Prof. Georg Schreyögg
Freie Universität Berlin

Georg Schreyögg is professor of management at the department of business and economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he currently teaches courses in General Management and Organizational Theory at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. Before accepting his current position, Dr. Schreyögg held the chair of Management at the department of Business at the FernUniversität at Hagen (1986 - 1994), he was also on the faculty of the Universität Bamberg (Germany) and the European School of Management Studies (EAP: Paris-Oxford-Berlin). His teaching responsibilities have included courses in strategic planning, organizational behavior, personnel management and business ethics. He received his academic degrees in Business Administration from the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).
He is the (co-)author of some 100 articles and seven books on management, organization and strategic planning. His "Management"-textbook (now in its fifth edition) has been translated into other languages. Dr. Schreyögg has conducted research on industrial organization, strategic decision making and path dependency, organizational change and knowledge management. His research results have been presented at numerous professional meetings and have been published in national and international journals including the Academy of Management Review, Organizations Studies, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung.
Dr. Schreyögg has been actively involved in the editorial work of many journals: Co-Editor of "Organization Studies" and "Managementforschung" (management research); Member of the Editorial Board of : "Organization", "M@n@gement ", "Journal for East European Management Studies" and occasional reviewer for many other international journals.
He was Chairman of various professional associations, among them: The German Group for Organizational Research and EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies). He currently is the Chairman of the "Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V." (Association of German speaking university professors in business administration) and Fellow of the DFG (National Science Foundation of Germany).
In addition to writing and research, Dr. Schreyögg conducts management development workshops and executive classes on leadership, corporate culture and strategic management. He has been involved in a variety of consulting projects with corporations, small and medium sized enterprises and public utilities (among them: Deutsche Telekom AG, Siemens AG, BMW AG, VARTA AG).

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The Separation of Ownership and Control: The Case of German Industry

There is a long standing debate on the separation of ownership and control and its implications for corporate governance and social welfare. The speech reports on a longitudinal study on the development of managerial control in German industry, more precisely in the 350 largest German firms. Starting from 1972 the study covers the years 1979, 1986 and 2001. As there are not so many public corporations in Germany as compared to UK or USA the German situation needs some special operationalizations and analysis. The results show a considerable degree of separation but no increasing split over the years. The control situation, however, largely varies across industries. The final part of the speech focuses on the practical implications and advocates the view that the separation of ownership and control is structural feature of modern societies. Instead of activating the small shareholders it seems more reasonable to compensate the resulting power gap by other control mechanisms.