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YEAR 2018 MANNHEIM AREA MANAGEMENT NEWS Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Torsten Biemann Matthias Brauer Laura Marie Edinger-Schons Bernd Helmig Karin Hoisl Michael Woywode Guiding principle of the Area Management at the University of Mannheim Courage to face the future Content The Area Management coined this guiding and where solutions are formulated anew News | 2 principle to uncover the essential future and discussed with our collaboration challenges of the “university business”, i.e. partners from theory and practice. Inno- Events | 3 the pursuit of education and research. vative and sustainable solutions are then published in international top journals. Research Projects | 8 In the context of an ever-increasing flood of information, the transfer of knowledge This platform approach is also how our Third-Party Funds Projects | 13 from research to practice becomes one of students benefit from new insights and Completed Dissertations | the most important strategic instruments how they are adequately prepared for 14 of universities in the future. Established their role as future decision-makers in Teaching | 16 terms such as organization and integra- business and policy. tion, as well as the associated ethical as- Articles & Conferences | 22 We would like to thank everybody who pects of human behavior, require a reas- has contributed to putting the principle – Awards | sessment. New concepts like data analytics 24 courage to face the future – into action, and artificial intelligence need closer inves- both financially and idealistically. Without New Area Members & tigation. you, achieving our goals would not be Guest Lecturers | 25 The Area Management sees itself as a plat- possible. Outlook 2019 | 28 form for the examination of economically, socially, and ethically relevant questions Prof. Karin Hoisl that are critical to meet future challenges Speaker of the Area Management 2 | News 2018 NEWS Second place in fostering MOOC on corporate volun- Professor Helmig appointed entrepreneurship teering member of various boards In the Startup-Radar 2018 of the Stifter- Dr. Irmela Koch-Bayram, Dr. Benedikt Prof. Bernd Helmig, holder of the Chair of verband, the University of Mannheim Englert, Prof. Bernd Helmig, and Prof. Business Administration, Public & Non- achieved second place in the category of Laura Marie Edinger-Schons jointly pro- profit Management, has been appointed medium-sized universities. This makes it duced a Massive Open Online Course by the Presidential Board of the Leibniz one of the most start-up oriented univer- (MOOC) on the topic of Corporate Volun- University Hannover to their Tenure sities in Germany. The focus of the teering. The MOOC covers three perspec- Board. This board is an independent, ex- Startup-Radar was on the question of tives, i.e., the perspective of the volun- ternal panel of experts, which evaluates how universities promote the founding teering employees, the perspective of the the research achievements of tenure pro- of companies. Four building blocks were nonprofit organizations who are partners fessors in accordance with national and analyzed: (1) the institutional anchoring for corporate volunteering, as well as the international standards and trans-parent of a sustainable startup culture at the uni- perspective of the company that enables evaluation criteria. versity, (2) entrepreneurship sensitiza- the corporate volunteering activities. Bernd Helmig was also reelected as mem- tion, (3) start-up support, as well as (4) Thereby, the MOOC offers more lecture- ber of the German committee of UNICEF start-up activities, i.e. the effect that the like units in which important insights on e.V. and was appointed to the position of efforts in founding support have at the the three perspectives are conveyed as Vice-President for the next two years by end - in the form of spin-offs, awards for well as interviews with individuals from the delegates of the German Association spin-offs and their long term success. all three perspectives. of University Professors and Lecturers “I am very pleased that our efforts to sus- Furthermore, additional material and in- (DHV), that represents more than 30,000 tainably establish an entrepreneurship terviews on, e.g., the role of broker plat- members and is the professional associa- culture at the University of Mannheim are forms, consultants, as well as summaries tion of academics in Germany. bearing fruit,” says Prof. Michael of surveys and polls are integrated to pro- Woywode, who holds the Chair of SME vide participants of the MOOC with a ho- Research and Entrepreneurship and coor- listic understanding of the topic. The dinates the university's efforts to pro- MOOC will be published on the MBSx mote start-up know how. “When it comes platform in spring 2019. It will be availa- to entrepreneurship our students benefit ble free of cost. from the above-average quality of the www.mbsx.education university’s offerings. Since we bundled our entrepreneurship support activities in the Mannheim Center for Entrepre- neurship and Innovation (MCEI) and ex- panded our offerings in this area, we are making great progress.” The aim of the MCEI is to promote the en- trepreneurial spirit and the startup cul- ture at the University of Mannheim and to strengthen the startup ecosystem in the Rhine-Neckar region. The MCEI has been in contact with approximately 100 startup projects over the past 2 years. More than 200 success stories are already documented on: www.mcei.de/success-stories P Dr. Benedikt Englert and Prof. Bernd Helmig (left to right) at the production studio. 2018 Events | 3 EVENTS P Participants of the Digital Changemakers Summit. Sustainable Business Summit Event Series Doing good with digital solutions On April 13th and 14th, 2018, the Chair of Changemakers Summit”. The event was More broadly, the workshop aimed to CSR organized the 20th Sustainable Busi- sponsored by KPMG Sustainability Ser- raise awareness of the positive potential ness Summit on the topic of Corporate vices and was held at the Wizemann.- of digitalization to remedy social and en- Volunteering. At the two-day event, more space in Stuttgart. During the one-day vironmental challenges. The workshop than 60 students, practitioners, and aca- event, Mannheim students worked to- started with some breakfast snacks and a demics discussed current developments gether in groups mentored by practition- video address of Simon Müller, Mann- in the field of Corporate Volunteering. On ers from organizations including WWF, heim and Harvard alumni and founder of the first day, five speakers from the com- BASF, SAP, Sennheiser, apic.ai, and Hen- the Think Tank “The Future Society”. The pany, NPO, and academic perspective kel to develop concepts for digital solu- workshops (including design thinking gave insights and impulses for discussion. tions to social and/or environmental techniques) were co-organized by So- The second day consisted of several problems. Software engineers were pre- cEntBW and the team of the Wizemann.- workshops, where students were able to sent to advise students during the devel- space Stuttgart. At the end of the day, the get a hands-on experience on managerial opment process (no prior technical or student teams presented their concepts challenges in Corporate Volunteering. programming skills were required). to the group and a jury of experienced practitioners. The best two ideas received On October 12th, 2018, from 9:30 am to The goal of the interactive workshop was an award. 7:00 pm, the Chair of Corporate Social Re- to develop a mock-up of a digital solution sponsibility organized the 21st Sustaina- (e.g., a website or an app) and a social ble Business Summit, titled “Digital business model canvas for its application. 4 | Events 2018 19-22 June, Iceland Management Area strong at the European Academy of Management 2018 Scientists of the University of Mannheim's cesses of the large number of interna- “Stakeholder orientation in family busi- Area Management Area organized a con- tional submissions in this track. Moreover, nesses” (Istipliler, Ahrens, Hauser). Prof. ference track and presented current re- the Management Area presented a total Woywode and Assistant Prof. Ahrens search at the annual conference of the of 7 research projects of 11 Area scien- completed these contributions with a talk European Academy of Management, the tists. on “Family affiliation of the CEO” (Ahrens, leading European association for the pro- Calabro, Huybrechts, Woywode). motion of management research in Eu- In detail, the young researchers Katharina rope. With over 2,000 submissions, the Schilling and Nora Zybura presented re- The strategic management researchers of conference, hosted by the University of search findings on the topic of “Women, the Area contributed with talks on recent Iceland in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, Migration and Self-Employment” (Zy- research on “Divestiture Completion Du- is the largest European conference in the bura, Schilling, Philipp, Woywode). Fol- ration” (Prof. Matthias Brauer) and “CEO field of management research. lowing up on the topic, Assistant Prof. An- Overconfidence and performance” (Kow- drew Isaak reported on experiences from alzick, Ahrens, Lauterbach). The Management Area contributed sig- start-up projects of people with a refugee nificantly to the organization of the track background and entered into dialogue The participation in this year's European “Finance, Accounting, Governance & on recent development with an interna- Academy of Management conference Growth in Family Firms” called for by As- tional audience of scientists, politicians was rounded off by a joint research award sistant Prof. Jan-Philipp Ahrens and other and members of society. for the University of Mannheim and the international scholars. As part of this, as Technical University of Munich for the also in the Entrepreneurship Strategic The family business researchers of the best manuscript in the area “Strategic Management Divisions, Prof. Michael Management Area contributed the topic Management” (Kowalzick, Ahrens, Lau- Woywode and various members of the “Shareholders and the bond to the family terbach).