Über Perspektiven zukunftsorientierter Waldwirtschaft - Betriebspolitisches Handeln in gesellschaftlichen Spannungsfeldern | The perspectives for future-oriented forestry management - managerial decisions under social tension

Forest management in central Europe is in the grip of radical change, which has taken on the character of a crisis. The main reasons for this crisis are a fall in profit and the many social altercations over the use of forest resources. The results of the crisis are manifest in the conflict-laden negotiations on the new formulation of the institutions in the forest sector in society,but also in a polymorphic identity crisis of foresters and managers and their sometimes frustrating search for ways and possibilities of running an enterprise faced with the tensions within society at large. In this paper we introduce a management concept (based on the St. Gallen management method),we diagnose the shortcomings of strategic and especially normative management of forest enterprises, and we advocate a professional management policy.