Research

The research conduced by IMS scholars is integrated in the Innovation and Organization research programme of the SOM Research Institute and covers the broad range of topics related to innovation management and strategy. The research is primarily organised around four research profiles:

• Collaborative innovation
• Sustainable strategy and corporate governance
• Entrepreneurship
• ICT and organisational change

List of recent publications

Arque-Castells, P., & Spulber, D. F. (2022). Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets. Journal of Political Economy, 130(7), 1860-1918. https://doi.org/10.1086/719908

Besharov, M., & Mitzinneck, B. (2023). The Multiple Facets of Corporate Purpose: An Analytical Typology. Strategy Science, 8(2), 233–244. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2023.0186

Distel, A., Sofka, W., de Faria, P., Preto, M., & Ribeiro, A. (2022). Dynamic capabilities for hire – How former host-country entrepreneurs as MNC subsidiary managers affect performance. Journal of International Business Studies, 53(4), 657-688. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00274-0

Firk, S., Hanelt, A., Oehmichen, J., Wolff, M. (2021). Chief digital officers: An analysis of the presence of a centralized digital transformation responsibility, in press in: Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12718

Fritsch, M., Greve, M., & Wyrwich, M. (2023). The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(5), 1594-1616. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221094498

Fritsch, M., & Wyrwich, M. (2021). Does Successful Innovation Require Large Urban Areas? Germany as a Counterexample. Economic Geography, 97(3), 284-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2021.1920391

Fritsch, M., & Wyrwich, M. (2021). Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison. Research Policy, 50(6),[104237]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104237

Fritsch, M., Pylak, K., & Wyrwich, M. (2022). Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts—the case of Poland. Small Business Economics, 59, 397-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00535-z

Goldsby, C., & Hanisch, M. (2022). The Boon and Bane of Blockchain: Getting the Governance Right. California Management Review, 64(3), 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256221080747

Hanisch, M., Reuer, J., Haeussler, C., & Devarakonda, S. (2023). Hybrid Administrative Interfaces: Authority Delegation and Reversion in Strategic Alliances. Organization Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1687

Hanisch, M. (2023). Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? Organization Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231200715

Kleine, M., Heite, J., & Huber, L. R. (2022). Subsidized R&D collaboration: The causal effect of innovation vouchers on innovation outcomes. Research Policy, 51(6), [104515]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104515

Kok, H., Faems, D., & de Faria, P. (2022). Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants. Research Policy, 51(7), [104514]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104514

Lumineau, F., Hanisch, M., & Wurtz, O. (2021). International Management as Management of Diversity: Reconceptualizing Distance as Diversity. Journal of Management Studies, 58(6), 1644-1668. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12686

Mickeler, M., Khashabi, P., Kleine, M., & Kretschmer, T. (2023). Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings. Strategic Management Journal, 44(10), 2413-2442. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3504

Noseleit, F., Estrada, I., & McCarthy, K. (2023). Which partners become targets? The role of location in partner acquisitions. Long Range Planning, Article 102387. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102387

Oehmichen, J., Firk, S., Wolff, M., Maybüchen, F. (2021). Standing out from the crowd: Dedicated institutional investors and strategy uniqueness, Strategic Management Journal, 42(6), 1083-1108. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3269

Smailhodzic, E., Boonstra, A., & Langley, D. (2021). Social media enabled interactions in healthcare: Towards a taxonomy. Social Science & Medicine, 291, [114469]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114469

Sobrepere i Profitós, X., Keil, T., & Kuusela, P. (2022). The Two Blades of the Scissors: Performance Feedback and Intrinsic Attributes in Organizational Risk Taking. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392221117996

Steinberg, P. J., Hennig, J. C., Oehmichen, J., & Heigermoser, J. (2023). How the country context shapes firms' competitive repertoire complexity. Global Strategy Journal, 13(3), 552-580. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1458

Steinberg, P. J., Hennig, J. C., Oehmichen, J., & Heigermoser, J. (2022). How the country context shapes firms' competitive repertoire complexity. Global Strategy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1458

Sorgner, A., & Wyrwich, M. (2022). Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes. Journal of Business Venturing, 37(5), [106246]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106246

Stiegert, P., Täuber, S., Leliveld, M.C., Oehmichen, J. (2021). The Stereotype Rub-Off Effect - Organizational Affiliation Modulates Expectation Violation after Moral Transgression, in press in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.04.011

van den Broek, T. A., Langley, D., Ehrenhard, M., & Groen, A. (2022). When Do Evaluators Publicly Express Their Legitimacy Judgments? An Inquiry into the Role of Peer Endorsement and Q:1 Evaluative Mode. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1604

Weck, M., Veltrop, D. B., Oehmichen, J., Rink, F. (2021). Why and when female directors are less engaged in their board duties: An interface perspective. In press in: Long Range Planning, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2021.102123 

Wyrwich, M., Steinberg, P., Noseleit, F., & de Faria, P. (2022). Is open innovation imprinted on new ventures? The cooperation-inhibiting legacy of authoritarian regimes. Research Policy, 51(1), [104409]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104409

Wyrwich, M. (2022). Historical episodes and their legacies across space: A famous case revisited. Journal of Regional Science, 62(4), 1048-1091. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12589