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.

Events

09/21/22

Research Talk with Ass.-Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Butticè

We are happy to invite you on November 16, 2022, from 2-3.30 p.m. to the GCEI-HSG research seminar “Information diffusion impact on entrepreneurs’ strategic choice: The case of equity crowdfunding” with Ass.-Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Butticè, Polytechnical University of Milan, School of Management. Register here.

Publications

09/08/22

Are Universities Ready for a Collaborative Future of Work and Learning?

A new White Paper, developed jointly by the St. Gallen Symposium and the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Technology Management (including members of the GCEI), explores the shifting role of universities in the future of work and learning.
Click here to download the White Paper.

Events

08/18/22

Research Talk with Prof. Dr. Christopher Tucci

We are pleased to invite you on August 24, 2022, to the GCEI-HSG research seminar “The role of technology market strategy and founder experience in anticipating architectural innovations” with Dr. Christopher Tucci, Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Imperial College. The talk will be from 10.30 to 12.00 at the ZIG Seminar room 24-0-216. Register now.

Events

08/11/22

Join our on-site PDW "On Neutral Grounds"

Since we haven’t had a chance to meet onsite yet, we decided to host a live event on the 5th of September at ETH Zurich. We will start at 12 a.m. with a lunch provided by ETHZ followed by three paper sessions (including a coffee break between), an Outro and some "social time". Read here for more information...

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...

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.