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More than four million people are self-employed in Germany. The motives, characteristics, and general conditions vary from person to person just as much as their location and design of the entrepreneurial activity. The focus of the competence field "Entrepreneurs and Teams" is therefore on the one hand the investigation of individual and micro-social factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions as well as the entrepreneurial success of individuals and founding teams. On the other hand, dynamics within teams and private professional networks and their effects on innovations, economic success, and the sustainability of start-up projects are of particular interest.
More than four million people are self-employed in Germany. The motives, characteristics, and general conditions vary from person to person just as much as their location and design of the entrepreneurial activity. The focus of the competence field "Entrepreneurs and Teams" is therefore on the one hand the investigation of individual and micro-social factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions as well as the entrepreneurial success of individuals and founding teams. On the other hand, dynamics within teams and private professional networks and their effects on innovations, economic success, and the sustainability of start-up projects are of particular interest.
The investigation of backgrounds, characteristics, strategies, and behaviors of entrepreneurs (of entrepreneurially-thinking and acting people), is in the foreground of the competence field"entrepreneurs and teams". On the one hand, the focus is on the person of the founder. On the other hand, the entrepreneur is subjected to a closer analysis in the interaction in the founding team and with its micro-social network. The research focus can be specific groups of entrepreneurs (e.g.female entrepreneurship) or dedicated industries (e.g. technology entrepreneurship). Here the focus is on the individual's resources, such as education, experience or material capital, as well as personality factors. At the ifm Mannheim, research is also carried out to determine the extent to which individual and team-related behavioral aspects and framework conditions affect entrepreneurial success and resilience in times of crisis (resilience). Risk industries and highly dynamic environments are of particular interest here.
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 Jan-Philipp Ahrens und Baris Istipliler organize conference track on family firm management & governance at the European Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Lisbon (24.06.19)
Together with co-proponents from the USA (Columbia University, Wharton School, University of North Carolina, University of Nevada Las Vegas), France (INSEAD), Hong-Kong (HKU), Switzerland (HTWC), Belgium (University of Antwerp), The Netherlands (University of Nyenrode), Italy (University of Foggia and Tor Vergata), and Germany (University of Hamburg and University of Magdeburg) scientists of the IfM/Management Area organize a conference track on family firm management & governance at Europe's largest annual management conference. The track was initiated and is chaired by Assistant Prof. Jan-Philipp Ahrens. mehr... |
 Assistant Prof. Dr. Ahrens holds executive workshop on the secrets of German Family Firm Management (18.06.19)
What are typical strategic leadership techniques in German family firms? Why do family firm leaders so often emphasize investments in human capital, responsibility, and a unique and vibrant firm culture? How can family firms ensure a continuous and sustainable innovation culture while they often operate in remote regions? These were some of the questions adressed in the executive workshop organized by the chair for Entrepreneurship and SME-Research of the University of Mannheim. |
 Assistant Prof. Dr. Ahrens gives speech on "Intergenerational Responsibility" at Lemberg University (07.06.19)
Under the title "Responsibility across Generations" Lemberg Catholic University hosted an international conference on the responsibility of family businesses for society – e.g. sustainability, responsible consumption, charity, social responsibility – as well as responsibilities of family companies for themselves – e.g. family constitutions, stakeholder agreements, succession planinng, and social capital nuturing. As a platform for family businesses, civil society actors, and research institutions fostering sustainable economic development, the conference was co-organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). |
 Prof. Woywode and Assistant Prof. Ahrens hold workshop on management techniques with Chinese entrepreneurs from the digital and media industry (06.06.19)
What can China learn from typical management techniques applied in market-leading German firms, especially family firms, and what can we learn from China? How do German start-ups and SMEs manage to become global leaders in their niche? These were the key questions discussed in the workshop held at University of Mannheim that was attended by 30 entrepreneurs and decision makers of the digital and media industry from China. |
 MAN 770 Spring 2019 evaluation is online: rated 1,1 by students (29.05.19)
The seminar "Leadership and (Family-) CEOs, Restructuring & Financial Performance" achieved very high grades and was described by students as "the best seminar in MMM" and the "best course in my whole studies!" The guest lectures were perceived as "amazing" and the course's roleplay formats were positively mentioned by students. The complete course evaluation is attached. The application for MAN 770 Fall/Winter is open. mehr... |
 Master thesis seminar fall/winter 2019: Application is open (MAN 770) (23.05.19)
Students wishing to write their thesis at the ifm/chair of are kindly invited to register for the seminar MAN 770 until the approaching registration deadline for next semester. The seminar will cover a variety of topics at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategic management, digital data, sociology, psychology, (behaviorial) CEO research, and family firms. The seminar also welcomes students from adjacent study programs of the MMM or MMBR, such as for example students of media and communication studies. mehr... |
 Evaluation of Course MAN 450 "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Model Design" (09.05.19)
In course MAN 450 bachelor students develop and present their business idea in a professional and judged setting. This year the jury ranked "TimeFrame - an e-Ink Wall Calendar" as a winner. We congratulate the winning team and all course participants for their convincing and well-delivered pitch presentations. The course's evaluation is available as an attachment. mehr... |
 Best Paper Award at Academy of Management for Baris Istipliler and Jan-Philipp Ahrens (15.04.19)
University of Mannheim's young scientists and ifm members Baris Istipliler, PhD student, and Jan-Philipp Ahrens, assistant professor Management Area, analyzed the "The Role of Sovereignty Goals in Explaining Stakeholder Orientation of Family Firms". Their research was judged by reviewers as one of the best submissions to this years Academy of Management, in particular as research that adresses topics of relevance with academic rigor. The Academy of Management is considered by many management scholars as the leading conference of their discipline. mehr... |
 Forschung: Artikel von ifm Mitarbeiter im renommierten Journal „Administrative Science Quarterly“ (VHB A+) erschienen (16.03.19)
Der Artikel „Gender Gaps in Perceived Start-up Ease: Implications of Sex-based Labor Market Segregation for Entrepreneurship across 22 European Countries” von Vartuhi Tonoyan (ehemalige ifm Mitarbeiterin), Robert Strohmeyer (Mitarbeiter am ifm) und Jennifer E. Jennings (University of Alberta) ist in der renommierten Fachzeitschrift „Administrative Science Quarterly“ erschienen. mehr... |
 The Leading Wallet - Founder Talk with Björn Goß (Stocard) (06.03.19)
Stocard - How to gain 35 mio. customers and transform tomorrow’s shopping and banking experience with THE leading wallet.
Erhalten Sie Einblicke aus erster Hand in innovative digitale Lösungen. Björn Goß, Mitgründer von Stocard, wird das Geheimnis teilen, wie man 35 Millionen Kunden gewinnen und mit der führenden Wallet die Einkaufs- und Bankerfahrung von morgen verändern kann. mehr... |
 Die Familiennachfolge als Wettbewerbsvorteil! IfM Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice Publikation (VHB: A) für wenige Tage frei verfügbar (02.02.19)
New article provides pioneering evidence that a family affiliation of the CEO successor is positively related to post-succession performance. Authored by Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Andrea Calabrò, Jolien Huybrechts, & Michael Woywode.
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 Forschung: Artikel von Jan-Philipp Ahrens und Michael Woywode in Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice erschienen (VHB: A) (29.01.19)
Unter dem Titel "The Enigma of the Family Successor–Firm Performance Relationship: A Methodological Reflection and Reconciliation Attempt" stellen die Forscher eine neue theoretische Konzeptionierung von Familiennachfolgen in Familienunternehmen vor. Sie präsentieren neue empirische Hinweise dafür, dass ein Familienhintergrund, abseits anderen CEO-relevanten Eigenschaften, eine positive "soziale" Kraft ist: Der Familienhintergrund des CEOs spiegelt sich positiv in der Performance der Familienunternehmen wider. Die Forscher argumentieren, dass ursächlich hierfür ist, dass durch die Familiennachfolge das gesammelte Sozialkapital der Familie auf den Nachfolger projiziert werden kann. mehr... |
 MAN 770 Spring 2019 - Application is open until 18.02.2018 (22.01.19)
Students that wish to apply for a space in the chair's master thesis seminar in spring 2019 may apply now. Non-MMM students and incoming students are also welcome. mehr... |
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MAN 450 Spring 2019 - Syllabus online & application open until 18.02.2019 (21.01.19)
The interactive course "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Model Design" teaches students to translate innovations and business ideas into business models. Application is open until 18.02.2019. mehr... |
 Skalierung von B2B Tech Startups: MCEI Founder Talk mit Philipp Ortwein (InstaFreight) (14.11.18)
Erhalten Sie tiefe Einblicke in Dinge, die Sie bei der Skalierung eines (B2B-) Tech Ventures beachten sollten. Philipp Ortwein ( Uni Mannheim Alumnus und Mitbegründer von Instafreight) wird aus eigener Erfahrung berichten. mehr... |
 Luca Castellanza und Michael Woywode publizieren Artikel zu "Krisen und Krisenbewältigung am Beispiel von Startups in Süd-West Kamerun" in der Zeitschrift "Entrepreneurship & Regional Development" (04.03.24)
Der Artikel trägt den Titel: "Types, determinants, and outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviours during crises". Through an analysis of entrepreneurship in South-West Cameroon, we identify three behaviours entrepreneurs enact in response to crises: passive, hustling, and future-oriented, which differ with regards to activities, driving motivations, main objectives, approaches towards present and future adversity, and dominant focus concerning the use of resources. We also find that entrepreneurs’ enacted behaviours depend chiefly on the nature of the losses they incur and on the type of social capital they can avail of in the aftermath of a crisis. mehr... |
 Prof. Dr. Liu Yipeng - Research Associate at ifm Mannheim and Professor at the Centre for China Management and Global Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK - publishes in the Journal of Product Innovation Management (31.12.23)
This article draws on responsible innovation (RI) undertaken by hybrid organizations, institutional rigidity, and national innovation systems (NISs) to assess and contextualize the innovation performance of for-profit firms seeking to resolve grand challenges (GCs). mehr... |
 Journal Article coauthored by Baris Istipliler is published at Journal of Business Research (11.07.23)
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... |
 "Gender role (in-)congruity and resource-provider gender biases: a conceptual model". Journal Artikel von Robert Strohmeyer und Vartuhi Tonoyan in wissenschaftlicher Fachzeitschrift erschienen. (14.09.21)
Building on social-psychological theories of descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes and extant entrepreneurship literature, the authors establish that gender biases are likely to occur because of resource providers' perceptions of women entrepreneurs at the helm of male-typed start-up ventures to be less competent and agentic, as well as less warm and other-oriented than equivalent male entrepreneurs leading male-typed start-up ventures. The authors discuss the implications of such gender-biased evaluations for the application of stricter performance standards to female-led-male-typed start-up ventures and the likelihood and conditions of resource provision to their companies. The authors further discuss why and when female founder-CEOs of a female-typed (gender-neutral) start-up venture are likely to be overvalued (equivalued) compared to equivalent male founder-CEOs. The authors also develop propositions on additional contingency factors and mediators of the gendered evaluations of founder-CEOs and their start-up ventures, including resource providers' “second-order” gender beliefs, the high-cost versus low-cost resource commitment, individual differences in gender stereotyping and the perceived entrepreneurial commitment of the founder-CEO. The authors conclude by suggesting some practical implications for how to mitigate gender biases and discrimination by prospective resource providers.
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 ifm research awarded @EURAM (09.12.20)
Marc Kowalzick (ifm, Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship) and Moritz Appels (Chair of Sustainable Business) were awarded the 2020 Best Paper Award in Strategic Management during last weekend’s conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). The annual EURAM conference is one of the most important European conferences for management research and, this year, took place virtually from December 4th to 6th. mehr... |
 ifm wins IECER best paper award (20.11.20)
The paper „Business on the Line: Entrepreneurs and Family Firms in Crises” authored by Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Marc Kowalzick (both ifm/Uni Mannheim), Jochim G. Lauterbach (TU Munich) and Jennifer L. Petriglieri (INSEAD) was awarded as best conference paper at this year’s virtual IECER conference. IECER is an annual international conference on entrepreneurship, attended by researchers and business and government representatives from around the world. A central aspect on the article's data set on family firms was received as a courtesy of the chair of Prof. Kaserer (TU Munich). mehr... |
 Luca Castellanza veröffentlicht Artikel zu Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries im Journal of Business Venturing: "Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship (online first im Mai 2020) (25.06.20)
Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. The author complements this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic poverty constraints. mehr... |
 Studie von Magnus Schückes über neue Formen der Unternehmensfinanzierung im Journal “Small Business Economics” erschienen (18.05.20)
Im Rahmen der Special Issue “The entrepreneurial finance markets of the future: a comparison of crowdfunding and initial coin offerings” des Fachjournals Small Business Economics ist die Forschungsarbeit von Magnus Schückes mit dem Titel “Why do startups pursue initial coin offerings (ICOs)? The role of economic drivers and social identity on funding choice” in Zusammenarbeit mit Tobias Gutmann (EBS Business School) erschienen. mehr... |
 MCEI Accelerator Formats - Kicking Off 2020 (09.03.20)
On February 15 and February 22, MCEI kicked off its spring semester accelerator formats Thinking Beyond Boxes (Bachelor, MAN 453) and Entrepreneurial Spirit (Master, MAN 633). Dr. Bettina Müller, Dr. Jan Zybura, and doctoral candidate Thomas Hipp were welcoming highly motivated students striving to make a difference either by advancing their own startups or by helping one of MCEI’s partner startups to reach the next level in an Inside the Venture (ITV) project. But what do we actually do in our course accelerator formats and what is the ITV concept? mehr... |
 Der Artikel "The Influence of Multinational Corporations on International Alliance Formation Behavior of Colocated Start-Ups" von Barak S. Aharonson, Suleika Bort und Michael Woywode ist in Organization Science (VHB: A+) online first erschienen (27.02.20)
In dem Artikel zeigen wir, dass die Theorie des stellvertretenden Lernens (vicarious learning) einen geeigneten Rahmen bietet, um zu verstehen, wie kleine und mittlere Start-ups aus der Tätigkeit einer Vielzahl regionaler Akteure lernen können, nicht nur aus der Tätigkeit der benachbarten Peer-Unternehmen (dh anderer Start-ups). . Darüber hinaus schlagen wir vor, dass das Ausmaß der Auswirkungen des stellvertretenden Lernens durch die spezifischen Erfahrungen eines Unternehmens mit einer Vielzahl von Akteuren beeinflusst wird. Wir verwenden Längsschnittdaten der deutscher Biotechnologieindustrie und der pharmazeutischen Industrie, insbesondere multinationaler Pharmaunternehmen (MNCs) zwischen 1996 und 2015 in 19 deutschen Biotechnologieregionen. mehr... |
 "Ultimate Dream Management" - A new management technique for crowdfunding and the sharing economy unveiled (VHB: A publication - open access) (11.12.19)
Young researchers from the University of Mannheim and the IfM describe a new management technique that centers around dreams of many and is particularly apt and performance enhancing in the information systems-enabled context of our modern digital society. The technique is generalizable, for instance managing shared desires or dreams of a crowd is also of relevance for the current debate on climate change. The researchers will present their results at the worlds leading information systems conference. The publication and full read can be openly accessed via the link below. mehr... |
 Evaluation of the course "Strategic Management, Sociology and Psychology in the Family Business" is online! (07.10.19)
The seminar "Strategic Management, Sociology and Psychology in the Family Business" achieved very high grades and was described by students as "best and most comprehensive course I have participated in during my business studies" and to have an "outstanding & inspiring atmosphere". Overall, the course was rated 1,2 and was held by Assistant Prof. Dr. Ahrens and Dr. Iuliia Shkrabaliuk (lecturers rated 1,0), while the STATA-tutorial was given by Baris Istipliler and Marc Kowalzick (both PhD students). The complete course evaluation is attached. The application for MAN 770 Spring is open. mehr... |
 Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Baris Istipliler describe new management technique for the sharing economy [accepted for publication, VHB: A] (04.10.19)
In their recent research, the authors (Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Assistant Prof. Area Management, Baris Istipliler, PhD student Area Management, Andrew Isaak, Assistant Prof. Univ. Düsseldorf, and Dennis Steiniger, Assistant Prof. Univ. Augsburg) observe a novel management technique whose emergence is facilitated by recent developments in information systems-enabled contexts and which is particularly apt for steering and managing shared desires or dreams of a crowd, a topic of relevance also for the current debate on climate change. For the team of young researchers it is the second VHB A publication within 12 months, a time-span during which their research was nominated or honored with 6 peer reviewed awards. |
 For a better future! Conference track on sustainability and family firms organised by Prof. Hauser (HTW Chur) and Assistant Prof. Ahrens (Uni Mannheim) (16.07.19)
Bringing together researchers from multiple backgrounds and countries to discuss how family firms can adress critical societal challenges of our time and transition towards a sustainable, green and equitable economy, Prof. Hauser (HTW Chur) and Assistant Prof. Ahrens (Uni Mannheim) organize a track at the 17th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research which this year takes place in the Netherlands. mehr... |
 Assistant Prof. Dr. Ahrens teaches "Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Approaches" at the Summer School of Mannheim University (10.07.19)
Today’s economic landscape is influenced by highly innovative ventures of two major groups: Young entrepreneurial start-ups such as Tesla, and existing firms such as IBM or Google with strong intrapreneurial activities and innovation management. But how can we manage innovation, how can we lever entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial resources and capabilities? What are key entrepreneurial competencies of founders and (future) top level executives in today’s fast moving digital business world? These are the topics covered at this year's summer school at Mannheim University. Light is also shed on techniques for competitive positioning and strategic dimensions of recent developments such as digitalization and their implications for new ventures and business models. |
