Research
I’m curious about resources, resourcing, and resource environments in entrepreneurship. In particular, my research assembles around the mobilization, utilization and provision of financial resources in relation to other types of resources as well as in its embeddedness in social contexts.
- Resourcing: How do entrepreneurial ventures mobilize resources, e.g. via networks, networking, or diverse resourcing practices? How is this shaped by their particular social context? How is this shaped by different team members?
- Resourcing environments: What characterizes different resourcing environments, like entrepreneurial ecosystems or institutional fields? How do these characteristics shape entrepreneurial processes over time?
- Entrepreneurship and transformation: How can entrepreneurship contribute to social and digital transformation? How does social and digital transformation open up opportunities for entrepreneurship?
I’m exploring these questions within different settings. For example:
- Entrepreneurship and digital social innovation during the Covid-19 crisis
- High growth entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and Berlin, comprising independent start-ups and academic spin-offs
- Solo entrepreneurs
Check out my DFG-funded research network on temporality in disruptive innovation: temporality.org, together with Sarah Stanske, Stefanie Habersang, and Blagoy Blagoev.
Publications
monographs
papers
- „Sustaining spontaneous venturing in response to the global refugee crisis“; Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2024)
- „Local Cultures of Advice Tie Formation“; Journal of Organizational Sociology (2024)
- „Demystifying Silicon Valley: Unequal entry thresholds between entrepreneurial ecosystems“; Robert Huggins, Fumi Kitagawa, Daniel Prokop, Christina Theodoraki and Piers Thompson (editors): Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions: Emergence, Evolution, Future; Oxford University Press (2024), PDF download
- „Berlin is Hotter Than Silicon Valley! How Networking Temperature Shapes Entrepreneurs' Networking Across Social Contexts.“; Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(6), 2233-2262 (2023)
- „Market Dependence as a Boundary Construction for Work Solidarity with the Solo Self-employed.“; Work, Employment and Society (2023)
- „Marktabhängigkeit und ihre Bedeutung für die Grenzziehungen von Solidarität“; Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 51(4), 365-384 (2022)
- „Did COVID lockdowns harm entrepreneurship? Not exactly“; LSE Business Review (2022)
- „Die Gegenwart der Krise als Erosion unternehmerischer Zukünfte.“; Arbeit 31.1-2 77-94 (2022)
- „Soziale Ungleichheit und Unternehmertum“; Jürgen Beyer, Nina Baur (editors): Wirtschaft und soziale Ungleichheit (forthcoming)
- „Crises and entrepreneurial opportunities: Digital social innovation in response to physical distancing“; Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2021)
- „Degrees of Integration — How a Fragmented Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Promotes Different Types of Entrepreneurs“; Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 33(1-2), 54-79 (2021), PDF download
- „Social Contexts in Team Formation: Why Do Independent Start-ups and University Spin-offs Form Teams Differently?“; Historical Social Research, 44 (4), 2019, PDF download
- „Gründen als Modus des Innovierens. Netzwerkbildung von Start-ups und Spin-offs im Innovationsprozess“; Jannis Hergesell, Arne Maibaum, Celia Minnetian, Ariane Sept (editors): Innovationsphänomene, Modi und Effekte der Innovationsgesellschaft; Springer, Wiesbaden, 2018, PDF download
Curriculum Vitae
My PhD research was positioned at the intersection of organizational theory, innovation research, and entrepreneurship. It adressed the research strands on interorganizational tie formation of innovative new ventures, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and entrepreneurial team formation.
- Submission of PhD thesis: December 2019
During my bachelor’s and master’s degree, I focussed on the sociology of organizations, innovation studies and science and technology studies.
Conferences and Workshops
organized
- Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Organized by Timo Braun (FU Berlin), Katharina Scheidgen (TU Berlin), Suntje Schmidt (HU Berlin); Herrenhäuser symposium, funded by Volkswagen Foundation (25.000 €), July 2019, Hannover
- Innovation Processes Across Organizations; Workshop with Prof. Hans Berends (VU Amsterdam) at the graduate school „Innovation Societ Today“ in collaboration with the DFG funded research group „Organized Creativity“, January 2017
- PhD-Workshop with Prof. Nils Brunsson (Uppsala University), November 2016, TU Berlin
- Bridges over Troubled Water - Network Constitution in Innovation Processes; Organized by Philip Roth (RWTH Aachen), Katharina Scheidgen (TU Berlin); two-day conferecene at TU Berlin, 45 participants, October 2016
presentations
- Academy of Management Conference; „Lukewarm or hot? Comparing investor tie formation in Silicon Valley and Berlin“; Philadelphia, USA, August 2021
- EGOS Colloquium; „Team entrepreneurial network(ing)“; Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2021
- Cardiff Entrepreneurial Ecosystems workshop series; „Unequal entry barriers in Silicon Valley and Berlin“; Cardiff, March 2021
- EGOS Colloquium; „The Strength of Personal Ties: Tie Formation Scripts in Innovative Entrepreneurship“; Hamburg University, Germany, July 2020
- Conference of the German Network Research Association (DGNet); „Innovative Wachstumsunternehmen und unternehmerische Teams: Das Verhältnis persönlicher und interorganisationaler Netzwerke“; March 2020, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt, Germany
- 4th European Conference on Social Networks; „Local Cultures of Tie Formation: The Impact of Context-specific Institutions on Advice Tie Formation“; September 2019, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 4th European Conference on Social Networks; „How New Ventures form Organizational Ties: The Varying Impact of Personal Ties in Berlin and Silicon Valley“; September 2019, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Symposium "Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems" at Herrenhaussen Castle, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation; „How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem“; July 2019, Hannover, Germany
- Invited talk: Brown Bag Lecture at NIKOS-Entrepreneurship Department; „Entrepreneurial Networking in Berlin and Silicon Valley. A Comparison“; April 2019, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Spring Conference of the Section Organizational Sociology; „Wie Start-ups und Spin-offs Netzwerke bilden. Berlin und Silicon Valley im Vergleich“; April 2019, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany
- Workshop of the DFG-funded network Venturing Together!; „Understanding Resource Acquisition in Entrepreneurial Teams: The Relation of Personal and Organizational Networks“; April 2019, TU Munich, Germany
- Spring Conference of the Section Sociological Network Research; „Lokale Kulturen der Formation von Ratgebernetzwerken im Kontext von Innovationsversuchen“; February 2019, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
- 39. Conference of the German Sociological Association; „Eigenlogiken der Netzwerkgenese – Von der systematischen Bedeutung kontextspezifischen Wissens über legitime Praktiken für die Genese von Netzwerken im Innovationsprozess“; September 2018, University of Göttingen, Germany
- 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; „Social Contexts in Team Formation. Why do Start-ups and Spin-offs Form Teams Differently?“; August 2018, Chicago, USA
- 3rd Workshop of the DFG-funded network Temporary Organizing; „Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Networks and Ecosystems“; June 2018, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Babson Conference; „How Networking Practices Constitute Entrepreneurial Ecosystems“; June 2018, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Doctoral Consortium prior the Babson Conference; „Networking for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Networking in Berlin and Silicon Valley. A Comparison“; June 2018, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Workshop of the DFG-funded network Venturing Together!; „Social Contexts in Team Formation: Why Do Independent Start-ups and University Spin-offs Form Teams Differently?“; April 2018, TU Berlin, Germany
- Workshop of the Working Group Network Analysis and Organizations; „Network Development during the Founding Process. A Comparison of Start-ups and University Spin-offs“; November 2017, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 33rd EGOS Colloquium; „The Impact of Organizational and Interorganizational Practices on the Governance of Fields“; July 2017, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- EGOS Pre-Colloquium PhD Workshop; „Network Development Processes of Start-ups and University Spin-offs“; July 2017, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- The Fifth Austrian Early Scholar Workshop in Management; „Embedding in Fields by Embedded Networking: Start-ups’ Networking Practices in Distinctive Contexts“; May 2017, WU Vienna, Austria
- New Institutionalism Workshop; „Network Development Processes of Start-ups in Innovation-specific Fields“; March 2017, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
- 2nd Workshop on Entrepreneurship as Practice; „Networking Practices of Start-ups: Influenced by the Context, Influencing Network Design?“; February 2017, UCD School of Business Dublin, Ireland
- ISBE Conferenc; „How Fields Matter: Network Development of Start-ups in Innovation-specific Contexts“; October 2016, Paris, France
- Bridges Over Troubled Water: Die Konstitution von Netzwerken im Innovationsprozess; „Innovationsspezifische Netzwerkbildung von Start-ups im Innovationsprozess“; October 2016, TU Berlin, Germany
- The Fourth Austrian Early Scholar Workshop in Management; „Innovation-specific Network Development Processes of Start-ups“; May 2016, JKU Linz, Austria