Gerhard Fink is a retired Jean Monnet Professor. During 2002–9, He was the Director of the doctoral programs at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, from 2002–9 and the Director of the Research Institute for European Affairs from 1997–2003. His current research interests are in cybernetic agency theory, normative personality, organizational culture and cultural change in Europe. He has about 290 publications to his credit. He was editor and guest-editor of numerous journals, among others in 2005 guest editor of the Academy of Management Executive, and in 2011 of Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal.