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40
Citations
6474
World Ranking
5379
National Ranking
144

Overview

Ulrich Witt is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, where their research focuses on intersections of business, economics, and sustainability. Their work spans several main fields including Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research addresses a range of topics such as:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Economic Growth and Productivity

Witt's subfields of study cut across Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing, and Social Psychology. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their choice of publication venues which include:

  • Ecological Economics
  • Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

They have authored several recent papers covering various aspects of innovation, economic behavior, and sustainability. Notable papers include:

  • "Does sustainability-promoting policy making reduce our welfare?" (2021), published in Ecological Economics
  • "Innovative Capitalism Needs Institutional Co-Evolution" (2022), published in Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity
  • "Growth-induced crises and transitions in the governance of firm organizations" (2023), published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Creative Management" (2020), published in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

Witt has collaborated with multiple co-authors, with frequent partnerships including U Ritter, Hermann Schnabl, Hagen Worch, Kai Brandt, and Thomas Brenner. These collaborations reinforce the breadth of their research network within the fields of economics and management.

In addition to articles, Witt has contributed to scholarly books, notably publishing "Studien zur Evolutorischen Ökonomik III." in 2021 through Duncker & Humblot.

Best Publications

  • Imagination and leadership – The neglected dimension of an evolutionary theory of the firm

    Ulrich Witt

  • Learning to consume - A theory of wants and the growth of demand

    Ulrich Witt

  • What is specific about evolutionary economics

    Ulrich Witt

  • The evolving economy : essays on the evolutionary approach to economics

    Ulrich Witt

  • special issue: Learning to consume - A theory of wants and the growth of demand

    Ulrich Witt

  • "Lock-in" vs. "critical masses" - industrial change under network externalities

    Ulrich Witt

  • Changing cognitive frames - changing organizational forms: an entrepreneurial theory of organizational development

    U Witt

  • Economic policy making in evolutionary perspective

    Ulrich Witt

  • Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions

    Ulrich Witt

  • Explaining process and change : approaches to evolutionary economics

    Ulrich Witt

  • Self-organization and economics—what is new?

    Ulrich Witt

  • On the proper interpretation of ‘evolution’ in economics and its implications for production theory

    Ulrich Witt

  • Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics

    Ulrich Witt

  • HOW EVOLUTIONARY IS SCHUMPETER'S THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?

    Ulrich Witt

  • Individualistische Grundlagen der evolutorischen Ökonomik

    Ulrich Witt

  • On the proper interpretation of ‘evolution’ in economics and its implications for production theory

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  • The evolution of economic institutions as a propagation process

    Ulrich Witt

  • Bioeconomics as economics from a Darwinian perspective

    Ulrich Witt

  • Symbolic consumption and the social construction of product characteristics

    Ulrich Witt

  • Innovations, externalities and the problem of economic progress

    Ulrich Witt

  • Evolutionary Concepts in Economics

    Ulrich Witt

  • 2010,07: Can Darwinism be "generalized" and of what use would this be?

    Georgy S. Levit;Uwe Hossfeld;Ulrich Witt

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania
Stephen E. G. Lea
Stephen E. G. Lea University of Exeter
Paul W. Glimcher
Paul W. Glimcher New York University

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