Rudolf Wimmer (Manager)

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Rudolf Wimmer

Rudolf Wimmer (born April 11, 1946 ) is co-founder and managing partner of osb Wien Consulting GmbH, professor of leadership and organization at the Witten Institute for Family Business at the University of Witten / Herdecke and one of the founders of the Witten Management Center.

Life

After studying law and political science, political science and philosophy in Vienna, Rudolf Wimmer worked as a university assistant at the University of Vienna . He completed several years of research in Germany and the USA. He completed his habilitation at the University of Klagenfurt on the subject of group dynamics and organizational consulting. Wimmer is a founding member of the Austrian Society for Group Dynamics and Organizational Consulting ( ÖGGO ), founded in 1973 , in which he works as a teaching advisor and trainer.

Wimmer has been working as a freelance consultant and trainer since 1977 and has been a partner in OSB, a company for systemic organizational consulting in Vienna, which he co-founded, since 1988. Until 2003 he was also editor and co-editor of the magazine organizational development. From 1999 to 2004 Wimmer held the chair for leadership and organization at the University of Witten / Herdecke and has been an adjunct professor at the same chair since 2004. On October 2, 2012, the University Senate confirmed the election of Wimmer as Vice President of the University of Witten / Herdecke. Until the end of 2016, he was responsible for strategic organizational development in the Presidium.

In addition to his consultancy work, he wrote publications on topics of organizational consulting, leadership and strategy development on the basis of sociological systems theory and researches on the subject of family businesses , among other things . He is a member of various advisory boards and supervisory boards of family-run companies.

Main topics

The focus of Wimmer's consultancy work includes questions of general management with a focus on strategy development, organizational change, further development and learning ability of organizations as well as the establishment of suitable forms of control. In detail, this ranges from the strategic repositioning of companies as a whole, through advice in the event of a generation change in family businesses, to the interlinking of individual areas of a company with its strategic objectives.The focus of his consulting work is also reflected in Wimmer's work in teaching and research. On the basis of system theory, Wimmer reflects in his publications on topics of organizational and strategy development, management and control of companies as well as the peculiarities of family businesses. He is concerned with the possibilities, limits and appropriate further development of the organizational development approach (OE approach).

Publications

Monographs

  • 1996: together with Ernst Domayer, Margit Oswald, Gudrun Father: Family business - discontinued model or successful type? 3rd expanded edition 2018. Gabler, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-322-82895-8 .
  • 2004: Organization and Consulting - System Theoretical Perspectives for Practice. Extended edition 2012. Auer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-89670-849-6
  • 2005: together with Fritz B. Simon , Torsten Groth: multi-generation family company. Auer, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-89670-481-8 .
  • 2008: together with Reinhart Nagel, Margit Oswald: The employee interview as a management tool, an OSB manual for practitioners. 4th edition 2008. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-791030265
  • 2014: together with Reinhart Nagel: Systemic strategy development. 6th, updated and expanded edition. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-791033419

Essays

  • 1995: The function of general management under greatly changed economic conditions. In: B. Heitger u. a. (Ed.): Managerie. Auer, Heidelberg, pp. 74-117
  • 1995: Why do we need consultants? A current attempt at orientation from a systemic point of view. In: G. Walger (Ed.): Forms of business consulting. Schmid, Cologne, pp. 239-283
  • 1999: The Future of Organization and Employment. Some theses on the current structural change in the economy and society. In: Organizational Development Issue 3, pp. 26–41
  • 2000: together with Reinhart Nagel: The strategic management process: On the practice of ensuring survival in companies. In: Organizational Development, Issue 1, pp. 4–19.
  • 2002: The rise and fall of the shareholder value concept. In: Organizational Development Issue 4
  • 2004: OE at a crossroads. Is the future of organizational development already behind it? In: Organizational Development Issue 1
  • 2009: Leadership and organization - two sides of the same coin. In: Revue für Postheroisches Management, Issue 4, pp. 20–33
  • 2010: Systemic organizational consulting - beyond specialist and process consulting. In: Revue für Postheroisches Management, Issue 7, pp. 88-103
  • 2011: The control of the uncontrollable. In: Bernhard Pörksen (ed.): Key works of constructivism. VS Verlag, pp. 520-547
  • 2012: The newer systems theory and its implications for the understanding of organization, leadership and management. In: Johannes Rüegg-Stürm , T. Bieger (Hrsg.): Entrepreneurial Management - Challenges and Perspectives, Festschrift for Peter Gomez . Haupt, Bern, ISBN 978-3-258-07770-3 , pp. 7-65
  • 2013: Overcoming the economic crisis as a management task. Organizational resilience and family businesses. Part 1, Book 2; Part 2, volume 3. In: Conflict Design, 2nd year
  • 2016: together with Falko von Ameln: The new world of work, leadership and organizational change. In: Gruppe, Interaktion, Organization, Heft 1, pp. 11–21
  • 2018: together with Thomas Schumacher: Optimize and reinvent at the same time? For productive cooperation between innovation labs and established companies. In: Journal for Organizational Development, Issue 1, pp. 10-17

Editing

  • 1992: organizational consulting. New ways and concepts. Gabler, Wiesbaden
  • 2009: together with Jens Meissner, Patricia Wolf (ed.): Practical Organizational Science. Textbook for studies and work. Auer, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-89670-680-2 .
  • 2014: together with Katrin Glatzel, Tania Lieckweg: Advice in the third mode. The art of using complexity. Auer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-8497-0035-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Witten / Herdecke, Faculty of Economics (to Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wimmer's page) , accessed on September 27, 2019
  2. ^ Website Uni Witten / Herdecke , accessed on August 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, professor of leadership and organization
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna