Draft:Wendelin M. Küpers

Wendelin Küpers (* 6. November 1965) is an interdisciplinary academic, who is teachinig and pursuing crossdisciplinary research as full professor for leadership & organisation studies.

Life and Academic career

Wendelin Küpers has studied business administration and economics ( 1989 – 1995) at Universität Witten/Herdecke and completed his Ph.D. there (1998) on Phenomenology of Service Quality. Subseqently he investigated conceptually and empirically demotivation in organisations (1999 –2001) at Hochschule St. Gallen. Afterwards, he worked as senior lecturer at distance university Fernuniversität Hagen with Jürgen Weibler and continued lecturing at Hochschule St. Gallen as well as Universität Innsbruck. After living and working as assistant and associate professor at School for Management, Massey University, Auckland in New Zealand, he teaches and pursues research as a Professor für Leadership und Organisation Studies at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe and was affiliated professor at ICN Business School in Nancy.
Combining a phenomenological and cross-disciplinary orientation, his research focuses on embodied, emplaced, emotional, creative and aesthetic dimensions of organizing and managing / leadership. In his current research and teaching he is focusing on more responsive, responsible and wiser forms of organizations and management/leadership that are contributing to more integral, artful, ethical and sustainable practices. He has published widely in scholarly journals, and several books as well as editing, with Routledge, a book series on “The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization”.

Publications

Research Profiles

• Research Gate • Web of Science • Scholar Google

Books (Selection)

• The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series", New York: Routledge(2013-2026)
• Integrating Embodied Practice, Action in Praxis and Transformational Wisdom for Sustainable Organization and Leadership", New York: Rouledge, 2025
• Leadership and Wisdom. Narrating the Future Responsibly",(with Matt Statler), New York: Rouledge, 2019
• Re-Thinking Management, (with Stephan Sonnenburg & Martin Zierold),Verlag=Springer, Berlin, 2017{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Wisdom Learning: Perspectives on Wising-up Business and Management Education, (with Olaf Gunnlaugson), New York: Rouledge, 2017
• Phenomenology of the Embodied Organisation - The contribution of Merleau-Ponty for organisation studies and practice, Verlag=Palgrave, London, 2015{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• A Handbook of Practical Wisdom: Leadership, Organisation and Integral Business Practice, (with David Pauleen), London: Gower, 2013
• Integrale Steuerung von Organisationen",(with Jürgen Deeg & Jürgen Weibler), München: Oldenbourg, 2010
• Integrales Management und Organisation von Bildungseinrichtungen,(with Stefan Laske & Claudia Meister-Scheytt) Verlag=Wasmann, Oldenburg, 2006{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Emotionen in Organisationen, (with Jürgen Weibler, Verlag=Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2005{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Demotivation --> Remotivation. Wie Leistungspotenziale blockiert und reaktiviert werden" (with Rolf Wunderer), Verlag=Luchterhand-Wolters-Kluwer, Neuwied, 2003{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Phänomenologie der Dienstleistungsqualität", (Phenomenology of Service Quality),Verlag=Gabler, Wiesbaden, 1999{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Recent Chapters (Selection)

• Eric H. Kessler & Diana J. Wong-MingJi, ed. (2024), "Culture and Context of Wisdom ('Weisheit') and Wise Leadership Practice in the German-speaking World", Global Wisdoms for Sustainable Leadership Impact: Insights from Decoding Cultural Enigmas, Elgar, Ort=Cheltenham
• Post-Phenomenology - Integrating enfleshed Prâxis, Practices, Phrónêsis and Sustainable Action for organising and embodied living common(ing) and commonviviality", François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles and Mar Pérezts "Phenomenologies and Organisation Studies: Problematising management and organizing as appearing and appearances", Cambridge University Press, Ort=Cambridge, 2022, pp. 577–603
• Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organisations", in Aroles, J., Dale, K. & de Vaujany, F. (eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work, Cambridge University Press, Ort=Cambridge, 2020, pp. 13–38
• EPost-Pandoran hope for moving wisely beyond the neo-Promethean Anthropocene, in Daniel Ericsson & Monika Kostera (eds.), Organising goodness and hope, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2019, pp. 72–84
• Merlin as Tale of Practical Wisdom in: Küpers, W. & Statler, M. (eds.), "Tales of Wisdom in Business and Leadership", New York: Routledge., New York: Rouledge, 2019, pp. 178–230