Uwe Wilkesmann

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Uwe Wilkesmann
Uwe Wilkesmann

Uwe Wilkesmann (born May 13, 1963 in Wuppertal ) is a German sociologist and university researcher . He is professor and director of the Center for Higher Education at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Career

Uwe Wilkesmann studied economics, political science and philosophy at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , where he obtained his master's degree in 1989. From 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Work and Technology in the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia and a research assistant at the Institute for Social Psychology of the Social Science Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. 1993 Doctorate there rer. soc. with the dissertation "On the logic of action in company working groups". He then worked there as a research assistant and university lecturer. In 1998 he received his habilitation there with the thesis “Learning in Organizations. The staging of collective learning processes ”. In the summer semester of 2002 and winter semester of 2002/2003, he represented the chair of “Economic and Organizational Sociology” at Hamburg University . In 2004 he was appointed associate professor for organizational sociology at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In the summer semester 2005 and winter semester 2005/2006 he represented the chair for "Organizational and Educational Sociology" at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Uwe Wilkesmann has held the Chair for Organizational Research and Training Management and Director of the Center for Higher Education at TU Dortmund University since 2006. From 2008 to 2015 he was also Adjunct Professor at the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Center of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and in 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of Sociology. He is chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Center for Higher Education and Science Research (DZHW), chairman of the association "Scientific Continuing Education at TU Dortmund eV" and was on the board and spokesman for the organizational sociology section of the German Society for Sociology from 2010 to 2014 .

Research priorities

Uwe Wilkesmann researches and teaches in the fields of university research and organizational sociology. In university research, topics are the governance of academic teaching, the students' view of universities, and academic further education. For him, what is fundamental in organizational research is the recursive connection between formal and informal organizational structures and the actions of the members. The aim is to explain and describe how actors change organizational structures or how organizational structures shape the actions of members. Not only universities are analyzed, but also other types of organization, such as B. football clubs or top restaurants.

Publications (selection)

  • Maximiliane Wilkesmann & Uwe Wilkesmann (2020): Not just a question of good taste! The organization of top gastronomy. Wiesbaden: Springer.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Sabine Lauer (2020) The influence of teaching motivation and New Public Management on academic teaching, Studies in Higher Education 45 (2): 434-451, DOI: 10.1080 / 03075079.2018.1539960
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (2019): Methods of University Research. A methodical, epistemological and organizational theory introduction. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa
  • Sabine Lauer & Uwe Wilkesmann (2019): How the institutional environment affects collegial exchange about teaching at German research universities: findings from a nationwide survey. Tertiary Education and Management 25 doi.org/10.1007/s11233-019-09020-5
  • Maximiliane Wilkesmann, Uwe Wilkesmann, (2018): Industry 4.0 - organizing routines or innovations ?, VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 48 (2): 238-254.
  • Sabine Lauer & Uwe Wilkesmann (2017): The governance of organizational learning: Empirical evidence from best-practice universities in Germany. The Learning Organization 24: 266-277
  • Liudvika Leisyte & Uwe Wilkesmann (eds.) (2016): Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education: Teaching. Learning, and Identities. New York: Routledge.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (2016): Football and Social Inequality. How does UEFA's money for participation in European competitions change inequality within the Bundesliga? In: Judith von der Heyde and Jochem Kotthaus (eds.): Competition in football - football in competition. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Verlag, pp. 162-178.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Sabine Lauer (2015): What affects the teaching style of German professors? Evidence from two nationwide surveys. Journal of Educational Science 18 (4): 713-736
  • Maja Apelt & Uwe Wilkesmann (2015): On the future of organizational sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (2015): Imaginary contradictions of university governance. In: puppy, M; Wollersheim, J .; Ringelhan, S .; Osterloh, M. (eds.): Incentives and Performance - Governance of Research Organizations. Berlin: Springer: 189-205.
  • Alfredo Virgillito, Britta Bertermann, Uwe Wilkesmann & Gerhard Naegele (2015): Influencing variables on the transfer of knowledge in corporate interest representation. Düsseldorf: edition Hans Böckler Foundation, Volume 290
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Christian J. Schmid (2014): Intrinsic and internalized modes of teaching motivation. Evidence-based Human Resource Management 2 (1): 6-27.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (2013): Effects of transactional and transformational governance on academic teaching - Empirical evidence from two types of higher education institutions. Tertiary Education and Management 19 (4): 281-300.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Christian Schmid (2012): The impacts of new governance on teaching at German universities. Findings from a national survey in Germany. Higher Education 63: 33-52.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Christian J. Schmid (2012): University as an organization. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Michael Kerres, Anke Hanft, Uwe Wilkesmann, Karola Wolff-Bendik (eds.) (2012): Studium 2020. Positions and perspectives on lifelong learning at universities. Münster: Waxmann-Verlag.
  • Maximiliane Wilkesmann & Uwe Wilkesmann (2011): A framework for knowledge transfer as interaction between experts and novices supported by technology. VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 41 (2): 96 - 112.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann, Doris Blutner & Christian Müller (2011): German football: Organizing for the European top. Hallgeir Gammelsaeter and Benoit Senaux (Eds.): The Organization and Governance of Top Football across Europe. Routledge, pp. 138-153.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann, Maximiliane Wilkesmann, Alfredo Virgillito & Tobias Bröcker (2011): Expectations of interest groups. Berlin: edition sigma.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann, Heike Fischer, Maximiliane Wilkesmann (2009): Cultural characteristics of knowledge transfer. Journal of Knowledge Management 13 (6): 464-477.
  • Uwe Wilkesmann & Maximiliane Wilkesmann & Alfredo Virgillito (2009): The absence of cooperation is not necessarily defection: Structural and motivational constraints of knowledge transfer in a social dilemma situation . Organization Studies 30 (10): 1141-1164.
  • Michael Bau and Uwe Wilkesmann (2006): Human Resource Management - From stepchild to strategic partner. Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Uwe Wilkesmann and Doris Blutner (2002): Going public: The Organizational Restructuring of German football Clubs. Soccer and Society 3: 19-37
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (1999): Learning in Organizations - The Staging of Collective Learning Processes. Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag
  • Uwe Wilkesmann (1994): On the logic of action in company working groups. Opladen: Leske and Budrich.

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SURNAME Wilkesmann, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and professor at the Technical University of Dortmund
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal