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Giuseppe Delmestri was professor and chair of the Institute of Change Management & Management Development in the Management Department of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He serves as chair of EGOS, in the ASSIOA Board and in the Faculty of VHB-ProDok. He received the doctoral degree at Mannheim University and the idoneità to associate professor and to ordinarius at Parthenope University in Naples. He was tenured assistant professor at Bocconi University in Milan, where he also acted as senior lecturer at SDA Bocconi. He also served as tenured associate professor at the University of Bergamo, where he acted as deputy director of the Department of Business Administration and dean of SdM School of Management. As full professor at Johannes Kepler University he started the Joint Master in Global Business “Troika”. He currently studies market and social categories, their evaluation, social movements, branding, and ethics in multinational companies, cinema, universities, global cities, community pharmacy and the food and beverage industry. He published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Higher Education, British Journal of Management, Economia & Management, and others.

Studied commercial sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) with a focus on "Interdisciplinary Management". 1990 Habilitation (venia docendi: Business Administration and Management) with "The Handling of the New in Organized Social Systems". From 1991 - 2002 Head of General Business Administration Group with a focus on Human Resources, Leadership and Organization; from 2002 to the end of September 2013 Head of the Institute for Change Management and Management Development. 2005 to 2012 he was also Head of the Department of Management and Program Director of the Master's Program (MSc.) Management.

From 1981 to 2017 academic director of the Postgraduate Management University Course (PGM); In 2003, he founded the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA PGM) and was course director and lecturer until 2020.

Since 2013, he has been a lecturer and senior researcher at the Institute for Change Management and Management Development, today called Institute for Leadership and Strategic Change (since February 2026).

Teaching and/or research in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, People's Republic of China, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, USA, Vietnam.

State awards

Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007)

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1^st Class (2017)

Main areas of work and research

• Management and Organizational Research

• Systems Theory and Applied Dialectics

• International Management and Intercultural Management

• Strategy development, strategy implementation and change management

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