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- the Boston Consulting Group )
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- Professional Staff Member
- Management Accountant, EXIST )
Office hours: upon appointment
aishwarya.kakatkar@tum.de
Research Interests
Entrepreneurial cognition and well-being
Entrepreneurial teams
Machine learning techniques for analyzing unstructured textual data
Academic Background
June 2018 - December 2021
PhD Candidate at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute at the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Patzelt, Technical University of Munich
September 2014 - June 2018
MA in Economics and Management, University of St Andrews
Professional Background
Since December 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute, at the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Patzelt, Technical University of Munich
June 2018 - December 2021
Research Assistant at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute, at the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Patzelt, Technical University of Munich
September 2015 - April 2018
Founder and Director of Economic Policy & Research Group, University of St Andrews
April 2016 - March 2018
President of St Andrews Entrepreneurs Society, University of St Andrews
June 2017 - August 2017
Business Intelligence Intern at Amazon, Munich
June 2016 - August 2016
Finance and Portfolio Intern at Wayra (in-house startup accelerator), Telefónica, Munich
September 2015 - May 2016
Research Assistant at the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews
Research Interests
My work revolves around innovative and entrepreneurial management tackling grand societal challenges. In particular, my research theorizes on phenomena and settings that are theoretically interesting, such as new social venture emergence as a response to others' suffering. My research is set in the context of social and sustainable innovation management, (social) entrepreneurship, and prosocial organizations. I explore how internal venturing processes unfold, how prosocial ventures regain legitimacy to maintain resource mobilization, as well as the emergence of hybridity in nascent social and sustainable ventures. Moreover, I have a keen interest in social and sustainable entrepreneurs' motivation, opportunity recognition, and their perceived responsibility over their activities.
Mittermaier, Alexandra; Patzelt, Holger: New ventures' resilience to adversity: Insights from serial attacks during the German refugee crisis. 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2018 Chicago, USA more… BibTeX
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- Researcher at the TUM School of Management
David K. Reetz is a postdoctoral researcher at the TUM School of Management, where he also completed his doctoral degree in management under the supervision of Oliver Alexy in 2019. (Committee: Oliver Alexy; Linus Dahlander; Jason Davis; Joachim Henkel).
David's research, is in the area of strategy and organization theory with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. He studies the organizational processes and structures through which actors can realize truly novel outcomes. In particular, he is looking at the interplay of cognition and action as well as organizational design choices, which can allow organizational actors to embrace high uncertainty. His insights provide strategic recommendations for contests such as inventing and implementing new technologies, conceiving and creating new markets, or realizing and resolving grand challenges. David's research has been published in the Academy of Management Discoveries; and he received a best conference paper award at the Strategic Management Conference (Behavioral Strategy IG).
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- Siemens Management Consulting
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- the Boston Consulting Group )
Job Titles:
- the Boston Consulting Group
Tryba, Anne; Preller, Rebecca: Shared vision and resource reconfigurations in entrepreneurial teams: The moderating role of joint work history. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2019 Babson College, USA more… BibTeX
Preller, Rebecca; Breugst, Nicola; Patzelt, Holger: Do we all see the same future? The impact of entrepreneurial team members' visions on team and venture development. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2015 Babson College, MA, USA more… BibTeX
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- the Boston Consulting Group )
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- Professional Staff Member
- Department Administration
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- Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Management
- Professor of Entrepreneurial Management
Amy Zhao-Ding's research focuses on understanding firm's changing beliefs and adaptive behaviours in nascent markets and emerging fields, where game-changing technologies have enabled a wide range of entrepreneurial opportunities. As a Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) Dissertation Scholar in the 2018-2020 cohort, she studies in her dissertation how mobile application developers map multi-dimensional demand landscape using product functionalities--framing product features in terms of intended customer goals--and learn from their own and competitors' experiences to identify and clarify opportunities. Broadly, Amy is interested in how organizations learn from and adapt to their demand, competitive, and collaborative environments, especially how they formulate problems and interpret feedback under uncertainty and ambiguity. She enjoys studying digital, cultural, and knowledge-intensive industries, and approaches teaching and research in entrepreneurship through the lens of organization theory.
Amy joined TUM School of Management as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Management in October 2020. At TUM, she teaches entrepreneurial thinking for science and engineering students, as well as opportunity recognition in new technologies and nascent markets for management students. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Finance at Peking University in China and a master's degree in Global Political Economy at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship from INSEAD, and spent half a year at The Wharton School during her doctoral studies.
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- Chairman of Entrepreneurship
Holger Patzelt joined the TUM School of Management in April 2010. He teaches lectures and seminars on the topic of entrepreneurship in Bachelor-, Master- and MBA/EMBA-programs. Topics of lectures and seminars include, for example, entrepreneurial motivation, decision making and strategy, technology entrepreneurship, and social and sustainable entrepreneurship.
Holger Patzelt's research focuses on entrepreneurial cognition and economic, emotional and psychological consequences of failure. He published articles in leading international academic journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Managment, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice) and received several national and international awards. In the 2014 Handelsblatt research ranking he was listen on position 10 among more than 3000 management scholars in German-speaking countries.
Scalable tech-startups are Helmut's passion as co-founder and CEO of UnternehmerTUM, the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at Technische Universität München (TUM). He is especially interested in startups in the field of smart enterprises, additive manufacturing as well as smart city and mobility solutions. With his background as a founder, aerospace engineer and venture capitalist he loves to help new ventures solve strategy, recruiting, business development and future financing challenges.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor at the TUM School of Management
Mirjam Knockaert is Adjunct Professor at the TUM School of Management. Concurrently, she is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at Ghent University. She obtained her master in Business Economics from KULeuven (Belgium), and her PhD in Business Economics from Ghent University (Belgium), and worked in financial audit before joining academia. Mirjam worked at the University of Oslo (Norway) as an adjunct Associate Professor for ten years. Mirjam's research focuses on two specific research streams. First, she addresses research questions in the area of academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer. Second, she is interested in the human capital side of entrepreneurship, investigating the role of team members, boards of directors, and core employees for entrepreneurial ventures. Her research was published in internationally leading entrepreneurship journals. Next to teaching and research, Mirjam is involved in the board of directors of university spin-off firms. She is also an active member in the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.
Crucke, S., Knockaert, M. (2016). When stakeholder representation leads to faultlines. A study of board service performance in social enterprises. Journal of Management Studies, 53(5), 768-793
Nicola Breugst holds the Professorship of Entrepreneurial Behavior at Technical University of Munich since March 2012. She has a PhD in entrepreneurship and a university degree in psychology. She worked at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and the National University of Singapore. Nicola's research focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship. More specifically, she addresses questions of entrepreneurial affect, entrepreneurial motivation, and the collaboration in startup teams. Her papers have been published in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. Nicola is also a field editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and is member of the editorial review board of several other entrepreneurship journals.
Nicola's fascination for the people side of entrepreneurship also inspires her teaching which aims at developing the students' entrepreneurial and analytical thinking. She teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs at TUM offering different formats from large-group lectures and research-focused seminars to hands-on workshops. She has received several awards for her teaching activities.
Breugst, Nicola ; Domurath, Anne ; Patzelt, Holger ; Klaukien, Anja: Perceptions of entrepreneurial passion and employees' commitment to entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 36 (1), 2012, 171-192 more… BibTeX Full text
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- Professor of Entrepreneurial Behavior
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- Professor of International Entrepreneurship
Hana Milanov joined the TUM School of Management in July 2012 as Professor of International Entrepreneurship. She conducts research at the nexus of the literatures in entrepreneurship, international business and social networks. Her interests lie in understanding the evolution of alliances and networks and their role in firm internationalization, opportunity exploitation and firm performance. Hana's research has been published in leading international academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Venturing, and the Academy of Management Perspectives. Hana is experienced in teaching in undergraduate, MBA, Masters, Executive MBA and PhD programs across different countries (Croatia, Germany, Spain, USA). Currently, Hana serves as the Academic Director of the Executive MBA in Innovation and Business Creation at TUM. In 2014 she has been elected as TUM's Senior Vice President for International Alliances and Alumni.
Dimov, D.; Milanov, H.: The interplay of need and opportunity in venture capital investment syndication. Journal of Business Venturing 25 (4), 2010, 331-348 more… BibTeX Full text
Milanov, H: Introducing firm-level entrepreneurship: An overview of concepts and suggestions for research in Croatia. In: Croatia in the process of EU entry. Institute of Economics, 2004, 460-483 more… BibTeX
Milanov, H.; Fernhaber, S.; Terjesen, S.;: Does bricolage help or hinder new venture internationalization? A competitive mediation framework. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2020 online edition due to pandemic more… BibTeX
Milanov, H.; Neubert, M.; Simiyu, E.: Entrepreneurial networks - the ties that free or the ties that bind? Evidence from microcredit lending groups in Kenya. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2011 Syracuse, NY, USA more… BibTeX
Milanov, H.: Looking beyond the local ties: Examination of the industry network structure's role in the imprinting of newcomers' status. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2009 Wellesley, MA, USA more… BibTeX
Milanov, H.; Shepherd, D.A.: "One is known by the company one keeps": Imprinting effects of a firm's network entry on its future status. INSEAD Conference on Network Evolution, 2008 Fontainebleau, France more… BibTeX
Milanov, H: Reconsidering the benefits of entrepreneur's initial network embeddedness for new venture growth. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2006 Atlanta, GA, USA more… BibTeX
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- Professor of Entrepreneurship and Communities
Prof. Vedula's research interests are in the geography of entrepreneurship and environmental entrepreneurship. He has researched a wide array of topics including spatial contagion behavior in the venture capital investment industry, regional differences in the adoption of green building practices, how ideological differences in communities shape renewable energy entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Prof. Vedula completed his Bachelors degree in Physiology and Mathematics from the University of Toronto. He subsequently obtained a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in Strategic, Organizational, and Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. He then worked as an assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Since November 2020, Prof. Vedula was appointed to the professorship for Entrepreneurship and Communities at TUM.
Vedula, Siddharth; Kim, Phillip H.: Gimme shelter or fade away: the impact of regional entrepreneurial ecosystem quality on venture survival. Industrial and Corporate Change 28 (4), 2019, 827-854 more… BibTeX Full text
Office hours: on appointment
stefan.ruehl@tum.de
Research Interests
International Entrepreneurship
Cross-border Venture Capital
Academic Background
Since 12/2021
PhD Candidate at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute, Chair of International Entrepreneurship (Prof. Hana Milanov, PhD), Technical University of Munich
09/2016 - 03/2019
Master of Science in International Management, Bocconi University
09/2015 - 04/2016
Study Abroad, Business Administration, Università degli Studi di Padova
03/2012 - 08/2016
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics, University of Hohenheim
Professional Background
Since 12/2021
Research Associate at the TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute
Job Titles:
- Professional Staff Member
- Management Accountant, Networking )