faculty

Arnold Picot

Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor
Ph.D. University of Munich, 1972

Professor Picot comes to the BMW Center for German and European Studies as the Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor for the academic year 2004-2005. He is currently Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Institute for Information, Organization and Management at Munich University. He previously worked as Professor at the University of Hanover and at the Technical University of Munich and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, CA. He received offers from several universities around Europe and was awarded honorary doctorates from Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg and from University of St. Gallen.

Professor Picot is chairman and member of various academic and scientific associations and advisory councils among them Munchner Kreis (a non-profit supra-national association dedicated to communications research), the Scientific Working Group at the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts, Bonn, and the Center for European Economic Research, Mannheim. He was member and chairperson of various expert commissions of the German Federal Ministries for Research and Technology and of the Department of Economy and Labor.

His research fields include organization, management, information and communication, innovation and technology management, but also basic theories of business administration, industrial organization and regulation. Several of his research projects have been supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The output of this research is reflected in over 400 publications. His most recent publications are Open Source Software (Berlin et al: Springer, 2004 with Bruegge, Harhoff et al.), the English edition of E-Merging Media (Berlin et al: forthcoming with Zerdick, Schrape et al.) and a new edition of Information, Organisation and Management (Chichester et al, forthcoming, with Wigand and Reichwald).

While at the Center he plans to continue his research and teach courses open to graduate and undergraduate students.