Forschung

The study titled “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” investigates the impact of pre-succession firm experience of CEO successors on the post-succession firm performance of family firms. mehr...

Also co-authored by Dennis Steininger from Technical University of Kaiserslautern, the study titled “Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms” conceptualizes the phenomenon of CEO succession in family firms as a unique opportunity for the incoming generation to revitalize and reinvigorate the organization. mehr...

The study titled “Childhood exposure to family firm and transgenerational orientation: Moderated mediation of affective commitment” focuses on how childhood exposure to the family firm and how it impacts shareholders’ transgenerational orientation. mehr...

The study titled “Multidimensional cognitive style: Linking founders to firm performance through strategy and resource orchestration” investigates the role entrepreneurs’ cognitive styles play in choice of opportunity approach strategy and resource orchestration behaviors, and how these relate to venture performance mehr...

Marc Kowalzick and Jan-Philipp Ahrens (both at University of Mannheim’s Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship/ifm), have published a paper in the renowned Journal of Management Studies together with Jochim G. Lauterbach (TU Munich) and Yi Tang (Hong Kong University). In their paper “Overconfident CEOs in Dire Straits: How Incumbent and Successor CEOs’ Overconfidence Affects Firm Turnaround Performance,” they assess the performance implications of CEO overconfidence across incumbent chief executives who have been responsible for organizational decline and successor CEOs appointed in dire straits. mehr...