Christoph Reichard

Address & Phone

Professor Christoph Reichard

Fachhochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft, FB 5
Public Management
Treskowallee 8
D-10313 Berlin

Telephone: 0049 30 50192358
Fax: 0049 30 50192257

E-mail: creichar@rz.fhtw-berlin.de

Education

Ph.D. University of Freiburg (Economics and Public Administration)

M.B.A. Free University Berlin (Business Administration)

Biography

Professor of Public Management at the Polytechnic of Technology and Economics (Fachhochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft), Berlin. After studying business administration (MBA from the Free University Berlin 1968) he received his Ph.D. in economics and public administration (University of Freiburg 1972). His dissertation was on Public Management ("Die Managementkonzeption des oeffentlichen Verwaltungsbetriebes," Berlin 1973).

Christoph Reichard worked 20 years as professor for public management at the Berlin college for Public Administration. Since 1994 he is professor for public management at the Polytechnic for Technology and Economics, Berlin (faculty of business administration). He teaches in courses of general business administration and in the new "Public Management" program which since 1994 is jointly run by the Polytechnic for Technology and Economics and the Berlin college for public administration. The "PUMA" program is an innovative curriculum, it is one of the first in Germany. 1996/97 (as 1994/95) he is visiting professor of public management at the Institute of Public Management, Innsbruck University (Austria).

Christoph Reichard has produced about 110 publications as author, co-author and as (co-) editor, among them several books about public management. The majority of publications is in German language. Some selected publications in the field of NPM:

Auf dem Wege zu einem neuen Verwaltungsmanagement. In: J. Goller u.a. (Hrsg.), Verwaltungsmanagement, Loseblattwerk, 8. Ergänzungslieferung, Stuttgart 1992 (Raabe-Verlag).

Kommunale Managementkonzepte in Europa (Ed.; together with G. Banner). 197 S. Köln 1993 (Kohlhammer/DGV).

Internationale Ansätze eines "New Public Management". In: M. Hofmann (Hrsg.), Neue Entwicklungen in der Managementlehre. Heidelberg (Physika-Verlag) 1994, S. 135-164.

Umdenken im Rathaus - Neue Steuerungsmodelle in der deutschen Kommunal verwaltung. Reihe "Modernisierung des öffentlichen Sektors" (Sigma-Verlag), Berlin 1994 (91 S.) [5. ed. 1996].

Public Management - ein neues Ausbildungskonzept für die deutsche Verwaltung. In: Verwaltungsorganisation und Personalführung (VOP) 1994, S. 178-184.

Vom Beamten zum Manager? Herausforderungen und Perspektiven der Ver wal tungsausbildung. Ed. together with D. Bischoff. Berlin 1994 (Hitit-Verlag, 206 S.).

Von Max Weber zum "New Public Management" - Verwaltungsmanagement im 20. Jahrhundert. In: P. Hablützel u.a. (Hrsg.), Umbruch in Politik und Verwaltung. Ansichten und Erfahrungen zum New Public Management in der Schweiz. Bern usw. 1995, S. 57-79.

Kommunalverwaltung im Modernisierungsschub? Ed., together with H. Wollmann, Basel usw. 1996 (Birkhäuser-Verlag)

Leistungstiefe im öffentlichen Sektor (published jointly with F. Naschold, D. Budäus, W. Jann, A. Picot, M. Oppen, E. Schanze and N. Simon), Berlin 1996 (Edition Sigma; Reihe Modernisierung des öffentlichen Sektors, Sonderband 4)

Case study: Implementing Public Management Concepts in Local Authorities. In: N. Flynn, F. Strehl (Eds.), Public Sector Management in Europe. London usw. (Prentice Hall) 1996, S. 160-171.

"Neues Steuerungsmodell" - local government reform in Germany. In: W. Kickert (Hrsg.), Public management and administrative reform. EGPA yearbook 1995, London etc. 1996 (forthcoming).

Neue Ansätze der Führung und Leitung. In: K. König, H. Siedentopf (Hrsg.), Öffentliche Verwaltung in Deutschland. Baden-Baden 1996 (forthcoming)

Educating and Training New Public Management. In: L. R. Jones, K. Schedler (Eds.), International Perspectives on the New Public Management, Greenwich, CT 1997 (in preparation).

Main research fields: (new) public management, public personnel, institution building in developing countries. Actual research activities: comparative studies on international trends in new public management, follow up and evaluation of on-going administrative reforms - particularly "new steering models" in different local governments in Germany (e.g.: at Berlin at in several local governments in the state of Brandenburg), studies on contracting out and public-private partnership in the public sector, administrative culture in the new German Länder, curriculum development and implementation in the field of "Public Management".

Christoph Reichard is member of different working and project groups in the field of administrative reforms (e.g.: at the ministry of interior of the state of Brandenburg, at the German City Association, at the Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences at Speyer [member of the jury of the Speyer Quality Award 1992, 1994 and 1996]. He is member of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), and of several German professional associations.