Joachim Wolf (economist)

Joachim Wolf (born November 26, 1957 in Stuttgart ) is an economist specializing in corporate management at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

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Wolf studied business administration with a technical orientation at the University of Stuttgart from 1977 to 1983 . From 1984 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the chair for corporate management, organization and human resources at the University of Hohenheim under Klaus Macharzina . In 1993 he was awarded a PhD from the Hohenheim Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences with a thesis on the coordination of personnel decisions in international companies. oec doctorate. In September 1994, due to the Hohenheim presidency of Professor Macharzina, together with Michael-Jörg Oesterle, he took over the chairmanship. In 1999 he completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi in business administration. The habilitation thesis contains an empirical study of the development of strategies and organizational structures of German national and international companies. The book that emerged from it and was published by Gabler Verlag in 2000 was described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a standard work.

In 1998 Joachim Wolf represented the Chair of Human Resources and Organization at the University of Bamberg and in 1999/2000 the Chair of Business Administration in Public Administration at the University of Konstanz . In 1998 he was a visiting professor at Fordham University , New York, NY. In addition, between 1994 and 2000 he was assistant or associate editor of the English-language journal Management International Review , which he has been editing with Michael-Jörg Oesterle since 2006.

Since April 2000, Joachim Wolf has been a full professor of organization at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

The focus of Joachim Wolf's research is on the organizational design of international companies as well as human resources and national culture issues.

Honors

In November 2010 Joachim Wolf was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Rennes 1 .

Fonts

• Coordination processes in personnel management of globally active companies - empirical analysis of the use of instruments. Dissertation. University of Hohenheim. Stuttgart 1993.
• with Klaus Macharzina, Thomas Döbler : Values ​​in the new federal states - strategies for personnel management. Wiesbaden 1993.
• International HR management - context, coordination, success. Wiesbaden 1994.
• with Klaus Macharzina (Hrsg.): Handbook of International Management Management. Stuttgart et al. 1996.
• with Klaus Macharzina, Michael-Jörg Oesterle (Ed.): Global Business in the Information Age, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual EIBA Conference. Stuttgart 1997.
• Strategies and structures of German national and international companies - an empirical study based on information processing theory. Habilitation thesis. University of Hohenheim. Stuttgart 1999.
• The gestalt approach in management and organization theory. Wiesbaden 2000.
• Strategy and structure 1955–1995 - A chapter in the history of German national and international companies. Wiesbaden 2000.
• with Sönke Albers (Ed.): Management of Virtual Companies - Business aspects of loosely coupled systems and electronic business. Wiesbaden 2003.
• with Michael-Jörg Oesterle (Ed.): Internationalization and Institution. Wiesbaden 2005.
• with Klaus Macharzina, Anne Rohn (Ed.): Research performance in German-speaking business administration - conception and findings of an empirical study. Wiesbaden 2006.
• with Sönke Albers, Daniel Klapper, Udo Konradt, Achim Walter (eds.): Methodology of empirical research. 3. Edition. Wiesbaden 2009.
• with Klaus Macharzina: Corporate Management - International Management Knowledge - Concepts, Methods, Practice. 7th edition. Wiesbaden 2010.
• Organization, management, corporate governance - theories, practical examples and criticism. 4th edition. Wiesbaden 2011.
• with Christine Stickel-Wolf: Scientific work and learning techniques - study successfully - know how! 6th edition. Wiesbaden 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joachim Wolf on the website of the University of Kiel