Grüezi! (Welcome!)

Welcome to my personal academic webpage! Great that you have found your way here.

I am a Swiss PostDoc in Strategy at the University of Zurich with a PhD in Business & Economics (graduation: 2023). In fall 2024, I joined Dartmouth, Tuck School of Business as a visiting scholar at the invitation of Pino Audia and Hart Posen. In fall of 2025, I joined HEC Paris as a visiting fellow at the invitation of Georg Wernicke.

I take on a behavioral approach to strategy and corporate governance. I focus on how social and cognitive forces affect the information processing and decision-making in the boardroom and c-suite and their impacts on organizations. Theoretically, my work is grounded in the Carnegie School perspective of decision-making. I specifically investigate: 

1. Appointment decisions in the boardroom - such as CEO succession, CEO dismissal, and director appointments;

2. Strategic decisions in the c-suite - such as M&A, investment choices, and R&D investments and correponding outcomes.

In my work, I predominantly rely on quantitative methods with a focus on causal inference and fine-grained, hand-collected information on executives and directors. Several of my papers are currently under R&R in leading management journals (AMJ, JoM, SMJ).

If you are interested in what I am doing or if my research sparked your interest, do not hesitate to reach out: pascal-flurin.meier@business.uzh.ch. I am always happy to chat or discuss joint research interests.