Norbert Koubek

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Norbert Koubek (born April 15, 1942 in Lanz , Bohemia) is a German economist.

Career

Koubek studied economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1962 to 1967. After graduating with a degree in economics, he worked as a research assistant at the University's Institute for Credit Management and received his doctorate in 1969. rer. pole. He then decided to work as a scientific consultant at the Economic and Social Science Institute of the German Trade Union Confederation in Düsseldorf. Here, among other things, he developed the so-called “Work-Oriented Individual Economics (AOEWL)” as part of a project group he set up and led, which sparked a heated and controversial discussion within business administration.

In 1974 he accepted a professorship for economics at the Department of Economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. The focus of his teaching and research activities was, based on work management, in the areas of work-oriented theory of the company, multinational corporations and the globalization of the economy as well as innovations and economic cycles. He was and still is a lecturer at numerous universities, including the universities in Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Bucharest and Pune.

Between 1978 and 2006 he was a member of the supervisory board of Saarstahl AG, Völklingen, and at the end of 2002 he was one of the founders of Alumni e. V. in the Department of Economics, where he was chairman of the board from 2003 to 2007. To improve the university and student organizational culture and to strengthen cooperation with the city and region. In the following years he initiated and was responsible for the graduation celebrations that have been taking place annually since 2003 in the rooms of the historic town hall in Wuppertal followed by a university ball, and at the end of 2007 the Schumpeter School Foundation was founded with his participation, in which he has been a spokesman on the board since then. At the end of the summer semester 2010, after 72 semesters, Koubek said goodbye to the chair with a farewell lecture on the subject of "A primordial phenomenon and its effect - the power of light and its economic consequences", and immediately afterwards, until mid-2012, as founding director of the Center for Further Education at the Bergische Universität build up.

Publications (selection)

Koubek is the author of numerous scientific publications that focus on the three areas of economic structures and institutions, work orientation and business administration teachers, as well as international organizations and globalization.

Economic structures and institutions

  • The competitive system within the framework of economic control systems. In: WWI communications. 23rd vol., H. 11, 1970, pp. 328-336.
  • Concentration in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: KH Pütz (ed.): The no to wealth policy. Reinbek 1974, pp. 68-106.
  • University models: from full-time to service university. In: M. Pütz, Th. Böth, V. Arendt (Ed.): Controlling contributions in the field of tension between open problem structures and operational policy challenges. Festschrift for Winfried Matthes. Lohmar / Cologne 2008, pp. 419–438.
  • A primal phenomenon and its effect. the power of light and its economic consequences. (= Schumpeter Discussion Papers. 2011-005). Wuppertal 2011.

Work orientation and business administration

  • Basic elements of work-oriented individual economics. In: WSI-Mitteilungen. 26. Jg., H. 5, 1973, pp 166-181.
  • A plea for an economic anthropology based on interests. In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy. Volume LX, 1974, pp. 327-352.
  • Work-oriented rationality and employee interests. In: Journal for Business Research. 29th vol., H. 1, 1977, pp. 31-43.
  • Perspectives for the further development of a work-oriented theory of the company. In: P. Clever ua (Hrsg.): Economic theory and economic practice. Festschrift for Rolf Hanschmann. Herne / Berlin 1981, pp. 143-152.
  • Economics. In: Federal Office for Occupational Safety and Health Dortmund (Hrsg.): Manual for the humanization of work. Bremerhaven 1985, pp. 1205-1222.
  • Work-oriented theory of the company as part of an interdisciplinary work science. In: S. Laske, M. Schweres (Hrsg.): Work orientation in economics. Munich 2014, pp. 93–111.

International organizations and globalization

  • International companies. In: W. Glastetter, E. Mandel, U. Müller, R. Rettig (eds.): Concise dictionary of economics. 2nd Edition. Wiesbaden 1980, pp. 895-908.
  • with H. Gester and GR Wiedemeyer (eds.): Guidelines for personnel management in international companies. Baden-Baden 1992.
  • with Th. Cleff, Chr. Pierotti and S. Schafmeister (eds.): Corporate strategies in the triad. Baden-Baden 1996.
  • with GR Krishnamurthy (ed.): Strategies of German Companies in India. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2006.
  • with K. Meyer and S. Weinert: Offshoring strategies of multinational companies in different regions of Asia. In: PJJ Welfens, C. Ryan, S. Chirathivat, F. Knipping (Eds.): The EU and ASEAN Facing Economic Globalization. Heidelberg / New York 2009, pp. 205–222.
  • with S. Dehnen and JH van Dinther: From emerging economies toward the Emerging Triad. (= Schumpeter Discussion Papers. 2013-008). Wuppertal 2013.

A compilation of publications in individual authorship, structured according to this system, appeared in 2010 under the title “Jenseits und Diesseits der Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Institutions - Company Theories - Global Structures ”.

Honors

  • W. Baumann, U. Braukmann, W. Matthes (Ed.): Innovation and Internationalization. Festschrift for Norbert Koubek. Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Koubek, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanz