GCEI | University of St.Gallen

01/23/20

THE GCEI

The Global Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is the leading institution of the University of St. Gallen that integrates research activities in the fields of entrepreneurship, family business and innovation.

Publications

08/03/22

New publication in JBVI and the Wall Street Journal

Congratulations to Dr. Henrik Wesemann and Prof. Dr. Joakim Wincent for their newest publication in the Journal of Business Venturing. In the linked enlightening interview, Dr. Wesemann is talking about the insights he and Prof. Dr. Wincent found on crowdfunding for female founders. Read the article…

Publications

07/08/22

New publication in the Journal of Management

We are delighted to inform you that our GCEI Team in co-authorship have a new publication in the Journal of Management (JOM). The title is: Nothing ventured, nothing gained: A meta-analysis of CEO overconfidence, strategic risk taking, and performance. Read the paper here

Publications

07/08/22

Publication on value-based pricing in digital platforms

We are happy to announce the article "Value-based pricing in digital platforms: A machine learning approach to signaling beyond core product attributes in cross-platform settings" by Tatjana Christen, Manuel Hess, Dietmar Grichnik and Joakim Wincent has been published in Journal of Business Research.

Publications

06/30/22

Literature review publication

We are delighted to inform you that together with colleagues from Sweden and the US, GCEI member Maximilian Palmié produced a systematic literature review on the benefits, challenges, and critical success factors of 11 Industry 4.0 technologies in the supply-chain context. The review and research agenda has just been published in Industrial Marketing Management. Read more...

Media releases

06/24/22

Federal Council decides in favor of a Swiss innovation fund

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Dietmar Grichnik and his team, who have made a significant contribution to the Federal Council's decision in favor of a Swiss Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund is intended to further improve the financial framework conditions for local startups in the growth phase.

Publications

06/21/22

Staying internationally connected with a state innovation fund

The Federal Council decides on a Swiss innovation fund. Prof. Dietmar Grichnik and Petra Gössi have written a guest commentary on this topic in the NZZ. Read the article here (it is in German).

Publications

06/20/22

New Publication - Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

Joakim Wincent from the GCEI with colleagues wrote a book based on their studies about the experiences of entrepreneurship in highly adverse/challenging contexts. The open access book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within these adverse constraints to improve their lives. Read more...

Research

05/30/22

PDW on the topic "The emergence of a formal control systems in innovation"

On 29 June from 1 to 2 p.m. the next PDW of our PDW series "On Neutral Grounds" will take place. The Working paper "The Emergence of a Formal Control System in Innovation: The Case of a Swiss Family Firm" written by Vivianna Fang He, Shiko Ben-Menahem (VU Amsterdam), Christian Wedl (Accenture), and Georg von Krogh (ETH Zurich) will be discussed.

Research

05/17/22

Workshop at the Strategic Management Society Conference

Michael Hudecheck, Charlotta Sirén and Nina Zachlod from the GCE&I will organize a workshop at the Strategic Management Society Conference in Milan on the topic “Remote Sensing Data in Strategic Management and Practice”.

Media releases

04/13/22

Prof. Oliver Gassmann in Forbes

"There are very few academics in the business world who can compare with Oliver Gassmann by the number of citations or H-index (number of academic papers with the same number of citations)".
Congratulations to Prof. Oliver Gassmann to his wonderful work of measuring the efficiency of R&D in the pharmaceutical industry.

Research

04/06/22

AOM Best Paper Proceedings

We are happy to announce that two papers (co-)authored by members of the GCEI have been chosen for publication in the Best Paper Proceedings (top 10%) of the 2019 Meeting of the Academy of Management. Read more here about the authors and their papers...

Events

03/24/22

Research talk "Ecosystems research and publishing qualitative research in top-tier journals"

We would like to invite you to our next research talk on Thursday, June 9, 3.00 – 4.30pm, on the topic of ‘Ecosystems research and publishing qualitative research in top-tier journals’, presented by Joachim Stonig and Torsten Schmid.

Research

02/15/22

SNSF funding through the Doc.CH grant

PhD Candidate Nina Zachlod was granted the highly competitive SNSF Doc.CH grant for four years to study informal entrepreneurship in India utilizing satellite data.

Research

02/15/22

Ranking of Research.com

With the newest ranking of Research.com several professors of our GCEI have been nominated among the top 10 scientists of Switzerland: Oliver Gassmann (#1), Thomas Zellweger (#10) as well as of Finland Joakim Wincent (#2). The ranking is based on h-index, publications and citation values collected in December 2021.

Publications

10/18/21

New AMR Publication

We are delighted to share that the publication of the paper "Entrepreneurs as scientists: A pragmatist approach to producing value out of uncertainty" by Thomas Zellweger and Todd Zenger is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review.

Publications

07/05/21

Prof. Oliver Gassmann in the top 10 of most published authors

Congratulation to Prof. Oliver Gassmann! He is in the top 10 of research in technology and innovation management journals (TIM) during the last 20 years. See for more JTEM (2021) ...

Publications

06/24/21

New publication in the ETP

We are happy to announce the article "With(out) a little help from my friends? Reconciling incongruous findings on stakeholder management, innovation, and firm performance" by Naomi Haefner, Maximilian Palmié, and Petteri T. Leppänen has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Read more here...

Research

06/01/21

Award at Dies academicus 2021

Charlotta Sirén, Michael Hudecheck, Joakim Vincent and Dietmar Grichnik were awarded for the project "Staying on Top of the Crisis: Tracking the Economic and Social Impacts of SARS CoV 2 and Future Disasters to Improve Global Disaster Management and Response Efforts" at the Dies academicus 2021.

Publications

05/28/21

Publication on pharmaceutical R&D

We are delighted to announce that the paper "Big Techs and startups in pharmaceutical R&D – A 2020 perspective on artificial intelligence" by Alexander Schuhmacher, Alexander Gatto, Michael Kuss, Oliver Gassmann and Markus Hinder has been accepted for publication in the Drug Discovery Today. You can retrieve the article here...