Prof. Thomas Bauer

Prof. Dipl.-Kfm. Thomas Bauer, Chairman of the Management Board of BAUER AG, Schrobenhausenspoke about the advantages of BAUER AG's existing organizational structure for the current period in his presentation "Worldwide networks of the BAUER Group for exploiting and coping with market fluctuations".

Prof. Thomas Bauer, born in 1955, is responsible for investments in subsidiaries at BAUER AG. After studying business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, he worked in the USA. He joined the family business in 1982. Since 1986 he has been the sole Managing Director of BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH and has been Chairman of the Management Board of BAUER Aktiengesellschaft since 1994. Prof. Thomas Bauer is President of the Bayerischer Bauindustrieverband e.V. (Bavarian Construction Industry Association), Vice President Economy of the Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie and Vice President of the vbw - Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e.V. Prof. Thomas Bauer holds an honorary professorship at the Technical University of Munich.

In his contribution to the 17th Munich Management Colloquium, Prof. Thomas Bauer will discuss the decentralized, network-like structure of his company. The relatively small individual markets in the company's specialist sector are subject to considerable fluctuations in the individual countries in which the company is represented. It is only through the supra-regional cooperation strategies that the company pursues that it is possible to level out these fluctuations in the company as a whole. The resulting expertise is of particular benefit to the company in times of crisis.

Status: Beginning of 2010