Prof. Dr. Peter Walgenbach

Prof. Dr. Peter Walgenbach studied Business Administration and Psychology at the universities of Mannheim and Düsseldorf. After completing his studies in Business Administration, he became a research assistant at the University of Mannheim as well as at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). In 1994, he received his PhD from the University of Mannheim. In the same year he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. In 1997, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

From 1999 to 2008, he held the Chair of Organization Theory and Management at the Faculty of "Staatswissenschaften" (economics, law, and social sciences) at the University of Erfurt. In fall 2008, he was appointed to the Chair of Business Administration / Organization, Leadership, and Human Resource Management at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. In 2016, he received the Humboldt Award of the Riksbanken Jubileumsfonds (Sweden) and was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Peter is a member of the Editorial Board and a Senior Editor of Organization Studies. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Scandinavian Journal of Management and a member of the Editorial Advisory board of Diversity Research and Management. From 2006 to 2011, he was Department Editor for "Management" for Business Research. From 2008 to 2012, he served as an Associate Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Management. From 2006 to 2016, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Die Betriebswirtschaft. From 2012 to 2014, he formed part of the Editorial Board of Journal of Management Studies.

Peter is a member of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), and the Academy of Management (AoM). He is a co-founder of the international network New Institutionalism.