Jan-Otmar Hesse
Jan-Otmar Hesse, Universität Bayreuth, Germany (2023-2026)
Jan-Otmar Hesse is a professor of economic and social history at the university of Bayreuth since 2015. Before that, he was professor of economic history at university of Bielefeld, Alfred D. Chandler Fellow in International Business History at Harvard Business School, replacement professor at university of Göttingen, assistant professor at university of Frankfurt. He is a board member of the German Society of Business History (GUG) since 2011, among many other board memberships. His research is at the intersection of business history, economic history and history of economics. His last book explains the strong export drive of the German economy by referring to a particular “obsessive” attitude in the business and political elite. He published in leading field journals on the globalization of German textiles industry, state-owned enterprises, and political economy. His current research project involves questions of corporate tax management.
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