Meinolf Dierkes

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Meinolf Dierkes (born September 24, 1941 in Hagen ) is a German sociologist, professor emeritus of the TU Berlin and former president of the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB).

Career

Meinolf Dierkes studied business administration in Cologne and Würzburg from 1962 to 1965 and received his doctorate in economics in 1970 at Günter Schmölders' chair in Cologne. In 1970 he became a Research Fellow at the Batelle Seattle Research Center and taught as an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government & Society at the University of Washington . From 1973 to 1976 he was head of the “Applied Social and Behavioral Research” department at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt. In 1976 he joined the WZB as director of the International Institute for Environment and Society (IIUG), where he was its first president from 1980 to 1987 and head of the Innovation and Organization department from 1988 to 2006.

Dierkes held other teaching positions from 1973 to 1975 at the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University , from 1975 to 1978 at the INSEAD Business School and from 1987 to 2005 at UC Berkeley . From 1996 to 1997 he was the founding dean of the Tel Aviv International School of Management and from 1999 to his retirement in 2006 he was research professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences . In addition, Meinolf Dierkes was a member of two study commissions of the German Bundestag (“Assessment and Assessment of Technology Consequences”, Advisory Board of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation and the Schweisfurth Foundation ) and co-founder of the Center for Technology and Society at the TU Berlin, where From 1989 to 2006 he taught as professor for the sociology of technology and science.

Meinolf Dierkes has helped to develop subject areas of interdisciplinary social research and established them through publications. In the 1970s, Dierkes was a pioneer of later corporate social responsibility and sustainability discussions with his topic of social and ecological balances. In the 1970s and 1980s Dierkes was involved in the debates on technology assessment , and he was a member of various commissions in the United States on the subject, such as B. at the National Academy of Sciences . Also in the 1980s, Dierkes worked on corporate models . In the 1990s and thereafter, he made contributions to the scientific understanding of innovation processes and cultures. Among other things, he dealt with models in technology.

The Handbook of Organizational Learning, in which he was involved, is a standard work of organizational theory and learning.

In addition to his content-related contributions to social science research in Germany and internationally, Dierkes was involved in organizational new beginnings. As the first President of the WZB, he brought together five relatively disparate research institutes to form the largest non-university social science research institution in Germany. In addition to his work in science, Dierkes also contributed his findings to consulting projects at Migros and Ruhrkohle AG, for example .

Meinolf Dierkes and his wife Sigrun have lived in Berlin since 1976. The two have two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Dierkes: Technology and Parliament: Technology Assessment. Concepts, experiences, opportunities. Edition Sigma, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-924859-18-3 .
  2. ↑ M. Dierkes, U. Hoffmann, L. Marz: Mission statement and technology - for the emergence and control of technical innovations . Edition Sigma, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89404-109-9 .
  3. ↑ M. Dierkes, AB Antal, J. Child, I. Nonaka: Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge. Oxford University Press, New York 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Dierkes, Meinolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen