Wolfgang Weber (17 February, 1939 in Mährisch Schönberg; † 1 December, 2019 in Paderborn) was a German business economist. He was Rector of the University of Paderborn from 1995 to 2003.

Life

Wolfgang Weber was a German business economist. He studied economics at the University of Mannheim, graduating in 1968, and then became a research assistant at the same University. After obtaining his doctorate in 1971, he worked as an academic councilor at the University of Mannheim from 1973 to 1976. In 1980, he qualified as a professor of business administration at the University of Mannheim.

In 1976, Wolfgang Weber was appointed as Professor of Business Administration, in particular Organization and Human Resources, at the newly founded Paderborn Comprehensive University. In 1982, he moved to a chair of human resources management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and returned to Paderborn in 1985. There he taught business administration with a focus on human resources management until his retirement in 2005.

He was Dean of the Department of Economics at the University of Paderborn from 1978 to 1979 and 1995, and Vice Dean from 1979 to 1981. He was Vice-Rector for Planning and Finance at the University of Paderborn from 1987 to 1991, and a member of the founding committee of the and Faculty of Economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1991-1993. In 1995, he was elected Rector of the University of Paderborn. He led the university after its re-election until 2003. Weber was founding dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg from 2005 to 2003.

From 1997 to 1999, he chaired the North Rhine-Westphalia State Rectors’ Conference. From 2002 to 2004, he was vice president of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). From 2003 to 2004, Weber was president of the Association of University Teachers of Business Administration e. V. (VHB) and from 2005 to 2006 president of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM).

From 1977 to 1994, he was on the air for Telekolleg with courses in “Business Administration” and “Managerial Accounting.” He was one of the founding editors of the Journal of Human Resource Research in 1987.

He was Rector of the University of Paderborn from 1995 to 2003.

Honours and Awards

• 1995 – Honorary doctorate Ph.D. h. c. Nottingham Trent University, UK
• 1998 – Honorary doctorate Dr. h. c. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Selected publications

• Das Identifikationsphänomen und seine Bedeutung als Determinante menschlichen Verhaltens in Organisationen (The identification phenomenon and its importance as a determinant of human behavior in organizations). Mannheim 1971.
• With Werner Kirsch and Manfred Michael: Entscheidungsprozesse in Frage und Antwort (Decision-making processes in question and answer).Gabler, Wiesbaden 1973.
• (= Sammlung Poeschel. Personnel Planning. (= Poeschel Collection. Band 79). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1975.
• With Eduard Gaugler: Einführung in das betriebliche Personalwesen.(= Fachkaufmann für das Personalwesen) (Introduction to corporate human resources management. (= Specialist for human resources management). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1976.
• With Meinulf Kolb: Einführung in das Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre.(= Sammlung Poeschel) (Introduction to the study of business administration. (= Poeschel Collection. Band 84). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1977.
• With Eduard Gaugler: Partizipation und Integration ausländischer Arbeitnehmer in deutschen Industriebetrieben.In: Die Betriebswirtschaft. (Participation and Integration of Foreign Employees in German Industrial Companies. In: The business administration). 39. Jg., 1979, S. 103–106.
• Die Medien Film und Fernsehen im betriebswirtschaftlichen Hochschulunterricht.In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. (The media of film and television in university business education. In: Journal of Business Administration) -Ergänzungsheft Nr. 1, 1982, S. 65–76.
• Edited by: Betriebliche Aus- und Weiterbildung. Ergebnisse der betriebswirtschaftlichen Bildungsforschung. (Business education and training. Results of business education research).Schoening, Paderborn 1983.
• The Impact of Population Change on Enterprise Behavior.In: G. Steinmann (Hrsg.): Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries. Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg u. a. 1984, S. 404–415.
• Betriebliche Weiterbildung. Empirische Analyse betrieblicher und individueller Entscheidungen über Weiterbildung (In-company continuing education. Empirical Analysis of Company and Individual Decisions on Continuing Education.).Poeschel, Stuttgart 1985.
• Edited by: Einwanderungsland Australien (Australia immigration country).Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Business management).(Telekolleg 2). TR-Verlag-Union, München 1988.
• With Eduard Gaugler (Edited by): Handwörterbuch des Personalwesens. Auflage (Hand dictionary of human resources. 2nd edition). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1992.
• With Otto Rosenberg: Betriebliches Rechnungswesen (Managerial Account).(Telekolleg). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1992.
• With Wolfgang Mayrhofer und Werner Nienhüser: Grundbegriffe der Personalwirtschaft (Basic concepts of human resources management).Poeschel, Stuttgart 1993.
• Edited by: Schwerpunktheft Personalforschung an Hochschulen: Dissertationen zur Personalforschung.In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (Focus issue on personnel research at universities: Dissertations on personnel research. In: Journal of Personnel Research). Band 7, Heft 3, 1993.
• With Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Werner Nienhüser, Maria Rodehuth and Bernhardine Rüther: Betriebliche Bildungsentscheidungen. Entscheidungsverläufe und Entscheidungsergebnisse (Corporate education decisions. Decision Processes and Decision Results).Hampp, München/ Mering 1994.
• With Claudia Schnieder, Birgit Horak and Norbert Kortlüke: Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Sports.(= Schriftreihe des Bundesinstituts für Sportwissenschaft (Corporate education decisions. Decision Processes and Decision Results). Band 81). Verlag Karl Hofmann, Schorndorf 1995.
• With Rüdiger Kabst: Personalwesen im europäischen Vergleich. The Cranfield Project on International Strategic Human Resource Management.Paderborn 1996.
• Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre.(japanische Übersetzung der 2. Auflage), Tokyo 1996.
• With Rüdiger Kabst: Flexibility in Germany.In: C. Brewster u. a.: Working Time and Contract Flexibility in the E.U. Cranfield Center for European Human Resource Management, Bedford 1996, S. 20–57.
• With Marion Festing, Peter Dowling and Randall Schuler: Internationales Personalmanagement (International Human Resources Management).Gabler, Wiesbaden 1998.
• With Marion Festing, Yvonne Groening and Rüdiger Kabst: Financial Participation in Europe: Determinants and Outcomes.In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 20, Nr. 2, 1999, S. 295–329.
• With Susanne Gretzinger and Wenzel Matiaske: Kooperation und Konflikt in strategischen Netzwerken.In: Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation (Cooperation and conflict in strategic networks. In: Journal Leadership and Organization). (zfo), Jg. 71, 2002, Heft 1, S. 22–25.
• Human Resource management in Europe: challenges and trends.In: Economy, entrepreneurship, science and society in the XXI century. de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 2006, S. 613–619.
• Hochschulfusionen als strategische Maßnahme: Nutzung von Ergebnissen der Fusionsforschung In: Strategische Managementforschung – aktuelle Entwicklungen und internationale Perspektiven (University Mergers as a Strategic Measure: Utilization of Results from Merger Research In: Strategic Management Research – Current Developments and International Perspectives).Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008, S. 127–148.
• Personalforschung an Hochschulen: ausgewählte Dissertationen.In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (Human resource research in higher education: selected dissertations. In: Journal of Personnel Research). Band 24, 2010, S. 79–87.
• With Marion Festing and Peter J. Dowling: Internationales Personalmanagement., aktualisierte und überarb (International Human Resource Management. 3rd, updated and revised edition). Gabler, Wiesbaden 2011.
• With Rüdiger Kabst and Matthias Baum: Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre., aktualisierte u. überarb. Auflage (Introduction to Business Administration. 9th, updated and revised edition.). Gabler, Wiesbaden 2014.
• With Wenzel Matiaske (edited by): Ideengeschichte der BWL: ABWL, Organisation, Personal, Rechnungswesen und Steuern (History of ideas of business administration: ABWL, organization, human resources, accounting and taxes).Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018.