Initiator and project manager of the HIKE (University Incubator for Entrepreneurship) for the systematic promotion of start-up ideas at universities. Funding volume € 1.8 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Research on the influence of corporate culture on business model innovations in cooperation with New Work SE (formerly XING SE)
since 02/2018 Professor of General Business Administration, in particular International Business Administration at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
Lecturer at the Clausthal University of Technology (e.g. Entrepreneurship)
Worked for Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Berlin
Intrapreneur and Product Manager for Volkswagen WE
Product Manager for customer portals as part of Volkswagen's Connected Car services
Product Manager for Quicar Carsharing Website
Product Manager Website XL1
Employee Brand Strategy/Sustainability Strategy and Product Manager Open Innovation Platform mythinkblue.de
Doctorate in Strategic Management at Clausthal University of Technology on the topic of business model innovation
Studied at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen and the Institute of Technology Tralee (Ireland). Graduated as Diplom Betriebswirt (FH) and Bachelor of Business Studies - Management
Advanced technical college entrance qualification at night school in Hanover
Apprenticeship as an office administrator at I.G. von der Linde GmbH & Co KG
2021: Digital Entrepreneurship: Global Challenges and Experiences. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden (co-editor with Mariusz Soltanifar and Matthew Hughes) - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53914-6
2016: Business model development in the field of tension of multinational companies: Case study on electromobility in the automotive industry. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13351-1
Journal articles
2025: Resource dynamics in entrepreneurial ecosystems: how digitalisation reshapes inter- and intra-ecosystem knowledge flows. In: Journal of Intellectual Capital (together with Melissa Bejjani-Cazaréand Matthias Menter) -https://doi.org/10.1108/JIC-11-2024-0368
2024: The impact of business model innovation on person-organisation fit, in: Journal of Management Studies (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb) - https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12902
2023: Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Technological Forecasting & Social Change (together with Matthias Menter and Melissa Bejjani) - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122372
2023: Disentangling the complex longitudinal relationships between business model innovation and firm performance. In: Journal of Business Research (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb) - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114229
2021: The legitimacy of corporate entrepreneurship: a structured literature review. Management Review Quarterly (together with Kristina Hülsebusch and Matthias Menter) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-021-00246-5
Book contributions
2024: Product Organisations: How Successful Businesses Use Their Product Organisation as a Competitive Advantage. In: Hoffmann, S. (ed.): Digital Product Management: Frameworks-Tools-Cases. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden.
2024: Product Roadmaps: Opportunities and Risks of a Classic in the Product Management Toolkit. In: Hoffmann, S. (ed.): Digital Product Management: Frameworks-Tools-Cases. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden.
2023: Product organisations: How successful companies use their product organisation as a competitive advantage. In: Hoffmann, S. (ed.): In Digital Product Management: Methods-Instruments-Practical Examples. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden.
2023: Product roadmaps: Opportunities and risks of a classic in the product management method toolbox. In: Hoffmann, S. (ed.): In Digital Product Management: Methods-Instruments-Practical Examples. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden.
2022: Success factors of crowdfunding campaigns to finance innovative business models - a structured literature analysis. In: Gerth, S.; Heim, L. (Eds.): Future Entrepreneurship. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden (together with David Niemann)
2021: Business Model Development for Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Shared Fleets in Multinational OEMs. In: Degirmenci, Kenan; Pfau, Wolfgang; Cerbe, Thomas (eds.): Electric Vehicles in Shared Fleets - A Management Perspective. World Scientific Publishing (together with Philip Meier).
2020: Business Model Development and Validation in Digital Entrepreneurship. In: Soltanifar, Mariusz; Hughes, Matthew; Göcke, Lutz (eds.): Digital Entrepreneurship: Global Challenges and Experiences. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden (together with Robin Weninger).
2020: Development and Validation of Platform Businesses in Digital Entrepreneurship. In: Soltanifar, Mariusz; Hughes, Matthew; Göcke, Lutz (eds.): Digital Entrepreneurship: Global Challenges and Experiences. SpringerGabler, Wiesbaden (together with Philip Meier).
Conference contributions
2025: The more the merrier? Resource slack, its impact on business model innovation, and the role of dynamic capabilities, presentation on 29 July at the AOM Annual Meeting (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb, Max Schülting and Patrick Spieth).
2025: The Impact of Top Management Team Dynamics on Business Model Innovation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Turnover, Tenure, and Tenure Diversity, presentation on 29 July at the AOM Annual Meeting (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: Aligning for Innovation: The Moderating Effect of Person-Organisation Fit on the Antecedents and Consequences of Business Model Innovation, presentation on 27.07. at the AOM Annual Meeting (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: The more the merrier? Resource slack, its impact on business model innovation, and the role of dynamic capabilities, presentation on 01.07. at the EURAM (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb, Max Schülting and Patrick Spieth).
2025: The Impact of Top Management Team Dynamics on Business Model Innovation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Turnover, Tenure, and Tenure Diversity, presentation on 30 June at the R&D Management Conference (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: Aligning for Innovation: The Moderating Effect of Person-Organisation Fit on the Antecedents and Consequences of Business Model Innovation, presentation on 24.06. at the EURAM 2026 Conference (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: The Impact of Top Management Team Dynamics on Business Model Innovation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Turnover, Tenure, and Tenure Diversity, presentation on 24 June at the EURAM 2026 Conference (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: The Impact of Top Management Team Dynamics on Business Model Innovation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Turnover, Tenure, and Tenure Diversity, presentation on 13 June at the IPDMC (together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting).
2025: The more the merrier? Resource slack, its impact on business model innovation, and the role of dynamic capabilities, presentation on 12 June at the IPDMC (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb, Max Schülting and Patrick Spieth).
2022: The more the merrier? Resource slack, its impact on business model innovation, and the role of dynamic capabilities, presentation on 13 July at the R&D Management Conference (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb).
2021: The impact of business model innovation on person-organisation fit, presentation on 17.08. at the European Academy of Management Conference (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb)
2021: The impact of business model innovation on person-organisation fit, presentation on 31.07. at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting; Nomination for the Best Paper Award in the Innovation category (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb).
2020: Disentangling the complex longitudinal relationships between business model innovation and firm performance, presentation on 05.12. at the European Academy of Management Conference (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb and Thomas Clauß).
2020: Disentangling the complex longitudinal relationships between business model innovation and firm performance, presentation on 10 August at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb and Thomas Clauß).
2020: Disentangling the complex longitudinal relationships between business model innovation and firm performance, presentation on 1 August at the G-Forum (together with Matthias Menter, Christopher Zeeb and Thomas Clauß).
2019: Business Model Innovation and Firm Performance: Assessing the implications of incremental and radical innovation. Presentation on 19 June at the R&D Management Conference 2019 (together with Matthias Menter and Christopher Zeeb).
2025
Best Paper Award of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference 2025 in the field of Strategic Management, together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting
Best Paper Runner-Up Award of the R&D Management Conference 2025, together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting
2024
Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. - G-Forum Annual Conference: Norbert Szyperski Technology and Innovation Management Research Award 2024, together with Matthias Menter and Max Schülting
2020 / 2022
Product Management Mentor at Tech4Germany for the digitalisation of the federal government
2020
Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. - G-Forum Annual Conference: Norbert Szyperski Technology and Innovation Management Research Award 2020, together with Matthias Menter, Thomas Clauss and Christopher Zeeb.
2025
EXIST Women: FEMTRE II
Content: Start-up support for women interested in starting a business
Volume: € 66,000 (2025)
2023
EXIST Women: FEMTRE
Content: Start-up support for women interested in starting a business
Volume: € 55,000 (2023-2024)
Q-Net-Q - BMBF and EU funding
Content: Sub-project management for business model innovations for quantum communication
Content: Establishment of a start-up ecosystem in the Harz region (under the overall project management of the Harz University of Applied Sciences)
Volume: €300,000 (2021-2023)
Employees: 0.5 FTE
Website: www.harz-startups.de
2019
Project: HIKE - University Incubator for Entrepreneurship | StartupLab@FH (BMBF)
Content: Establishment of a startup incubator to support academic startups at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, as well as the development of a StartupLab as a physical space for student experimentation
Volume: €100,000 (2020-2025)
Employees: 3 FTE (4*0.75 FTE)
Website:hike-startups.de
Presentation at the AutoUni Business Innovation Summit on “Platform ecosystems in the Internet of Things”
Content: Dynamics and structures of platform ecosystems in the Internet of Things
Volume: 1.500€
2018
Startup Incubator Support (Volkswagen Financial Services)
Content: Research support for Volkswagen Financial Services AG in the development of an incubation programme. Research on the configuration of incubation programmes, evaluation of internal start-ups and premature scaling in corporate entrepreneurship environments
Volume: approx. €45,000 (2018-2019)
Courses
B.A. Business Administration / B.A. International Business Administration
Corporate management
Digital management
Specialisation in Entrepreneurship & Digital Product Management
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