Welcome to my private website!
I am a management professor at the University of Zurich and at Copenhagen Business School, research professor at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) .
I offer consultancy services to research institutions and governmental agencies concerned with science and I enjoy coaching business startups quite a bit.
I am a Swiss and German citizen and fluent in Danish, German and English.
Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=qWQHihEAAAAJ&hl=de
January 14, 2022
“Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries”, accepted at Journal of International Business Studies (with Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka).
October 7, 2021
"Spin Doctors vs the Spawn of Capitalism: Who Founds University and Corporate Startups?" forthcoming in the December issue of Research Policy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733321001451.
March 8, 2021
"Spin Doctors vs the Spawn of Capitalism: Who Founds University and Corporate Startups?" conditionally accepted at Research Policy
Jan. 23, 2021
"UNDERSTANDING THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF THE GAME: GOVERNMENT WORK EXPERIENCE AND SALARY PREMIUMS IN FOREIGN MNC SUBSIDIARIES" (with Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka, both CBS) accepted for publication in Journal of International Business Studies.
Nov. 1, 2020
New publication in Journal of Business Venturing insights "The value of publicly available, textual and non-textual information for startup performance prediction" with Johan Kuhn where we show that public data predicts startup success well and that business purpose statements key and where we make a strong case for better availability of business register data.
May 21, 2020
New IZA discussion paper by me and Johan Moritz Kuhn of www.epacn.dk where we show that public data predicts startup success well and that business purpose statements key and where we make a strong case for better availability of business register data!! http://ftp.iza.org/dp13029.pdf