| Born
at 10/18/1952 in Vöcklabruck/Austria, studied at the University
of Regensburg (Germany) and at the Harvard Business School (USA).
He
holds the chair of Business Administration, especially Organization,
Human Resource Management and Information Management, and is also
director of the Europa-Institut at Saarland University, Germany,
and honorary professor in human resource management at the University
of Vienna, Austria.
His
research interests include organizational behaviour, strategic and
international human resource management, changes in the work environment
(so called Darwiportunism) and virtual organizations. Since 1998
he also teaches media management.
Author
of several books (e.g. Human Capital Management, 2nd ed. 2006; Personalmanagement,
5th ed. 2000; Handbuch Medienmanagement, 2006) and published articles
in diverse research and practice oriented journals.
Currently
one of the most famous topics is Human Capital Management and especially
the “Saarbrücken Formula” that enables the economic
consequences of planned and implemented HR measures to be measured
directly as well as strategic management in the media industry.
He
starts the first German academic internet-TV-broadcaster orgaTV
(www.orga.tv)
in 1998.
|