Festivities

On June 28th, our chair member Daliborka Witschel successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Understanding how Industrial Firms Succeed in the Digital Age - A Microfoundational View on Dynamic Capabilities and their Impact on Business Model Innovation". In five high-quality articles, she de...

Our longtime team member at the Chair of Industrial Management, Prof. Dr. Julian Müller (now at the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein), has successfully completed his habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification). His habilitation thesis is entitled "Digital and Sustainable Transformati...

The Chair of Industrial Management has again reason to celebrate! On June 21st, our research associate Marie-Christin Schmidt successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Interconnection and Cooperation in the Era of Industry 4.0: The transformative Role of Digital Platforms and Ecosystems fo...

After a break of two years due to Corona, the "Bergkirchweih", beloved in Erlangen and the surrounding area, could finally take place again. As a chair of the Friedich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg it was of course our duty to attend this traditional regional beer festival. During this tea...

On 13th of May 2022 the Master Thesis from Christoph Kern - which was supervised by Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt and Dr. Lukas Maier - with the title “Smart City - Opportunity or Challenge for the Automotive Industry?” was rewarded with the SEW-EURODRIVE Master-Award as the best student thesis in Management...

On May 21st, the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to contribute to “Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” with their research into sustainable innovations and consumer behavior. At their booth, Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Dr. Lukas Maier and Lauren Mackintosh presented their current re...

20th May 2022 On May 20th, the last three classes of the Executive MBA „Business Management“ received their MBA diplomas from Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt (Dean of Executive Education and Head of the Program) and Dietmar Bendheimer (CEO WFA). In a festive ceremony, 51 graduates gathered in the beauti...

Marc started his career as a research assistant at the Chair of Industrial Management in January 2018, exactly 1500 days later he submitted his doctoral thesis. During this time, he participated in numerous international conferences, published several highly ranked scientific papers and now successf...

For the fourth time, the Chair of Industrial Management offered something very special to our FAU students and to the region of Nuremberg. In our course “Businessplanseminar – Local Heroes Edition” twelve master students took the opportunity to work on real business challenges from our local busines...

On February 3th 2022, the grand graduation ceremony of the student start-up competition "5-Euro-Business" took place digitally. A total of 12 teams presented their business ideas to an interested audience and a top-class jury by short business pitches. Prof. Voigt and Marc Rücker supervised and co-d...