Wolfgang Weber (economist)

Wolfgang Weber (born February 17, 1939 in Mährisch Schönberg ; † December 1, 2019 in Paderborn ) was a German business economist. From 1995 to 2003 he was rector of the University of Paderborn .

Life

Wolfgang Weber studied economics at the University of Mannheim with a degree in business administration in 1968. He then became a research assistant at the University of Mannheim. After receiving his doctorate in 1971 as Dr. rer. pole. from 1973 to 1976 he was an academic advisor at the University of Mannheim. In 1980 he completed his habilitation in business administration at the University of Mannheim.

In 1976, Wolfgang Weber accepted the position of professor for business administration, especially organization and human resources, at the newly founded University of Paderborn . In 1982 he moved to a chair for human resource management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and returned to Paderborn in 1985. There he taught business administration with a focus on human resources management until his retirement in 2005.

From 1978 to 1979 and 1995 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Paderborn and from 1979 to 1981 Vice Dean. He was Vice Rector for Planning and Finance at the University of Paderborn from 1987 to 1991. He was a member of the founding committee of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from 1991 to 1993. In 1995 he was elected rector of the University of Paderborn. After re-election, he led the university until 2003. Weber was the founding dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg from 2005 to 2003.

From 1997 to 1999 he was chairman of the state rectors' conference in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2002 to 2004 he was Vice President of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK). From 2003 to 2004 Weber was President of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration. V. (VHB) and from 2005 to 2006 President of the Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM).

From 1977 to 1994 he was on the air for the Telekolleg with the courses for "Business Administration" and "Business Accounting". In 1987 he was one of the founding editors of the Zeitschrift für Personalforschung .

honors and awards

• 1995 - Honorary Ph.D. hc Nottingham Trent University , UK
• 1998 - Honorary doctorate Dr. hc Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Selected publications

• The identification phenomenon and its importance as a determinant of human behavior in organizations. Dissertation. Mannheim 1971.
• with Werner Kirsch and Manfred Michael: Decision-making processes in question and answer. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1973.
• Personnel planning. (= Poeschel Collection. Volume 79). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1975.
• with Eduard Gaugler: Introduction to operational human resources. (= Specialist for human resources ). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1976.
• with Meinulf Kolb: Introduction to the study of business administration. (= Poeschel Collection. Volume 84). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1977.
• with Eduard Gaugler: Participation and integration of foreign workers in German industrial companies. In: Business Administration. Vol. 39, 1979, pp. 103-106.
• The media film and television in business administration classes. In: Journal for Business Administration. - Supplementary booklet No. 1, 1982, pp. 65-76.
• as publisher: Company training and further education. Results of business education research. Schoening, Paderborn 1983.
• The Impact of Population Change on Enterprise Behavior. In: G. Steinmann (Ed.): Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg et al. 1984, pp. 404-415.
• In-company training. Empirical analysis of company and individual decisions about further education. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1985.
• als (Ed.): Immigration country Australia. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Business administration. (Telekolleg 2). TR-Verlag-Union, Munich 1988.
• with Eduard Gaugler (Hrsg.): Short dictionary of personnel. 2nd Edition. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1992.
• with Otto Rosenberg: operational accounting. (Telekolleg). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1992.
• with Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Werner Nienhüser: Basic concepts of human resource management. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1993.
• as publisher: Focus issue on personnel research at universities: Dissertations on personnel research. In: Journal for Personnel Research . Volume 7, Issue 3, 1993.
• with Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Werner Nienhüser, Maria Rodehuth and Bernhardine Rüther: Company educational decisions . Decision processes and decision results. Hampp, Munich / Mering 1994.
• with Claudia Schnieder, Birgit Horak and Norbert Kortlüke: The economic importance of sport. (= Series of publications by the Federal Institute for Sport Science. Volume 81). Verlag Karl Hofmann, Schorndorf 1995.
• with Rüdiger Kabst: Human Resources in European Comparison. The Cranfield Project on International Strategic Human Resource Management. Paderborn 1996.
• Introduction to business administration. (Japanese translation of the 2nd edition), Tokyo 1996.
• with Rüdiger Kabst: Flexibility in Germany. In: C. Brewster et al.: Working Time and Contract Flexibility in the EU Cranfield Center for European Human Resource Management, Bedford 1996, pp. 20-57.
• with Marion Festing, Peter Dowling and Randall Schuler: Internationales Personalmanagement. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1998.
• with Marion Festing, Yvonne Groening and Rüdiger Kabst: Financial Participation in Europe: Determinants and Outcomes. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. Vol. 20, No. 2, 1999, pp. 295-329.
• with Susanne Gretzinger and Wenzel Matiaske : Cooperation and conflict in strategic networks. In: magazine leadership and organization . (zfo), Vol. 71, 2002, Issue 1, pp. 22-25.
• Human Resource Management in Europe: challenges and trends. In: Economy, entrepreneurship, science and society in the XXI century. Univ. de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 2006, pp. 613-619.
• University mergers as a strategic measure: Using the results of fusion research In: Strategic management research - current developments and international perspectives. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 127–148.
• Personnel research at universities: selected dissertations. In: Journal for Personnel Research. Volume 24, 2010, pp. 79-87.
• with Marion Festing and Peter J. Dowling: International Human Resources Management. 3rd, updated and revised. Edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2011.
• with Rüdiger Kabst and Matthias Baum: Introduction to business administration. 9th, updated & revised Edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2014.
• with Wenzel Matiaske (ed.): History of ideas in business administration: ABWL, organization, personnel, accounting and taxes. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Weber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice Wolfgang Weber. In: FAZ . December 10, 2019.