Endowed Chair of Institutional Economics
Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ)
Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen
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Short Profile
Prof Dr Josef Wieland holds the Chair for Institutional Economics, Organizational Governance, Integrity Management & Transcultural Leadership at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. He is Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ and Vice-President (Research) of Zeppelin University. In his research, teaching and consulting, Prof Wieland focuses on his governance economical approach and his theory of Relational Economics, elaborating, inter alia, the corresponding implications for leadership, corporate governance and shared value creation. In this context, he is the academic lead of several international projects, such as the annual Transcultural Leadership Summit and various Transcultural Research Groups. An expert in the field of compliance and business ethics of more than 20 years standing, he initiated the Forum Compliance & Integrity (FCI) and chairs the board of trustees of the German Network of Business Ethics (DNWE). He is a member of, inter alia, the national CSR Forum, the jury for the German government’s CSR Award, and the Advisory Council for Sustainability of the government of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. In the context of the German G20 presidency in 2016/2017, Prof. Wieland co-chaired the working group “Sustainability in Global Value Chains” within the Think20 process.
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Thematic Orientation Dissertation Topics
Prof. Wieland is not accepting new doctoral students.