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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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

2023

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

Academic Articles

2022

GRAF-VLACHY, L.

Is the Readability of Abstracts Decreasing in Management Research?

REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE, 16 (4), 1063 - 1084

Academic Articles

2022

GRAF-VLACHY, L., T. GOYAL, Y. OUARDI, A. KÖNIG

The politics of piracy: political ideology and the usage of pirated online media

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 23(1), 51-63

Academic Articles

2022

GRAF-VLACHY, L., L. SCHÄDLER, A. KÖNIG

Strategic leadership in organizational crises: A review and research agenda

LONG RANGE PLANNING, 55 (2)

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

2021

GRAF-VLACHY, L., A. KÖNIG, M. SCHÖBERL

Opportunity/Threat Perception and Inertia in Response to Discontinuous Change: Replicating and Extending Gilbert (2005)

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, 47 (3), 771-816 pp.

Academic Articles

2021

GRAF-VLACHY, L., S. JUNGE, J. MAMMEN, R. MEINHARDT, C. GUDD

The Illusion of Independence: Spun-Off Firms’ Risk-Taking as a Function of Status and Attachment to the Parent Firm

LONG RANGE PLANNING, 54(1)

Academic Articles

2021

GRAF-VLACHY, L., T. GOYAL, Y. OUARDI, A. KÖNIG

Reviews Left and Right: The Link Between Reviewers’ Political Ideology and Online Review Language

BUSINESS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, 63 (4), 403–417