THORSTEN GROHSJEAN

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Management and Technology and an ICRIOS fellow at Bocconi University since September 2016. Before joining Bocconi University, I worked between 2012 and 2016 as a junior professor for strategy and organization in technology-intensive industries at LMU Munich. From 2011 to 2012, I was a research associate in the innovation and entrepreneurship group at Imperial College London. I hold a Ph.D. in Management and a Master of Business Research from the LMU Munich and a Diploma in Management from the University of Mannheim.

Using large-scale archival and experimental data, I explore in my research how firms in human capital-driven industries can set up teams and processes to improve organizational performance. Specifically, I examine in one research stream how firms need to structure the panel and the process to overcome a bias against novelty. In a second stream of research, I explore how individual mobility affects cooperative and competitive behavior in teams. My work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal (2x), Organization Science (2x), the Strategic Management Journal (3x), the Journal of World Business, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization. Practitioner-oriented versions of my research appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Manager, AoM Insights, and LSE Review. I serve on the editorial review board of Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization.