Area Management
The area Management builds part of the Business School and comprises the chairs of Torsten Biemann, Matthias Brauer, Bernd Helmig, Karin Hoisl and Michael Woywode as well as Dr. Maren Rottler, Dr. Marc Lerchenmüller, Dr. Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Dr. Dominika Wruk und Dr. Jan Zybura.
On our websites, we provide useful and interesting information on the professors of the area, academic staff members and research projects. Furthermore, we grant a broad overview of our diverse course offering, publications, and interesting opportunities for studies, research, and career.
In the latest issue of the Area Management News the six chairs of the area report about their year 2023.
Publikationen
- Ahrens, J.-P., Kowalzick, M., Lauterbach, J. G. and Petriglieri, J. L. (2025). Crisis reveals character: Founder and founding family involvement during firm crises. Family Business Review, 38, 4–33.
- Schmück, K., Schückes, M., Gutmann, T. and Gassmann, O. (2025). Less trust, more truth: Implications and design choices for business models and platform ecosystems in the age of Web3. Technological forecasting & social change, 211, 1–27.
- Schückes, M., Unger, B., Gutmann, T. and Fels, G. (2025). Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital. Journal of Business Venturing, 40, 1–34.
- Welch, N., Ahrens, J.-P. and Block, J. (2025). Regional labor market integration of women and the share of women in management: are family firms different? Review of Regional Research = Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 1–31.
- Adomako, S., Zhu, F., Hsu, D. K., Istipliler, B. and Wiklund, J. (2024). Navigating environmental threats to new ventures: A regulatory fit approach to bricolage. Journal of Management Studies : JMS, 1–45.
- Brauer, M. and Binder, P. D. (2024). The effectiveness of verbal mimicry in activist hedge fund campaigns. Journal of Management : JOM, 1–32.
- Brauer, M. and Vandepoele, L. (2024). Managing the “downside” of downsizing: Firms' impression offsetting around downsizing announcements. Journal of Management Studies : JMS, 61, 3684-3716.
- Castellanza, L. and Woywode, M. (2024). Types, determinants, and outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviours during crises. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 1–30.
- Dahlke, J., Beck, M., Kinne, J., Lenz, D., Dehghan, R., Wörter, M. and Ebersberger, B. (2024). Epidemic effects in the diffusion of emerging digital technologies: evidence from artificial intelligence adoption. Research Policy, 53, 1–24.
- Dlouhy, K., Biemann, T. and Baruch, Y. (2024). A career ecosystem perspective on societal and organizational characteristics and careers to the top in higher education. Human Resource Management Journal, 1–16.
- Dlouhy, K. and Froidevaux, A. (2024). Evolution of professionals' careers upon graduation in STEM and occupational turnover over time: Patterns, diversity characteristics, career success, and self-employment. Journal of Organizational Behavior : OB, 45, 344–361.
- Dlouhy, K., Schmitt, A. and Kandel, I. J. (2024). A job demands–resources perspective on emotional exhaustion and work engagement in human–animal work. Occupational Health Science, 8, 733–761.
- Englert, B., Sievert, M., Helmig, B. and Jansen, K. (2024). The incongruity of misfit: A systematic literature review and research agenda. Human Relations, 77, 1306-1332.
- Haans, R. F.J. and Mertens, M. J. (2024). The internet never forgets: A four-step scraping tutorial, codebase, and database for longitudinal organizational website data. Organizational Research Methods : ORM, 1–29.
- Henninger, M., Rottler, M. and Helmig, B. (2024). Under pressure: Social information on reference groups and its influence on volunteering intention—a survey experiment. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53, 510–535.
- Istipliler, B., Hauser, C., Calabrò, A. and Ahrens, J.-P. (2024). Sovereignty matters! Revisiting the family influence–stakeholder orientation relationship. Journal of small business and entrepreneurship : JSBE, 1–35.
- Kinne, J., Dehghan, R., Schmidt, S., Lenz, D. and Hottenrott, H. (2024). Location factors and ecosystem embedding of sustainability-engaged blockchain companies in the US. A web-based analysis. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 4, 1–18.
- Koch-Bayram, I. and Biemann, T. (2024). How corporate social (ir)responsibility influences employees’ private prosocial behavior: An experimental study. Journal of Business Ethics, 194, 103–118.
- Koch-Bayram, I. and Kaibel, C. (2024). Algorithms in personnel selection, applicants' attributions about organizations' intents and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study. Human Resource Management Journal, 34, 733–752.
- Kroll, C. M. and Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2024). Corporate power and democracy: A business ethical reflection and research agenda. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 33, 349–362.
- Mayrhofer, W., Biemann, T., Koch-Bayram, I. and Rapp, M. L. (2024). Context is key: A 34-country analysis investigating how similar HRM systems emerge from similar contexts. Human Resource Management, 63, 355–371.
- Mula, C., Zybura, N. and Hipp, T. (2024). From digitalized start-up to scale-up: Opening the black box of scaling in digitalized firms towards a scaling process framework. Technological forecasting & social change, 202, 1–16.
- Pinz, A., Englert, B. and Helmig, B. (2024). Organizing logic multiplicity in hybrid organizations: The role of organizational culture. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 35, 353–378.
- Román Almánzar, A. D., Grüning, D. J. and Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2024). ‘It wasn’t me’: the impact of social responsibility and social dominance attitudes on AI programmers’ moral imagination (intention to correct bias). AI and Ethics, 1–15.
- Schmallenbach, L. (2024). A journey through time: the story behind ‘eight decades of changes in occupational tasks, computerization and the gender pay gap’. Industry and Innovation, 31, 525–532.
- Schmallenbach, L. and Biggi, G. (2024). Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’. Industry and Innovation, 31, 1093-1100.
- Schmallenbach, L., Bärnighausen, T. W. and Lerchenmueller, M. J. (2024). The global geography of artificial intelligence in life science research. Nature Communications, 15, 1–12.
- Sievert, M. and Bruder, J. (2024). Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions. Public Administration, 102, 915–935.
- Suwala, L., Ahrens, J.-P. and Basco, R. (2024). Family firms, hidden champions and regional development. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 68, 1–8.
- Tonoyan, V., Strohmeyer, R. and Jennings, J. E. (2024). Working for Jessica or Michael? Implications of gender stereotypes for job application intentions at technology startups. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal : SEJ, 1–27.
- Zybura, J., Ahrens, J.-P., Istipliler, B., Woywode, M. and Kowalzick, M. (2024). It takes two to Tango – Conceptualizing the “succession dance” in family firms through social exchange theory. Journal of General Management.
- Appels, M. (2023). CEO sociopolitical activism as a signal of authentic leadership to prospective employees. Journal of Management : JOM, 49, 2727-2765.
- Bhattacharya, C. B., Sen, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M. and Neureiter, M. (2023). Corporate purpose and employee sustainability behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 183, 963–981.
- Biemann, T., Mayrhofer, W. and Koch-Bayram, I. (2023). Embedded in context: How time and distance affect the convergence of personnel selection practices. Human Resource Management Journal, 33, 47–68.
- Bort, S. and Kieser, A. (2023). Coping with devils and climate change with the help of asceticism? Exploring the role of asceticism as trigger of collective climate action. Environmental Values : EV, 1–30.
- Brauer, M., Wiersema, M. and Binder, P. D. (2023). “Dear CEO and board”: how activist investors' confidence in tone influences campaign success. Organization Science, 34, 1487-1508.
- Colombo, M. G., Guerini, M., Hoisl, K. and Zeiner, N. (2023). The dark side of signals: patents protecting radical inventions and venture capital investments. Research Policy, 52.
- Hoisl, K., Kongsted, H. C. and Mariani, M. (2023). Lost Marie Curies: Parental impact on the probability of becoming an inventor. Management Science, 69, 1714-1738.
- Isaak, R. (2023). Entrepreneurship in international context: Trends and coping with eco-entropy. Circular Economy, 1, 1–5.
- Istipliler, B., Ahrens, J.-P., Bort, S. and Isaak, A. (2023). Is exposure to the family firm always good for the next CEO? How successor pre-succession firm experience affects post-succession performance in family firms. Journal of Business Research : JBR, 167, 1–15.
- Istipliler, B., Ahrens, J.-P., Hauer, A., Steininger, D. M. and Woywode, M. (2023). Heroes of the Green Room – How Able Successors Revitalize and Reinvent Family Firms. Journal of Small Business Management.
- Istipliler, B., Bort, S. and Woywode, M. (2023). Flowers of adversity: Institutional constraints and innovative SMEs in transition economies. Journal of Business Research : JBR, 154.
- Istipliler, B., Hauer, A., Keese, D., Woywode, M. and Ahrens, J.-P. (2023). Childhood exposure to family firm and transgenerational orientation: Moderated mediation of affective commitment. Journal of Small Business Management, 1–44.
- Koch-Bayram, I., Kaibel, C., Biemann, T. and Triana, M. . C. (2023). : Applicants' experiences with discrimination explain their reactions to algorithms in personnel selection. International Journal of Selection and Assessment : IJSA, 31, 252–266.
- Kowalzick, M., Ahrens, J.-P., Lauterbach, J. G. and Tang, Y. (2023). Overconfident CEOs in dire straits: How incumbent and successor CEOs’ overconfidence affects firm turnaround performance. Journal of Management Studies : JMS, 1–48.
- Kowalzick, M. and Appels, M. (2023). To change or not to change? Evidence on the steadiness of more hubristic CEOs. Journal of Management : JOM, 49, 2415-2454.
- Lanivich, S., Adomako, S., Ahsan, M., Istipliler, B. and Cox, K. C. (2023). Multidimensional cognitive style: Linking founders to firm performance through strategy and resource orchestration. Journal of Business Research : JBR, 166.
- Lerchenmueller, M. J., Schmallenbach, L., Bley, M. and Lerchenmüller, C. (2023). Gender disparities in altmetric attention scores for cardiovascular research. Communications biology, 6, 1–5.
- Lin-Hi, N., Gao-Urhahn, X., Biemann, T. and Koch-Bayram, I. (2023). Internal CSR and blue‑collar workers’ attitudes and behaviors in China: a combination of a cross‑sectional study and a field experiment. Asian Business & Management, 22, 1185-1213.
- Meier-Barthold, M., Biemann, T. and Alfes, K. (2023). Strong signals in HR management: How the configuration and strength of an HR system explain the variability in HR attributions. Human Resource Management, 62, 229–246.
- Sievert, M. (2023). The limited impact of reference groups' symbolic gender representation on willingness to coproduce. Public Administration Review : PAR, 83, 587–602.
- Wieschollek, V. and Dlouhy, K. (2023). Employee referrals as counterproductive work behavior? Employees’ motives for poor referrals and the role of the cultural context. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34, 2708-2731.
- Becker, S., Bergenholtz, C., Bogers, M., Brasseur, T.-M., Conradsen, M. L., Di Marco, D., Distel, A. P., Dobusch, L., Dörler, D., Effert, A., Fecher, B., Filiou, D., Frederiksen, L., Gillier, T., Grimpe, C., Gruber, M., Häussler, C., Heigl, F., Hoisl, K., Hyslop, K., Kokshagina, O., LaFlamme, M., Lawson, C., Lifshitz-Assaf, H., Lukas, W., Nordberg, M., Norn, M. T., Poetz, M., Ponti, M., Pruschak, G., Pujol Priego, L., Radziwon, A., Rafner, J., Romanova, G., Ruser, A., Sauermann, H., Shah, S. K., Sherson, J. F., Suess-Reyes, J., Tucci, C. L., Türtscher, P., Vedel, J. B., Velden, T., Verganti, R., Wareham, J., Wiggins, A. and Xu, S. M. (2022). The Open Innovation in science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach. Industry and Innovation, 29, 136–185.
- Castellanza, L. (2022). Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective. Journal of Business Venturing, 37, 1–18.
- Gottschalk, S. and Müller, B. (2022). A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea? Small Business Economics, 59, 745–767.
- Herzum, J., Sievert, M. and Helmig, B. (2022). Effects of corporate environmental activities on evaluators' propriety beliefs. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022.
- Keppeler, F., Sievert, M. and Jilke, S. (2022). Increasing COVID-19 vaccination intentions: a field experiment on psychological ownership. Behavioural Public Policy : BPP, 1–20.
- Sievert, M., Vogel, D. and Feeney, M. K. (2022). Formalization and administrative burden as obstacles to employee recruitment: Consequences for the public sector. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 42, 3–30.
- Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Müller, U. and Habel, J. (2022). Corporate social responsibility and perceived fairness of price increases. Psychology & Marketing, 39, 1370-1384.
- Waerder, R., Thimmel, S., Englert, B. and Helmig, B. (2022). The Role of nonprofit–private collaboration for nonprofits’ organizational resilience. Voluntas : International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 33, 672–684.
- Zielinski, F., Mildenberger, G., Rabadjieva, M., Sauerbier, E., Terstriep, J. and Wruk, D. (2024). Was sind soziale Innovationen und wie lassen sich ihre Impacts messen? Konzeptionelle Grundlagen für innovationsfeldspezifische Wirkmodelle. Heidelberg: Universität Heidelberg.
- Felfe, C., Kagerbauer, L., Müller, M., Sajons, C., Saurer, J. and Zwick, T. (2022). Mehr Ausbildung wagen!: Barrieren und Chancen für die Einstellung von Geflüchteten in deutschen Unternehmen. Policy brief, 1. Mannheim: Institut für Mittelstandsforschung der Universität Mannheim.
- Sajons, C., Philipp, R. and Hartmann, C. (2022). Selbständigkeit von Geflüchteten und Zugewanderten – Alternativer Weg in den Arbeitsmarkt oder berufliche Sackgasse? Policy brief, 2. Mannheim: Institut für Mittelstandsforschung der Universität Mannheim.
- Wruk, D. and Oberg, A. (2022). Wirkungen der Sharing Economy in Deutschland. i-share Report, 3. Mannheim.
- Rossetti, C., Biemann, T. and Dlouhy, K. (2024). Personality–occupation relationships in careers. In , Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (S. 1–6). Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management: Briarcliff Manor, NY.
- Wecker, B. and Brauer, M. (2023). Misbehave like nobody’s watching? Investor attention to corporate misconduct and its implications. In , (S. ). Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
- Krlev, G., Wruk, D., Pasi, G. and Bernhard, M. (eds.) (2023). Social economy science : transforming the economy and making society more resilient. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Helmig, B., Dorf, Y. and Kliment, C. (eds.) (2022). Hochschul-Fundraising. Bonn: Deutscher Hochschulverband.
- Tänzler, J. K. and Hauer, A. (2025). Soziale Nachhaltigkeit in Familienunternehmen der Bekleidungsindustrie – Eine kritische Diskussion am Beispiel des Unternehmens Trigema. In SDG 8: Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum (S. ). : Springer Nature.
- Ahrens, J. (2024). Performance : performance theory and performance concepts between achievement, profit, and sustainability. In Elgar encyclopedia of family business (S. 330–334). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Ahrens, J.-P., Onneken, F., Rottler, M., Strohmeyer, R. and Torchia, M. (2024). Gender equality in firm leadership worldwide: Where are we now and how do family and non-family firms differ? In Women in family business : New perspectives, contexts and roles (S. 21–62). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Tänzler, J. K. and Hauer, A. (2024). The past catches up with everyone: legal failures of the previous generation threaten a family firm’s future. In Case Studies in Family Business Overcoming Destructive Conflict, Deviance, and Dysfunction in the Family Firm (S. 138–146). Cheltenham [u.a.]: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Ahrens, J.-P. and Hauer, A. (2023). Die 500 größten Familienunternehmen in Deutschland. In Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Familienunternehmen (S. 37–70). München: Stiftung Familienunternehmen.
- Krlev, G., Wruk, D., Pasi, G. and Bernhard, M. (2023). Social economy: Between common identity and accelerating social change. In Social economy science : transforming the economy and making society more resilient (S. 37–68). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Wecker, B. and Brauer, M. (2023). “Crowd contamination”? Spillover effects in the context of misconduct allegations. In Organizational wrongdoing as the “foundational” grand challenge : consequences and impact (S. 53–72). Bingley [u.a.]: Emerald.
- Helmig, B. and Rottler, M. (2022). Fundraising und Hochschul-Fundraising – Grundlagen, Literaturüberblick und Erfolgsfaktoren. In Hochschul-Fundraising (S. 41–47). Bonn: Deutscher Hochschulverband.
- Hipp, T., Mula, C. and Zybura, N. (2022). Perspectives on startup-corporate partnerships' value creation: An overview on different types of partnerships and practices. In Corporate-Startup-Partnerschaften (S. 135–145). Berlin: Springer Gabler.
- Hoisl, K., Lerchenmüller, C., Lerchenmueller, M. J. and Schmallenbach, L. (2022). The power of attention: Early indications of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the direction of scientific research in the life sciences. In Resilience and ingenuity : global innovation responses to Covid-19 (S. 163–173). London: CEPR Press.
- Oberg, A., Powell, W. W. and Schöllhorn, T. (2022). Representations of self in the digital public sphere: The field of social impact analyzed through relational and discursive moves. In Digital transformation and institutional theory (S. 167–196). Bingley: Emerald.