Graf-Vlachy Lorenz | ESCP Business School

Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

Emeritus Faculty of Strategy

Department : Management
Campus : Paris

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy 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, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, and the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. 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 and Corporate Governance: An International Review. 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. Dr. Graf-Vlachy holds a master's level degree in Information Systems and a doctoral degree from Friedrich-Alexander-University (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.

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

GRAF-VLACHY, L., P. FIGGE, A. KÖNIG, F. DEMANN, M. DIESSNER

Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding

ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE

Academic Articles

2024

GRAF-VLACHY, L., S. HENSELLEK, P. HAACK

Multi-CEOs: A Legitimacy Perspective on Executives Running Multiple Firms

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT DISCOVERIES

Academic Articles

2024

GRAF-VLACHY, L., F. NEVILLE, C. SHORT, F. X. VÖLKL

Understanding the Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

Academic Articles

2024

GRAF-VLACHY, L., M. HETTLER

Corporate Scope 3 Carbon Emission Reporting as an Enabler of Supply Chain Decarbonization: A Critical Review and Comprehensive Research Agenda

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 33 (2), 263-282

Academic Articles

2024

GRAF-VLACHY, L., S. JUNGE, M. HAGEN, F. SCHLICHTE

Narcissism at the CEO–TMT Interface: Measuring Executive Narcissism and Testing Its Effects on TMT Composition

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

Academic Articles

2024

GRAF-VLACHY, L., M. HANISCH, C. HAEUSSLER, A. KÖNIG, T. CHO

Kindred Spirits: Cognitive Frame Similarity and Good Faith Provisions in Strategic Alliance Contracts

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

Academic Articles

2023

GRAF-VLACHY, L., A. KÖNIG, R. BANFIELD, M. RAUCH, A. BOUTALIKAKIS

The Innovator’s Media Dilemma: How Journalists Cover Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies

JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT (THE)

Academic Articles

2023

GRAF-VLACHY, L., J. KIEFER, C. CASTELL, S. SCHUBACH, J. SCHUMANN, A. KÖNIG

Integrating Digital Platform Dynamics into the Next Wave of Customer Orientation Research

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 163

Academic Articles

2022

GRAF-VLACHY, L., J. SZEWCZYK, C. KURZHALS, N. KAMMERLANDER, A. KÖNIG

The Family Innovator’s Dilemma Revisited: Examining the Effects of Family Influence on Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies

JOURNAL OF FAMILY BUSINESS STRATEGY, 13(4), 100516

Academic Articles

2022

GRAF-VLACHY, L., L. KESSEL

Chief digital officers: the state of the art and the road ahead

MANAGEMENT REVIEW QUARTERLY, 72 (4), 1249 - 1286

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Academic Articles

2025

Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding

Academic Articles

2024

Multi-CEOs: A Legitimacy Perspective on Executives Running Multiple Firms

Academic Articles

2024

Understanding the Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus

Academic Articles

2024

Corporate Scope 3 Carbon Emission Reporting as an Enabler of Supply Chain Decarbonization: A Critical Review and Comprehensive Research Agenda

Academic Articles

2024

Narcissism at the CEO–TMT Interface: Measuring Executive Narcissism and Testing Its Effects on TMT Composition

Academic Articles

2024

Kindred Spirits: Cognitive Frame Similarity and Good Faith Provisions in Strategic Alliance Contracts

Academic Articles

2023

The Innovator’s Media Dilemma: How Journalists Cover Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies

Academic Articles

2023

Integrating Digital Platform Dynamics into the Next Wave of Customer Orientation Research

Academic Articles

2022

The Family Innovator’s Dilemma Revisited: Examining the Effects of Family Influence on Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies

Academic Articles

2022

C﻿hief digital officers: the state of the art and the road ahead

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Chief digital officers: the state of the art and the road ahead