Jörg Freiling

Jörg Freiling (* 1964 in Bückeburg ) is a German business economist with a focus on entrepreneurship, management and organizational research and has been Professor of Economics at the University of Bremen since April 2001 , where he heads the Chair for SMEs, Business Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (LEMEX).

Life

Freiling studied economics from 1984 to 1989 at the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1989 he started his doctorate in marketing in the group of Werner H. Engelhardt at the Ruhr University Bochum , which he completed in 1995. His dissertation was entitled: The Dependency of Suppliers. A strategic problem. Partly parallel to his doctorate, Freiling was employed on projects in a company in the automotive supply industry. After completing his doctorate, Freiling began a habilitation project, which he also completed in November 2000 at the Ruhr University Bochum with the license to teach business administration. After a substitute professorship at the University of Paderborn from October 2000 to March 2001, Freiling accepted a position at the University of Bremen in April 2001 and initially headed the field of "Management of medium-sized companies in international business", from which in January 2002 the chair for medium -sized companies , start-ups and entrepreneurship emerged . At the same time, Freiling accepted a contract professorship at the Free University of Bozen in Italy from October 2000 to September 2002 .

Freiling is the founder of the research network Strategic Competence Management , which was recruited in 1999 and researches questions of dynamic skills. His research in a long-term context is devoted to questions of the formation, change and decline of companies in their economic and social embedding.

During his work, Freiling took on several visiting professorships and teaching assignments. In the international field he was in Innsbruck / Austria , Kufstein / Austria, Bozen / Italy , St. Petersburg / Russia , Pachuca / Mexico , in Germany a. a. active in Kaiserslautern , Bochum and Oldenburg .

Since July 2009 Freiling has been a member of the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Bremen. From 2009 to 2011 he acted as dean of studies and since 2011 as vice dean .

Work content and focus

An early focus of his work continued Freiling from 1989 in the field of management of business relationships. His research was dedicated to the potentials and processes in the cooperation of cooperating companies. In his work on customer and provider integration (integrativity research), he emphasized the aspect of the co-creation of services and potential integrativity, i.e. H. the customer-specific alignment of production factors .

The work led him in the 1990s to focus on the resources of companies . This orientation corresponded with the resource-based view , which was gaining increasing attention at the time, and the core competence perspective, whereby the latter is primarily found in the area of dynamic capability research today. The interest of Freiling and his publication partners focused not only - as in the mainstream - on researching the fundamentals of sustainable competitive advantages , but above all on the question of why companies exist as institutions at all. In contrast to the transaction cost theory , the “Competence-based Theory of the Firm” co-developed by the working group is based on the fact that the main reasons for the emergence of companies are not uncertainty and specificity, but rather the familiar, intimate conditions that companies have for learning and the Provide skills development. The image of a special “organizational ambience” was therefore designed that can promote the development and use of competencies in a special way.

In 1999, Freiling formed a group of researchers initially focused on the German-speaking area, who pursued strategic issues of competence management . The so-called “SKM Group” has been meeting regularly since 1999 for conferences that take place every two years and for smaller scientific events. She publishes her results through the u. a. "Journal of Competences, Strategy and Management" (JCSM, formerly Yearbook Strategisches Kompetenz-Management, or JSKM) co-edited by Freiling.

The associated governance research by Freiling was continued by the fact that he led the project “Legal Security and Justice in Global Exchange Processes” in the DFG- funded Collaborative Research Center 597 on “Statehood in Transition” together with his legal colleague Gralf-Peter Calliess (2006– 2014). Here, research was conducted into how formal and, above all, informal legal equivalents develop in the absence of global trade law, which give business partners sufficient security in international transactions to conduct their business.

In his more recent work, Freiling focuses on entrepreneurship as well as the development and governance of newly founded companies, especially startups , emphasizing their regional embedding in start-up landscapes (so-called startup ecosystems). One of the focal points of the work is the peculiarities of migration and diaspora start-ups as well as the start-up activities of refugees.

Publications

Market and company. 3. Edition. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8573-6 (with Martin Reckenfelderbäumer)
Entrepreneurship. Vahlen, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-8006-3277-0
Resource-based view and economic theory , Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2001
Rich-to-poor diaspora ventures: how do they survive? , International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2016, 28 (4): 391–413 (with Aki Harima and Maria Elo)
On the Path Towards a Competence-based Theory of the Firm , Organization Studies, 2008, 29 (8/9): 1143–1164 (with Martin Gersch and Christian Goeke)
SME Management - What Can We Learn from Entrepreneurship Theory? , International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 2008, 6 (1): 1–19.
A Competence-based Theory of the Firm . management revue, 2004, 15 (1): 27-52.
Integrativity as a bridge between individual transactions and business relationships, Marketing - ZFP, 1995, 17 (1): 37–43 (with Werner H. Engelhardt).

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personal data
SURNAME	Freiling, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German business economist
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buckeburg