Joachim Schwalbach

Joachim Schwalbach (born July 15, 1948 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German business economist .

Life

After attending elementary school and training as a surveying technician , Joachim Schwalbach acquired the university entrance qualification on the second educational path . After graduating from a business high school , he studied business administration at the universities of Munich , Southampton and the Free University of Berlin . During his employment at the International Institute of Management, the forerunner of today's Science Center Berlin for Social Research , he did his doctorate as an external doctoral student at the University of Bonn under Carl Christian von Weizsäcker and Horst Albach with an empirical study on the topic of the economy of multi-company operations. Under Albach , Schwalbach completed his habilitation at the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar and received the Venia Legendi as well as the title of Privatdozent for business administration and industrial economics .

Act

From 1977 to 1990 Schwalbach was employed at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , where he headed the research focus industrial economics as acting director from 1988 to 1990. He then followed a call from the Free University of Berlin to the Schering Endowed Chair for General Business Administration with a focus on medium-sized businesses. In 1993 he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin to take the chair for international management and has since been director of the Institute for Management at the Faculty of Business and Economics. From 2002 to 2004 Schwalbach acted as vice dean and from 2004 to 2006 he headed the business and economics faculty as dean. He has been a member of the Academic Senate of Humboldt University since 2009.

Schwalbach is a permanent visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and at the School of Business at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Schwalbach's research areas include the economically and socially relevant topics of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility . He has recently been researching the subject of the honorable businessman .

Schwalbach was and is co-editor of numerous specialist magazines - such as the magazine for business administration .

Expert opinion for the nuclear industry

For the German Atomic Forum , prior to the 2009 Bundestag election, the company GlobalKomm was asked to carry out the study on corporate returns on the use of nuclear energy in Germany by Schwalbach's wife Astrid Drabant-Schwalbach, which was estimated at € 135,000 . Prepare a study on the economic, social, societal and ecological benefits of nuclear energy , on the front page of which Joachim Schwalbach's name and university function should be. The study was ultimately never completed; a preliminary version can be viewed on the Internet. The Atomforum and GlobalKomm compared the fee before the Berlin Regional Court . Schwalbach asserted that the study was not a courtesy report; the daily newspaper (taz) wrote: “In circles of the energy companies, this representation causes outrage. There is claimed:. Schwalbach interim results were even so unbelastbar and pleasing that a continuation of the project would have been pointless and embarrassing "() Those in the taz published abstract of the study, the journalist judged Gerd Rosenkranz in an interview with the NDR as a repetition of the Propaganda of the nuclear industry and came to the conclusion: "[...] what Schwalbach does is not science."

The processes surrounding the report are also examined by the Presidium of the Humboldt University in Berlin . In an interview with the daily newspaper taz, President Jan-Hendrik Olbertz stated that Mr. Schwalbach had declared himself in writing to the Presidium and that no disciplinary proceedings had yet been initiated in November 2011 . However, it will be checked whether Mr. Schwalbach has violated the secondary employment regulation of the civil service law. The lobby control organization then criticized the fact that the presidium had delayed the clarification of the matter and did not address it quickly enough. In March 2012 the university announced that it was no longer providing any information because of “private interests worthy of protection”.

Fonts (selection)

• On the economy of multiple companies. Inaugural dissertation University of Bonn, Bonn 1981
• Industry Structure and Performance, with an Introduction by F. M. Scherer. Edition Sigma, Berlin 1985
• Entry and Market Contestability. An International Comparison. with Paul Geroski, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1991
• Corporate governance. Essays in Honor of Horst Albach. 2nd edition, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2004
• Production theory. Vahlen-Verlag, Munich 2004, 2nd edition: 2008
• The Honorable Merchant: Modern Mission Statement for Companies? Journal for Business Administration, special edition 1/2007, Gabler, Wiesbaden 2007
• Corporate social responsibility. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft - Journal of Business Economics, special edition 3/2008, Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Dynamics. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft - Journal of Business Economics, special edition 1/2010, Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010

Web links

• Internet presence of the Institute for Management, Humboldt University Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Schwalbach: On the economy of multi-company operation . University of Bonn, Bonn 1981, p. 190 (inaugural dissertation with curriculum vitae ).
2. ↑ Planned change of mood: Energy companies wanted numerous journalists, scientists and politicians to advertise the continued operation of the nuclear power plants . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 1, 2011, ISSN  0940-6980 , p. 6 .
3. ↑ Lobby buys researchers: Nuclear companies wanted to manipulate public opinion . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . November 1, 2011.
4. ↑ Martin Kaul, Sebastian Heiser: The Schwalbach study: "Corporate return on nuclear energy in Germany" - building block for a sustainability concept in the energy industry. (No longer available online.) Taz , July 27, 2009, archived from the original on October 25, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Sebastian Heiser, Martin Kaul: The honorable professor . In: taz . October 29, 2011, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 18 ( taz.de [accessed on September 13, 2013]).
6. ^ Zapp : Interview with Gerd Rosenkranz (lobbyism - nuclear policy according to plan). (No longer available online.) NDR, November 2, 2011, archived from the original on January 4, 2012 ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 (video no longer available). 
7. ↑ Martin Kaul, Sebastian Heiser: University President on nuclear lobby report: "An annoying story" . In: taz . November 3, 2011, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 13, 2013]).
8. ↑ Martin Kaul: Courtesy report for the nuclear lobby: Humboldt-Uni delays clarification . In: taz . December 10, 2011, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 13, 2013]).
9. ↑ Sebastian Heiser, Martin Kaul: Pro-Atom study at the HU: Uni lets it be good with the education . In: taz . March 19, 2012, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 13, 2013]).