds.): Future Directions of Strategic Communication. Routledge, New York 2019.
  • Ansgar Zerfaß, Manfred Piwinger, Ulrike Röttger (eds.): Corporate Communication Manual, 3rd edition. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. PR Trend Monitor July 2010 by Newsaktuell / Faktenkontor, survey of 1,124 German communication managers.
  2. communicationmanagement.de: detailed view. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  3. Ralf Geissler: Journalism is sick. In: The time . January 19, 2011.