Winfried W. Weber (born in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German economist and management professor. He is director of Mannheim Institute of Applied Management Research at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences with a research focus on new role models of managing and on global family business. Weber is founder of managemendenker.de, an ongoing online survey which ranks the most influential management thinkers in German speaking countries. Weber is President and founder of a non-profit management network, the Peter F. Drucker Society of Mannheim e.V. whose aim is to strengthen the leadership of managers in Germany.
Weber obtained his PhD in economics at Witten/Herdecke University / Reinhard Mohn-Chair for Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Social Evolution
Weber, Winfried W. (2016): Einführung in das Management von Non-Profit-Organisationen, Mannheim
Weber, Winfried W. (2007): Complicate your life, Göttingen
Weber, Winfried W. (2005): Innovation durch Injunktion – Warum man Innovationen nicht planen (lassen) kann, Göttingen
Weber, Winfried W. (1998): Führung und Lernprozesse in mittelständischen Weltmarktunternehmen - neue Ansätze zur Unternehmensglobalisierung, Bremen
Weber, Winfried W. (1996): Kundennähe in mittelständischen Weltmarktunternehmen, Bremen
Weber, Winfried W. (1991): Defizite internationalen Management-Trainings - zur Bedeutung interkultureller Kommunikationsprozesse, Chur/Zürich
Editor and co-editor
Weber, Winfried W., Ed. (2013): Versteht die Realwirtschaft noch, was die Finanzwirtschaft tut? Mannheim (in German and English language)
Weber, Winfried W. (2010), Ed. with Gladius Kulothungan: Peter Drucker’s Next Management. New Institutions, New Theories and Practices, Göttingen
Weber, Winfried W., Ed. (2009): Peter Drucker – der Mann, der das Management geprägt hat. Erinnerungen und Ausblick zum 100. Geburtstag, Göttingen
Selected articles and interviews
A new Management Caravanserai – Learning from the German Model
From hierarchical organizations to networks, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 20th, 2014
Germany's Midsize Manaufacturers Outperform its Industrial Giants, Harvard Business Review, August 12, 2016
Management-Guru Peter Drucker, Brandeins, September 2016
List of publications
