Chair / Junior Professorship for Entrepreneurial Strategy / Say Institute
Chair / Junior Professorship forEntrepreneurial Strategy / Say Institute
- Junior Professor Dr. Christoph Seckler
— Samuel Beckett
At the Chair of Entrepreneurial Strategy, we believe that entrepreneurship can be a force for good in society; one idea at a time. For us, entrepreneurship goes beyond starting a startup. It means to develop novel solutions for people’s needs. This can be anything from a novel search algorithm to make the world’s information universally accessible (Google) to a novel microcredit service to fight poverty (Grameen Bank). We foster entrepreneurship through all of our activities in research, education, and consulting. If you want to join our team, or cooperate with us, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Seckler
Jean-Baptiste Say Institute
The Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship relies on a unique European network which was developed in 2007 by the Entrepreneurship Chair of ESCP and has today more than 50 researchers and teachers. Its goal is to train entrepreneurs and leaders around the world in entrepreneurship and, to prepare tomorrow’s managers for profound changes in the world of work.
WebsiteCenter for Design Science in Entrepreneurship
At the DS:E, we believe that design science enables entrepreneurship scholars to combine cutting-edge research with real world impact. We enable entrepreneurship scholars to engage in design science research in three ways. First, we bring together design science experts from different disciplines to further develop the design science research paradigm for the entrepreneurship field. Second, we educate interested entrepreneurship scholars in doing high impact design science research . Third, we serve as a platform to match firms’ entrepreneurial practice challenges with design science scholars.
WebsiteTeaching
We offer the following courses:
Research
Research approach
Our research converges around the question of how to leverage adversity. This means we are interested in how individuals, teams, and organizations can overcome and benefit from challenging situations. We study, for example, how entrepreneurs can learn from failure, how teams are able to develop resilience in error-prone environments, or how firms develop capabilities to take advantage of quickly changing environments.
Previous research on these topics has been published in leading international journals such as Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Management Studies, and Academy of Management Discoveries. We are excited that previous research has received multiple international awards, for example, three "Best PaperAwards" at the Academy of Management.
Research topics
Learning from Failure
A topic that has attracted considerable attention in both theory and practice is: learning from failure. While learning from failure is widely considered a crucial learning mechanism for entrepreneurs, questions on who, when, why, what and how entrepreneurs learn from failure is of much debate. We contribute to these discussions by studying the learning from failure of individual entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial teams, as well as entrepreneurial organizations. We believe that properly understanding the phenomenon will help to eventually improve how entrepreneurs learn from failure, and thus promote successful entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
A much used metaphor in media, practice, and academia is the one of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. While the metaphor seems to resonate with a lot of people, some fundamental questions need to be answered in the future. These questions include: what is actually an entrepreneurial ecosystem, how can we best study entrepreneurial ecosystems, and how can we design entrepreneurial ecosystems to be successful. We aim to contribute to these discussions by providing a realist (re-)conceptualization of what constitutes an entrepreneurial ecosystem, by empirically examining the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe, and by theorizing about their functioning. Based on these insights, we aim at developing ideas on how to design prosperous entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe.
Design Science
Design science presents the entrepreneurship field with a promise. The promise is that entrepreneurship scholars can be at the vanguard of generating new knowledge, not only to report on ‘what is’ but to develop knowledge on how things ‘should be’. We engage in design science research to tackle some of the world's most pressing issues. Beyond doing design science research on pressing issues, we also work on developing the conceptual foundations of the design science approach.
Research Awards
- 2020: Finalist for OMT´s Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award - Academy of Management, USA
- 2019: Runner-up for Best Paper Award - G-Forum, Germany
- 2018: Best Paper Award - Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
- 2017: Scholarly Achievement Award - Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
- 2017: Best Paper Award (Management Consulting Division) - Academy of Management, USA
- 2017: Thomson South-Western Outstanding Research-Based Paper on Management Consulting - Academy of Management, USA
- 2013: Nominated for Carolin Dexter Award - Academy of Management, USA
- 2013: Information Age Publishing Award: Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, Academy of Management, USA
- 2012: Scholarly Achievement Award - Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
- 2012: Best Paper Award - Second Runner-up - European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Publications
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Media
2023
Die Management-Forschung muss näher an die Praxis
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Media
2023
Letter: Companies are looking to management researchers for answers
Financial Times
Studies & Reports
2023
Fehlerkultur Report 2023: So steht es um die Fehlerkultur in deutschen Unternehmen
EY Germany
Academic Articles
2022
Developing an Innovation Accounting System for a Professional Service Firm: A Design Science Research Project
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 13229, 237–248
Academic Articles
2022
How to Make Smart Collaboration Work in Multidisciplinary Teams
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 13229, 262–273
Academic Articles
2022
Fehlschläge offen einräumen: Über das Nachleben gescheiterter Start-ups
ZEITSCHRIFT FUHRUNG + ORGANISATION (ZFO)
Academic Articles
2022
Editorial: Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Conference Proceedings
2022
From One to Many: A Taxonomy of Abductive Inferences in Organization Science
Academy of Management (AOM)
Media
2022
Is Humility The New Smart?
The Choice
Media
2022
Feature: Fuck-ups - „Wer keine Fehler macht, macht einen großen Fehler“
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