Prof. Dr. Michael Hülsmann
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After concluding his Secondary Education and receiving training in Industrial Management, Prof. Dr. Michael Hülsmann studied Business Administration at the University of Bayreuth. Then he continued as a Research Assistant at the University of Bayreuth and at the University of Bremen. He earned a PhD degree on the topic "Management im Orientierungsdilemma – Notwendigkeit eines Managements rationalitäts‐bezogener Widersprüche von Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit“ (Orientational Dilemma in Management ‐ The Need for a Rationality Driven Contradiction Between Efficiency and Sustainability in Management) with "summa cum laude" and received the 2nd award for studies of the Förderverein für Mittelstandsforschung e.V. (Association for Scientific Development of Small and Medium Enterprises). Between 2003 and 2009 Prof. Hülsmann was in charge of the "Management nachhaltiger Systementwicklung“ (Management of Sustainable Systems Development) field of studies in the Economics department of the University of Bremen. Since January 2004 he has been in charge of sub‐project A3 "Monitoring der Selbststeuerung“ ("Monitoring of Autonomous Control") and a leading member of SFB 637 "Selbststeuerung logistischer Prozesse – ein Paradigmenwechsel und eine Grenzen" (Autonomous Logistics Processes ‐ a Change in Paradigm and Constraints) which is already in its second research level as the kernel of the scientific cluster "Dynamics in Logistics". In 2007 Prof. Hülsmann was invited as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. In March 2009 he took over the "System Management" field of studies at the School of Engineering and Science at Jacobs University Bremen. He focuses on Strategic Management of Logistics Systems. Prof. Hülsmann teaches and does research mainly in the fields of competence and technology based positioning, accomplishing of technological change in value‐adding networks and setting‐up of interorganizational coordination mechanisms. Prof. Dr. Michael Hülsmann Associate Professor of Systems Management Jacobs University Bremen |



