THORSTEN GROHSJEAN

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Technology and an ICRIOS fellow at Bocconi University. I hold a Ph.D. in Management from LMU Munich and a Diploma in Management from the University of Mannheim.

Using large-scale archival and experimental data, I research how organizations shape their employees and how these imprints drive individuals’ decisions, which, in turn, affect organizational performance. I study this indirect linkage across two streams. In one set of papers, I examine how organizational affiliations shape interpersonal relationships affecting individuals’ dyadic interactions within and across organizations. In the second stream, I focus on resource allocation among competing alternatives and investigate how organizational features, such as the structure of the decision-making process and the composition of the decision panel, shape the selection of strategic alternatives. My work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal (2x), Organization Science (2x), Strategic Management Journal (3x), Journal of World Business, and International Journal of Industrial Organization. Practitioner-oriented versions of my research appeared in the MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and Harvard Business Manager. My research has been honored with several awards, including the DRUID Best Paper Award 2009, the Jürgen Hausschildt Award 2016, the EBS Best-Paper Award Innovation Management 2016, and several Bocconi Research Excellence Awards. I was also a finalist for the Academy of Management TIM Division’s Best Paper Award 2013 and nominated for the DRUID Young Scholar Paper Award 2011. I serve on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization.