Research Projects

Humble Leadership Development
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2024 until May 2025

Resource Efficiency as a Mechanisms to Achieve Superior Social and Economic Performance
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2024 until October 2025

The foresight data explorers - Identifying and tapping alternative data sources for strategic and technology foresight
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2024 until March 2025

What Drives Liquidity in Crypto Markets? - Evidence from Intraday Data
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2024 until December 2024

Leadership group dynamics in virtual reality: The role of follower interactions on charismatic leadership effectiveness in 2D and 3D virtual meetings
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2024 until May 2025

Process Innovation and Company Performance - Quantitative Strategies based on Process Efficiency
Preproposal PhD-Thesis, since February 2024

PATHFINDER – Pioneering AI Technology in Higher Education to Facilitate Innovation and Nurture the Development of Entrepreneurial Resources
ERASMUS, January 2024 until December 2026

Process Innovation and Company Performance - Quantitative Strategies based on Process Efficiency
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2023 until October 2024

Driving Sustainability with Purpose: Unraveling the Role of Influencing Factors in Advancing Innovation Efficiency
PhD-Thesis, since November 2023

Experimental Determination of Nonverbal Charismatic Leader Signalling via Prerecorded Stimuli: The Effect of Medium and Virtuality
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2023 until December 2025

Strategic and Technology Foresight in Product Lifecycle Management - With a holistic approach to trend analysis towards the lifecycle-encompassing foresight process
PhD-Thesis, since October 2023

Synthese: Persönliche Ressourcen und Führung, um die menschliche Kognition mit künstlicher Intelligenz achtsam zu erweitern
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2023 until December 2024

How To Lead Remotely: Determining the Proximal Antecedents of Successful Digital Leadership
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2023 until May 2024

Foresight for a (product) lifetime: developing a lifecycle- encompassing foresight process
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2023 until April 2024 (finished)

Top Management Team Incentives and Paradox
SNF-Förderprojekt, May 2022 until May 2026

Personal Resources at Work
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2022 until April 2024

Emotional Leader Signalling in a Digital Age
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2022 until February 2023 (finished)

Top Management Team Incentives and Paradox
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2022 until February 2023

The role of unlearning in organizational development
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2022 until December 2023 (finished)

Affective Signalling in the Digital Workplace
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2022 until December 2023 (finished)

The Rhine Valley Curve: Innovation Efficiency of industrial firms in the Alpine Rhine Valley
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2022 until June 2023

Paradox and Cross-Border Complexity
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2021 until May 2023 (finished)

Affect and Leadership: Exploring the emotional antecedents of leader behavior and the subsequent emotions and behavior of followers
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2021 until September 2023 (finished)

Virtual and hybrid learning environments
ERASMUS, April 2021 until August 2023 (finished)

New is always better – On the sustainability of innovative firms
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2021 until February 2022 (finished)

Security of Artificial Intelligence Systems in 5G Networks
PhD-Thesis, since February 2021

Paradox and cultural complexity
PhD-Thesis, since February 2021

Tokenomics on Crypto Exchanges and Experimental Asset Markets
PhD-Thesis, since February 2021

Mindfulness and Self-Leadership Training on Stress Management and Work Performance: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Intervention Study of Middle-Hierarchy Managers
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2021 until December 2022 (finished)

Innovation-Efficient Firms: Patterns, Processes and Techniques
PhD-Thesis, September 2020 until July 2024 (finished)

Entrepreneurial Self-Leadership Education through Virtual Training
ERASMUS, September 2020 until August 2023 (finished)

Managing Cooperation and Competition in the Digital Era
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2020 until May 2022 (finished)

Entrepreneurial Failure and the Search for Success
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2020 until October 2021 (finished)

Top Management Team Incentives and Paradox (Proposal Development)
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2020 until December 2020 (finished)

Mindfulness in Organizations
PhD-Thesis, February 2020 until August 2024 (finished)

Defining the Ill-defined - Exploring the Behavioural Underpinnings of Charismatic Leadership
PhD-Thesis, February 2020 until June 2024 (finished)

Vision, Goal Setting and Leadership Behavior
PhD-Thesis, February 2020 until September 2022 (finished)

Mindfulness in Organizations
FFF-Förderprojekt, February 2020 until January 2022 (finished)

Conformity and guarantees in the digital single market: new challenges for Liechtenstein
FFF-Förderprojekt, February 2020 until January 2021 (finished)

Meeting Industrial Demand for Skills in Information Security Education
ERASMUS, October 2019 until September 2021 (finished)

Sustainable Innovation
PhD-Thesis, since September 2019

Contribution of mindfulness and/or self-leadership training program to the meaningful potential development of current and future leaders in organization especially in the context of VUCA
PhD-Thesis, since September 2019

Regulierung vertrauenswürdiger Technologien in Liechtenstein (VTG-Kommentar)
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2019 until December 2020 (finished)

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) / Blockchain: Aspects of Contract, Consumer and Company Law
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2019 until September 2022 (finished)

Developing leaders for a complex world: The emergence and effects of charismatic leadership and organizational unlearning
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2019 until December 2021 (finished)

Improving Entrepreneurial Cognition in Entrepreneurship Education
PhD-Thesis, February 2019 until July 2022 (finished)

Top Management Team Incentives and Paradox
PhD-Thesis, since February 2019

Innovationseffizienz und Unternehmenserfolg
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2019 until December 2019 (finished)

Corporate Governance in modernen Organisationsformen
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2018 until August 2020 (finished)

Distributed Ledger Technology in Liechtenstein Private Law
internes Projekt, July 2018 until July 2021 (finished)

Business Model Innovation
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2018 until August 2020 (finished)

Self-Leadership und Entrepreneurship
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2018 until December 2020 (finished)

Nonverbal Skills for Transformational Leaders
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2018 until November 2019 (finished)

Tackling the Complexity of Managing Paradoxes
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2018 until August 2020 (finished)

SWETLANA - Seamless writing expanding technologies to support thesis writing
IBH-Förderprojekt, October 2017 until December 2019 (finished)

Wie können analoge und virtuelle Instrumente zur Innenstadtbelebung von Kleinstädten im ländlichen Raum beitragen? - Eine ökonomische Betrachtung am Beispiel des Einzelhandels
PhD-Thesis, February 2017 until January 2023 (finished)

A Multi-Angle Perspective on Servant Leadership
PhD-Thesis, September 2016 until January 2021 (finished)

Pace, rhythm, and scope of SME internationalization processes in SMOPECs - revisiting the value of the organizational learning perspective
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2016 until August 2019 (finished)

The role of cognitive flexibility in entrepreneurial opportunity recognition
FFF-Förderprojekt, February 2016 until June 2018 (finished)

ECVAET 3 - Die europäische Meisterausbildung in der Veranstaltungstechnik
ERASMUS, October 2015 until September 2017 (finished)

Unveiling business model innovation: a comprehensive framework
PhD-Thesis, September 2015 until December 2019 (finished)

Führung in unternehmerischen Organisationseinheiten - Ein Multi-Ebenen Ansatz der kontextuellen Führung
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2015 until January 2017 (finished)

Grenzüberschreitendes Leben und Arbeiten - Cross-border Life and Work
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2015 until April 2019 (finished)

Antecedents of Innovation and Firm Performance in Family Businesses
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2015 until October 2017 (finished)

Organizational openness and innovation - exploring capabilities and the role of digitalization
PhD-Thesis, February 2015 until January 2020 (finished)

Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition and Business Ideation from a Cognitive Perspective
PhD-Thesis, February 2015 until July 2018 (finished)

Unlearning and Forgetting in Organizations
PhD-Thesis, February 2015 until March 2018 (finished)

Forgetting and Unlearning in Organizations
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2015 until March 2016 (finished)

Führung auf Distanz
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2014 until January 2016 (finished)

Leadership in unternehmerischen Organisationseinheiten - Ein kontextorientierter Führungsansatz in einem Multi-Ebenen-Modell
PhD-Thesis, September 2014 until April 2017 (finished)

International Orientation of SME in Liechtenstein/Rhine Valley
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2014 until January 2016 (finished)

Employer Branding as the communicative platform between employers and (potential) employees
internes Projekt, April 2014 until August 2016 (finished)

Internationalization Behaviour: The Dynamics of Family Businesses SMEs' Specific Characteristics
PhD-Thesis, February 2014 until March 2018 (finished)

Born Globals: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Rapid Internationalization
PhD-Thesis, September 2013 until June 2017 (finished)

Generating Shared Value: A Corporate Brand Perspective for SMEs
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2013 until September 2014 (finished)

Strategic Decisions in Family Businesses
PhD-Thesis, February 2013 until July 2016 (finished)

Internationalisierung von Familienunternehmen
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2012 until October 2013 (finished)

Distance Leadership - Exploring Distance in the Leader-Follower Relationship
PhD-Thesis, March 2012 until December 2015 (finished)

Organizational Transformation from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
FFF-Förderprojekt, February 2012 until April 2014 (finished)

Unternehmerisches Wachstum in der Care-Ökonomie
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2011 until June 2016 (finished)

Der Einfluss der Corporate Gorvernance auf die strategische Veränderungsfähigkeit von unternehmergeführten Firmen in der Wachstumsphase
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2011 until February 2014 (finished)

Organizational Transformation in Dynamic Environments - Understanding Success Factors for the Implementation of “Design Thinking” Processes from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
PhD-Thesis, March 2011 until August 2014 (finished)

SUSTENTERPRISE
internes Projekt, February 2011 until November 2011 (finished)

Innovation Lock-In - Beschränkung des Innovationsspielraum durch technologische Pfadabhängigkeit bei KMU in Liechtenstein, Ostschweiz und Vorarlberg
FFF-Förderprojekt, October 2010 until May 2012 (finished)

Entrepreneurial Marketing als Erfolgsfaktor von KMU in Liechtenstein/Rheintal
FFF-Förderprojekt, October 2010 until January 2012 (finished)

Leadership in young firms
PhD-Thesis, March 2010 until June 2014 (finished)

New Partners for Innovation - Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs): A theoretical framework for mutually benefiting NGO-business partnerships in open innovation
PhD-Thesis, March 2010 until December 2013 (finished)

Family Buyouts - Influence of Corporate Governance on Strategic Renewal
PhD-Thesis, March 2010 until July 2013 (finished)

Strategic Knowledge Management
PhD-Thesis, March 2010 until May 2013 (finished)

The experience, learning and development of owner-managers during their growth phases of their firms with particular reference to human capital management
PhD-Thesis (kooperativ), January 2010 until November 2015 (finished)

Precision Innovation - Innovation for SME
December 2009 until September 2010 (finished)

European Network for Psychology Learning and Teaching (EUROPLAT)
Netzwerkprojekt, October 2009 until September 2012 (finished)

International knowledge marketing - the commercialization of knowledge based resources with the support of reputation
PhD-Thesis, September 2009 until September 2015 (finished)

Opportunity Recognition and Entrepreneurship Education
PhD-Thesis, September 2009 until September 2012 (finished)

Innovation System Switzerland
March 2009 until June 2010 (finished)

Education at the Interface of Technology and Economy - Region Rheintal
March 2009 until June 2010 (finished)

Intellectual Capital Reports at Universities
internes Projekt, since February 2009

Happiness and Absenteeism in the Workplace
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2009 until December 2012 (finished)

Unternehmerisches Handeln von Jugendlichen
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2009 until January 2012 (finished)

Philosophical and Economic Foundations of Sustainable Leadership: An Interdisciplinary Code of Practice for the Development of Good Conduct Rules
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2009 until January 2012 (finished)

Knowledge Governance
internes Projekt, since January 2009

Strategic Entrepreneurship
internes Projekt, since January 2009

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing
internes Projekt, since January 2009

How to Attract Experts to and how to Make Them Productive in Knowledge-based Organizations?
PhD-Thesis, October 2008 until October 2013 (finished)

Can Formal Rules Promote Happiness in the Workplace? The Influence of Formalization, Types of Rules and Organizational Identity on an Employee’s Happiness
PhD-Thesis, September 2008 until January 2013 (finished)

Entrepreneurial Behavior in Family Firms
internes Projekt, since June 2008

Managemet Methods for the Measurement and Enhancement of Experts' Productivity
internes Projekt, May 2008 until October 2009 (finished)

User Innovation and Firm Innovation Performance: Towards a New Agenda
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2008 until January 2012 (finished)

Strategy Processes in Research and Development Organizations
internes Projekt, since September 2007

Productive Knowledge Management
internes Projekt, since March 2007

Entrepreneurial Marketing
internes Projekt, since January 2007

Human Resources im Unternehmenswachstum
FFF-Förderprojekt, October 2006 until May 2012 (finished)

Generic Strategies and Firm Performance in SMEs: A Longitudinal Study of Austrian SMEs
internes Projekt, July 2006 until August 2009 (finished)

Analyse des aussenwirtschaftlichen Bewusstseins bei KMU - Status Quo (SARI-S)
internes Projekt, April 2006 until December 2007 (finished)

Interreg IIIB-Projekt RegioMarket
internes Projekt, March 2006 until March 2008 (finished)

Planning and Controlling Cockpit for Entrepreneurs
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2006 until April 2008 (finished)