Harald Wipfler

Harald Wipfler has been supporting the organisational development of FH JOANNEUM since October 2018. His responsibilities include programme and project management in the area of organisational development as well as the management and implementation of strategic projects for the further development of our university. Since October 2023, this also includes the coordination of the strategic project "Sustainable University".

Harald Wipfler studied at Graz University of Technology and worked in project management in a software company from 2000 to 2011. From 2012 to 2018 he worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of General Management and Organisation at Graz University of Technology. Harald Wipfler has additional qualifications in the areas of project management (including the university course International Project Management at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz), coaching, as well as university didactics and adult education.



Selected Publications:

Wipfler, H. (2019). Avoiding Lock-in in Technology Firms. A Competence-based Approach. Doctoral dissertation. Graz: Graz University of Technology.

Vorbach, S., Wipfler, H., & Schimpf, S. (2017). Business Model Innovation vs. Business Model Inertia: the Role of Disruptive Technologies. Berg- und hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 162(9), 382–385.

Wipfler, H. (2017). Organizational capabilities to avoid technological lock-in. Paper presented at 2017 R&D Management Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

Wipfler, H. (2017). Technology management activities to avoid technological lock-ins. In Proceedings International Management of Technology Conference 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Adametz, C., Wipfler, H., & Vorbach, S. (2016). Technologieorientierte Gründungen. WING-Business, 3/2016, 29-31.

Wipfler, H. (2016). How path-dependent developments hinder technological change and innovation – A literature review. In Proceedings R&D Management Conference 2016: From Science to Society: Innovation and Value Creation, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Wipfler, H. (2016). Sustainable Organizations through Dynamic Capabilities - Comparing Conceptions. In Proceedings 35th International Conference on Organizational Science Development: Sustainable Organizations. Portorož, Slovenia.

Müller C., Glitzner M., Höller H., Wipfler H., Vorbach S. (2016). Integriertes Produktportfolio-Management für die Entwicklung hybrider Leistungsbündel. In M. Bruhn, Hadwich K. (Eds.) Servicetransformation. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 595-616.

Wipfler, H., & Vorbach, S. (2015). Agile Management for Organizational Change and Development. In F. Dievernich, Tokarski K., Gong J. (Eds) Change Management and the Human Factor. Springer, Cham, 191-207.

Wipfler, H., Müller, C., Vorbach, S., & Marko, W. A. (2014). Hybride Leistungsbündel - Wenn Produkte und Service verschmelzen. WING-Business, 3/2014, 6-10.