Dietmar Grichnik

Dietmar Grichnik (born November 29, 1968 in Gladbeck ) is a German economist and professor for entrepreneurship and technology management at the University of St. Gallen . He is director at the Institute for Technology Management and founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE-HSG).

Life

After completing a bank apprenticeship, Dietmar Grichnik studied business administration and business education at the University of Cologne and Pennsylvania State University . He was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. did his doctorate and habilitation in 2005 on the topic of international entrepreneurship in Düsseldorf after several research stays in the USA. Grichnik lives with his wife and daughter in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Act

In 2005, immediately after completing his habilitation, Grichnik accepted a professorship for Corporate Finance & Entrepreneurship at the University of Witten / Herdecke. In 2007, the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management appointed him a professorship for entrepreneurship.

In 2010, the University of St. Gallen elected him Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Institute for Technology Management. Since 2012 he has also headed the Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE-HSG) for the promotion of university start-ups . In 2015, he helped set up the Global Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of St. Gallen. His research areas are entrepreneurial thinking, decision-making and acting under uncertainty as well as start-up and growth financing. In addition to the professorship, he is personally active and supports several start-ups.

In 2016 Dietmar Grichnik published the book Entrepreneurial Living - Enterprise Your Life. Entitled Should Entrepreneurs plan or just storm the castle? he and his co-authors published a meta-analysis of planning processes. In a research article, another meta-analysis shows the influence of entrepreneurial experience on the success of small and medium-sized companies. The Swiss Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report 2015/16 was published in co-authorship with Dietmar Grichnik. In a white paper, he formulates theses with other experts on the promotion of digital entrepreneurship in the EU.

Mandates and engagements

Grichnik is Dean of the School of Management at the University of St. Gallen. He is a member of the executive committee of the “Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung” (FGF) and promotes the next generation of scientists. As a member of the "Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration", he is Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Awards

• 2007; Wolfgang Ritter Prize for outstanding business research

Works

• Entrepreneurial Living - Undertake your life. In seven moves to self-employment. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-44631-1 .
• ed. together with Oliver Gassmann: The entrepreneurial company: Revitalizing and shaping the future with effectuation - navigating and staying on course in stormy times. Springer Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-65802058-3 .
• ed. together with Peter Witt: Entrepreneurial Marketing. ZfB Special Issue, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
• with Malte Brettel, Christian Koropp and René Mauer: Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial thinking, decision-making and action by innovative and technology-oriented companies , Schäffer-Poeschel-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-79102885-9 .
• International entrepreneurship. Decision-making and risk behavior of company founders and venture financiers in cultural contexts. Theorizing and empirical analysis. Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-42812265-3 .
• ed. together with Christoph Börner: Entrepreneurial Finance, compendium on start-up and growth financing. Physika-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-79081577-1 .
• Banking associations. Strategic network management in the banking industry. Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-82447258-1 .

Web links

• Website from Dietmar Grichnik
• Dietmar Grichnik on the website of the University of St. Gallen
• Dietmar Grichnik in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Dietmar Grichnik on the Alexandria research platform at the University of St. Gallen
• Dietmar Grichnik at wiwo.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entrepreneurial Living - Entrepreneurial Living. In: entrepreneurial-living.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016 . 
2. ↑ January Brinckmann, Dietmar Grichnik, Diana Kapsa: Should entrepreneurs plan or just storm the castle? A meta-analysis on contextual factors impacting the business planning-performance relationship in small firms . In: Journal of Business Venturing . tape 25 , no. 1 , January 1, 2010, p. 24–40 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jbusvent.2008.10.007 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed October 10, 2016]).
3. ↑ Katrin Mayer-Haug, Stuart Read, Jan Brinckmann, Nicholas Dew, Dietmar Grichnik: Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs . In: Research Policy . tape 42 , no. 6–7 , July 1, 2013, pp. 1251–1273 , doi : 10.1016 / j.respol.2013.03.001 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed October 10, 2016]).
4. ↑ Grichnik, Dietmar; Vogel, Peter & Burkhard, Barbara: SSM Report 2015-2016. (No longer available online.) In: SSM Report 2015-2016. 2015, archived from the original on October 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Fleisch, E., Baschera, P., Brechbühl, H., Brettel, M., Buberl, T., Bult, A., ... & Zellweger, T .: The Revaluation of Risk Taking. (No longer available online.) 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 10, 2016 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Wolfgang Ritter Foundation Bremen. In: www.wolfgang-ritter-stiftung.de. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .