Louis Klein (systems theorist)

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Louis Klein (born March 20, 1969 in Trier ) is a German economist , social scientist and systems theorist . He achieved international recognition in the field of systemic change and complex project management. He is dean of the European School of Governance in Berlin and co-editor of the Systemic Change Journal .

Career

Louis Klein grew up in the winery of the same name in Traben-Trarbach on the Moselle and attended high school there. After winning the national rowing competition twice, he was appointed to the D-team of the German Rowing Association in 1985 . His studies in economics, which he completed at the University of Trier , the Aston Business School in Birmingham, England, and the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, brought him into close contact with German, in particular Luhmann's system theory and British management cybernetics. His thesis “The organization of personnel development - development and application of a systemic-cybernetic model” from 1993 was republished in 2013 by Carl-Auer-Verlag .

As part of the Aufbau-Ost, he first worked as a controlling officer at a tax consultancy in Meißen and later as the regional manager of the Hanseatic Bank in Dresden.

In the early years of the New Economy , he headed the print department and later the new media department at the Heinen & advertising agency in Trittenheim near Trier.

At the turn of the millennium he worked as an internal consultant in the Management Consulting department of Mercedes Benz AG, later DaimlerChrysler AG , in Stuttgart. His sociological doctoral thesis "Corporate Consulting: A systemic evaluation of internal consulting", with Helmut Willke and Dirk Baecker , at the University of Bielefeld , which was also published in 2002 and 2006 in the second edition by Carl Auer Verlag, dates from this time .

In 2000 Louis Klein founded the Systemic Consulting Network and in 2001 the Systemic Excellence Group as an international change management and organizational development consultancy.

The Systemic Change Institute followed in 2015. In 2018 he founded the Systemic Change Journal as a multimedia open access online journal together with the American journalist Kendra Rosencrans .

Act

Louis Klein is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the use of systemic research to change and further develop organizational and social practice. The focus of his research is on the connection of systemic-cybernetic theory with exploratory approaches of action research, auto-ethnomethodology and praxeology. In addition to the context of corporate and change management consulting, he is increasingly interested in fields of application of political and social change.

From 2009 to 2011, as head of project studies at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, he was concerned with making project management knowledge usable for the systemic change in political, economic and civil society structures.

In 2016 he was appointed dean of the European School of Governance in Berlin and, as head of the Systemic Change Lab there, is entrusted with theoretical and practical questions relating to the epistemological turn of Anthropocene Thinking and Systems Change.

Since 2018 he has been Vice President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), which, as the international umbrella organization for systems theory and cybernetics, is committed to issues of social and systemic change in the age of the Anthropocene .

Bodies

Louis Klein is a member of various functions in primarily scientific and journalistic committees:

  • since 1998 member of the Society for Economic and Social Cybernetics
  • since 2003 member of the German Society for Policy Advice
  • since 2005 member of the Research Committee Sociocybernetics (RC51) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
  • since 2008 member of the Society for Project Management (GPM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA), there since 2010 Project Excellence Award Assessor
  • since 2010 head of the Special Integration Group Systems Applications in Business and Industry (SABI) and later Organizational Transformation and Social Change (OTSC) of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and its Vice President in 2011 and 2015.
  • 2011 Research Director of the International Center for Complex Project Management (ICCPM)
  • since 2012 board member of the World Organization for Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)
  • 2017 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Organizational Transformation and Social Change (JOTSC)
  • since 2018 member of the editorial board of the Project Management Journal (PMJ)
  • since 2018 Vice President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR)

Awards

In 2010, Louis Klein, together with Thomas Baumann and Manfred Saynisch, received the first research award from the International Center for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) for his studies on social complexity in project management. In 2011 he was made an honorary member in recognition of his commitment to the development of the Project Management Association Nepal (PMAN).

Publications (selection)

  • Louis Klein: Corporate Consulting: A systemic evaluation of internal consulting. Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002; 2nd edition, 2006.
  • Louis Klein: Cross-Cultural Complex Project Management: Balancing Social and Cultural Complexity. In: H. Linger and J. Owen (Eds.): The Project as a Social System: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Project Management. Monash University Press, Clayton, Vic 2012, pp. 21-35.
  • Louis Klein: The Three Inevitabilities of Human Being. A Conceptual Hierarchy Model Approaching Social Complexity. In: Cybernetes. Volume 41, No. 7/8, 2012, pp. 977-984.
  • Louis Klein, TSL Wong: The Yin and Yang of Change: Systemic Efficacy in Change Management. In: GP Prastacos, F. Wang and KE Soderquist (eds.): Leadership through the Classics. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, pp. 475–486.
  • Louis Klein: The organization of personnel development. Development and application of a systemic-cybernetic model. Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2013.
  • Louis Klein: Notes on an Ecology of Paradigms. In: Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Volume 30, No. 6, 2013, pp. 773-779.
  • Louis Klein: Tap the invisible hand on the fingers. In: H. Bartleby, A. Lenz, A. Fassmann and H. Sodenkamp (eds.), C. Popp and V. Kucharski (transl.): The capitalism tribunal: To the revolution of economic rights. Passagen, Vienna 2016, pp. 109–111.
  • Louis Klein: Exploring the Organizational Collage of Memetic Paradigms for (a) Change - A research note. In: Journal of Organizational Transformation & Social Change. Volume 13, No. 1, 2016, pp. 54-63.
  • Louis Klein: Minima Moralia in Project Management: There Is No Right Life in the Wrong One. In: Project Management Journal. Volume 47, No. 3, 2016, pp. 12-20.
  • Louis Klein: Systems? Which systems? - The blind spot of enlightenment. In: agora42 - the philosophical business magazine. Volume 8, No. 2, 2016, pp. 20-24.
  • Louis Klein: Towards a Practice of Systemic Change - Acknowledging Social Complexity in Project Management. In: Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Volume 33, No. 5, 2016, pp. 651-661.
  • Louis Klein: Understanding Social Systems Research. In: M. Nemiche and M. Essaaidi (Eds.): Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016.
  • Louis Klein: Business Excellence: Managing Diversity Successfully. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018.
  • Louis Klein: Systemic Advice. In: T. Deelmann and D. Ockel (eds.): Handbuch der Unternehmensberatung (S. Kz. 1685). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Louis Klein - Dean - EUSG. In: europeanschoolofgovernance.eu. Retrieved March 23, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Systemic Change Journal editorial board. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b ABOUT - SEgroup. Accessed December 15, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ A b Systemic Consulting Network. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Publication by Carl-Auer-Verlag. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Louis Klein: Corporate Consulting: a systemic evaluation of internal consulting . 1st ed. For systemic research in Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verl, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-89670-317-0 ( dnb.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  7. ^ Louis Klein: Corporate Consulting: a systemic evaluation of internal consulting (=  management, organizational consulting ). 2., revised. and exp. Aufl. Systemische Forschung im Carl-Auer-Verl, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89670-359-0 ( dnb.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  8. ^ Systemic Excellence Group. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ About | Systemic Change Journal. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Dr. Louis Klein Dean eusg. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  11. ↑ IFSR Board elects a new Executive Committee (April 13, 2018) - International Federation for Systems Research. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  12. ^ Society for Economic and Social Cybernetics. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Members of the German Society for Policy Advice. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ ISA Research Committee RC51 Sociocybernetics. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ WOSC Website Members. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  16. ^ Journal of Organizational Transformation & Social Change. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  17. ^ Project Management Journal. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  18. ↑ IFSR Executive Committee. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  19. ^ GPM German Society for Project Management (ed.): GPM founding member Manfred Saynisch honored . (Press release). Munich November 14, 2011 ( PDF via gpm-ipma.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Little, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, social scientist and systems theorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH trier