Relational Economics

Prof. Josef Wieland is the Chair of Institutional Economics, Organizational Governance, Integrity Management & Transcultural Leadership, and Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ) at Zeppelin University, Germany. He is an expert in the field of responsibility, values, and compliance in local and global production networks. With more than 20 years of research experience in the field, he initiated the Forum Compliance & Integrity (FCI). He chaired the German Network of Business Ethics (DNWE) and is a member of, e.g., the National CSR Forum and the jury for the German government’s CSR Award. During Germany’s G20 presidency in 2016/2017, Prof. Wieland co-chaired the working group on “Sustainability in Global Value Chains” as part of the Think20 process. In 2004, he received the highly estimated State Research Prize for Applied Research from the State of Baden-Württemberg. Since 2017, he is Vice-President (Research) of Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany.

• Part I: Transaction and Contract.- Part II: Governance and Polycontextuality.- Part III: The Firm and Polycontextual Management.- Part IV: Cooperation Rent and Societal Value Creation.