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The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dortmund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dortmund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from Campus North to Campus South by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus North and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop "Dortmund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dortmund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dortmund Universität S".
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".
Street navigation from and to the TU Dortmund University:
The document and the graphic represent the motorways and federal highways around the TU Dortmund University in a very simplified way:
This interactive map helps you find and navigate between facilities and buildings on campus:
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Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy holds the Professorship for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and is a Senior Research Fellow at ESCP Business School’s ESCP Research Institute of Management.
Dr. Graf-Vlachy’s work has been published in, for example, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, and Long Range Planning. His research has received awards from the Academy of Management (AOM), the European Academy of Management (EURAM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and the Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung (FGF). Dr. Graf-Vlachy further won awards for teaching and reviewing. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Review Quarterly, Corporate Governance: An International Review, the Journal of Management, and the Academy of Management Review. Going beyond the field of management, he has also published in information systems (e.g., ECIS, ICIS), software engineering (e.g., TOSEM, ICSE-NIER, EASE), and medical outlets (e.g., International Journal of Social Psychiatry).
Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor and Chair of Strategy at ESCP Business School in Berlin. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Passau. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, a Scholar in Residence at the University of Georgia, a Visiting Scholar at Penn State University and at UC Berkeley, a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Business School, and an Affiliated Research Fellow at IMD International in Lausanne. He was named a Schoeller Fellow by the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society, was a Barger Leadership Institute Visitor at the University of Michigan, and gave invited talks at various institutions including Tsinghua University, Imperial College London, King’s College London, IIM Bangalore, Rotterdam School of Management, CEIBS, the Stockholm School of Economics, VU Amsterdam, the US Army War College, ESADE, and the University of Oxford. He taught at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Business and ESMT Berlin and performs executive education programs for leading international companies.
Before his academic career, Dr. Graf-Vlachy was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich, where he supported telecom, high-tech, and industrial goods companies across Europe and Asia on projects related to strategy and organization. He was repeatedly invited to work with the BCG Henderson Institute in New York and was selected for a year-long secondment to serve as an advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva.
He gained additional experience in Germany, China, and the U.S., working for McKinsey & Company, various IT firms, and a publishing house. He also started a small software company that he sold to a U.S. competitor.
Dr. Graf-Vlachy holds a master’s level degree in Information Systems and a doctoral degree from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as a habilitation from the University of Passau. He also studied in the MBA program of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and at Tongji University in Shanghai.
He is a member of various academic societies, including the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the European Academy of Management, the IEEE (senior member), and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Selected publications:
“Understanding the Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus,” with F. Neville, C. Short, & F.X. Völkl, Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming.
“Kindred Spirits: Cognitive Frame Similarity and Good Faith Provisions in Strategic Alliance Contracts,” with M. Hanisch, C. Haeussler, A. König, & T. Cho, Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
“Multi-CEOs: A Legitimacy Perspective on Executives Running Multiple Firms,” with S. Hensellek, & P. Haack, Academy of Management Discoveries, forthcoming.
“Narcissism at the CEO–TMT Interface: A New Narcissism Measure and a Test of the Consequences of Executive Narcissism for TMT Composition,” with S. Junge, M. Hagen, & F. Schlichte, Journal of Management, forthcoming.
“The Innovator’s Media Dilemma: How Journalists Cover Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies,” with A. König, R. Banfield, M. Rauch, & A. Boutalikakis, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2023, 40(1): 3–29.
“Opportunity/Threat Perception and Inertia in Response to Discontinuous Change: Replicating and Extending Gilbert (2005),” with A. König, & M. Schöberl, Journal of Management, 2021, 47(3): 771–816.
“Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity,” with J. Bundy, & D.C. Hambrick, Organization Science, 2020, 31(4): 936–959.
“Media Coverage of Firms: Background, Integration, and Directions for Future Research,” with A.G. Oliver, R. Banfield, A. König, & J. Bundy, Journal of Management, 2020, 46(1): 36–69.
“A Blessing and a Curse: How CEOs’ Trait Empathy Affects Their Management of Organizational Crises,” with A. König, J. Bundy, & L.M. Little, Academy of Management Review, 2020, 45(1): 130–153.
“Institutional Challenges of Discontinuous Change: The Case of the Sharing Economy,” with F. Weber, J. Lehmann, & A. König, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2019, 36(5): 632–660.
“Primary or complex? Towards a theory of metaphorical strategy communication in MNCs,” with A. König, A. Fehn, & J. Puck, Journal of World Business, 2017, 52(2): 270–285.
For a full list of publications, please see here.