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Department of Business and Economics

Two contributions of the Professorship for Strategic Management and Leadership at the annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Society

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Presentations on the influence of top managers on firms’ strategic flexibility and innovation held in Groningen.

Prof. Dr. Graf-Vlachy gave two scientific presentations at the annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Society, which was held in Groningen this year under the theme of “Corporate Governance in Times of Disruption.” In one of the presented working papers, he and co-authors from Australia, the US, and Peru study how top managers’ values impact firm strategic flexibility. In the other presented paper, he works with researchers from the University of Passau to study how the social embeddedness and cognitive entrenchment of board members affect how quickly and intensely firms adopt discontinuous innovations.