Falko E. P. Wilms

Falko E. P. Wilms (born in 1961 in Bremen, Germany) is a German economist and social scientist. He is a professor, consultant and coach.

Falko E. P. Wilms
Wilms in 2018
Born(1961-07-30)July 30, 1961
Bremen, Germany
Known forManagement, systems theory, Organizational Behavior and Dialogue
Scientific career
Fieldsmanagement, decision making, organizational development
InstitutionsVorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

Academic life

He studied Economics and Social Sciences at the Lüneburg University (Germany), where he earned his first degree in 1989 and later a Ph.D. in Economics in 1994. His Ph. D. thesis entitled Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) was supervised by Egbert Kahle. Since 1998 he has been a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn, Austria. There he created an communication and collaboration study group, which he still leads today.

Research interests

Wilms’ research focuses on Management Studies. He is of the opinion that management is a profession concerned with control in certain types of systems (enterprises and organizations). Therefore, he embeds Niklas Luhmann’s system theory within Management Studies.

He also engages in research covering Organizational Behavior and Dialogue.

Consulting Topics

Wilms’ consulting focuses on system thinking, team building, decision making, scenario analysis, change management, Socratic dialogue and Bohm Dialogue.

Publications
  • Wilms, Falko E. P. 1995. Entscheidungsverhalten als rekursiver Prozeß (trans. Decision-making behaviour as a recursive process). Gabler: Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-409-13190-6.
  • Wilms, Falko E.P. 2001. Systemorientiertes Management (trans. System-oriented management). Vahlen: Munich.
  • Wilms, Falko E. P. 2006. Szenariotechnik. Vom Umgang mit der Zukunft (trans. The scenario technique: How to cope with the future). Haupt: Bern.
  • Wilms, Falko E. P. & Thiel, M. 2007. Unternehmensführung (trans. Corporate management). Haupt: Bern.
  • Wilms, Falko E. P. & Jancsary, P. M. 2008. Über das Dialogische (trans. Concerning the dialogic). wvb: Berlin.

Journals

Since 2000 Editor of the biannual journal SEM-RADAR Zeitschrift für Systemdenken und Entscheidungsfindung im Management (trans. SEM-RADAR Journal of Systems Thinking and Decision Making in Management) ISSN 1610-8914

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