Managerial Mind Shaper, Strategist and Professor in Business Innovation

Recent publications

This is a list of my recent articles. Please send me an e-mail request for a personal copy of any article you might be interested in.

Books
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Managing the Aging Workforce: Challenges and Solutions, Publicis-Wiley, Erlangen & New York, 2006 (with Sven Voelpel). Click on the picture for more detail.
Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy: New Approaches and Business Applications, Publicis-Wiley, Erlangen & New York, 2006 (published November 2005; with Thomas Davenport and Sven Voelpel). Click on the picture for more detail.
Strategic Management in the Knowledge Economy: New Approaches and Business Applications, Publicis-Wiley, Erlangen & New York, 2005 (second edition) (with Gilbert Probst and Michael Gibbert). Click on the picture for more detail.

The Spiral of Innovation, E-book (forthcoming).

Shaping Managerial Minds, How to change and align managerial minds for innovative business and profit paths.

Monographs

Managerial Mindsets and Strategic Capabilities, 2011.

Strategy as Co-Shaping New Value, 2010.

From Analytical to Holistic Managerial Mindsets, 2010.

Articles

Managing the aging workforce: status quo and implications for the advancement of theory and practice , with Christoph Streb and Sven Voelpel, European Management Journal, Vol. 26, No.2, 2008, 1-10.

Wish Lists for Longevity?, Managing for Success, U.K. Law Society, Vol.38, October 2007, 10-11.

Managing purposeful organizational misfit: exploring organizational misfit to enable strategic change, with Sven Voelpel and Eden Tekie, Journal of Change Management, Vol.6, No.3, September 2006, 257-276.

The tyranny of the balanced scorecard in the innovation economy, with Sven Voelpel, Robert Eckhoff and Thomas Davenport, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol.7, No.1, January 2006, 43-60.

Strategic management and organizational learning: developing fit and alignment through a disciplined process, with Mike Beer, Sven Voelpel and Eden Tekie, Long Range Planning, Vol. 38, No.5, October 2005, 445-465.

The innovation meme: managing innovation replicators for organizational fitness, with Sven Voelpel and Chris Streb, Journal of Change Management, Vol.5, No.1, April 2005, 57-69.

Escaping the red queen effect in competitive strategy -- how managers can change industry rules by sense-testing business models, with Sven Voelpel, Georg von Krogh and Eden Tekie, European Management Journal, Vol. 23, No.1, February 2005, 37-49.

Managerial levers in cultivating new mental space for business innovation, with Sven Voelpel and Eden Tekie, South African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2004, 61-71.

A three-phased approach for developing dynamic organizational fitness, with Sven Voelpel and Solomon Habtay, Management Dynamics: Contemporary Research, Vol. 3, No 3, December 2004, 40-51.

The organizational fitness navigator: enabling and measuring organizational fitness for rapid change, with Sven Voelpel and Khalid Mahmoud, Journal of Change Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2004, 123-140.

The wheel of business model reinvention: how to develop a new business model and organizational fitness to leapfrog competitors, with Sven Voelpel and Eden Tekie, Journal of Change Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2004, 1-18.