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Dr. rer. oec. habil., Dr. h.c. rer. oec. et soc. Hans Georg Gemünden
was a Professor of Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School from 2015-2019, a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at TU Berlin from 2000- 2015, and Professor of Corporate Strategy at KIT from 1988-2000. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from 1990-1992.
He received his "Diplomkaufmann" (equivalent to an MBA) and his Dr. rer. oec. at the University of Saarbrücken, and his habilitation degree at the University of Kiel. The 9th of May 2104 Hans Georg Gemünden was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. rerum oeconomicarum et socialum) from the University of Kiel. 11th of October 2015 he was awarded the IPMA Research Achievement Award. He was Vice Dean of the Faculty for Management and Economics of the University of Technology of Berlin from 2003-2007. From 2004-2007 he was responsible for the Industrial Engineering Program (Wirtschaftsingenieur) and introduced five new Bachelor and nine new Master programs. The Industrial Engineering Program is the largest teaching program at the TU Berlin, involving six of its seven Faculties. From 2013 to 2015 he was a director of the enlarged Academic Senate of TU Berlin.
He was a Founder and a Chairman of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Association of University Professors of Management (Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre) from 2000-2002 and Chairman of the Scientific Board of the German Innovation Survey of the German Ministery of Technology and Education from 1999 until 2004. He was representative-at-large of the TIM Division of the Academy of Management from 2009 until 2011 and responsible for the best-dissertation award in 2011. He was a member of the Advisory Board of Hauck & Aufhäuser (Private Bank) from 2000-2008. He was a member of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat) of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG (ca. 50,000 employees), from 2006 until this AG was integrated into ThyssenKrupp AG. From 2008 until 2012 he was one of the four principal investigators for Business Administration at Germany’s national science foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). In 2009 Prof. Gemünden chaired the Jury of NRW.Gruendet. From 2009 until 2012 he was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of EXIST and Deputy Chairman until the end of this Advisory Board. EXIST is a support program of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) aimed at improving the entrepreneurial environment at universities and research institutes and at increasing the number of technology and knowledge based company formations. The EXIST program is part of the German government’s “Hightech Strategy for Germany” and is co-financed by funding of the European Social Fund (ESF). From 2013 to 2017 Hans Georg Gemünden was the Editor of the Project Management Journal which is published by the Project Management Institute and Sage.
Hans Georg Gemünden hosted several international conferences: the IMP conference in Karlsruhe (1996), the G-Forum in Berlin (2006), and the IRNOP (2009) in Berlin. He led the program committee of the annual conference of the German Association of University Professors in Business Administration (VHB=Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre) in Nürnberg 2009, he co-organized several times the project management track at EURAM, and was recently the program chair for this track for EURAM 2012 in Rotterdam.
He has authored or co-authored over 170 peer-reviewed articles, over 200 refereed conference proceedings, over 130 invited chapters, and 4 books in the fields of innovation and technology management, entrepreneurship, project management, business policy and strategy, marketing, human information behaviour and decision making, and accounting. He published in journals like Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Management International Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, R&D Management, International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Schmalenbachs Business Review, Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, Die Unternehmung, Projekt Management Aktuell.
Actual research focuses on Promotors, Teams and Open Innovation Issues, Management of projects, programs, project sequences, project portfolios, project networks, project careers, and the project-oriented organization with specific consideration of their innovation functions. In contrast to project and program management the management of project portfolios, project sequences, project careers, and the project-oriented organization are not temporary tasks with determined time horizon, rather they ongoing tasks without a determined end, but they are considered as project managing tasks, because they influence the context of projects and programs and provide the critical link with strategies. The management of project networks is often embedded in the network of business networks between the key actors of project networks that work repeatedly together, and share long-term business relationships.
Professor Gemünden has supervised 12 habilitation theses as second supervisor (“opponent role”), and 7 as first supervisor (“promoter role”). He supervised 94 doctoral students as second supervisor (“opponent role”) and 71 as first supervisor (“promotor role”). 18 of the first supervised doctoral and/or habilitation candidates became full tenured University Professors: Michael Auer (CEO Steinbeis Foundation, Germany), Marian Beise (Asia Pacific University (APU), Jumonjibaru, Beppu, Oita, Japan), Jan Brinckmann (ESADE, Barcelona, Spain), Evi Hartmann (University of Nürnberg, Germany), Martin Högl (LMU München, Germany), Katharina Hölzle (University of Stuttgart, Fraunhofer IAO Institute, Germany), Björn Klocke (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), Alexander Kock (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Elmar Konrad (University of Applied Science Mainz, Germany), Thomas Lechler (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA), Christopher Lettl (Vienna Business School, Austria), Thomas Ritter (Copenhagen Business School; Denmark), René Rohrbeck (EDHEC Business School, Lille, France), Katja Rost (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Sören Salomo (TU Berlin, Germany), Juliane Schneeweiß (born Teller) (TH Brandenburg, Germany), Carsten Schultz (Kiel University, Germany), and Achim Walter (Kiel University, Germany).