Manfred Fuchs (economist)

Manfred Fuchs is an Austrian economist and political scientist. He is associate professor at the Institute for International Management of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , Referee of the Academy of Management and Editorial Board Member of the European Journal of International Management.

Life

Fuchs studied political science and economics at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1987 to 1988 . After a research stay at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok , he was a senior researcher at the Starnberg Institute for Research on Global Structures, Developments and Crises eV in Starnberg from 1990 to 1995 . From 1996 to 1997 he was visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges . Since 1998 he has been working at the Institute for International Management at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, where he completed his habilitation in business administration in 2004.

Fuchs is mainly concerned with intercultural management , the role of social capital against the background of dissolving corporate boundaries and research into joint ventures in China.

Publications

• Ten Years Debt Crisis (with Otto Kreye ), Vienna 1992
• Market, violence and subsistence production: peasant protest movements against the modernization and capitalization of agricultural production in the Philippines , Hamburg 1993.
• The price of coal. A comparative study of coal mining in Colombia, South Africa, and Poland. , Munich 1997
• Management of international business activities (with G. Apfelthaler), Vienna-New York 2002
• Social capital and trust in organizations , Wiesbaden 2006
• International Joint Ventures in China , Shanghai-Düsseldorf (forthcoming)

Web links

• Manfred Fuchs' website at uni-graz.at