Prof. Dr. Olivier Fuchs

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Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

Prof. Dr. Olivier Fuchs

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 48
50678 Köln
Mailing address


  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5928

Office hours

Office hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:00 to 16:00
Campus Südstadt, Ubierring 48, Room 435
by appointment or drop in

Positions

  • First aid officer
  • A Probing German Case Study on Trust Building Factors Around Online Leadership in Virtual Work Environments
    Fuchs, Olivier; Weissleder, Sarah; Najmaei, Mehran, 2022-08-30, Publisher: International Journal of Business and Management, Jg. 6, Heft 4 (open access, peer reviewed)
  • Effects of Workplace Digitalisation on the Motivation of German Office Employees
    Dziubek, Senta; Fuchs, Olivier; Schwarz, Stefan, 2022-12-30, Publisher: International Journal of Business and Management, Jg. 6, Heft 6 (open access, peer reviewed)
  • Improved Practices for Client Contact Management in a Crisis During Restrictions on Personal Contact as caused by Covid-19
    Fuchs, Olivier, 2022-06-17, Publisher: Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Business School (Thesis)

Journal Article

  • The Importance of Flexibility at Work for Generation Z in Germany
    Bielefeld, L., Fuchs, O., Lorenz, E., Pfeiffer, H., Poslawski, K., 09/2025, Publisher: Journal of Economics, Management and Trade
    In order to be able to detect potential employees’ preferences on time and place-related flexibility in the workplace and to distil recommendations for employers when designing the workplace for future generations, this article examines how flexible work arrangements—particularly in terms of time and location—are perceived by Generation Z in Germany.
    https://doi.org/10.9734/jemt/2025/v31i91352
since 2024 Technische Hochschule Köln
Professor for International Business, Faculty for Information and Communication Sciences TH Cologne
2022-2024 CBS International Business School
Professor for General and Strategic Management CBS International Business School
2018-2022 Heriot Watt University / Edinburgh Business School
Doctoral Student Heriot Watt University
2018-2022 Cologne Business School
Lecturer Strategic Management and Consulting Cologne Business School
2017-to-date maconda Corporate Development
Associate Partner, Consulting maconda
2004-2016 Swiss Post Solutions
Several senior management functions in Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Slovakia and Vietnam (turn around, post merger integration and new site creation) Swiss Post
2001-2003 ServeLine Supply & Logistics GmbH / Vendigital Ltd UK
Start-up owner-manager Vendigital
1997-2000 Accenture EMEA
Senior project manager Accenture
1995-1996 Maxdata GmbH
Director Austria and Eastern Europe Maxdata (defunct)
1990-1994 General Electric CompuNet (later Computacenter)
Account manager, sales manager (Cologne), later "Geschäftsführer" at CN Rhein/Neckar GE CompuNet/Computacenter

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