THORSTEN GROHSJEAN

THORSTEN GROHSJEAN

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

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.


Research interests

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. 


Selected Publications

When colleagues compete outside the firm
Strategic Management Journal, 2024

Grohsjean, Thorsten; Dokko, Gina; Yang, Philip
Can you go home again? Performance assistance between boomerangs and incumbent employees
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2024

Lampraki, Athanasia; Kolympiris, Christos; Grohsjean, Thorsten; Dahlander, Linus
The new needs friends: Simmelian strangers and the selection of novelty
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2024

Piezunka, Henning; Grohsjean, Thorsten
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees' careers
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Forthcoming

Criscuolo, Paola; Dahlander, Linus; Grohsjean, Thorsten; Salter, Ammon
The sequence effect in panel decisions: evidence from the evaluation of research and development projects
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2021

Criscuolo, Paola; Dahlander, Linus; Grohsjean, Thorsten; Salter, Ammon
Evaluating novelty: the role of panels in the selection of R&D projects
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2017

Grohsjean, Thorsten; Kober, Pascal; Zucchini, Leon
Coming back to Edmonton: competing with former employers and colleagues
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2016