Category: Research
New paper on asymmetric risk preferences and corporate capital structure
In our new paper (co-authored with Jonas Puck and Giulia Stocco), we connect prospect theory and the static trade-off theory of capital structure, using international variation in asymmetric risk preferences. The paper is available online-first here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.102067.
New image video at my research center
The research center Strategic Leadership, Innovation, and Branding at UIBK has created a new image video highlighting our research from the last years, and emerging research areas. Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/team-service-management-und-tourismus-an-der-universit%C3%A4t-innsbruck_research-leadership-innovation-activity-6996031063953149952-am_U?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop.
New paper on human-AI interaction
In a new working paper (available on my faculty page: https://www.uibk.ac.at/smt/international-management/research/), Ben Greiner (http://ben.orsee.org/), Philipp Grünwald, Georg Lintner, Martin Wiernsperger (https://www.wu.ac.at/ifu/about/ifu-team/martin-wiernsperger/), and myself explore how people interact with AI-driven decision-support systems. We specifically look into incentive structures, and differences between “pure” AI advice, and human-augmented AI advice.
New paper on ML in JIBS
Together with my co-authors Jonas Puck and Alain Verbeke, we have published a new paper on how ML may help IB researchers in solving tricky econometric challenges, particularly when no clear econometric solution exists. Check out the paper (open access of course) here: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00549-z.
New JIBS paper on supranational institutions
Together with Simon Hartmann, Jakob Müllner, and Jonas Puck, I have just published a new conceptual article in the Journal of International Business Studies: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00537-3. The paper is open access, check it out!
The value of sustainability
I gave my first talk in a law conference last week. The conference was on sustainability in corporate law (thanks to the conference host Alexander Schopper and his team), and my contribution investigated the financial market assessment of corporate sustainability. The materials presented at the conference are available on the UIBK corporate law site (https://www.uibk.ac.at/unternehmensrecht/unternehmensrecht/nachhaltigkeit/nachhaltigkeit.html),
Workshop on politics in IB
Vera Kunczer will organize a workshop on IB and politics at WU in June. This workshop is the first in a series of workshops sponsored by EIBA. If you work on an policy angle in IB, check out the call for papers: https://www.eiba.org/UserFiles/CfP_EIBA-W_Politics_2022.pdf.
Alpine Winter Conference Proceedings
We had the first Alpine Winter Conference last week, with a focus on populism in IB research. The meeting was hybrid, with faculty from all over the world joining a small group in Vienna and Innsbruck. Discussants identified quite a few months of extra research, and papers received a lot of helpful feedback. A great
Migration paper acknowledged by Women in the AIB association
Our paper on how migration may provide resources to multinational companies, published in the Journal of International Business Policy (https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00034-9) has been acknowledged by the WAIB association as a top ten paper on migration and diversity (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871105025716965376/).
#fincap research results available online
Over the last months, I have contributed to the #fincap research project (www.fincap.academy). In this project, a large co-author team has engaged in a pre-registered (at Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/) investigation into how the research process influences errors in published research results. After a presentation on November 23 with our data sponsor Deutsche Börse (the