Our group looks at organizations that are embedded into an institutional environment. In particular, we are concerned with i) the institutional implications for innovation, corporate culture and organizational design, and ii) how institutions change over time. We focus primarily on Japanese organizations and the Japanese context, but we also look at different institutional settings across countries. The Chair for the Study of Economic Institutions, Innovation and East Asian Development is affiliated to the "Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien (IZO)”.  

+++ NEW PUBLICATION +++

Zou, N., & Storz, C. (2023). Why do some entrepreneurs thrive? A network content perspective. Journal of Business Research, 161, 113821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113821 [Published Online: 16 March 2023]

+++ NEW CEDITRAA FELLOW: PROF. MICHAEL LOUNSBURY +++

Prof. Michael Lounsbury joins the CEDITRAA team in Frankfurt as an international Fellow in May 2023.

Prof. Lounsbury is the Roger S. Smith Professor of Business at the Alberta School of Business - Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management. As an Elected Fellow of the Academy of Management, he is recognized as one of the leading international expert on organizational management and entrepreneurship.

+++ PUBLIC GUEST LECTURE BY PROF. MICHAEL LOUNSBURY +++

• Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL POSSIBILITIES:BROADENING THE SCOPE OF RESEARCH ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MARKETS
• Speaker: Prof. Michael Lounsbury, Roger S. Smith Professor of Business at the Alberta School of Business - Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management.
• Organized by the Research Project CEDITRAA -- Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Asia and Africa
• When: May 22, 2023, 10 AM
• Where: Goethe University Frankfurt, Room RuW 4.201
• Professor Lounsbury will present ideas from his recent book with Mary Ann Glynn entitled, Cultural Entrepreneurship: A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Processes and Possibilities (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Cultural Entrepreneurship has been a rapidly growing scholarly conversation that has historically focused a great deal on how new entrepreneurial ventures gain legitimacy via storytelling. The book provides a critique of applied economic approaches to entrepreneurship, and argues for a more profoundly cultural approach that focalizes how field dynamics around future oriented stories constitute the identities of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial possibilities, prefiguring the emergence of entrepreneurial dynamics. He will leverage the empirical case of nanotechnology to illustrate core arguments, but will also call for more diverse research from around the globe (e.g., Africa and Asia) in order to further flesh out the theory of cultural entrepreneurship.

+++ UPCOMING CONFERENCE +++

SASE Network F “KITE: Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship”

• Within SASE’s Annual Meeting 2023: Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order 
• When:  July 20-22, 2023
• Where: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Network Organizers: C. Storz, A. M. Herrmann, J. Vertesi, M. Allen and M. Keller)
• Call for Papers
• Further information

+++ UPCOMING CONFERENCE +++

TIE Conference 2023 (Jahrestagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Technologie, Innovation und Entrepreneurship - TIE / German Academic Association of Business Research, Section Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

• When:  September 21-22, 2023
• Where: Goethe University Frankfurt
• Organizers: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz (Innovation und Entrepreneurship), Prof. Dr. Simone Wies (Marketing Strategy und Performance), and Prof. Dr. Lars Schweizer (Strategisches Management)
• Contact: TIE2023[at]uni-frankfurt[dot]de
• Call for Papers
• Further information

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+++ AWARD NOMINATION +++

Dr. Egbert Amoncio - Nomination for the DRUID 2022 Award for Best Young Scholar Paper

The Paper “Obvious Patents are not Obvious: AI for Detecting Weak Patents” submitted by Egbert Amoncio for the DRUID 2022 Conference (13.-15.06.2022, Copenhagen) was one of the three nominees for the DRUID 2022 Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper. (read more)

+++ AWARD +++

Linus Büttner - Main-Campus Scholarship of the Polytechnic Society Foundation

Linus Büttner, Master student of International Management (Managerial Economics & Marketing Analytics), former Student Assistant at the Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with focus on Japan/East Asia, and a prospective PhD candidate, obtained a Main-Campus Scholarship of the Polytechnic Society Foundation.