Dieter Witt

Dieter Witt (born March 25, 1941 in Landshut ) is a German economist .

Life

Dieter Witt was born on March 25, 1941 in Landshut (Lower Bavaria) and grew up there and in the nearby Eugenbach (Altdorf municipality). After attending school in Landshut, he completed his military service and became an officer in the reserve. In 1963 he went to Munich, where he studied business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University. In 1968 he graduated with a degree in business administration. Working as assistant to the dean's office, he obtained his doctorate in 1972. rer. pole.; He then moved to Karl Oettle at the Institute for Transport Economics and Public Economics, most recently as its deputy director. In 1986 he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich in the field of service economics.

Dieter Witt has been married since 1970 and has two daughters and a son.

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Witt's areas of work are broad: he has dealt with public companies, transport, health, military, private households, large households (such as old people's homes and hospitals), large domestic companies (such as hotels, restaurants and catering), associations, clubs, foundations and other nonprofits -Organizations (NPO).

Since 1995 Witt has increasingly concentrated on the management of clubs and associations. In 2006, he and others founded the Institute for Association Research and Consulting SIA and has been its board member and scientific director ever since.

In his publications, Witt advocates a management system that systematically takes into account the variety of goals in the selection, adaptation, conception and application of management tools. Public and private nonprofit organizations require independent forms of professional management because of their characteristics.

Functions

• Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Economics, Department of Service Economics
• Board member of the Institute for Association Research and Consulting SVV eG
• Chairman of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the German Society for Association Management e. V. (DGVM)
• Board member of the Society for Rational Transport Policy e. V. (GRV)
• Board member of the German Transport Science Society (DVWG) Südbayern e. V.
• Lecturer at the Administration and Business Academy Munich e. V. (VWA)
• Member of the Bavarian State Working Group of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) Hanover

Fonts (selection)

• Economic Social Organizations - Contradiction, Reality or Vision? in: Investing in social issues. Create more value. ConSozial 2007, ed. v. J. König, C. Oerthel u. H.-J. Puch, Munich 2008, pp. 85-100
• The challenge of association management. Fields of action and strategies. Wiesbaden 2006 (with B. v. Velsen-Zerweck, M. Thiess and A. Heilmair)
• Elites in associations. In: Elites in Germany: Meaning - Power - Responsibility, ed. v. OW Gabriel, B. Neuss and G. Rüther, Bonn 2006, pp. 261–275 (with H. Sturm), available from the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb): http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/PHBV7Q , 0, Eliten_in_Deutschland.html ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Service strategies of business associations in times of changing member interests and demands. Increase in membership value through association relationship management. In: Public Administration and Nonprofit Organizations. Festschrift for Reinbert Schauer, ed. v. E.-B. Blümle, H. Pernsteiner, R. Purtschert, RC Andeßner, Vienna 2004, pp. 783–811 (with ME Schwarz)
• Functions and services of nonprofit organizations. 6th International Colloquium of NPO Researchers, Wiesbaden 2004 (edited with R. Purtschert and R. Schauer)
• Non-profit management on the rise? Festschrift for Karl Oettle on his 75th birthday, Wiesbaden 2001 (edited with C. Eckstaller and P. Faller); therein: Requirements for business qualifications of the staff in non-profit organizations and possibilities of their coverage, pp. 27-42 (with H. Sturm)
• Management status in associations: Results of the association survey 1996/97 - overall evaluation. Freising 1998 (together with B. Lakes, H. Emberger, B. v. Velsen-Zerweck and G. Seufert)
• Characteristics of human resource management in associations. In: Third Sector - Third Force. Attempt to determine your position, ed. by R. Graf Strachwitz, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 291-313 (under the title “Mit Personalwirtschaften” also in: Handbuch Sozialmanagement, Folder I, Chapter C 4.4, edited by M. Beck, Stuttgart et al. 1998, p. 1 –25) (each together with H. Sturm)
• Typology and characteristics of associations, in: Journal for public and public-sector enterprises 19 (1996), issue 4, pp. 414–427 (with H. Emberger and G. Seufert) (as a pdf on the Internet: http: //www.verbandsforschung .de / fileadmin / svv / pdf / Typologisierung_und_Eigenarten_von_Verbaenden.pdf )
• Service principle and acquisition principle - questions of basic orientation in transport and the public economy. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Karl Oettle. Baden-Baden 1991 (edited with P. Faller); therein: Culture and Service Principle in Public Enterprises, pp. 283–299
• Performance targets and performance indicators in hospitals, in: Journal for Public and Public Enterprise 3 (1980), Issue 2, pp. 220–232
• The suitability of the principle of economic viability as a yardstick for the actions of public companies, in: The public budget 16 (1977), pp. 154–166
• Influences of public-economic goals on the rational financing of public companies, Munich 1972

Editor of the series of publications NPO Management (in the Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden)

Festschriften

• The diversity of service economics. Festschrift for Dieter Witt on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ed. v. Hilmar Sturm, Burkhard von Velsen-Zerweck and Eckart Stüber. Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-8244-7809-9 (with list of publications)
• Association management perspectives. Festschrift for Dieter Witt on his 70th birthday. Edited by Astrid Heilmair, Yvonne Russ, Hilmar Sturm and Thomas Zitzmann. Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8349-2924-2

Web links

• Institute for Association Research and Advice SIA