Frederik was a PhD candidate, lecturer, and research assistant at the Department and Institute for SME Research and Entrepreneurship from 2008 to 2013. He earned his doctoral degree in May 2013. In early 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, USA. Frederik studied at the University of Mannheim, where he earned a Diplom-Kaufmann, and at ESSEC Business School Paris, where he earned an MBA. Prior to joining ifm, he performed internships in the automotive, chemical, and electrical industries and founded an internet website start-up in 2001.
As a teaching assistant he has been teaching entrepreneurship courses at the Mannheim Master in Management (MMM) by drawing on the case-based Harvard Participant Centered Learning method. He is now working for the Junior Accelerator-project of MCEI.
As a teaching assistant he has been teaching entrepreneurship courses at the Mannheim Master in Management (MMM) by drawing on the case-based Harvard Participant Centered Learning method. He is now working for the Junior Accelerator-project of MCEI.
Publications
Staar, H.; Janneck, M.; Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S.; Armbrüster, T. (2013): Does the Playing Field Determine the Game?: An Impact Analysis of Structural Virtual Network Characteristics on Political Actions in: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 5(3), pp.32-50.
Metzger, FM. (2013): Innovation und Koordination interorganisationaler Netzwerke. Dissertation, Universität Mannheim.
Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S.; Armbrüster, T.; Oberg, A. (2012): Koordinationsmechanismen und Innovativität von Netzwerken: eine empirische Analyse in: zfbf – Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 64(4), pp. 428-455.
Berwing, S.; Metzger, FM.; Oberg, A.; Armbrüster, T. (2012): Zur Nutzung von Controlling-Instrumenten in Netzwerken, pp. 53-69. In: Glückler, J.; Dehning, W.; Janneck, M.; Armbrüster, T.: Unternehmensnetzwerke, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
Staar, H.; Janneck, M.; Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S.; Armbrüster, T. (2013): Does the Playing Field Determine the Game?: An Impact Analysis of Structural Virtual Network Characteristics on Political Actions in: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 5(3), pp.32-50.
Metzger, FM. (2013): Innovation und Koordination interorganisationaler Netzwerke. Dissertation, Universität Mannheim.
Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S.; Armbrüster, T.; Oberg, A. (2012): Koordinationsmechanismen und Innovativität von Netzwerken: eine empirische Analyse in: zfbf – Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 64(4), pp. 428-455.
Berwing, S.; Metzger, FM.; Oberg, A.; Armbrüster, T. (2012): Zur Nutzung von Controlling-Instrumenten in Netzwerken, pp. 53-69. In: Glückler, J.; Dehning, W.; Janneck, M.; Armbrüster, T.: Unternehmensnetzwerke, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
Conference Participation and Working Paper
Metzger, FM.; Staar, H.; Janneck, M. (2014): How Participatory are Participant-Governed Networks? – Exploring the Decision-Making of a Medical Network. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), July 3–5, 2014, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Armbruester, T.; Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S. (2012). Evolutionary Paths of Coordinating Interorganizational Networks: A Comparative Analysis. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), July 5–7, 2012. Helsinki, Finland.
Metzger, FM.; Berwing, S.; Armbruester, T.; Oberg, A. (2011). Autonomous or Engineered Coordination Processes? – On the Innovativeness of Coordinated Interorganizational Networks. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. August 12-16, 2011. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
1st Interdisciplinary Workshop “Decentralization and Networks", November 24-25, 2011, Siegen, Germany.
Metzger, FM. (2011). Assembling Interorganizational Networks: What Shapes Network Identity? Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), July 7-9 2011. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Metzger, FM.; Oberg, A.; Armbruester, T. (2010). Coordinated Interorganizational Networks: Empirical Results on Structures, Identities, and their Contingencies. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), July 1-3, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
Metzger, FM.; Oberg, A. (2009). Situative Unternehmensnetzwerke – Wie kann der Situative Ansatz zur Analyse koordinierter Unternehmensnetzwerke verwendet werden? Working Paper, Universität Mannheim.
Participation in the SCANCOR Workshop on Institutional Analysis. August 29 - September 2, 2011. University of Mannheim, Germany.
Participation in the PhD pre-colloquium workshop of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), June 30-July 1 2010, Faculdade de Economia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Feedback Advisor: Peer C. Fiss.
