Study of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (1976 – 1980) and University of Vienna.

Postgraduate Study in Economics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna (1980 – 1982).

Doctoral Study in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (1982 – 1986).

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale School of Organization and Management (Oliver Williamson), Yale University (1988 – 1989), New Haven, USA.

‘Habilitation’: Institutional Economic Studies in Franchising Networks and Other Contractual Relations, Center of Business Studies, University of Vienna (June 2004).

My research fields are economics and management of networks and the theory of the firm.

Coordinator of CESEENet - Central and South-East European PhD Network

Founder and organizer of EMNET-conferences (http://emnet.univie.ac.at/)

EMNET-Economics and Management of Networks Conferences

Editor of International Studies of Management and Organization – Special

Issue: Network Governance (2009)

Editor of Journal of Retailing – Special Issue: Franchising and Retailing

(2011)

Editor of Managerial and Decision Economics – Special Issue: Governance of Franchising Networks, Cooperatives and Alliances(2013).

Memberships

German Economic Association for Business Administration International Society of New Institutional Economics International Society of Franchising International Schumpeter Society

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics (1980-81).

Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Vienna (1985 – 1995) Lecturer in Different Colleges: FH Kufstein, Joanneum Graz; FH Styria, Graz, FH BFI Vienna.

Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Department of Management, University of Vienna (1996 – 2004).

Associate Professor of Organization and Management, Department of Management, University of Vienna (October 2004 - ).

Visiting Professor at the ESC (Graduate School of Management), Clermont, France (March 2005).

Visiting Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (November-January 2006; February-March 2007, March 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).

Visiting Professor at the Université de Rennes 1, CREM UMR CNRS (2006, 2011).

Visiting Professor at the University of Sarajevo (April 2007).

Visiting Professor at the Frederick University, Cyprus (November 2008).

Visiting Professor at the University of Czernowitz, Ukraine (Oktober 2007, 2010).

Visiting Professor at the Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France (May 2013)

"Post-nominals":

Professor Honoris Causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania