Stephan A. Jansen

Stephan Alexander Jansen , Stephan A. Jansen for short , (born June 12, 1971 in Papenburg / Ems) is a German economist. From September 2003 to September 2014 he was the founding president of the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen , where he held the chair for Strategic Organization & Financing and headed the Civil Society Center. He has been teaching at the Karlshochschule since 2016 .

Life

Jansen completed his studies in economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke , the University of Economics Tōkyō , Japan, and the New York University , USA, with honors from 1993 to 1997 as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes . Between 1994 and 2003 he worked for various companies, such as Dr. August Oetker KG , Booz Allen Hamilton , Mannesmann AG , ERGO Insurance Group or DaimlerChrysler u. a. active.

From 1998 to 2003 he was a doctoral student at the University of Witten / Herdecke and was established in 2003 with a thesis on the form of the merger with Dirk Baecker to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 1999 and 2015 Jansen worked as a visiting scholar at Stanford University , California, with Mark Granovetter; in 2000 and 2001 as a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School in Cambridge (Massachusetts) with Richard Meyer and Michael Porter .

From 1998 to 2003 Jansen headed the Institute for Mergers & Acquisitions (IMA), which he helped initiate, at the University of Witten / Herdecke , in which DaimlerChrysler AG , Deutsche Beteiligungs AG , Ernst & Young , McKinsey , Mobilcom AG and Bloomberg also participated. In 2000 he founded cosinex GmbH in Witten / Bochum, a software and consulting company for electronic government and administrative modernization . Until September 2003 he was chairman of the management there, then a partner and member of the advisory board.

Jansen was established in early 2003 as President and CEO of the state-approved Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen appointed . This was accompanied by the appointment as professor for "Strategic Organization & Financing (SOFI)". At that time the university did not have the right to appoint professors. According to a media report, Jansen did not go through a selection process. In a letter dated December 6, 2003, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science granted Jansen the right to use the professional title of Professor .

In 2005, Jansen was a member of the “Elite Integration” working group for the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . He is a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Management (ZfM). He is also the editor of the series “zu | writings between economy, culture and politics ”at VS-Verlag. He is a member of various advisory boards, for example the Ernst & Young Foundation or T-City , and was an “ambassador” for the New Social Market Economy initiative . In 2007, Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan appointed Jansen to the jury for top-class funding as part of the federal government's high-tech strategy . In 2010 he was appointed by Schavan as a member of the Research Union and by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a member of the so-called Innovation Dialogue. He was also a member of the "personal advisory group" of the former Federal Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück .

In 2010 Jansen also became the founding director of the Civil Society Center (CiSoC), a research institute for comparative civil society research.

Jansen was sued in 2012 by a former personal advisor, including bullying . The proceedings before the Labor Court in Ulm ended with a settlement.

In February 2014, Jansen announced to Zeppelin University after 11 years and together with two other members of the Presidium that he would be resigning for 2015 for personal reasons.

In the summer semester of 2016, Jansen took over the professorship for “Philanthropy and Civil Society - Management, Innovation and Finance” at Karlshochschule . His teaching activities focus on the areas of financial theories, organization, management, leadership and innovation civil society. In 2016, Jansen and Peter John Mahrenholz founded the brand and strategy consultancy Das 18te Kamel & Accomplices. Furthermore, in 2016, together with Martha Wanat, he founded the "Society for Urban Mobility BICICLI" in Berlin as a mobility consultancy and bicycle service provider, with a subsidiary u. a. for company bike leasing and bike fleets.

controversy

In August 2014, the then chairman of the foundation board, Werner Allgöwer, resigned the chancellor and managing director Nils Helle-Meyer without notice. In this context, Jansen was asked to accompany the successor. In the aftermath there were numerous reports against the university and the presidium in a regional newspaper based on confidential documents and emails. On September 8, 2014, Jansen resigned as President of Zeppelin University with immediate effect. A press report on September 10, 2014 announced that Jansen was the main beneficiary of a previously unknown university-internal commission system, in which - without the knowledge of the donors - commissions were paid from the overheads for third-party funds raised . Jansen received the majority of these bonuses, more than the approximately 50 other employees with a corresponding additional contract combined. In addition, Jansen received extra payments for lectures at his own university. Werner Allgöwer finally distanced himself clearly from Jansen.

The public prosecutor in Ravensburg initiated an investigation into suspected fraud and corruption . It is not about the amount of the payments, but about informing the donors. Jansen considered the allegations to be unfounded because the funding objectives were achieved. An appraisal of the commissioning system it had introduced, commissioned by the university's supporting foundation, showed that payments received by Jansen “generally did not violate applicable law”. In May 2019, the Ravensburg public prosecutor opened the investigation against Jansen on the grounds that most of the allegedly deceived donors did not see themselves as cheated after paying a five-digit amount of money.

Act

The theoretical foundations of its research and consulting activities dine mainly from the sociological systems theory , the organization - and network theory and the capital market theory . He is the author of various columns in magazines, u. a. the bimonthly interview column “Questions to Stephan A. Jansen” in the business magazine brand eins .

Jansen was in previous years repeated in rankings out of the business press, so with 101 heads to which you should pay by Financial Times Germany in 2003, 35 under 35 - Young Elite in Germany the Wirtschaftswoche in 2004 and 40 less than 40 of the Manager Magazine 2007, 2009 and 2010.

honors and awards

• 2000 - Award for "Institute for Mergers & Acquisitions (IMA)" as "leading institution of the German education system" by Federal Education Minister Edelgard Bulmahn
• 2006 - " 100 heads of tomorrow - the future in the land of ideas"

Books and editions

• Oszillodox - Virtualization: The permanent reinvention of the organization , Klett-Cotta Stuttgart 2000, together with Peter Littmann
• Competition and Cooperation - Contributions to an Interdisciplinary Theory , Metropolis Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89518-309-1 , together with Stephan Schleissing
• Electronic Government - New Potentials for a Modern State , Klett-Cotta Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-94026-X , together with Birger P. Priddat
• International merger management - success factors of cross-border mergers , Schäffer-Poeschel Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7910-1959-7 , together with Gerhard Picot and Dirk Schiereck
• Public Merger. Strategies for mergers in the public sector , Gabler Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-409-12633-3 , together with Andreas Huber and Harald Plamper.
• Management of company mergers - theories, theses, tests and tools , Klett-Cotta Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-94392-7
• Corruption - unenlightened capitalism. Multidisciplinary perspectives on the function and consequences of corruption , VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2005. ISBN 3-531-14561-4 , together with Birger P. Priddat
• Demographics - Movements of a Retired Society. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Demographic Impact Research , VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14780-3 , together with Birger P. Priddat and Nico Stehr
• Future of the public - multidisciplinary perspectives for an opening of the discussion about the public , VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-531-15282-3 , together with Birger P. Priddat and Nico Stehr
• Multi-value capitalism - multidisciplinary contributions to forms of capitalism and its capitals , VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15864-8 , together with Eckhard Schröter and Nico Stehr
• Mergers & Acquisitions: Company acquisition and cooperation - a strategic, organizational and capital market theoretical introduction (5th revised and expanded edition), Gabler Wiesbaden 2008; ISBN 3-8349-0365-5 .
• "Transparency - multidisciplinary reviews through phenomena and theories of the opaque", VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2010, together with Eckhard Schröter and Nico Stehr.
• "Rationality of Creativity? - Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Analysis of Production, Organization and Formation of Creativity", VS-Verlag Wiesbaden, together with Eckhard Schröter and Nico Stehr.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan A. Jansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Stephan Jansen (Zeppelin University)
• Website Stephan Jansen (Karlshochschule)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephan A. Jansen leaves Zeppelin University , Südkurier, August 19, 2015
2. ↑ Katy Cuko: Fast forward to the professor . In: Südkurier . September 26, 2014, ZDB ID 1411183-4 , p. 30 ( online ).
3. ^ “The Members of the Research Union, ” Research Union, November 2011
4. ↑ "Kick-off event: Innovation dialogue with Chancellor Merkel"  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Government, September 14, 2010  
5. ↑ "ZU President Jansen appointed as advisor to Federal Finance Minister Steinbrück" ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , idw, January 23, 2007 
6. ^ "Zeppelin University founds Civil Society Center: Research on civil society in the 21st century" , idw, September 17, 2010
7. ↑ Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares: The Fall of the Sun King , in: manager magazin from September 12, 2014.
8. ↑ The puller from the farm . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . September 26, 2014, p. 3 ( online ).
9. ^ "Homepage Stephan A. Jansen at the Karlshochschule"
10. ↑ Car fleet: Bike, Brecht and advice. (PDF) In: Car fleet. Springer Fachmedien München GmbH, accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Zeppelin University without a president: That was agreed . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 21, 2019]).
12. ↑ That was agreed . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 211 , September 11, 2014, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. 11 ( online in a similar version ).
13. ↑ Katy Cuko: Fat commissions from funding pots . In: Südkurier . September 10, 2014, ZDB ID 1411183-4 , p. 24 .
14. ↑ Werner Allgöwer: "We had a Jansen University". Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
15. ^ Investigations against Stephan A. Jansen . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . October 4, 2014, p. 2 ( online ).
16. ^ The Foundation: ZU Foundation under criticism. In: The Foundation. Magazine for foundations and philanthropy. “Die Stiftung” Media GmbH, December 11, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
17. ^ Public prosecutor discontinues proceedings against former university president Stephan A. Jansen against payment of a fee. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
18. ↑ "Right to intellectual neglect" , Spiegel, June 3, 2004
19. ↑ "The high-flyers: 35 young Germans under 35 who have made a super career and are already among the country's elite."  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Excerpt from Wirtschaftswoche from September 9, 2004, hosted by Axel Ockenfels  
20. ^ Former Institute for Mergers & Acquisitions (IMA) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), University of Witten / Herdecke, November 11, 2006
21. ↑ "100 heads of tomorrow - the future in the land of ideas" ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Germany - Land of Ideas , 2006 (pdf)