Category: Research
New paper on how AI changes corporate decision-making
In this paper, we investigate theoretically how the use of AI for decision-making will change the mechanisms behind corporate decisions. In management research, we tend to exploit human biases to understand outcomes. Now if companies start using AI for decisions support, some of these biases will go away, some will change, and some new biases
What I do
My research focuses on the roles of institutions for global business, how AI influences business practice and research, and on the interface between geopolitics and business strategy. My research has appeared in some of the leading journals in business and management, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Management Science. I have
New paper on inquiry-based learning
As a result of an Erasmus+ project financed by the EU Commission, we have now published a research paper on the benefits of inquiry-based learning. We investigate soft skill and hard skill development in students who participated in YPT-style physics competitions. There is a large group of co-authors, and you can find the paper here:
New paper on AI use published in Management Science
Together with Martin Wiernsperger, Georg Lintner, Philipp Grünwald, and Ben Greiner, I published a paper exploring when decision-maker use AI to support their decisions. The paper uses laboratory and online experiments, and finds that performance incentives and human-framing of AI advice helps with uptake. This is the link to the open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.02777.
New paper on mergers and acquisitions in Global Strategy Journal
My paper with Harald Puhr and Jakob Müllner has now appeared in the latest issue of Global Strategy Journal: https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1494. In the paper, we investigate how ownership structure influence the completion of announced corporate acquisitions and test our conceptual model on a large dataset of global M&A.
New website for nonstandard errors project
The coordinators of the nonstandard errors project, which came out earlier this year in the Journal of Finance (the full paper is here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13337), have produced a short video explaining the main findings. The video is part of a website providing access to data and other materials that we used in the research project: https://nonstandarderrors.com/.
New paper documents non-standard errors
When researchers analyze data for hypothesis testing, they make many small decisions on how to handle data and how to run analysis. Variation in these small decisions adds up to considerable differences across findings. In our new paper in Journal of Finance (https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13337), we show how this comes about and discuss what it means for
New paper on populism in international business
Together with Chris Hartwell, Barclay James, Jakob Müllner, and Paul Vaaler I have edited a special issue in the Journal of International Business Policy. The issue has been published online, and our editorial piece is now available: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s42214-023-00181-0.
New paper on responsible shareholders
Journal of Management Studies has just published my most recent paper with Arjen Slangen, Aleksi Eerola, and Riccardo Valboni: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13012. This is a short summary of the paper: Is socially-responsible shareholders’ sense of responsibility universal? One might think so, but this is actually not the case, according to this new study of firms’ decisions on
Mein erster Beitrag für Jurist:innen
Juristische Texte waren bisher nicht meine Lieblingslektüre. Selbst einen zu schreiben war auch nicht ganz oben auf meiner Wish-List. Mit der HIlfe von Christian Richter-Schöller und Andreas Zahradnik habe ich meine Meinung geändert, und es war eine Freude, einen Beitrag zur Bedeutung von nachhaltiger Finanzierung im Kapitalmarkt zu schreiben. Ohne meinen versierten Juristenkollegen und Koautoren