Dr. Patrick Lehner

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Head of Center Organizational Design & Processes; Senior Lecturer

www.zhaw.ch/iov

Expertise and research interests

Organizational Design & Project Management
Competencies of viable, project-oriented organizations
Promotors & organizational design competencies

Educational background

2018 Doctorate in Economics, Tech. University Berlin
2000 Executive MBA, University of St. Gallen HSG
1990 Dipl. Civil Engineer, ETH Zurich

Professional milestones

since 2020: Head of Organisational Design & Processes
since 2007: Senior Lecturer Project Management and Corporate Development
1990-2006: Project engineer, project manager and head of project management for large-scale infrastructure projects; management consultant; division manager / member of management; head of various (re)organisational projects.

Membership of networks

• multiprojectmanagement.org
• Schweizerische Projektmanagement Gesellschaft

Projects

• Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Team member / Project ongoing
• Best-Practice-Workshops der Project Management Community ETH IT Services / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Lechler, Ruth Christine; Lehner, Patrick; Röösli, Franz; Huemann, Martina,

  2022.

  The project-oriented organisation through the lens of viable systems.

  Project Leadership and Society.

  3(100072).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2022.100072

• Lehner, Patrick; Gemünden, Hans Georg,

  2018.

  Eine projektorientierte Organisation entwickeln : die zentrale Rolle der Promotoren.

  Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation.

  87(5), pp. 300-305.

• Gemünden, Hans Georg; Lehner, Patrick; Kock, Alexander,

  2018.

  The project-oriented organization and its contribution to innovation.

  International Journal of Project Management.

  36(1), pp. 147-160.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.07.009

• Lehner, Patrick,

  2012.

  Fallstudie - Multiprojektmanagement in der Praxis : eine evolutionäre Weiterentwicklung hat sich bewährt.

  Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation.

  81(1), pp. 17-22.

• Lehner, Patrick,

  2011.

  Eintauchen in die Welt des Multiprojektmanagements : Konferenz zur 5. Benchmarking-Studie der ZHAW School of Management.

  Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation.

  80(4), pp. 351-353.

• Lehner, Patrick,

  2018.

  Promotoren und Kompetenzen projektorientierter Organisationen : ein empirie- und theoriebasiertes Modell.

  Berlin:

  Technische Universität Berlin.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-6624

• Martignoni, Jens; Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael; Lehner, Patrick,

  2023.

  Decentralizing project management by a DAO : a first attempt [paper].

  In:

  23rd EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.

• Martin, Judith; Lehner, Patrick,

  2022.

  Towards a viable buyer-supplier relationship framework : sub-layers and environmental dynamics [paper].

  In:

  29th International Annual EurOMA Conference, Berlin, Germany, 1-6 July 2022.

• Lechler, Ruth; Lehner, Patrick Johannes; Röösli, Franz; Huemann, Martina,

  2022.

  Viable and project-oriented organizations : enriching organizations with characteristics based on Stafford Beer's viable systems model [paper].

  In:

  22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.

• Kock, Alexander; Lehner, Patrick; Gemünden, Hans,

  2021.

  The project-oriented organisation : an empirical investigation of its impact on performance through driving promotors [paper].

  In:

  21st EURAM Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada (online), 16-18 June 2021.

• Lehner, Patrick; Martignoni, Jens; Gemünden, Hans Georg,

  2020.

  Promotors : necessary drivers of viable, project-oriented organizations [paper].

  In:

  20th EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 4-6 December 2020.

• Kaufmann, Carsten; Bechtel, Jadena; Lehner, Patrick; Gemünden, Hans Georg; Kock, Alexander,

  2021.

  Triple-A PPM : agiles, adaptives und ambidexteres Projektportfoliomanagement fördert den Erfolg - gerade in Zeiten von Umbruch und Turbulenz : Ergebnisse der 9. MPM-Benchmarking-Studie.

  ProjektManagement aktuell.

  (5), pp. 51-58.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24053/PM-2021-0094

• Gemuenden, Hans Georg; Lehner, Patrick; Kock, Alexander,

  2017.

  Innovation durch projektorientierte Unternehmensführung.

  DOAG - SOUG News.

  2017(2), pp. 5-8.

• Lehner, Patrick,

  2017.

  Projektorientierte Organisationen und ihre Promotoren [paper].

  In:

  Tagungsband zum 3. Research Colloquium : SML-Doktoranden-Community.

  3. SML Research Colloquium, Winterthur, 24. Februar 2017.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 15-17.

• Lehner, Patrick; Ruf, Christian,

  2011.

  Key Messages der Konferenz zur 5. Multiprojektmanagement-Studie.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-975

• Lehner, Patrick,

  2008.

  Erfolgsfaktor Projektmanagement.

  Scorecard - das Themenmagazin für Führungskräfte.

  2008(Juni), pp. 17.

• Lehner, Patrick,

  1997.

  Beurteilung von Dienstleistungsofferten.

  Schweizer Gemeinde.

  1997(7), pp. 26.

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