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Focus on teaching
Strategic management
General Management
Project management
Institutional economics
Research interests and fields
Strategy, organization and artificial intelligence
Economic order for people and machines
Project management
Academic training and further education
Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland, Economics and Computer Science
MBA International Management at the Royal Holloway University of London/UK
Studied economics and social sciences at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland (degree: lic. rer. pol.)
Journalism studies (Honors Diploma) at the London School of Journalism/UK
Practical experience
WWV Wärmeverwertung GmbH & Co, Bremen: Managing Partner
ThyssenKrupp Palmers Ltd, Coventry/UK: Chairman and Finance Director
ThyssenKrupp Xervon GmbH, Ingolstadt: Commercial Regional Manager
ThyssenKrupp Serv AG, Düsseldorf: Mergers & Acquisitions Officer
polymerce AG, Essen: Director Business Development
VEBA AG, Düsseldorf: Analyst Group Development
Expert activities
Expert in accreditation procedures of ZEvA (Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency), Hanover
Further information
Lectures and practical contributions on economics, management & artificial intelligence
Wagner, D.N. (2023): Interview, in: Hafen, T.: What the use of AI brings for companies. COM! professional, Briefing, 04-23.
Wagner, D.N. (2022): Interview, in: van Rinsum, H.: AI in the company: How employees should face the new “colleague AI”. Internet World, Data and Analytics, 03.04.2023.
Wagner, D.N. (2021): Nudging through AI: The gentle big brother. Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2020): The evolution and economics of AI – What it means for management, organization and work. Keynote. NXTWRK Convention 2020. SIEMENS AG.
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Creatively through the crisis: Managing opportunities. Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Exponential challenges and exponential thinking . IM+io, September. S. 72-75.
Kratz, I.; Wagner, D.N.(2020): The dark tetrad: New Work and the risks of informal hierarchies. Personal Manager | Journal for Human Resources, Sept/Oct.
Wagner, D.N. (2020): The future after Corona: An exponential mix . Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): The Evolution & Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Next Economy Open, #Neo19x. Cologne: Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, November 26-28.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Co-creation with AI: Think exponentially! Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Human-Centered Management – Creating perspectives for man-machine teams . Personal Manager | Journal for Human Resources, Nov/Dec.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Panel Discussion: AI Global. AIxIA Conference , Karlsruhe: KI-Hub.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): The artificially intelligent company , Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Das Bermudadreieck der KI , Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): The consequences of the new cooperation between man and machine , in: zukunftsInstitut (ed.): Trendstudie Künstliche Intelligenz. Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): KI und die Schattenseiten von Mensch-Maschine-Teams , Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Digitalization and health – How they become friends. Health@Work, 03-2019
Wagner, D.N. (2019): An interview with AI expert Prof. Dr. Dirk Nicolas Wagner. Career guide.
Wagner, D.N. (2019): Human-Centered Management in times of digitalization. Online Keynote. Data. High-tech. People. The online future forum for innovative software solutions. Software Innovation Bridge.
Wagner, D.N. (2018): Colleague AI: Who controls the working world of tomorrow? Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2018): Automation: We need context! Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2018): Human-Centered Management in times of digitalization. Lecture. Science Festival Effects. Karlsruhe.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): AI: Form human-machine teams! Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Hackathons and the “human turn” . Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): The human factor – safety in an automated world. Lecture. Science Festival Effects. Karlsruhe.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Human (F)Actor Management. Lecture. 13th German CSR Forum 2017. International Forum for Sustainability and Future Viability. Ludwigsburg.
Wagner, D.N. (2016): An unequal race . In: Trend Update 09/16: Race against the machine, Frankfurt/Main: zukunftsInstitut.
Scientific contributions on economics, management & artificial intelligence
Stephens, M., Vashishtha, H., Wagner, D.N. (2023). AI Enabled Business. A Smart Decision Kit . IAP Information Age Publishing, Charlotte
Wagner, D.N. (2023). Achieving CSR with Artificially Intelligent Nudging. In: Schmidpeter, R., Altenburger, R. (eds) Responsible Artificial Intelligence. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham.
Wagner, D. N. (2021). On the emergence and design of AI nudging: the gentle big brother? ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy, 2, 18.
Wagner, D.N. (2021): Augmented Human-Centered Management – Personnel development for highly automated business areas. In: Altenburger, R., Schmidpeter, R. (eds.): CSR and Artificial Intelligence. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
Wagner, D. N. (2021). Artificial Intelligence and the dark side of management . ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy, 1, 10
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Agile Government and the challenge of AI. Proceedings of the UAE Public Policy Forum 2020 . Dubai, February 17-18, 2020, pp. 66-78
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Economic AI Literacy: Source of Global Competitive Advantage . In: Christiansen, B.; Škrinjarić, T. (Eds.): Handbook of Research on Applied AI for International Business and Marketing Applications. Hershey (USA): IGI Global, pp. 135-152
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Economic governance when humans and AI are at work. In: Munoz, M.; Naqvi, A. (Eds.): Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation : Policy and Government Applications. London: Anthem Press
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Augmented Human-Centered Management – Human Resource Development for highly automated business environments . In: Journal of Human Resource Management. Vol. XXiii, Issue 1/2020.
Wagner, D.N. (2020): The nature of the Artificially Intelligent Firm – An economic investigation into changes that AI brings to the firm. In: Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 44, Issue 6 Special Issue on Artificial intelligence, economy and society (July, 2020)
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Strategically managing the artificially intelligent firm . In: Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 48, Issue No. 3
Wagner, D.N. (2020): Economic patterns in a world with artificial intelligence . In: Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, doi.org/10.1007/s40844-019-00157-x, pp. 1-21
Wagner, D.N. (2019): The Opportunistic Principal . Kyklos, Vol. 72, Issue No. 4
Papke, T.; Wagner, D.N. (2017): Agile Workplace Innovation. European Journal of Workplace Innovation (EJWI), Vol 3, No 2, 2017. 67-86.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Graceful Degradation and the Knowledger Worker. In: Küpers, W., Sonnenburg, S. and Zierold, M. (eds.): Re-Thinking Management. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Wagner, D.N. (2015): The Tragedy of the Attentional Commons – In Search of Social Rules for an Increasingly Fragmented Space . In: Journal of New Frontiers in Spacial Concepts, KIT Scientific Publishing, Volume 7(2015), 31-41.
Wagner, D.N. (2014): The graceful degradation of the knowledge worker? On getting back the attention of what used to be your most valuable resource. ReThinking Management – The Impact of Cultural Turns. October 16 -17 International Conference at Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe.
Wagner, D.N. (2001): Software Agents and Liberal Order: An Inquiry Along the Borderline Between Economics and Computer Science . Miami: Universal Publishers.
Hosp, G. and Wagner, D.N. (2001): The Democratic Society and its Software Agents . In: List Forum 2/2001.
Wagner, D.N. (2000): Liberal Order for Software Agents? An economic analysis . In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 3(1).
Wagner, D.N. (2000): Software Agents take the Internet as a Shortcut to enter Society: A Survey of New Actors to Study for Social Theory . In: First Monday, 5(7).
Project management – Research & practical contributions
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Learning from Aviation Project Resource Management to avoid Project Failure . In: PM World Journal, Volume VI, Issue 2 – 02/2017.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Making mistakes and managing risks. Keynote. PM Forum of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Königstein.
Wagner, D.N. and Scheiderer, J. (2016): No way off the ground: learning from aviation – avoiding and managing crises in projects . PM Forum 2016, 33rd International Project Management Forum, Nuremberg.
Wagner, D.N. (2016): Breakin’ the Project Wave – Understanding and avoiding failure in project management . In: PM World Journal, Volume V, Issue 1 – January 2016.
Wagner, D.N. (2014): The wave of not knowing: A perspective on inefficiencies in major projects illustrated by the example of the Capital Airport . In: GPM Blog, GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V., Nuremberg.
Didactics
Wuttke-Hilke, I.; Wagner, D.N., Widmayer, F. (2020): Anchored Instruction 2020 – from instruction to construction: Contextual learning in management studies. In: die hochschullehre – Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Studium und Lehre. May 2020.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Bulletproof From delivery to interactivity when teaching with PowerPoint. In: International Journal of Innovation in Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2017. 16-31.
Wagner, D.N. (2017): Introductory & Advanced Company Projects. Ars legendi prize for excellent university teaching (4th place). Stifterverband – Education.Science.Innovation.
Wagner, D.N. (2015): “Sofort am Horizont” – reale Unternehmensprojekte in der Hochschulausbildung erhöhen die Projektmanagementkompetenz auf allen Seiten, PM Forum 2015, 32nd International Project Management Forum, Nuremberg.
