Rudi Bresser

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Rudi KF Bresser (* 1948 in Gelnhausen ) is a German economist and professor at the Free University of Berlin .

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Bresser studied business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated with a diploma in 1974. In 1976 he also obtained a diploma in business education in Frankfurt am Main. In 1979 the doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. in Frankfurt. From 1980 to 1981, Bresser was Assistant Professor of Management at New York University . From 1981 to 1990 he worked as an assistant or associate professor of management at Baruch College, City University of New York . Bresser has been Professor of Business Administration, in particular Strategic Management, at the Free University of Berlin since 1990 (retired in 2015). His current research interests particularly concern the topic of 'academic governance'.

Bresser was visiting professor at the University of South Florida and the Stern School of Business at New York University .

From 2007 to 2010, Bresser was the first professor at a German university to be Associate Editor of the 'Strategic Management Journal'.

The Handelsblatt counts Bresser from published A Journal publications for the top 30 business economists in Germany.

Publications (selection)

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  • 2020 "Restoring a Taste for Science: Enhancing Strategic Management Knowledge by Changing the Governance of Academic Journals", Strategic Management Review, in press.
  • 2016 “How CEOs protect themselves against dismissal: A social status perspective”, Strategic Management Journal 37, 1107–1117 (With M. Flickinger, M. Wrage, A. Tuschke)
  • 2014 “Knowledge Generation and Governance in Management Research”, Journal of Business Economics 84, 129–144 (With R. Dunbar)
  • 2013 “Strategically Valuable Resources and Capabilities and Successful M&A: A Dyadic Perspective”, Journal of Business Economics 83, 235-257 (With P. Grill)
  • 2012 “Practical implications of the resource-based view: Assessing the predictive power of the VRIO-framework”, Journal of Business Economics 82, 335–359 (With C. Powalla)
  • 2008 "Performance Implications of Delayed Competitive Responses", Strategic Management Journal 29, 1077-1096 (With J. Boyd)
  • 2003 "Institutional Capital", Schmalenbach Business Review 55, 220–241 (With K. Millonig)
  • 2000 "Modeling the Dynamics of Strategic Fit", Strategic Management Journal 21, 429–453 (With E. Zajac, M. Kraatz)
  • 1994 "Competitive and Collective Strategies: An Empirical Examination of Strategic Groups", Advances in Strategic Management 10, 477–501 (With R. Dunbar, T. Jithendranathan)
  • 1988 "Matching Collective and Competitive Strategies", Strategic Management Journal 9, 375-385 1
  • 1986 "Collective Strategy: Vice or Virtue", Academy of Management Review 11, 408-427 (With J. Harl)
  • 1984 "Structural Dimensions of University Departments and Their Context", Organization Studies 5, 119-146
  • 1983 "Dysfunctional Effects of Formal Planning: Two Theoretical Explanations", Academy of Management Review 8, 588-599 (With R. Bishop).

Monographs

  • 2010 Strategic Management Theory, 2nd ed., Stuttgart
  • 2000 Winning Strategies in a Deconstructing World, New York (With M. Hitt, R. Nixon, D. Heuskel)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita and publications of Rudi KF Bresser ( memento from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 31, 2013
  2. Handelsblatt Betriebswirtschaftslehre: Top 250 (2012) , accessed on March 31, 2013