Multirational Management - see: www.youtube.com/watch
Public Organizations - Management and Governance
Public Corporate Governance - Governance of SOEs
Politics and Strategy - politicians-bureaucrats relations
Public Sector Accounting and Budgeting
Public Management Reform - optimizing the design of public management and governance
Public Management and Governance
Multirational Management
Institutional Organization Theory
Service Models in the Public Sector
International Public Management
Public Management Reform
Smart Government
New Public Management
Public Governance
Electronic Government
Performance Measurement
Public-Sector Finance Management
Former positions:
Vice President Research & Faculty at the University of St. Gallen (2015-2019)
Dean, School of Management of the University of St.Gallen (2013-2014)
Adjunct Professor for Public Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China (2009-2011)
Visiting Scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley (2002 and 2007)
Academic Dean of the Executive MBA in Public Management and Administration at the University of Salzburg, Austria (2001 - 2007)
Research Fellow at the National Center for Digital Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston (2002)
Visiting Professor for Financial Management in Public Institutions at the University of Potsdam, Germany (2001/02)
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the Universities of Klagenfurt, Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz (1999)
Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Public Finance and Fiscal Law at the University of St. Gallen (1994-1998)
Director of the Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law (1994-1998)
Visiting Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (1994)
Further scholarly activities:
Director, Sino-Swiss Management Training Programme, St. Gallen (2004-2013)
Co-Editor, „Modernisierung des öffentlichen Sektors“, Berlin: Edition Sigma (1999-2008)
Founding member and co-coordinator, International Public Management Network (1996-2007)
Senior Editor, International Public Management Review (2002-2011)
Senior Editor, Journal of E-Government (2003-2006)
Member of the Public Sector Steering Committee of the European Foundation for Management Development (2001-2003)
Member of the Scientific Committee, International Research Symposium for Public Management (1999-2005)
Member of Executive Comittee, Speyerer Qualitätswettbewerb (1998-2000)
Coordinator, Interfaculty-Group „Business-Government Relations“ der Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) (1997-2001)
Founding member and co-coordinator, International Public Management Network (1996-2007)
Editor, Public Administration Review, for „Reports & Documents - International Section“ (1996-2000)
Co-Editor, International Public Management Journal (1997-2011)
Senior Editor, International Public Management Review (2002-2011)
President, International Public Management Network (2008-2010)
Member of the International Committee, Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (Sub-Section of the American Society for Public Administration) (2006-2008)
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0580-692X
Advisory Board, dms - der moderne staat (seit 2008)
Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2003-2013)
International Public Management Review (2002-2016)
International Public Management Journal (since 2000)
Personal Assistant: Dominique Cowan
Smart Government Lab