Category: Research
Paper on populism and FDI published in Journal of International Business Studies
Together with Vera Kunczer and Srividja Jandhyala, I have published a research paper investigating how populism in a (potential) host country influences FDI location choice. We develop novel theoretical arguments for different regime characteristics and how they influence the populism-FDI relationship, and we test these mechanisms on a large multinational dataset. The project is related
Paper on cash conversion cycle published in Finance Research Letters
In this paper, we argue that firms can and regularly do use their market power to push borrowing costs onto their value chain partners. While firms could in principle use this approach to obtain negative cash conversion cycles, most of the market power effect is concentrated in firms with positive cycles. Check out the paper
Valpop project website
The website for our Horizon Europe project (https://www.valpop-project.eu/) has collected inputs over the first project year, and we are starting to post outputs there as well. There is a link to the website in the sidebar of this website now.
Paper on institutional co-evolution published in Journal of World Business
Together with my co-authors Björn Schmeisser, Christof Miska, and Jonathan Doh, I have published a perspective article in the Journal of World Business on how we need to understand institutional change from a co-evolutionary perspective to get at the complexity of the relationship. The paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2026.101722.
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/.