Josef Wieland

This article deals with the business ethicist Josef Wieland. For other people see Joseph Wieland .

Josef Wieland (born May 14, 1951 in Bedburg ) is a German business ethicist and President of the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen . He developed the concept of governance ethics .

Life

Wieland initially trained as an industrial clerk and was then ten years working in the industry. He then studied economics and philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . After graduating with a degree in economics in 1985, Wieland worked for Bernd Biervert's Market and Consumption Chair in Wuppertal until 1990, where he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1988 with his thesis The Discovery of Economics .

From 1990 to 1995 Wieland was head of the Business Ethics Research Center at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1995 he completed his habilitation in economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke on economic organization, allocation and status .

Josef Wieland taught from 1995 to 2012 at the University of Konstanz , Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, the specialized economic and business ethics . He is the founder of the Konstanz Institute for Value Management (KIeM) at the University of Konstanz, Director of the Center for Business Ethics GmbH (ZfW), there founder of the User Council for Value Management ZfW and long-time director of the MBA program in Human Capital Management.

In 2001 he was visiting professor of management and ethics at Zhejiang University , China; 2006 visiting professor at the Royal Holloway University of London and member of the research project “Stakeholder Management and CSR in Europe”.

Since 2013 Wieland has been director of the “Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ)” at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen . There he holds the chair for “Institutional Economics, Organizational Governance, Integrity Management & Transcultural Leadership” and also acts as Vice President for Research.

Wieland's concept of governance ethics is based on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and on the approach of New Institutional Economics with regard to transaction costs . Wieland also published his concept of Relational Economics.

Since 2005, Wieland has been working on the DIN working committee “Social Responsibility of Organizations” and in the corresponding international Working Group on Social Responsibility of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Since 2005, Wieland has been a scientific advisor to the “Freedom and Responsibility” initiative of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). In 2012 Josef Wieland took over the chairmanship of the German Network for Business Ethics - EBEN Germany eV

honors and awards

• 2004 State Research Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg for applied research.
• 1998 Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics from the Cologne Institute for Economic Research .

Fonts

• Human capital and values: the renaissance of the human factor (ed.), Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-89518-354-7 .
• Corporate Citizenship: Social Commitment - Entrepreneurial Benefit (Ed. With Walter Conradi), Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-89518-397-0 .
• Standards and Audits for Ethics Management Systems (Ed.), Springer Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-540-40206-3 .
• Value management manual. Success strategies of modern corporate governance (ed.), Murmann Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-938017-06-6 .
• Normativity and Governance. Socio-theoretical and philosophical reflections on the ethics of governance , Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89518-521-3 .
• with Johannes Wallacher , Michael Reder , Tobias Karcher (eds.): Business ethics in the field of tension between cultures and religions , In: Global Solidarity - Steps to a New World Culture, Volume 14, Kohlhammer 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019532-5
• The ethics of governance , Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2007 (5th edition), ISBN 3-89518-606-6 .
• Governance ethics in discourse (ed.), Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2005 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-89518-536-1 .
• The virtue of governance (ed.), Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-89518-546-9 .
• Governance ethics and discourse ethics - an informal discourse (ed.), Metropolis-Verlag Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89518-592-2 .
• Manifesto Global Business Ethics. Consequences and challenges for the global economy. Manifesto Global Economic Ethic. Consequences and Challenges for Global Businesses. Munich: dtv 2010, together with Küng , H., Leisinger , K. ISBN 978-3-423-34628-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Wieland in the catalog of the German National Library
• Josef Wieland at the University of Konstanz
• Biography of Josef Wieland (2005) (pdf; 95 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Presidium - Zeppelin University. Retrieved March 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ heads. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .