Research
As a group, we conduct high-quality theoretical and empirical research that contributes to important conversations in management research, with an emphasis on new technology and implications for organzing and entrepreneurial strategy. We focus specifically on improving the understanding of how entrepreneurs and organizations create value through highly innovative and aspirational initiatives.
We predominantly study technology contexts but are open to all domains in which entrepreneurial venturing generates social and economic value. We currently focus in particular on the following empirical settings:
- Science-based Ventures
with an emphasis on strategy formation, resource mobilization, and the impact of different professional logics on typical growth and development trajectories of deep tech ventures - New Technology Paradigms (e.g., blockchain, AI, ML):
with emphasis on implications for organizing economic activity, i.e. how to coordinate new economic activity, the emergence of novel organizational forms, or design of organization
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
with an emphasis on the design of successful acceleration programs in corporate context and their impact on corporate renewal.
- Sustainability & Grand Challenges
with an emphasis on food challenges and related innovative activity with respect to novel business opportunities and the design of business ecosystems to build more sustainable social structures.
We are in particular interested in process-related questions as to how to organize and act. Our research draws on different theoretical lenses and perspectives, e.g.:
- Cognition (microfoundations perspective)
- Institutional theory & institutional logics
- Resource dependence & power dynamics
- Stakeholder theory & stakeholder enrollment
- Governance & social coordination
- Organizational identity
- Behavioral strategy