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October 2, 2023
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2024
In 2023, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the fourteenth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2023.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
October 26, 2023
FAU Awards honor Schöller Honorary Fellows Evi Kurz and Walter Bockshecker as well as Advisory Board Member Margit Osterloh
In the run-up to its 280th birthday, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg honored personalities for their outstanding services to the university at the FAU Awards on October 24, 2023.
For her extraordinary contributions to FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schöller Honorary Fellow Evi Kurz was recognized as Honorary Citizen of FAU.
Advisory Board Member of the Schöller Research Center Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Margit Osterloh and Schöller Honorary Fellow Walter Bockshecker were awarded as Honorary Senators. FAU awards the title of Honorary Senator to individuals who have shown outstanding commitment to FAU as a whole.
Please find more information here.
Image: FAU/Giulia Iannicelli
August 4, 2023
Markus Nagler publishes paper inReview of Economics and Statistics
Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Markus Nagler (with J. Rincke and E. Winkler) published an article in the Review of Economics and Statistics (A).
In their paper “High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?”, the authors investigate the labor market consequences of work pressure by using worker-level survey and experimental data.
Their analysis suggests that individuals are (at least to some extent) compensated for work stress and resulting health risks in the form of higher wages. This is a novel perspective in the public debate about pressure in the workplace that so far has mainly focused on the resulting adverse health outcomes of workers.
For further information, please visit here.
June 23, 2023
Fellows 2023 awarded
The new Fellows of the Schöller Research Center were introduced and awarded during the Award Ceremony at the Museum for Industrial Culture yesterday. Once again, congratulations to all the awardees, we look forward to the exciting results that will emerge from their projects.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our YouTube-Channel soon.
June 20, 2023
Jan vom Brocke publishes paper in Journal of Information Technology
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke (with T. Grisold, W. Kremser, J. Mendling, J. Recker und B. Wurm) published an article in the Journal of Information Technology (A).
In their paper “Keeping Pace with the Digital Age: Envisioning Information Systems Research as a Platform”, the authors argue that the advent of the digital age is calling for a reconsideration of the role of theory and theorizing. Their argument rests to a considerable extent on the growing availability of digital trace data that provide increasing opportunities to make sense of the digital world. They propose to focus on establishing IS research as a platform through which researchers can collect, organize, and provide access to digital trace data from various sources to analyze contemporary socio-technical phenomena.
For further information, please visit here.
June 19, 2023
Publication by Michael Grottke is one of five groundbreaking articles of IEEE Access
More than 68,000 articles have been published in the renowned journal IEEE Access since its ten-year existence. Some of these received special mention in the editorial “A Decade of IEEE Access“. The journal’s editor-in-chief and managing editor mentioned five publications as examples of “some of the most groundbreaking research in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science“.
The article “Beyond Herd Immunity Against Strategic Attackers“, co-authored by Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Michael Grottke and supported by the Schöller Research Center, was mentioned as one of these groundbreaking publications.
For further information, please visit here.
June 16, 2023
Schöller Fellow Trio publishes paper in Journal of Marketing
Schöller Fellow Dr. Lukas Maier, Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Martin Schreier and Schöller Fellow PD Dr. Christian Baccarella together with Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt (Chair of Industrial Management at the School of Business, Economics and Society at FAU) published a paper in the Journal of Marketing, one of the world’s leading A+ journals in the field of marketing.
In the paper “University Knowledge Inside: How and When University-Industry Collaborations Make New Products More Attractive to Consumers“, the team of authors demonstrates in a total of eight empirical studies that collaboration between industrial companies and universities in the development of new products is perceived positively by consumers and significantly increases the likelihood of purchasing these products. Positive effects are already evident in higher click-through rates for digital ads, e.g. on Instagram. Development cooperation between companies and universities also promotes consumers’ willingness to pay – an increase in willingness to pay of up to 65% was demonstrated in this study. In further analyses, the results will be differentiated according to whether the products are high-tech or low-tech, whether they are developed by startups or established companies, and the general attitude of consumers toward science and research.
For further information, please visit here.
April 28, 2023
Christian Pescher publishes paper in Marketing Science
Schöller Fellow Dr. Christian Pescher (with J. Jason Bell, Gerard J. Tellis and Johann Fueller) published a paper in Marketing Science (A+).
Crowdsourcing generates up to thousands of ideas per contest. The selection of best ideas is costly because of the limited number, objectivity, and attention of experts. Using a data set of 21 crowdsourcing contests that include 4,191 ideas, the team of authors test how artificial intelligence can assist experts in screening ideas.
For further information, please visit here.
February 9, 2023
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2023
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its fourteenth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Richard T. Watson, Ph.D. (University of Georgia).
Schöller Fellows 2023 are Prof. Sena Coşkun, Ph.D. (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Sebastian Junge (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Benjamin Lochner (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Lukas Maier (Vienna University of Economics and Business), and Dr. Georg Reischauer (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
The honorary award goes to the long-time board member of Nürnberger Versicherung Walter Bockshecker.
The Award Ceremony takes place on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 5 pm at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.
December 12, 2022
Jeffrey Parsons honored as AIS Fellow
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D. was honored as an AIS Fellow at the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Copenhagen. The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service. The Award was established in 1999 by the AIS Council and the ICIS Executive Committee.
Jeffrey Parsons joins Ritu Agarwal, Shirley Gregor, Alan Hevner, and Carol Saunders as the fifth Schöller Senior Fellow to receive this honor.
Please find more information here und here.
November 28, 2022
Jan vom Brocke publishes paper in Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke (with P. Badakhshan, B. Wurm, T. Grisold, and J. Geyer-Klingeberg) published an article in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (A).
In their paper “Creating Business Value with Process Mining”, the authors present the results of a multiple case study with key stakeholders from eight internationally operating companies. After identifying the key features of process mining – data & connectivity, process visualization, and process analytics – the article shows how they translate into a set of affordances that enable value creation.
For further information, please visit here.
October 7, 2022
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2023
In 2023, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the fourteenth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2022.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
August 1, 2022
Jonas Egerer publishes paper in European Journal of Operational Research
In the context of the stronger integration of markets of different energy carriers – in particular between electricity and fossil gas as well as hydrogen in the future – the publication “Long-run market equilibria in coupled energy sectors: A study of uniqueness” by Schöller Fellow Dr. Jonas Egerer deals with the question of sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of short- and long-run market equilibrium in coupled markets of multiple energy sectors. The paper was published in the European Journal of Operational Research (A) in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm, Julia Grübel and Prof. Dr. Gregor Zöttl (all FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).
Please find more information here.
June 21, 2022
Live stream of the Schöller Award Ceremony 2022
The live stream of the Schöller Award Ceremony on June 23, 2022 at 5 pm (CET) will be available on Youtube. The stream with English Audiotranslation will be available here.
May 9, 2022
Honorary Doctorate for Schöller Honorary Fellow Thomas A. H. Schöck
In April 2020, FAU’s former chancellor Thomas A. H. Schöck was awarded an honorary doctorate from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. However, the ceremony had to postponed due to the pandemic. During a festive ceremony on May 6, 2022 FAU President Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger and Prof. Dr. Jochen Hoffmann, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics, presented the certificate to Thomas A. H. Schöck.
Image: FAU/Harald Sippel
March 22, 2022
Christian Maier receives Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
Schöller Fellow Christian Maier is to receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his research on technostress – the top award for early career investigators in Germany. The award-winners were chosen by a selection committee appointed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The prizes are each worth €20,000 and will be presented at an award ceremony on May 3rd.
Please find more information here.
February 11, 2022
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2022
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its thirteenth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein).
Schöller Fellows 2022 are Dr. Hendrik Birkel (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Katharina Ebner (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Prof. Dr. Markus Nagler (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Dr. Simon Reif (ZEW Mannheim).
The honorary award goes to the chairwoman of the Ludwig Erhard Initiativkreis Fürth e. V. Evi Kurz.
The Award Ceremony takes place on Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 5 pm at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.
For further information on the venue, please click here.
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December 7, 2021
Schöller Research Center extended again
The Theo and Friedl Schöller-Foundation continues its support of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society – it is the reward for 12 years of successful work. “The goal of the research center is to network WiSo even better internationally. With the 17 senior fellows and 35 fellows, the research center has succeeded excellently,” explains Rainer Hattenberger.
Prof. Dr. Michael Amberg, Director of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center, is delighted about the third funding commitment: “Over the past twelve years, we have been able to complete many exciting projects with renowned colleagues from all over the world. We are very grateful to be able to continue this work in the future.” The Schöller Research Center is supported with 175,000 euros annually for six more years.
Image: FAU/Mathias Orgeldinger
October 18, 2021
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2022
In 2022, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the thirteenth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2021.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
October 3, 2021
Helmut Haussmann on the board of trustees of “Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung”
Schöller Honorary Fellow and former Minister of Economics Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann has been appointed to the board of trustees of the newly established “Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung” (Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation). The foundation started its work on September 21; the supervisory body of the foundation was appointed for five years by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Further information can be found here.
May 30, 2021
Harry van der Weijde receives Best Publication Award
Schöller Fellow Harry van der Weijde’s paper „Uncertain Bidding Zone Configurations: The Role of Expectations for Transmission and Generation Capacity Expansion“ been awarded the Best Publication Award in Energy from the Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment section (ENRE) of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Ongoing policy discussions on the reconfiguration of bidding zones in European electricity markets induce uncertainty about the future market design. Van der Weijde’s paper deals with the question of how this uncertainty affects market participants and their long-run investment decisions in generation and transmission capacity. The paper was published in the European Journal of Operational Research (A) in cooperation with Mirjam Ambrosius, Dr. Jonas Egerer und Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).
Further information can be found here.
February 8, 2021
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2021
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its twelfth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Dr. Martin Schreier (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
Schöller Fellows 2021 are Dr. David Bartlitz (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Jonas Egerer (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Christian Maier (University of Bamberg) and Prof. Dr. Almasa Sarabi (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Michael Weber, Ph.D. (Chicago Booth).
Please find more information on this year’s Fellowship recipients and their research projects here.
January 1, 2021
Nilmini Wickramasinghe and Harry van der Weijde receive Humboldt Research Fellowship
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. and Schöller Fellow Dr. Harry van der Weijde have been elected recipients of the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The research scholarships enable the Fellows to spend research stays at the School of Business, Economics and Society at FAU, where Wickramasinghe will carry out research on Digital Health at the Chair of Information Systems, especially Services, Processes, and Intelligence and van der Weijde will work on the analysis of risks in consumer-oriented energy markets at the Chair of Economic Theory.
Research fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation bring researchers from all over the world to Germany. The Foundation’s awards are among the most prestigious in Europe; the alumni network includes 50 Nobel Prize winners.
December 20, 2020
Jeffrey Parsons honoured with “MISQ Paper of the Year 2019”
The paper “Expecting the Unexpected: Effects of Data Collection Design Choices on the Quality of Crowdsourced User-Generated Content” by Jeffrey Parsons (with Roman Lukyanenko, Yolanda F. Wiersma & Mahed Maddah) was recognized with the MISQ Paper of the Year 2019. In September 2020, the article received the Best Information Systems Publications Award from the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
Further information can be found here.
October 28, 2020
Yipeng Liu conferred with the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Yipeng Liu has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was recognised for his eminent contribution and impact to the academic community, business practice, and policy engagement in international entrepreneurship, global talent management, mergers and acquisitions, and emerging markets.
The Academy of Social Sciences is composed of nearly 90,000 social scientists, including 1400 Fellows. The Academy’s fellowships are awarded for outstanding contribution to research, and for the application of social science to policy, education, society and the economy.
Read more about the Academy of Social Sciences here.
October 20, 2020
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2021
In 2021, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the twelfth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2020.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
September 2, 2020
Jeffrey Parsons receives “Best Information Systems Publications Award”
The paper “Expecting the Unexpected: Effects of Data Collection Design Choices on the Quality of Crowdsourced User-Generated Content” by Jeffrey Parsons (with Roman Lukyanenko, Yolanda F. Wiersma & Mahed Maddah), published in 2019 in MIS Quarterly, was recognized with the Best Information Systems Publications Award of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The award was established to recognize the breadth of high quality work that is being published in the information systems discipline, and to bring outstanding papers across a range of journals to the attention of the IS community.
Further information can be found here.
August 20, 2020
Nivedita Agarwal publishes paper in “Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal”
In the publication “Managing Dilemmas of Resource Mobilization Through Jugaad: A Multi‐Method Study of Social Enterprises in Indian Healthcare” in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (A), Dr. Nivedita Agarwal along with her co-authors (Ronika Chakrabarti, Jaideep Prabhu and Alexander Brem) investigate the dilemmas that social entrepreneurs encounter and discuss the practices they use to manage dilemmas over time.
Using a multi‐method approach involving event structure analysis and an inductive multiple case study, their study highlights four key organizational practices—asset multiplication, leveraging human capital, building social embeddedness, and affordable quality that embody the jugaad elements of frugality and inclusivity.
Adding to the social entrepreneurship literature, their study demonstrates that the jugaad approach is conceptually distinct from bricolage and relevant to the study of social enterprises’ resource mobilization processes.
The full article is available here.
June 18, 2020
Michael Grottke receives Test-of-Time Award
The article “An Empirical Investigation of Fault Types in Space Mission System Software” by Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Michael Grottke (with Allen P. Nikora and Kishor S. Trivedi) will receive the “Test of Time Award” at the 50th IEEE / IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020). The award recognizes contributions that have a lasting and important impact on the theory and/or practice of researching reliable systems and networks. The award-winning article deals with the analysis of errors in flight software of space probes and was developed in cooperation with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Further information can be found here.
June 5, 2020
Yipeng Liu publishes paper on COVID-19-crisis and founds Center for China Management and Global Business
Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Yipeng Liu has recently published a paper on the COVID-19-crisis: “The Challenges and Opportunities of a Global Health Crisis: The Management and Business Implications of COVID-19 from an Asian Perspective” (J. M Lee & C. Lee), which was published in Asian Business & Management, is available here.
Moreover, Prof. Liu founded the Center for China Management and Global Business at Henley Business School. The Center is one of the UK’s leading progressive think tank with a focus on Business links between China and UK. Further information can be found here.
March 19, 2020
Lorenz Graf-Vlachy publishes paper in “Organization Science”
The paper “Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity” by Schöller Fellow Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (with J. Bundy and D. C. Hambrick) was published online in Organization Science (A+). Organization Science is widely recognized as one of the top journals in the fields of strategy, management, and organization theory.
The full article is available here.
February 1, 2020
Harry van der Weijde publishes Paper in “European Journal of Operational Research”
Ongoing policy discussions on the reconfiguration of bidding zones in European electricity markets induce uncertainty about the future market design. Dr. Harry van der Weijde’s paper „Uncertain Bidding Zone Configurations: The Role of Expectations for Transmission and Generation Capacity Expansion“ deals with the question of how this uncertainty affects market participants and their long-run investment decisions in generation and transmission capacity. The paper was published in the European Journal of Operational Research (A) in cooperation with Mirjam Ambrosius, Dr. Jonas Egerer und Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).
Further information can be found here.
January 24, 2020
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2020
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its eleventh Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Miguel Anjos, Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh).
Schöller Fellows 2020 are Dr. Nivedita Agarwal (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Prof. Dr. Steffi Haag (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Daniel Schnurr (University of Passau) and Prof. Dr. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich (Leuphana University Lüneburg).
December 16, 2019
Ritu Agarwal honored with LEO Award
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Ritu Agarwal, Ph.D. received the LEO Award of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) during this year’s International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Munich. Established in 1999, the award, which is named for the world’s first business application of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), recognizes truly outstanding scholars who have made a global impact on the field of information systems.
October 14, 2019
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2020
In 2020, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the eleventh cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2019.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
August 12, 2019
Alexander Bohnert appointed to the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association
During the APRIA 2019 Annual Conference in Seoul, Schöller Fellow PD Dr. Alexander Bohnert was elected to the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA) for a term of three years and will be involved the international committee from 2019 to 2022. APRIA is a worldwide leading academic association in risk and insurance and, e.g., co-organizes the World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress (WRIEC) every five years that will take place in New York in 2020.
For further information, please click here.
May 27, 2019
Schöller Honorary Fellows Peter Mertens und Horst Steinmann receive Honorary Medal
During the anniversary dinner “100 Years WiSo Nuremberg” on May 24, 2019 in the Historical Town Hall in Nuremberg, our Schöller Honorary Fellows Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Mertens and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Steinmann were honored with the Honorary Medal of the School of Business, Economics and Society (WiSo) for their contributions to the School. The laudatory speech was held by former Federal Minister of Economics and Schöller Honorary Fellow Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann .
For further information, please click here.
May 22, 2019
Alexander Bohnert is Vice-Chairman of the AFIR-ERM Section Board of the International Actuarial Association
During the international AFIR-ERM Colloquium 2019 in Florence, Schoeller Fellow PD Dr. Alexander Bohnert was elected as Vice-Chairman of the AFIR-ERM (Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks and Enterprise Risk Management) Section Board of the International Actuarial Association (IAA). The IAA is an international organization dedicated to the research, education, and development of the profession and of actuarial associations.
Further information can be found here.
May 17, 2019
Schöller Research Center in the Media
In the course of the 10th Award Ceremony of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society five new Fellows were awarded. Franken Fernsehen published a video report about the Ceremony at the Hirsvogel Hall.
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D. (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Schöller Fellows 2019 are Dr. Christian Baccarella (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. Dr. Joachim Hüffmeier (TU Dortmund) and Prof. Dr. Yipeng Liu (University of Reading). The former Chancellor and honorary senator of the FAU Thomas A. H. Schöck received the Honorary Award.
Bild: https://www.frankenfernsehen.tv
March 31, 2019
Julia Klier and Ritu Agarwal publish article in “Journal of Management Information Systems”
Schöller Fellow Julia Klier and Schöller Senior Fellow Ritu Agarwal published an article in one of the three top-tier Information Systems journals.
Their paper “Power of Mobile Peer Groups: A Design-Oriented Approach to Address Youth Unemployment” (with Mathias Klier, University Ulm and Lea Thiel, University Regensburg) was published online in March 2019 in the Journal of Management Information Systems (A).
For further information, please click here.
February 4, 2019
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2019
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its tenth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D. (Memorial University of Newfoundland).
Schöller Fellows 2019 are Dr. Christian Baccarella (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. Dr. Joachim Hüffmeier (TU Dortmund) and Prof. Dr. Yipeng Liu (University of Reading).
The honorary award goes to the former Chancellor and honorary senator of the FAU Thomas A. H. Schöck.
The Award Ceremony will take place on May 16, 2019 at the Hirsvogel Hall in Nuremberg.
For further information on the venue, please click here.
November 5, 2018
John Bessant appointed FAU-Ambassador
Senior Fellow John Bessant was appointed FAU-Ambassador during the celebrations of the 275th birthday of the FAU. By appointing Ambassadors, FAU honors outstanding scientists who are highly regarded in their field of research, who have received international prizes or honors for their scientific achievements, and who are particularly associated with FAU. They represent the FAU in their home country and communicate about their experiences at FAU in their scientific community. They can advise researchers and students who are interested in a stay in Erlangen-Nürnberg and foster relations between universities at home and FAU.
(Image: FAU/Kurt Fuchs)
October 10, 2018
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2019
In 2019, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the tenth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2018.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
October 1, 2018
David Burgstahler publishes paper in “Journal of Accounting and Economics”
The Journal of Accounting and Economics (A+) – one of the leading outlets for accounting research worldwide – has published the paper “Size management by European private firms to minimize proprietary costs of disclosure” by Schöller Senior Fellow David Burgstahler (University of Washington), Darren Bernard (London Business School) and Devrimi Kaya (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
The paper examines the practice of size management—minimizing assets, sales and employees—that some European private firms use to minimize the costs of financial disclosures and mandatory audits.
September 1, 2018
Tim Alexander Herberger becomes Chair of Business Administration at Andrássy University Budapest
Since September 1, 2018 Schöller Fellow Dr. Tim Alexander Herberger is Chair of Business Adminstration I at Andrássy University Budapest (AUB). AUB was founded in 2001 and was the first university outside of Germany to be accredited according to German rules and criteria. With its quality assurance system certified by the evalag evaluation agency from Baden-Württemberg, the university guarantees the best study and teaching conditions. It was the fifth in Hungary to be accepted into the excellence program of Hungarian colleges, thus earning the title “University of National Excellence”. Currently about 250 students and numerous scholars from more than twenty countries study, teach and research at AUB.
July 13, 2018
Sanjay Chugh publishes in “International Economic Review” & “Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control”
Schöller Fellow Sanjay Chugh has published in two top-tier journals in Economics.
The International Economic Review published the article “Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection” (with Christian Merkl, FAU).
The article “Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection” with W. Lechthaler (IfW Kiel) and Christian Merkl (FAU) was published online in June 2018 by the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (A).
June 15, 2018
Schöller Fellows 2018 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on June 14, 2018 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel soon.
June 8, 2018
Alexander Bohnert on the AFIR-ERM Section Board of the International Actuarial Association
During the 31st International Congress of Actuaries (ICA) in Berlin, Schoeller Fellow Dr. Alexander Bohnert was elected as a board member of the AFIR-ERM (Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks and Enterprise Risk Management) Section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA). For further information see here.
June 7, 2018
Samir Chatterjee gives talk at School of Business and Economics
Schöller Senior Fellow Professor Samir Chatterjee, PhD will give a talk on “Designing Persuasive Health Technologies: Where Mobile, Cloud and Remote Sensing Converge” at the School of Business and Economics on June 14, 2018. Samir Chatterjee is a Professor and Fletcher Jones Chair of Technology Management and adjunct Professor of Design & Innovation at University of Southern California. In 2017, he was selected as Schöller Senior Fellow 2017 by the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society. Professor Chatterjee’s lab is at the forefront of designing remote monitoring technologies that can assist such patients to live healthy and age in place with technology support. His team has developed several persuasive technologies to modify human behavior that are impacting peoples’ lives. He is currently exploring new approaches and solutions to prevention and wellbeing. In this talk he will describe the design challenges, innovative solutions and share preliminary results from a Heart-Failure trial being conducted at Loma Linda Hospital. He will also share the challenges of trying to commercialize this innovation through his startup.
The talk will take place on June 14, 2018 from 10 to 11 am in LG 0.424. Further information can be found here.
May 7, 2018
Alexander Bohnert and Shirley Gregor receive Shin Research Excellence Award 2018
The Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics) and the International Insurance Society (IIS) have announced the recipient of the “2018 Shin Research Excellence Award” and it goes to Schoeller Fellow Dr. Alexander Bohnert and Dr. Dr. Albrecht Fritzsche of FAU and Schoeller Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Shirley Gregor of ANU Canberra. The three researchers will receive this distinction for their paper entitled “Digital Agendas in the Insurance Industry: The Importance of Comprehensive Approaches” during the IIS Global Insurance Forum 2018 in Berlin. This award includes USD 5,000 and was established to promote practically-oriented, applied research in the field of insurance and risk management, addressing topics that directly influence business operations.
Dr. Bohnert’s speech can be viewed online here. For further information, please visit the website of the Geneva Association.
February 9, 2018
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2018
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its ninth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Fellows are Dr. Julia A. Fehrer (University of Auckland), Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Dr. Julia Kraft (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf), Dr. Daniel Kühnle (University Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Dr. Harry van der Weijde (The University of Edinburgh).
The honorary award goes to the former CEO of the German Federal Agency for Employment Dr. h.c. Frank-Jürgen Weise.
The Award Ceremony takes place on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 5 pm at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.
For further information on the venue, please click here.
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January 18, 2018
Michael W. Stich publishes in “The Accounting Review” & “European Accounting Review”
Schöller Fellow Michael W. Stich published in two top-tier journals in Accounting.
The Accounting Review (A+) published the article “The Real Effects of Mandatory Quarterly Reporting” (with Jürgen Ernstberger,TUM; Benedikt Link, Projekt Fundraising GmbH & Oliver Vogler, Ledvance GmbH) in its September 2017 issue.
The article “Does Sustainability Assurance Improve Managerial Investment Decisions?” (with Maria Steinmeier, TUM) was published online in December 2017 in the European Accounting Review (A).
September 10, 2017
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2018
In 2018, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the ninth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2017.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
September 7, 2017
Carol S. Saunders publishes paper in “Financial Times 50”-Journal
The Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) will publish the paper “The Impact of Mental Representations on ICT-Related Overload in the Use of Mobile Phones” by Schöller Senior Fellow Carol S. Saunders (Northern Arizona University), Martin Wiener (Bentley University), Sabrina Klett (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Sebastian Sprenger (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) in its December Issue. JMIS is ranked as one of the three top-tier Information Systems journals and one of the 50 leading scholarly journals on the Financial Times FT50 list.
The use of information and communication technology (ICT) can be accompanied by the epiphenomenon of ICT-related overload, or the emotional and cognitive state that occurs when individuals are unable to efficiently retrieve and process information delivered by or associated with these technologies. While prior research tends to ascribe this phenomenon to the amount of information delivered, the study presents and provides significant empirical support for an expanded cognitive perspective of ICT-related overload, which views individuals’ information-processing capabilities as being reliant on differences in mental representations associated with cultural, demographic, and experiential factors.
For further information, please click here.
September 14, 2017
Andreas König to publish Paper in “Academy of Management Journal”
The Academy of Management Journal – one of the leading outlets for management research worldwide – has accepted the paper “Silver Bullet or Ricochet? CEOs’ Use of Metaphorical Communication and Infomediaries’ Evaluations” by Schöller Fellow Andreas König, Jan Mammen (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Johannes Luger (University of Sankt Gallen), Angela Fehn (University of Bamberg) und Albrecht Enders (IMD Lausanne), for publication.
The authors combine literature on rhetoric and socially situated sensemaking to illuminate the challenges that emerge when chief executive officers (CEOs) try to influence infomediaries by using metaphorical communication.
For further information, please click here.
August 31, 2017
Alexander Bohnert at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Schoeller Fellow Dr. Alexander Bohnert presented his research project on Enterprise Risk Management at the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences to selected Young Economists and the Nobel Laureates Peter A. Diamond, Oliver Hart, Bengt R. Holmström, Daniel L. McFadden und Myron S. Scholes.
July 30, 2017
Schöller Fellows 2017 honored at “100 years Dr. h.c. Theo Schöller”-celebration
Together with the Schoeller-Foundation and the City of Nuremberg, the Schoeller Research Center celebrated “100 years Dr. h. c. Theo Schöller” on June 20, 2017 in the Historical Council Chamber of the City of Nuremberg. In the course of this event the Schöller Fellows 2017 were introduced and honored.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube.
June 14, 2017
Shirley Gregor honored with DESRIST Lifetime Achievement Award
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Shirley Gregor, Ph.D. was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to design science research at this year’s International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST).
January 27, 2017
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2017
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its eighth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Samir Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University).
Schöller Fellows 2017 are Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (University of Passau), Dr. Tim Alexander Herberger (University of Bamberg), and Dr. Cynthia Sende (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg).
The Award Ceremony will take place on June 20, 2017 at the Historical Council Chamber of the City of Nuremberg.
September 14, 2016
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2017
In 2017, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the eighth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2016.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
October 26, 2016
Nadja Dwenger to publish Paper in Journal of Public Economics
The paper “Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany” by Prof. Dr. Nadja Dwenger (with P. Boyer & J. Rincke) will be published in the Journal of Public Economics which is considered as one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the field of public economics.
September 5, 2016
Agnis Stibe in the Nürnberger Nachrichten
The local Nuremberg Newspaper “Nürnberger Nachrichten” introduced Schöller Fellow Agnis Stibe’s research project “Nuremberg – a Persuasive City for Sustainable Wellbeing and Innovation” in its issue of September 5, 2016.
According to Stibe, quality of life in Nuremberg can be improved through reshaping and advancing urban spaces with seamless persuasive and socially influencing strategies, thus empowering communities to succeed in achieving sustainable wellbeing. His project aims at helping people to acquire healthy and resource-efficient everyday routines through persuasive urban interventions that facilitate societal changes at scale.
The project seeks to create socially engaging environments supporting wellbeing and innovation through reshaping behavioral patterns, intelligent outdoor sensing, interactive public feedback channels, designing responsive neighborhoods, and fostering adoption of novel experiences in Nuremberg.
(Image source: Nürnberger Nachrichten, 09/06/2016, p. 16)
July 19, 2016
Schöller Fellows 2016 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on June 2, 2016 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
February 4, 2016
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2016
This year, Prof. Evangelia Demerouti, Ph.D. (Eindhoven University of Technology) will be awarded Schoeller Senior Fellow.
Schoeller Fellows 2016 are Dr. Alexander Bohnert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Prof. Dr. Christian Pescher (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Dr. Agnis Stibe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
The Award Ceremony will take place on June 2, 2016 at the Museum for Industrial Culture.
January 10, 2016
Martin Emmert introduces hospital ranking in Nuremberg
To help patients make informed decisions regarding their care, Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Martin Emmert has introduced a hospital ranking which covers the quality of care in 49 hospitals in the Nuremberg region in 14 medical and surgical specialties. The ranking and the quality data from which it is derived highlight hospitals that perform best in specific areas of care. “The overall objective of the project is to increase the quality of care in the Nuremberg region”, says Prof. Dr. Emmert. The results of the ranking are published in the Nürnberger Zeitung (NZ) in its column “The Big NZ-Hospital Check”.
For further information, please visit the website of the Nürnberger Zeitung einsehen.
September 11, 2015
Schöller Foundation extends support for Research Center
Since its establishment in 2009, the Dr. Theo und Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society at the School of Business and Economics has granted research fellowships for 20 outstanding scholars for the realization of their research projects. It is our great pleasure to announce that the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Foundation has decided to extend its support for the Center for another six years.
We would like to thank the Schöller Foundation for their continued support and cooperation!
September 18, 2015
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2016
In 2016, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the seventh cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2015.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
August 18, 2015
Interview with Tassilo Schuster
Schöller Fellow Dr. Tassilo Schuster was interviewed by the local newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten about his Schöller project on inpatriates.
The full interview is available here.
June 27, 2015
Schöller Research Center in the Media
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schoeller Research Center on 11 June 2015 at the Museum for Industrial Culture, five excellent researchers were awarded with a Schöller Fellowship: Prof. Ian P. King and Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe were awarded Schöller Senior Fellows. In the category Schöller Fellows Dr. Tassilo Schuster and Prof. Dr. Michael W. Stich were honored. The former Federal Minister of Economy Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Local media reported about the Award Ceremony.
Franken Fernsehen published a video report about the Award Ceremony. The Nürnberger Zeitung also posted about the cermony on Facebook and Twitter.
June 19, 2015
Schöller Fellows 2015 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on June 11, 2015 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
June 1, 2015
IT-Multi-Sourcing at adidas: Carol S. Saunders publishes Harvard Business School Teaching Case
Since 2012, Schoeller Senior Fellow Prof. Carol Saunders (University of Central Florida) and Martin Wiener (FAU) have been accompanying the introduction of an IT multi-sourcing strategy by the adidas CIO Jan Brecht. First results of the still ongoing research project have now been published as a Harvard Business School (HBS) teaching case (together with Prof. Lynda Applegate, HBS, and Prof. Grandon Gill, University of South Florida). The teaching case describes the design and implementation of a novel IT multi-sourcing strategy and presents the management challenges that adidas experienced when switching form a single-vendor to a multi-vendor sourcing strategy.
Based on their close cooperation with adidas, Carol Saunders and Martin Wiener were also able to publish a research article in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS). JSIS is one of the international top outlets in Information Systems and is ranked as an “A” journal by the German journal rating VHB-JOURQUAL 3. The article “Forced Coopetition in IT Multi-Sourcing” introduces a new form of coopetition and shows how adidas successfully managed the delicate balance between high levels of both vendor competition and vendor cooperation.
May 29, 2015
David Burgstahler to serve as president of the American Accounting Association
Schoeller Senior Fellow Prof. David Burgstahler will serve as president-elect of the American Accounting Association (AAA) for the 2015-16 academic year and as president for the 2016-17 academic year.
The AAA, founded in 1916, is the primary professional association of accounting academics in the United States and throughout the world. The AAA publishes The Accounting Review, one of the discipline’s most influential journals, as well as a number of other peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
February 15, 2015
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2015
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its sixth Fellows-cohort:
This year, two renowned international scholars, Prof. Ian P. King, Ph.D. (University of Melbourne) and Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. (RMIT University), will be awarded Schoeller Senior Fellow.
Schoeller Fellows 2015 are Prof. Dr. Michael W. Stich (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Dr. Tassilo Schuster (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg).
The honorary award for lifetime achievement goes to former Federal Minister of Economy Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann.
The awarding of the fellowships will take place during the Schoeller Award Ceremony on June 11, 2015 at the Museum for Industrial Culture.
September 11, 2014
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2015
In 2015, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the sixth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2013.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
September 10, 2014
Martin Emmert awarded with Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice at Yale University
Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Martin Emmert has been awarded with the 2014/2015 “Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice” at Yale University. The Fellowship supports a one-year-research stay at the renowned Yale University. Harkness fellows work with leading U.S. experts to study health care delivery reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home countries.
June 19, 2014
Schöller Fellows 2014 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on May 22, 2014 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Prof. David Burgstahler, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Prof. Shirley Gregor, Ph.D (Australian National University) as well as Prof. Alan Hevner, Ph.D. (University of South Florida) were honored Schöller Senior Fellow. In the category Schöller Fellow Dr. Julia Klier (University of Regensburg) was awarded. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E.h. mult. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Jörg Bullinger received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
May 13, 2014
Digital Services for Nuremberg
What digital services do young people want for Nuremberg?
Who better to judge than digital natives, i.e. the young people who have grown up with the internet?
Together with the city of Nuremberg, we asked over 1500 students for their ideas. The result is a colorful array of creative ideas around the topics of Infrastructure & Transport, Culture & Tourism, and Environment & Social Affairs.
The results can be downloaded here.
Februar 27, 2014
Research Center mourns loss of Friedl Schöller
Tief bewegt nehmen wir Abschied von Friedl Schöller, Ehrensenatorin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und Stifterin des Dr. Theo und Friedl Schöller Forschungszentrums für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.
Wir trauern um eine außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit, die mit unermüdlichem Engagement maßgeblich zur Förderung der Bildung und Wissenschaft in der Metropolregion Nürnberg beigetragen hat.
Aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit zur Stärkung der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung und Lehre an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg wuchs Partnerschaft, Vertrauen und Verbundenheit.
Ihre Großzügigkeit und ihr unentwegter Wille, Gutes zu bewirken, werden uns unvergessen bleiben.
Professor Dr. Michael Amberg
Vorstand des Dr. Theo und Friedl Schöller Forschungszentrums
für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
Professor Dr. Martin Abraham
Sprecher des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaften
der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
February 17, 2014
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2014
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its fifth Fellows-cohort:
This year, three renowned international scholars, Prof. David Burgstahler, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Prof. Shirley Gregor, Ph.D (Australian National University) as well as Prof. Alan Hevner, Ph.D. (University of South Florida), will be awarded Schöller Senior Fellow.
Schöller Fellow 2014 is Dr. Julia Klier (University of Regensburg).
The honorary award for lifetime achievement goes to Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E.h. mult. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Jörg Bullinger.
The awarding of the fellowships will take place during the Schoeller Award Ceremony on May 22, 2014 at the Museum for Industrial Culture.
October 9, 2013
Andreas König recognized with Glueck Best Paper Award
Andreas König, Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau, and his co-authors Alexander Wessels, Joanna Walton (both University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Angela Fehn (University of Bamberg), Martin Weiss (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Albrecht Enders (IMD, Lausanne) were recognized with the prestigious Glueck Best Paper Award by the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division of the Academy of Management at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The paper, entitled “Silver Bullet or Ricochet? CEO Metaphorical Communication Behavior and Analysts’ Evaluations” has been selected as the best of 693 scholarly manuscripts submitted to the BPS Division for the Academy Conference this year.
The authors study a large sample of U.S. companies to show that CEOs differ in their Metaphorical Communication Behavior (CMCB): their inherent tendencies to verbally convey thoughts and feelings by employing figurative language.
Interestingly, and contrary to what has often been stated in textbooks on managerial communication, the authors find that CEOs scoring high in CMCB receive significantly less favorable analyst recommendations than firms led by CEOs scoring low in CMCB. Moreover, CMCB is associated with analysts’ tendency to underestimate firm earnings. The authors also observe that analysts’ tendencies to react negatively to metaphorical language are amplified by increasing uncertainty among analysts.
The evidence suggests that the impact of figurative language in executive communication is more equivocal than traditionally portrayed. As such, the study adds to conversations in behavioral finance as well as leadership communication research. The authors recommend that executives gear their communication more specifically to the respective rhetorical preferences of various constituents, even though this may contradict a given leader’s rhetorical personality. They also develop a roadmap for future research building on their exploratory findings.
September 1, 2013
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2014
In 2014, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the fifth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2013.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
30. Juni 2013
Andrea Wechsler hosts Transformation of Enforcement-Conference
On June 27 and 28, 2013, the international conference “The Transformation of Enforcement – European Economic Law in Global Perspective” was held at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. The conference was funded by the European Research Council and the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society.
Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Andrea Wechsler and Prof. Dr. Hans-W. Micklitz had organized a broad program with an enormous range of topics for the meeting. 60 speakers and participants from 20 countries, among them internationally leading scholars from the fields of law, social science, and economics from renowned universities such as Oxford University, Yale Law School, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford Law School, and three directors of German Max Planck Institutes joined the conference.
The conference proceedings will soon be published.
June 11, 2013
Schöller Fellows 2013 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on May 15, 2013 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Prof. Ritu Agarwal, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) and Prof. Andy Neely, Ph.D (University of Cambridge) were honored Schöller Senior Fellow. In the category Schöller Fellows Prof. Dr. Martin Emmert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Dr. Nadja Dwenger (Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finances) were awarded. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Mertens received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
February 22, 2013
Andreas König publishes Paper in “Administrative Science Quarterly”
The paper “CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities” by Dr. Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Dr. Andreas König (both FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. Dr. Albrecht Enders (IMD, Lausanne) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Donald C. Hambrick (Pennsylvania State University) has just been accepted for publication by the Administrative Science Quarterly.
The authors provide a new explanation for the varying responses of established firms to technological discontinuities. Combining insights from upper echelons theory, personality theory, and research on organizational responses to new technologies, they posit that narcissistic chief executive officers (CEOs) of established firms will be relatively aggressive in their adoption of technological discontinuities.
Moreover, Gerstner, König, Enders, and Hambrick introduce an important moderator of the effect of CEO narcissism on organizational outcomes: audience engagement – the degree to which observers view a phenomenon as noteworthy and provocative. When audience engagement is running high, narcissistic CEOs will anticipate widespread admiration for their bold actions, and thus will invest especially aggressively in a discontinuous technology.
Drawing from recent work on managerial cognition, the authors further hypothesize that CEO narcissism will influence managerial attention to a discontinuous technology; this association, too, will be moderated by audience engagement; and managerial attention to the discontinuous technology will be subsequently reflected in company investments in the new technological domain. Examining the responses of major pharmaceutical firms to the advent of biotechnology over the period 1980 to 2008, the authors find considerable support for their hypotheses. They discuss potential benefits of narcissism, the role of audience engagement as a factor in executive behavior, executive personality as an antecedent of managerial attention, and other theoretical and practical implications.
The Administrative Science Quarterly is considered worldwide as the most prestigious scientific journal in the field of management and organization studies.
February 22, 2013
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2013
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its fourth Fellows-cohort:
his year, two renowned international scholars, Prof. Ritu Agarwal, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) and Prof. Andy Neely, Ph.D (University of Cambridge), will be awarded Schoeller Senior Fellow.
The Schoeller Fellows 2013 are Prof. Dr. Martin Emmert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Dr. Nadja Dwenger (Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finances).
The honorary award for lifetime achievement goes to the highly renowned professor of information systems Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Mertens.
The awarding of the fellowships will take place during the Schoeller Award Ceremony on May 15, 2013 at the Museum for Industrial Culture.
November 12, 2012
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2013
In 2013, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the fourth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is January 31, 2013.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
November 2, 2012
Schöller Research Center starts study on innovative online services and apps for Nuremberg
The School of Business and Economics at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with the city administration of Nuremberg have made a call for proposals for innovative online services and apps for Nuremberg.
In the course of the idea contest of the lecture “IT- und E-Business”, 1,000 freshmen will develop innovative online services and apps that make life and residence in Nuremberg more comfortable and efficient. Especially the fields infrastructure and transport, culture and tourism as well as environment and social issues will be covered.
At the end of the semester, the best projects will be presented to a panel of experts of the initiative for modernization “NetCity” and will be implemented if possible. The results will be published in a study of the Schöller Research Center for Business and Society.
Further information:nordbayern.de.
October 20, 2012
Carol S. Saunders introduces Transatlantic Class at the FAU
Professor Carol S. Saunders, who was awarded the Schöller Senior Fellowship in May 2012, conducts a Transatlantic Class for Ph.D.-students of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Central Florida (UCF).
The seminar “Exploring Theory” is designed to introduce students to what good theory is and how it might be developed. It is also designed to allow time for students to learn from each other about doctoral programs in Germany and the United States.
The first session took place on October 19, 2012 at the School of Business and Economics during Professor Saunders’ visit at the Chair of Information Systems 3. The following four sessions will involve teleconferencing between students at the FAU and the UCF. The seminar continues until November 16, 2012.
October 16, 2012
Andreas König publishes Article in “Academy of Management Review”
The article “The Family Innovator’s Dilemma: How Family Influence Affects the Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies by Incumbent Firms” by Schöller Fellow Dr. Andreas König (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nadine Kammerlander (Universities Bamberg and St.Gallen), and Prof. Dr. Albrecht Enders (IMD Lausanne) was accepted for publication by the renowned A(+)-journal Academy of Mangement Review (AMR).
In the article, the authors integrate research on family business and discontinuous change to better explain why incumbents vary in when and how they adopt discontinuous technologies.
Family influence induces companies to strive for continuity, command, community, and connections, and thus alters the mix of constraints under which firms operate. Consequently, family influence weakens several of the inertial forces described in the discontinuous change literature, particularly the level of formalization, dependence on external capital providers, and political resistance. However, it also aggravates critical sources of organizational paralysis, specifically emotional ties to existing assets and the rigidity of mental models.
The authors aggregate these seemingly contradictory effects to show that, overall, discontinuous change conflicts with essential goals and values of the family system and, therefore, family influence entails fundamentally different dilemmas than those described in extant research.
In turn, although highly family-influenced companies recognize discontinuous technologies later than their less family-influenced counterparts, they implement adoption decisions more quickly and with more stamina. Moreover, family influence reduces adoption aggressiveness and flexibility. The authors discuss important implications of our research for conversations on discontinuous change as well as for the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of family influence in firms.
The Academy of Management Review is ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited management and business journals.
September 15, 2012
Andreas König honored with Distinguished Paper Award
Schöller Fellow Dr. Andreas König (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nadine Kammerlander (Universität St.Gallen), and Prof. Dr. Albrecht Enders (IMD Lausanne) were honored with the Distinguished Paper Award of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management in Boston for their paper “Organizational Identity and Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change: The Role of Focus and Locus”. Their manuscript was ranked one of the five best of a total of 745 manuscripts submitted.
The paper will be published in the Academy of Managment Best Paper Proceedings 2012. Using 14 case studies in the publicy branche, the authors induce two central dimensions of organisational identity, focus and locus, and describe the effect of the combinations of these two dimensions of identity on the integrational behaviour of established players on discontinuous change.
August 13, 2012
Adamantios Diamantopoulos awarded with Schumpeter Fellowship
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. DDr. Adamants Diamantopoulos has been awarded with the 2012/2013 “Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellowship” by the Schumpeter Society. The Fellowship supports a research stay at Harvard University during the next academic year from September 2012 until June 2013. The “Schumpeter Fellowship” – named after the renowned Austrian economist and political scientist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) – has been announced annually since 1989.
June 19, 2012
Schöller Research Center in the Press
Several articles about the award ceremony and the Schöller Fellows were published in the local press. Dr. König’s Schöller research project is introduced in the “Nürnberger Nachrichten”. The full interview is available here.
Newspapers also showed exvitement about Prof. Mittelstraß’ keynote speech “Wohin geht die Leonardo-Welt?”, which dealt with the increasing influence of science and technology on the modern world as well as its implications for nature and mankind.
June 10, 2012
Schöller Fellows 2012 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on May 19, 2011 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Prof. Carol S. Saunders (University of Central Florida) was honored Schöller Senior Fellow. In the category Schöller Fellows Dr. Andreas König (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Andrea Wechsler (Europäisches Hochschulinstitut Florenz), and Hossein Zadeh, Ph.D. (Defence Science & Technology Organisation) were awarded. Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Jürgen Mittelstraß received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement. His keynote speech “Wohin geht die Leonardo-Welt?” dealt with the increasing influence of science and technology on the modern world as well as its implications for nature and mankind.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
March 20, 2012
Friederike Mengel publishes paper in “Journal of Economic Theory”
The Journal of Economic Theory has accepted the article “An Experiment on Learning in a Multiple Games Environment” by Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Friederike Mengel and Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) for publication. The paper studies experimentally how players learn to make decisions if they face many different (normal-form) games.
February 24, 2012
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2012
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its third Fellows-cohort:
Prof. Carol S. Saunders, Ph.D. (University of Central Florida), who is one of the most distinguished academics in the field of Information Systems, will be awarded Schöller Senior Fellow 2012.
The winners in the category Schöller Fellows are Dr. Andreas König (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr. Andrea Wechsler (European University Institute Florence), and Hossein S. Zadeh, Ph.D. (Defence Science & Technology Organisation).
The honorary award for lifetime achievement goes to the renowed philospher of science Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Jürgen Mittelstraß.
The award ceremony will take place on May 24, 2012 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.
November 17, 2011
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2012
In 2012, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the third cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is January 31, 2012.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
October 11, 2011
Thomas L. Brewer to present results of his Schoeller Project
Schöller Senior Fellow Professor Thomas L. Brewer will present results of his Schoeller project on November 16, 2011, at the German-American Institute, in Gleißbühlstr. 9 in Nuremberg.
Although efforts to establish a national cap-and-trade system collapsed in the summer of 2010 when the Senate failed to pass key legislation, since then there have been many developments in U.S. climate change policymaking.
This presentation reviews the events of the past couple of years and looks ahead to the next couple of years, beyond the results of the 2012 elections.
Three central policy areas are covered: pricing greenhouses gases, supporting climate-friendly technologies, and advancing international cooperation.
Professor Brewer specializes in issues associated with climate change, including the intersections of climate change issues with international trade, technology transfer and investment issues.
His publications include numerous articles in the refereed journal “Climate Policy” as well as chapters in books published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and other leading publishers.
May 20, 2011
Interview with Michael Grottke
Just in time for this year’s ceremony on May 19, the Nürnberger Nachrichten published an interview with Schöller Fellow PD Dr. Grottke about his project on software faults funded by the research center.
May 20, 2011
Fellows 2011 honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on May 19, 2011 Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Prof. DDr. Adamantios Diamantopoulos (University of Vienna) and Prof. Imran Rasul, Ph.D. (University College London) were awarded Schöller Senior Fellow. In the category Schöller Fellows Sanjay Chugh, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) and PD Dr. Michael Grottke (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) were honored. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Steinmann received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery and our Youtube-Channel.
February 20, 2011
Announcement of Schöller Fellows 2011
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its Fellows-cohort for 2011:
Prof. DDr. Adamantios Diamantopoulos (University of Vienna) and Prof. Imran Rasul, Ph.D. (University College London) will be awarded as Schöller Senior Fellows. Schöller Fellows 2011 are Sanjay Chugh, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) and PD Dr. Michael Grottke (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg). Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Steinmann will be awarded with the Schöller Lifetime Achievement Award. They will all be honored at the Schöller Award Ceremony on May 19, 2011 at the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.
January 20, 2011
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2011
In 2011, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the second cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is January 31, 2011.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
July 7, 2010
Schöller Fellows honored
In the course of the Award Ceremony of the Schöller Research Center on June 17, 2010 at the School of Business and Economics in Nuremberg this year’s Schöller Fellows were introduced and honored.
Prof. John Bessant, Ph.D. (University of Exeter) und Prof. Thomas L. Brewer, Ph.D. (Georgetown University) were awarded Schöller Senior Fellow. In the category Schöller Fellows Dr. Friederike Mengel (Maastricht University) und Dr. Jonas Puck (Vienna University of Economics and Business) were honored. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer received this year’s honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Impressions of the event can be found at our photo gallery verschaffen. For video, please visit our Youtube-Channel.
May 28, 2010
Announcement of Schöller Fellows 2010
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its first Fellows-cohort:
Prof. John Bessant, Ph.D. (University of Exeter) and Prof. Thomas L. Brewer, Ph.D. (Georgetown University) will be awarded as Schöller Senior Fellows. Schöller Fellows 2010 are Dr. Friederike Mengel (Maastricht University) and Dr. Jonas Puck (Vienna University of Economics and Business). Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer will be awarded with the Schöller Lifetime Achievement Award. They will all be honored at the Schöller Award Ceremony on June 17, 2010 at the School of Business and Economics in Nuremberg.
January 12, 2010
Applications welcome!
With the announcement of the Fellowships for 2010 on January 1, 2010, the Research Center took up its work. Applications for Schöller Fellowships are open until January 31, 2010 in the following two categories: Schöller Senior Fellowship for renowned international senior scholars and Schöller Fellowship for promising early career scholars (including post-doctoral researchers and outstanding Ph.D. students).
For additional information see the announcement.
December 4, 2009
Schöller Research Center starts in 2010
On 1 January 2010, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society opens its doors to the public. After almost having finished the extensive preparations, operative activities can kick off in 2010.
November 16, 2009
Schöller signs contract
Together with the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Foundation, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg establishes a Research Center which internationally links the School of Business and Economics. On 16 July 2009, the foundation’s chairwoman, Friedl Schöller, and the head of the University, Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Grüske signed the cooperation agreement in his office in the castle of Erlangen. Furthermore, Friedl Schöller inscribed her name into the university’s golden book.
The Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society is, in this form, unique in Bavaria and serves as a model for interdisciplinary research that strengthens responsible acting in business and society. The foundation funds the project with roughly one million euro.
The Research Center establishes Fellowships to invite national and international top-level researchers to Franconia. Thus the researchers can collaborate with the institutes at the School of Business and Economics and act as representatives for Nuremberg’s economic research. Furthermore, junior researchers are given the opportunity to carry out research on their own projects.
The Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Foundation is comitted in numerous ways to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University Hospital Erlangen.