Dr. Matthias Mrożewski is an Assistant Professor at ESCP Business School Berlin, where he heads the Chair for International Entrepreneurship. The mission of the Chair is not only to conduct state-of-the-art research on international entrepreneurship but also to inspire students with the vision inherent in international entrepreneurship, heightening their awareness of the entrepreneurial opportunities arising from their diverse backgrounds and international experiences. He is also the Academic Director of the Option E specialization in the Master in Management programme.

The research of Prof. Mrożewski focuses on topics such as entrepreneurial decision-making, migration, culture and entrepreneurship, and regional and country-level entrepreneurship and innovation. His work has been published in outlets such as Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Project Management Journal, International Journal of Innovation Management, and International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. Prof. Mrożewski has successfully supervised two doctoral students to completion and serves as a regular reviewer.

Prof. Mrożewski is also the project leader of the start-up development concept “ESCP BEST Place” (Building European Startups), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within the highly competitive funding scheme EXIST Potentiale. The project aims to expand the entrepreneurship potential of ESCP and develop the European incubation ecosystem to support start-ups in their internationalisation efforts.

Prof. Mrożewski received his doctoral degree from Technische Universität Berlin, a member of the EXIST university network, and has been part of the team at the TU Centre for Entrepreneurship, involved in numerous EXIST proposals and projects. He was also the Programme Manager for the “Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship” Master's and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.

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Academic Articles

2025

MROZEWSKI, M., J., A. DADEŁŁO, C. VON KOLPINSKI, O. DELBARD

What Drives Impact Scaling? The Roles of Resources, Innovation Performance, and Sustainability Orientation

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Academic Articles

2024

MESTWERDT, S., M. , J. MROZEWSKI, C. SECKLER

An institutional perspective on fear of failure and its effects across three entrepreneurship stages

INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 21(1), 34

Academic Articles

2024

KIRSCHNING, R., M. , J. MROZEWSKI

Revisiting the knowledge spillover paradox: the impact of infrastructure

SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 63 (1), 1–20

Conference Proceedings

2024

MESTWERDT, S., A. SYDOW, N. BURKERT, M. , J. MROZEWSKI

Trust Formation in New Ventures’ Cross-Border Stakeholder Relationships-Evidence from South Africa

Academy of Management (AOM)

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

SECKLER, C., P. BORCHERS, R. MAUER, M. , J. MROZEWSKI

Leading successful transformation: How to design a corporate transformation portfolio

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-20-EN

Academic Articles

2023

MROZEWSKI, M., J., D. HERING

What makes migrants more entrepreneurial? Investigating the role of cultural distance and human capital

INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 19 (1), 151-176

Academic Articles

2023

LEHMANN, D., M. , J. MROZEWSKI, R. MAUER

Driven by emotions: The moderating effect of socioemotional wealth dimensions on the link between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance in family firms

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, 27 (3-4)

Academic Articles

2023

KIRSCHNING, R., M. , J. MROZEWSKI

The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 60 (1), 105–120

Academic Articles

2023

MESTWERDT, S., R. KIRSCHNING, M. , J. MROZEWSKI, R. MAUER

The role of reference points for entrepreneurs' strategic decision-making in sub-saharan Africa

FRONTIERS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH, Babson College Entreprenership Research Conference (BCERC) 2022, 298-306

Academic Articles

2021

BUTZ, H., M. , J. MROZEWSKI

The Selection Process and Criteria of Impact Accelerators. An Exploratory Study

SUSTAINABILITY, 13(12)