Prof. Dr. Dirk Nicolas Wagner

At the university since

• September 01, 2013

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

• Co-editor: ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy
• Scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation
• Chevening Scholar of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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.