Career

  • Training as a bank clerk
  • Studied business administration at the University of Bayreuth, graduating with a diploma (incl. Spanish language diploma)
  • Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Bayreuth
  • Study visits to Yale University and Harvard Business School
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Henley College, Great Britain
  • Various teaching assignments at German universities
  • Professor at the FHDW since 2001

Research and consulting focus

  • Strategic corporate management, brand policy
  • Various guest lectures at foreign universities (Oxford University, Oxford [UK], University of East London Docklands, London [UK], EDHEC School of Management, Nice [France], University of Twente, Enschede [Netherlands]
  • Project and restructuring management in the banking industry

Publications

Managerwissen kompakt Deutschland – Hanser Verlag, 2007

The Ethos of Knowledge Management, in: Norrag News, No. 29, 2001.

Market research for service management, in: Bruhn, M./Meffert, H. (eds.): Handbuch Dienstleistungsmanagement, 2nd ed., Wiesbaden 2001.