Andreas Zehetner is a professor of Marketing at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ). He holds a master’s degree from the Johannes-Kepler University of Linz and a doctoral degree from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz. Since 2013, he occupies the position of a Vice President International Affairs, and is member of the university board of management. In this position, he is responsible for international relations with partner institutions, for international outreach and international recruiting across the university’s schools. As a representative of a University of Applied Sciences, university-industry connections are of upmost interest. SME are the largest sector in the province of Upper Austria and the FH OÖ’s concern is to align faculty and reserachers’ interest as well as students’ and graduates’ potentials to the needs and expectations of these enterprises.

Andreas Zehetner has been teaching at various universities, among them the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China; the Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW) in the United States; the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical, Russia; the University of Economics (VSE) in Prague, Czech Republic; and the Plekhanov University of Economics, Russia. In his research, he is interested in organizational buying behaviour, negotiation, and emotional and social competences in sales and sales management as well as in higher education research with respect to HE Internationalization and University-Industry relationships.

GRID 2020

Monday, 23 November
Open Circle | 15:30-16:00