Chair holder
Research focus
- Intercultural organisational research
- Constructive complementary interculturality in working contexts
- Intercultural communication (with a focus on France-Germany)
- Comparative culture and intercultural management (with a focus on
France-Germany-Québec): focus on intercultural leadership, multicultural teams - Intercultural competence development
- Intercultural Entrepreneurship
- International transfer of organisational cultures
- Education systems and career paths
- Cultural and institutional analyses of economic systems/business style research
Short CV
since 2008
- Professor, Chair of Intercultural Communication, University of Passau
2000 – 2008
- Maître de Conférences (university lecturer), Business Administration, Ecole de Management / Université R. Schumann, Strasbourg
- Head of the Human Resources Management programme (Master Grande Ecole)
- Visiting Professor for Intercultural Management:
- ENA (Ecole National d'Administration) Paris / Strasbourg
- IAE Aix-en-Provence
- HEC Lausanne
1994 – 2000
- Graduate Teaching Assistant and doctorate at the Chair of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication (Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink), Saarland University
1989 – 1994
- Studied Cultural Studies at the University of Passau and at HEC Montréal
1987 – 1989
- Trained as a banker, Dresdner Bank, Cologne
- Chairman of the Centre for Careers and Competencies (ZKK), University of Passau (2009 – 2013)
- Internship Officer for the BA Kulturwirtschaft/International Cultural and Business Studies programme
- Head of the organisation office for compact seminars, University of Passau
- Deputy Chairman of the Examination Committees for the BA/MA in International Cultural and Business Studies/Kulturwirtschaft
- Academic advisory board of the Chaire 'Diversité & Management', Université Dauphine, Paris
- Reviewer for DAAD, Bonn
- Associate Professor at EM Strasbourg /Université Strasbourg
- Member of the Hommes et Management en Société research centre (HuManiS), Université Strasbourg
- Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Media Research (IFIM), University of Passau
- IKS (University Association for Intercultural Studies)
- Germany Commissioner of the Association Francophone de Gestion des Ressources Humaines (AGRH), Paris
- Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (ATLAS-AFMI), Paris
- European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS)
- Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) Germany (board member 2000 – 2004)
- Academic advisory board of the peer-reviewed journal Management International
- Academic advisory board of the journals:
- Reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals:
- Organisation Studies,
- International Business Review,
- Journal of Intercultural Communication Research,
- Management International/International Management,
- Revue FranÇaise de Gestion
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