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German Takeover Report 2025
(2025)
Der German Takeover Report bildet die Entwicklung wichtiger Größen deutscher Übernahmeangebote nach dem WpÜG ab: Anzahl und Volumen des Übernahmeangebots, gebotene Prämien und Erfolg des Offers. Zusätzlich werden die wichtigsten Eigenschaften der dem Übernahmeangebot nachfolgenden Strukturmaßnahmen (BGAV, Squeeze Out) erfasst. Die aktuelle Ausgabe verdeutlicht für das Jahr 2024 eine weitere leichte Erholung.
Purpose
This systematic literature review (SLR) structures and analyzes the research on female self-initiated expatriates (FSIEs), an under-explored subgroup within expatriation studies. The study identifies key themes and developments and outlines a future research agenda.
Design/methodology/approach
An SLR of 34 empirical studies was conducted, employing an inductive approach for an in-depth analysis of the articles, utilizing the Gioia methodology to code, review and organize the data systematically.
Findings
FSIEs choose expatriation to overcome career stagnation and to break glass ceilings in their home countries. They face specific challenges, including gender discrimination and exclusion. Yet, they exhibit powerful coping mechanisms and utilize social, often female, support networks. FSIEs tend to repatriate at higher rates than men, driven by economic and family-related reasons.
Originality/value
This SLR offers insights into FSIEs’ motivations, adjustment and careers, while calling for future research, inter alia, focusing on long-term career impacts and intersectional approaches to better capture the diverse motivations and experiences of FSIEs. Similarly, we encourage future research to conduct comparative studies between FSIEs, male SIEs and female assigned expatriates, while also utilizing other promising methodological designs, such as diary or multi-level studies.
Real estate (RE) is grappling with digital transformation. Although property technology (PropTech) start-ups are generating process innovations that offer novel solutions to current RE problems, they are hampered by the slowness of RE's technology acceptance. Classical technology acceptance theory can explain the adoption of specific technologies but the diversity of PropTech requires an additional perspective or extension to current theory. To identify the barriers PropTech start-ups face in RE, we interviewed 15 founders about the challenges and experiences of working with customers. We identified three aggregate dimensions: customer barriers, provider barriers, and external ecosystem barriers. Our findings contribute to technology acceptance theory by extending Davis's (1989) TAM with additional barriers that are relevant to the adoption of PropTech. Our extended model depicts barriers as elements that influence technology acceptance. The paper concludes by identifying further research areas.
Die schönsten Uhren der Welt
(2024)
Vieles ist bekannt über die Bedeutung des Purpose für Organisationen – weniges darüber, wie er entsteht. Unsere Studie beim Uhrenhersteller A. Lange & Söhne veranschaulicht, wie individuell das Purpose-Making der Organisationsmitglieder ist und welche Einflussgrößen dabei eine Rolle spielen. Die Führung sollte die Vielfalt als Herausforderung und Chance begreifen.
Purpose
This study aims to explore the potential of entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) in the underexplored sector of small and medium-sized web-based businesses, addressing the succession crisis in industrialized nations and offering insights into the digital ETA landscape.
Design/methodology/approach
The research uses a qualitative approach, conducting in-depth interviews with 19 established website owners from diverse backgrounds and industries. The study investigates their business models, selling motivations and characteristics to provide insights for potential buyers in the digital ETA space.
Findings
Web-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) present unique opportunities for ETA, characterized by lower initial investment, higher scalability and diverse revenue streams. Key considerations for buyers include understanding seller motivations, evaluating niche focus and assessing the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence on content creation and search engine optimization. The findings also highlight the importance of authenticity and user engagement in maintaining website value.
Practical implications
The findings offer valuable insights for entrepreneurs considering ETA in the digital space, highlighting critical factors for success, potential risks and mitigation strategies in acquiring web-based businesses.
Originality/value
This paper bridges a significant gap in ETA literature by focusing on web-based SMEs, which have previously been overlooked despite their growing importance in the digital economy. It provides a comprehensive analysis of relevant factors when evaluating web-based businesses in the context of ETA, particularly in light of technological advancements and changing online landscapes.
Digitale Finanzmarktkommunikation : Vorstandsvideos als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor der Zukunft?
(2025)
Vorstandsvideos gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung als strategisches Instrument der Stakeholder-Kommunikation. Der C-Level Video Award, initiiert von der HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, bietet eine Plattform zur Bewertung der Qualität solcher Kommunikationsformate. Der vorliegende Beitrag legt die Bewertungskriterien des C-Level Video Award offen, erläutert die prämierten Beiträge und stellt die daraus resultierenden Implikationen für Unternehmen dar. Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass Authentizität, technische Exzellenz und narrative Klarheit entscheidend sind, um die zahlreichen Zielgruppen nachhaltig zu erreichen.
Purpose
In this study, we investigate how capability in managing intellectual property may be treated as a type of “dynamic capability,” and we seek to understand how, when it is linked to the new technology development capability of a complex technological organization, these two types of dynamic capabilities may coevolve.
Design/methodology/approach
We conducted a longitudinal empirical case study of Airbus, incorporating an abductive research methodology that required investigating theory and empirical data concurrently and iteratively. The data, ranging over a period of two decades from 2000 to 2021, was collected from four different sources, including interviews, internal company documents, publicly available information and patent data.
Findings
Our main findings are that the capabilities and roles of the Intellectual Property function in Airbus and their interaction with the company's Technology function have indeed influenced the overall innovation strategy of the organization, and that three coevolutionary phases may be identified in the interactive development of the two functions.
Research limitations/implications
Our investigation into how new technology development and intellectual property (IP) management capabilities coevolve within complex technological organizations, exemplified by Airbus, provides significant theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, it enhances understanding of capability co-development dynamics in complex organizations, particularly in strategic IP management. Practically, it suggests aligning IP strategy with overall corporate objectives and optimizing organizational structures to promote collaboration and efficiency across IP and technology teams. This alignment may foster innovation, maximize the value of intellectual assets and strengthen collaborations, positioning organizations for long-term success in competitive landscapes.
Originality/value
This study makes a fresh contribution to the innovation studies literature by showing how if intellectual property management is treated as a core function of a complex technological organization – rather than simply as a vehicle for protecting new inventions and products after the fact or simply as a constituent part of the organization's legal function – it may contribute proactively to the organization's technological innovation performance. We also address the current gap in the academic literature for a clear understanding of the processes by which different function-specific dynamic capabilities may coevolve in a complex organization operating as part of a dynamic and complex adaptive system.
Incorporating environmental sustainability in products and services is becoming increasingly important for the telecommunications industry. Mobile communications providers, in particular, face the challenge of integrating sustainability into their product design and communication, as their offerings cover both services (e.g., mobile phone plans) and hardware (e.g., smartphones). Whether consumers are willing to pay a premium price for environmentally sustainable telecommunications products and services remains unclear. In the absence of previous empirical research, the present study investigates consumer preferences and the willingness to pay (WTP) for environmentally sustainable mobile telecommunication bundles, with particular emphasis on differences based on consumers’ green consumption values. A three-step pre-study process involving experts and consumers was conducted prior to the application of an adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis (ACBC) among 495 German consumers (using the summed price approach). Compared to price, data volume, and a brand-new smartphone, our findings indicate lower significance of attributes such as smartphone warranty, Eco Rating, and cloud storage. Green consumers place greater value on the smartphone, Eco Rating, and green cloud storage than non-green consumers. The latter exhibit greater price sensitivity and focus less on environmental criteria in their purchase decisions. The WTP for an environmentally-friendly mobile phone plan among green consumers is €11 higher than for non-green consumers. This study contributes to the literature by adding the sustainability dimension to preference research for telecommunications services and by unveiling the relative importance of sustainability in the purchase decision for mobile phone plans.
This article explores the Science-Based Target initiative (SBTi), a global initiative supporting corporations in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. The study examines the participation and communication of the SBTi among Deutscher Aktienindex 40 (DAX40) companies in the 2023 reporting year. Using a content analysis approach with annual and sustainability reports, the research highlights that the majority of DAX40 companies have set or committed to developing science-based targets (SBTs), although reporting practices differ. The findings provide valuable insights for the SBTi and for stakeholders to better understand how to implement and communicate about SBTs.
Mit Einführung der Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) wurden die unter den Anwendungsbereich der Richtlinie fallenden Unternehmen zur Berichterstattung über ihre wesentlichen Datenpunkte zu den Themen Environment, Social und Governance verpflichtet. Mit diesen Verpflichtungen gehen zahlreiche Berichterstattungsanforderungen einher, die bislang auf großen Widerstand in der Praxis gestoßen sind und somit die hinter dem Regelwerk stehenden Ziele gefährden. Mit den aktuell diskutierten Reforminitiativen soll die Verbindung der Ziele Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Klimaschutz gefördert werden. Dahingehend avisierte die EU-Kommission in ihrem am 11.02.2025 publizierten Arbeitsprogramm drei Omnibus-Pakete. In diesem Kontext wurde am 26.02.2025 das erste Paket veröffentlicht, welches das Thema der Nachhaltigkeit fokussiert, drastische Maßnahmen zur Reduktion der Berichtspflichten vorsieht und den Übergang von einer „CSRD 1.0“ zu einer möglichen „CSRD 2.0“ impliziert.