Prof. Dr. Laura Bechthold

Forschung

• Technology Assessment & Technology Foresight
• Organizational Culture & Leadership
• (Corporate) Digital Responsibilty
• Responsible Innovation and related future skills

Laufende Projekte

• Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) in SMEs and technology-driven startups
• Web3 and new organizational models
• Serious games to study the management of paradoxes

Vita

Beruflicher Werdegang

• seit SoSe 2022: Professorin für Technology Assessment und Cultural Management
• 2019 – 2022: PostDoc am Friedrichshafener Institut für Familienunternehmen (FIF), Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen
• 2019 – 2022: Leitung Science Services & Strategy Consultant, philoneos GmbH, München
• 2018 – 2019: Leitung der Future of Leadership Initiative, Munich Leadership Institute, München
• 2013 – 2018: Management Team und Programm Koordinatorin am Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM), TUM & LMU München
• 2012: Sustainability & Innovation, Deloitte NL, Rotterdam
• 2009 – 2012: Mitgründerin und Geschäftsführung, Spread the Word – Connecting Social & Business

Hochschulausbildung

• 2014 – 2018: Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation & Competition & LMU München, Dissertation in Entrepreneurship
• 2014 – 2017: Master of Business Research, LMU München
• 2016: Forschungsaufenthalt an der UC Berkeley, Kalifornien
• 2012 – 2013: Master of Science in Sustainability Science & Policy, Maastricht University
• 2008 – 2011: Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Management & Economics (Major), Communication & Cultural Management (Minor), Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen

Auszeichnungen

• Junior-Fellowship für Innovationen in der Hochschullehre, Deutscher Stifterverband & Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung (2021)
• Best Paper Award, Diana International Research Conference (2019)
• Best Empirical Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference (2018)
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship (2012 – 2013)
• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V. (2008 – 2013)

Veröffentlichungen

Bechthold, L. A., Chugunova, M., Friess, S., & Hoisl, K. (2021). Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics. In U. Weber (Ed.), Fundamental Questions: Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects (pp. 135-154). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Schriften zur Gleichstellung No. 51 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869

Hahn, D., Spitzley, D. I., Brumana, M., Ruzzene, A., Bechthold, L., Prügl, R., & Minola, T. (2021). Founding or succeeding? Exploring how family embeddedness shapes the entrepreneurial intentions of the next generation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 173, 121182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121182, VHB3: B)

Bechthold, L., Lude, M., & Prügl, R. (2021). Crisis Favors the Prepared Firm: How Organizational Ambidexterity Relates to Perceptions of Organizational Resilience. In A. Zehrer, G. Glowka, K. Schwaiger, & V. Ranacher-Lackner (Ed.), Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry (pp. 178-205). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7352-5.ch008

Bechthold, L., & Rosendahl Huber, L. (2020). Peer Effects in Entrepreneurship Education Field Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender and Team Emotional Intelligence. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1). doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2020.190.

Bechthold, L. A., & Rosendahl Huber, L. (2019). What Do You Fear? Refining the Role of Fear of Failure as an Antecedent of Entrepreneurial Intention. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), 13437. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.13437abstract

Bechthold, L. (2019). Motives and Motivators for Female Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation of Fear of Failure, Social Learning, and Team Emotional Intelligence. Dissertation

Bechthold, L. A., & Rosendahl Huber, L. (2018). Yes, I can! – A Field Experiment on Female Role Model Effects in Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1), 12081. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.209

Bechthold, L., & Lachner, F. (Eds.) (2016): CDTM Trend Report 2016 Spring. Fighting Hunger in the Digital Era. Munich: Center for Digital Technology and Management. ISBN: 978-3-9818511-1-3. In collaboration with: UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator.

Harhoff, Hilty, Bechthold, Jablonka, Nothelfer, & Suyer. (2016). Intellectual property and innovation in digital markets. Study on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

Bechthold et al. (2015). 3D Printing: A qualitative assessment of applications, recent trends and the technology’s future potential. Study on behalf of the German Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation.