Winfried W. Weber is a German economist and management professor. He is director of the Mannheim Institute of Applied Management Research at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, with a research focus on new role models of management, global family business and entrepreneurship.

He is the founder of managemendenker.com, a blog on management practice, theory, and influential thinkers. Weber is also the president and founder of a non-profit management network, the Peter Drucker Society of Mannheim E.V.,^[1] whose aim is to strengthen the leadership and networks of managers.

Education

Weber obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) in economics at Witten/Herdecke University; Reinhard Mohn is Chair for Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Social Evolution.

Publications

Books

• Weber, Winfried W. (2021, in preparation): Die Purpose-Wirtschaft, Mannheim
• 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^[2]
• From hierarchical organizations to networks, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 20th, 2014^[3]
• Germany's Midsize Manufacturers Outperform its Industrial Giants, Harvard Business Review, August 12, 2016^[4]
• Management-Guru Peter Drucker, Brandeins, September 2016 ^[5]
• List of publications ^[6]
• Management training in the right context ^[7]
• Why are Mittelstand champions so successful? ^[8]
• Sennheiser: Motivated by the customer ^[9]