Svenja Friess

Welcome to my website. 

I am an applied economist and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Strategy, Technology, and Organization (ISTO) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich).

My research uses field and online experiments, natural experiments, and large-scale observational data to study how organizations can better support knowledge work, collaboration, and innovation. I focus on three interconnected questions: How do digital platforms and collaboration tools shape productive interactions? How do incentives and peer dynamics affect knowledge sharing and creative output? And increasingly — how does generative AI change knowledge work?

I am a co-investigator on a Schmidt Sciences "AI at Work" grant studying the effects of generative AI on knowledge workers in a randomized controlled trial. Two of my working papers have received revise-and-resubmit decisions at Management Science and the Strategic Management Journal.

I completed my Ph.D. at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard's Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH).

You can contact me at s.friess(at)lmu.de or my office phone number +49(0)89 2180-6710.  Please find my CV here.