Stephan Zelewski

Stephan Zelewski (born June 22, 1958 in Essen ) is a German business economist .

Life

Stephan Zelewski is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen , where he is a member of the Center for Logistics & Transport.

biography

From 1977 to 1981 Zelewski studied business administration and economics at the Universities of Münster and Cologne with a focus on industrial management, production management, corporate accounting and computer science. From 1980 to 1981 he received scholarships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Hoechst Study Foundation and the Fritz Honsel Foundation. Graduated as Dipl.-Kfm. In 1981, in the same year he was awarded the Cologne University Prize for his thesis. In November 1981 he also passed the diploma examination for economists (Dipl.-Volksw.).

From 1981 to 1990 he was a research assistant to Professor Werner Kern at the seminar for general business administration, industrial management and production management at the University of Cologne. In December 1985 the doctorate at the University of Cologne to Dr. rer. pole. with the grade “summa cum laude”.

From 1986 to 1990 a post-doctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation. In October 1992 Zelewski received the venia legendi for business administration from the faculty of the economics and social sciences faculty of the University of Cologne. From October 1992 to March 1993 he was represented by a C3 professorship in business administration at the University of Cologne.

He received his first appointment in December 1992 at the University of Magdeburg for the C4 professorship for Business Administration / Production and Information Management (rejected). The second appointment was made in January 1993 by the University of Leipzig to the C4 professorship for production management (accepted).

From April 1993 to July 1993 he held a C4 professorship in business administration at the University of Leipzig and from August 1993 to February 1998 he held a C4 professorship for production management and industrial information management at the university there. From October 1993 to October 1996 Zelewski was Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Leipzig.

In July 1997 he received his third call to the University of Essen for the C4 professorship for business administration, in particular production and logistics. Since March 1998 he has held a C4 professorship for business administration, in particular production and industrial information management (now University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen location) and is also head of the Institute for Production and Industrial Information Management.

research

Research fields are

• Novel concepts for coordinating production processes (detailed scheduling, machine occupancy planning, scheduling, expert systems / knowledge-based systems, multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, constraint programming, electronic markets),
• the application of "modern" information processing techniques to business problems (knowledge-based systems / expert systems, artificial intelligence, document processing, information banks, information brokers, early warning systems / early detection systems, case-based reasoning, systems for managing reasons / ATMS technology, adaptation planning, contingency planning, innovation),
• Operations Research (algorithms, genetic / nature-analog algorithms, constraint programming, network planning, Petri nets, optimization, fine-tuning / machine occupancy planning / scheduling, complexity theory, catastrophe theory, game theory),
• the modeling of complex business problems with the help of Petri nets (Petri nets, flexible manufacturing systems, optimization),
• production theory (structuralism / non statement view, theory networks, theory formulation, theory construction, ecology),
• the philosophy of science (analytical philosophy of science, structuralism / non statement view, theory networks, theory formulation, theory construction, technological theory transformations, strong AI thesis, rationality conceptions, argumentation theory) and
• innovation management (research and development, knowledge transfer, SMEs, WWW, software agents).

Web links

• Homepage of the Institute for Production and Industrial Information Management
• All publications (monographs, journals, edited volumes, editorships) by Stephan Zelewski
• Literature by and about Stephan Zelewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by Stephan Zelewski in the German Central Library for Economics (ZBW)