Wolfgang Mayrhofer

Wolfgang Mayrhofer is Full Professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management, WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austri. He previously has held full-time research and teaching positions at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and at Dresden University of Technology, Germany, after receiving his diploma and doctoral degree, and post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in Business Administration from WU.

He conducts research in comparative international human resource management, comparative careers, and systems theory and management and has received several national and international awards for outstanding research and service to the academic community. With his co-authors he published more than 30 books, most recently Gunz, H. P., Lazarova, M. B., & Mayrhofer, W. (Eds.). 2020. The Routledge Companion to Career Studies. Milton Park: Routledge, and Brewster, C., Mayrhofer, W., & Farndale, E. (Eds.). 2018. Handbook Of Research On Comparative Human Resource Management. (2 ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, and more than 150 book chapters and 90 peer reviewed articles.

Wolfgang Mayrhofer is a member of the editorial board of several international journals, a research fellow at the Simon Fraser University Centre for Global Workforce Strategy (Vancouver, Canada), and a member of the academic advisory board of AHRMIO, the Association of Human Resource Management in International Organisations. His teaching assignments both at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive level and his role as visiting scholar has led him to many universities around the globe. He regularly consults with organisations in the for-profit and non-profit world and conducts management trainings, among others on sailboats (www.championSHIPS.at).