Arnold Picot

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Arnold Picot (born December 28, 1944 in Gmunden ; † July 9, 2017 ) was a German economist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Bochum in 1964, Arnold Picot began an apprenticeship as a banker at Bankhaus Burkhardt & Co in Essen, which he successfully completed in 1966. From 1966 to 1969 he studied business administration at the University of Munich . At the same time he carried out various practical activities in Paris and London from 1966 to 1967.

From 1970 to 1975 he was a research assistant and DFG habilitation scholarship holder at the Institute for Industrial Research and Corporate Accounting ( Edmund Heinen Chair ) at the University of Munich. He received his doctorate in 1972 on the subject of "Basic questions in experimental organizational research - A scientific and methodological contribution to empirical business administration". His habilitation thesis from 1975 was on "Business Environmental Relations and Environmental Information".

From 1976 to 1984 he held the chair for business administration, in particular corporate management and organization, at the University of Hanover ; In 1980/81 he was visiting professor at Stanford University . In 1984 he accepted the chair for general and industrial business administration at the Technical University of Munich ; In 1988 he became head of the Institute for Information, Organization and Management at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In the 2004/2005 academic year he was Konrad Adenauer visiting professor at Georgetown University , Washington DC

Picot was a member of the board of directors of the Münchner Kreis , a member of the board of trustees of the Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation , in various scientific advisory boards, boards and commissions as well as in supervisory and advisory boards in business practice. He was also the (co-) editor of several magazines, series and compilations. His main research interests were fundamental questions of economic theory, organization and corporate management, business informatics , knowledge management and the interactions between new technologies and structures of companies and markets.

Picot has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1999 . On January 1, 2007, he became secretary of the philosophical-historical class of that institution.

He taught at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich.

He died suddenly and unexpectedly.

honors and awards

Works (selection)

  • European Communication Council Report: E-Merging Media, Communication and Media Economy of the Future (2004)
  • Basics of business informatics (2003 9th edition)
  • with Tim Fischer: professional weblogs. Basics, concepts and practice in a business environment (2005)
  • The unlimited enterprise - information, organization and management ,
  • Innovative Business Start-ups - An Economic-Empirical Analysis (1989)
  • Office communication - guiding principles for the user (1984)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sartorius mourns Arnold Picot. Long-time chairman of the supervisory board has passed away. Press box, July 10, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ Website of the Münchner Kreis ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 21, 2016
  3. ^ Website of the Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation of BMW AG: The Board of Trustees. http://kuenheim-stiftung.de/#default/stiftung/bilder .
  4. ↑ CDTM Board: Arnold Picot. Retrieved April 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Sartorius mourns the loss of Arnold Picot , his long-time chairman of the supervisory board.
  6. ↑ Association of University Professors for Business Administration appoints Prof. Arnold Picot as an honorary member ( Memento from September 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Association of University Professors for Business Administration appoints Prof. Arnold Picot as an honorary member
personal data
SURNAME Picot, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2017