Tom A. Rüsen

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Tom Arne Rüsen (* 1974 in Berlin ) is a German economist, management consultant and lecturer. He is Managing Director of the Witten Institute for Family Businesses (WIFU) and Managing Director of the WIFU Foundation. Rüsen teaches as an honorary professor in the economics faculty of the private University of Witten / Herdecke . He also teaches at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences , the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and as part of the Executive Education of the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) at Schloss Gracht.

Career

After graduating from high school (1993), Tom A. Rüsen completed an apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade as well as an apprenticeship as a foreign language correspondent for business English.

In October 1995 he began studying economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke. This was followed by several years of work in the in-house consultancy of a large German industrial company. In February 2008 he received his doctorate as an external doctoral student with Arist von Schlippe (Chair for Leadership and Dynamics of Family Businesses at the Witten Institute for Family Businesses). His doctoral thesis deals with crises and crisis dynamics in family businesses. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he has been working as a freelance consultant and coach since 2000.

Since June 2008 he has been managing director of the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU) at the University of Witten / Herdecke and since November 2009 managing director of the non-profit WIFU foundation. In February 2015 he was awarded an honorary professorship by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke for his many years of teaching activities. In 2017 Tom A. Rüsen was appointed visiting professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he has been a lecturer for the Family Business Forum since 2010.

Focus of work

The focus of his research and teaching activities as well as his publications are on the investigation of conflict and crisis dynamics in family businesses and entrepreneurial families and the development of practical solution concepts for the development of resilience structures within entrepreneurial families. His teaching content and lectures include the topics of restructuring and reorganization of family businesses, mental models and structural risk in family businesses, conflict dynamics in business families, fundamentals of family business, succession dynamics in business families, possible uses of foundations in the context of family businesses, challenges in the installation of governance instruments and in establishing top management positions outside the family, approaches and models for developing family strategies and shareholder skills, dynamics in large dynastic families and much more

As part of his coaching and consulting activities, he accompanies follow-up processes, conflict and crisis situations, the development of family strategies and family-internal (self) management systems. He designs programs to develop shareholder skills in entrepreneurial families and teaches them in open and in-house training courses.

Private

Tom A. Rüsen is the son of the historian and cultural scientist Jörn Rüsen . Tom A. Rüsen is married and has two daughters.

Publications (selection)

  • T. Rüsen: Interim management in family businesses - special features and success factors for temporary managers from outside the family. In: H. Gross, R. Bohnert (Ed.): Interim Management - Shaping change successfully - with temporary managers. 1st edition, Vahlen Verlag, Munich 2007, pp. 160-186
  • T. Rüsen: Parallel crisis processes - parallel crisis management: The family company under existential pressure. In: A. Nischak, A. v. Schlippe, M. El Hachimi (Ed.): Understanding family businesses. 1st edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, pp. 42–54
  • T. Rüsen: Accompanying a family business in a crisis: Special requirements and recommendations for crisis management. In: T. Sommerlatte, M. Mirow, C. Niedereichholz, P. v. Windau et al. (Hrsg.): Handbook of management consultancy - leading and developing organizations. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 111
  • T. Rüsen: Entrepreneurial families without family businesses - the consequences of losing an imaginary family member. In: H. Schindler et al. (Ed.): Systemic horizons. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, pp. 209–219
  • T. Rüsen (Ed.): Successfully restructuring family businesses. The influence of the family factor in restructuring. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2011
  • T. Rüsen: Crisis management in family businesses taking the family factor into account. In: KSI - crisis, restructuring and insolvency advice. 8th year, 2012, pp. 147–156
  • T. Rüsen: Crises and crisis management in family businesses. 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, Berlin 2016.
  • T. Rüsen: Restructuring of family businesses depending on the mental models of the entrepreneurial family. In: M. Hermanns et al. (Ed.): Restructuring & Reorganization - Designing Change Processes Successfully. Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2016, pp. 3–20.
  • T. Rüsen: Family compliance as part of the family strategy. In: Journal for Family Businesses and Strategy (FuS), issue 04/2017, pp. 120–125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee profile | Witten Institute for Family Business. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lecturer mobility and international visitors. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Uni Witten / Herdecke: Honorary professorship for Dr. Tom A. Rüsen. February 1, 2018, accessed February 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rüsen, Tom A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüsen, Tom Arne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, management consultant and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin