Werner Kirsch (business economist)

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Werner Kirsch (born December 13, 1937 in Augsburg ) is a German economist .

Life

Werner Kirsch studied business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU for short), the University of Cologne and the Free University of Berlin . In Munich, he received his doctorate in 1964 at the LMU's Faculty of State Economics with the thesis Maximizing Profit and Profitability as Determinants of Company Balance , and in 1968 he completed his habilitation at the LMU.

In 1969 he was offered a chair in business administration at the University of Mannheim appointed . In 1975 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as a full professor for business administration and strategic corporate management . In 1986 he took over the chair for industrial management from his long-time mentor Edmund Heinen . At the end of the winter semester 2005/2006 he retired . Since 2004 he has been the head of the Center for Organizational Theory Basic Research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

In addition to his honorary doctorate from the University of Witten / Herdecke , Kirsch was awarded a prize in 1996 by the University of St. Gallen for "his commitment to the development of applied management theory and his outstanding contributions to an evolutionary theory of strategic leadership, the contexts of which go far beyond classic business administration" Honorary Doctor of Economics honored.

Until 2000 Werner Kirsch was chairman of the supervisory board of the Berliner service company and managing director of the consulting company Strategema GmbH. Since 1990 he has been chairman of the administrative board of Dachser GmbH und Co. KG.

Kirsch has published numerous books and articles (some with co-authors), which are variously subsumed under the term “Munich School”. The books Guide to the Construction of an Evolutionary Theory of Strategic Leadership and Communicative Action, Autopoiesis, Rationality received particular attention . His central ideas are summarized in his last three works, which can be understood as a kind of trilogy: (1) Business research: Scientific theoretical foundations and application orientation , which expresses the basic scientific position, (2) Corporate management: an evolutionary perspective that the Reflects the basic concept of evolutionary leadership theory and (3) evolutionary organization theory , which summarizes the main features of the specific understanding of organization.

Fonts (selection)

  • Decision-making processes (1970/71)
  • Business Logistics (1973)
  • The Economy (1975)
  • Business administration as a management apprenticeship (1977)
  • Management information systems (1977)
  • Marketing of Capital Goods (1978)
  • Empirical explorations on reorganization processes (1978)
  • Managing the Planned Change of Organizations (1979)
  • Standardized application software in practice (1979)
  • Codetermination in corporate practice (1984)
  • Management systems (1989)
  • Corporate policy and strategic corporate management (1990)
  • Contributions to an evolutionary leadership theory (1997)
  • Strategic Management: The Planned Evolution of Enterprises (1997)
  • Communicative action, autopoiesis, rationality (1997)
  • Guide to Constructing an Evolutionary Theory of Strategic Leadership (1997)
  • Handling Decision Problems (1998)
  • The management of companies (2001)
  • Business research: Scientific theoretical principles and application orientation (2007) (with David Seidl and Dominik van Aaken)
  • Corporate Management: An Evolutionary Perspective (2009) (with David Seidl and Dominik van Aaken)
  • Evolutionary Organization Theory (2010) (with David Seidl and Dominik van Aaken)

literature

  • Max Ringlstetter (ed.): Perspectives of strategic corporate management. Theories, concepts, applications. Werner Kirsch on his 65th birthday . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-12337-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and professor of business administration
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg