Research

Here is a list of papers I have published on questions such as How do senior headquarters managers allocate financial resources to entrepreneurial initiatives? How does the involvement of senior headquarters managers in their subsidiairies can be both an asset and a liability? How can companies can set up scouting units that are well connected to ecosystems such as Silicon Valley as well as to headquarters?  How will advances in digitalization influence dynamics between headquarters and subsidiaries? 

Publications

"More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving" – Strategic Management Journal (2023, with Esther Tippmann, Phillip C. Nell and Andrew Parker)  

"Using Fiction to Find Your Strategy" – Harvard Business Review (2022, with Mathieu Aguesse)

"What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name-Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations" –  Journal of Management Studies (2022, with Jelena Cerar and Phillip Nell)

"Innovation outposts in entrepreneurial ecosystems - How to make them more successful” – California Management Review (2021, with Felipe Monteiro, Jean-Marc Frangos, and Lisa Friedman)

“How corporate headquarters add value in the digital age” – Journal of Organization Design (2019, with Jan Schmitt and Phillip Nell, download)

"Headquarters involvement, socialization, and entrepreneurial behaviors in MNC subsidiaries” – Long Range Planning (2019, with Phillip Nell and Diego Stea, download)

“The dynamic response process to conflicting institutional demands in MNC subsidiaries – An inductive study in the Sub-Saharan African e-commerce sector” – Global Strategy Journal (2017, with Alison E. Holm, Phillip Nell and Patricia Klopf, download)

“Beyond simple configurations – The dual involvement of divisional and corporate headquarters in subsidiary innovation activities in multibusiness firms” – Management International Review (2017, with Henrik Dellestrand, Philip Kappen and Phillip Nell, download)