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Three contributions accepted for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting – one “Best Paper” award

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The Professorship for Strategic Management and Leadership will contribute three studies to this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting, one of the studies was designated as a “Best Paper”

Prof. Dr. Graf-Vlachy and his co-authors from the University of Passau, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Georgia will present three studies at this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting. All studies relate to different aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation. One study explores the influence of entrepreneurs’ cognitive complexity on their success in raising venture capital. This study was designated a “Best Paper” by the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division. A further study illuminates the consequences of different ways of framing discontinuous innovation on capital market analysts’ evaluations. The third study investigates the consequences of the social and cognitive embeddedness of boards of directors for established firms’ adaptation to discontinuous technologies.

  • Demann, F., Diessner, M., Graf-Vlachy, L., & König, A. 2021. The Impact of Perceived Entrepreneur Cognitive Complexity on Venture-Capital Financing, 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Online.

  • Pfarrer, M., König, A., Graf-Vlachy, L., & Boutalikakis, A. 2021. Incumbent Firms’ Framing and Analysts’ Evaluations of the Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies, 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Online.

  • Szewczyk, J., Kurzhals, C., Graf-Vlachy, L., & König, A. 2021. How Board Embeddedness Affects Incumbents’ Responses to Discontinuous Technologies, 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Online.