Achim Hecker

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Achim Hecker (born October 23, 1974 in Oberhausen ) is a German economist and university professor . From 2013 to 2018, Hecker was rector of the private university Schloss Seeburg in Seekirchen am Wallersee near Salzburg and from 2017 to 2018 chairman of the Salzburg University Conference.

Life

Hecker grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where he graduated from high school at Otto-Pankok-Gymnasium in 1994. From 1994 to 1997 he studied economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and from 1997 to 2000 additionally philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . 2001 he was with the dissertation transitions. Metaphysics criticism in the footsteps of Heidegger and Derrida completed his doctorate.

After completing his doctorate, Hecker worked from 2002 to 2005 as a senior consultant and project manager at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company , before accepting a position as an assistant professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 2005. There he completed his habilitation in 2010 with the cumulative habilitation thesis Economic studies on the boundaries and internal organization of companies and received the Venia Legendi for the subject of business administration.

From 2010 to 2013 he represented the professorship for organization at the Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2013 he accepted the professorship for innovation management at the private university Schloss Seeburg in Seekirchen am Wallersee , where he was also appointed rector in the same year. He held the office of rector of the private university Schloss Seeburg until 2018. At the beginning of 2017 he succeeded Elfriede Windischbauer as chairman of the Salzburg University Conference.

In 2018, Hecker founded the DBU Digital Business University of Applied Sciences, which he has been managing director since then. In addition, since 2018 he has also been a professor at UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology and since 2019 Professor of Digital Leadership.

Publications (selection)

  • Hecker, A. (2016). Cultural Contingencies of Open Innovation Strategies. International Journal of Innovation Management, 20 (7), 1–27.
  • Hecker, A. & Ganter, A. (2016). Organizational and Technological Innovation and the Moderating Effect of Open Innovation Strategies. International Journal of Innovation Management, 20 (2), 1–31.
  • Hecker, A., & Kretschmer, T. (2015). Public R&D as a standard-setting device. Industry & Innovation, 21 (7-8), 599-615.
  • Martius, W., Hecker, A. & Renzl. B. (Eds.). (2015). Knowledge and innovation management in franchise practice: Sustainable success through replication and innovation. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
  • Hecker, A., & Ganter, A. (2014). Path and Past Dependence of Firm Innovation. Economics of Innovation & New Technology, 23 (5/6), 563-583.
  • Ganter, A., & Hecker, A. (2014). Configurational Paths to Organizational Innovation: Qualitative Comparative Analyzes of Antecedents and Contingencies. Journal of Business Research, 67 (6), 1285-1292.
  • Ganter, A., & Hecker, A. (2013). Persistence of Innovation: Discriminating between Types of Innovation and Sources of State Dependence. Research Policy, 42 (8), 1431-1445.
  • Hecker, A., & Ganter, A. (2013). The Influence of Product Market Competition on Technological and Management Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey. European Management Review, 10 (1), 17–33.
  • Ganter, A., & Hecker, A. (2013). Deciphering Antecedents of Organizational Innovation. Journal of Business Research, 66 (5), 575-584.
  • Hecker, A. (2012). Knowledge beyond the individual? Making Sense of a Notion of Collective Knowledge in Organization Theory. Organization Studies, 33 (3), 423-445.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DBU Digital Business University of Applied Sciences: Prof. Dr. Achim Hecker , accessed on August 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen