Chair of Organization and Corporate Development

Dr. Clarissa E. Weber


Research interest:

  • (Strategic) Collaboration (interorganizational, interprofessional, international)
  • Temporary organizations
  • Entrepreneurial behavior and strategies
  • Organization and change in/of processes and routines
  • Internationalization and international organizations


Industries/Fields:

  • Renewable energy
  • Sharing economy
  • Platform-based business models
  • Medical and nursing care
  • Videogame development
  • Crowdfunding
  • Biotech
  • Coworking


CV:

  • Since 10/2017: Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) at the Chair of Organization and Corporate Development, Georg-August-University Goettingen
  • 2012-2017: Research & Teaching Assistant and Doctoral Student at the Chair of Organization and Corporate Development (Prof. Dr. Indre Maurer), Georg-August-University Goettingen
  • 2015: Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, USA (Sept-Dec)
  • 2006-2012: Student of Business Administration, University of Cologne; Majors: Corporate Development & Organization, Corporate Finance and Economics (Degree: Diplom-Kauffrau, German equivalent to Master of Science in Business Administration)
  • 2010-2011: Semester Abroad, University of Manchester & Manchester Business School, UK
  • 2012: Summer School in Econometrics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • Other experience: Student research assistant at the Seminar for Corporate Development and Organization at the University of Cologne, tutor for mathematics, student assistant / intern in an auditing company, in the cultural sector as well as in a consultancy project for an international chemical company



Current teaching:

  • Lecture: International Management (Winter Term 2022/23)
  • Seminar: Research seminar for PhD students (every term)
  • Master colloquium (every term)



Past teaching:

    Bachelor
  • Lecture: Strategic Management and Organization (Summer Term 2017)
  • Seminar: Inter-Organizational Relationships (Summer Term 2017 and Winter Term 2013/14)
  • Seminar: Knowledge Management (Winter Term 2016/17)
  • Tutorial: Organizational Design and Change (Winter Term 2015/16 and 2012/13)
  • Tutorial: Strategic Management and Organization (Summer Term 2014 and 2012)

    • Master
  • Lecture: International Management (Winter Term 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2022/23)
  • Seminar: Space and Proximity (Summer Term 2021)
  • Seminar: Process management and interprofessional collaboration: Analysis and optimization of processes in health care (Summer Term 2020)
  • Seminar: New Work – Independent Work and Coworking (Summer Term 2019)
  • Seminar: Organizing New Forms of Working – Control, Collaboration, and Community in Coworking (Summer Term 2018)
  • Seminar: Social Network Analyses (Winter Term 2017/18)
  • Seminar: Coordination und Knowledge Transfer in Inter-Organizational Relationships
    (Summer Term 2016)
  • Seminar: Business Models in the Sharing Economy (Summer Term 2015)
  • Seminar: Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations (Winter Term 2013/14)
  • Business Project Seminar: Employer Branding in SMEs (Winter Term 2014/15)

    • PhD
  • Seminar: Research seminar for PhD students (since Summer Term 2017/18)


Publications:

  • Weber, C.E.; Maurer, I. (2023). Knowledge acquisition from host-country partners: The interplay of trust and legal safeguards. Journal of World Business, recently accepted for publication. [VHB Jourqual 3: B]
  • Weber, C.E.; Steigenberger, N.; Wilhelm, H. (2023). After successful fundraising: How overfunding and category spanning affect the release and audience-perceived quality of crowdfunded products. Small Business Economics, recently accepted for publication. [VHB Jourqual 3: B]
  • Gärtner, L.; Kortkamp, C.; Müller, C.; Tetzlaff, B.; Fleischmann, N.; Weber, C.E.; Scherer, M.; Kühn, A.; Jarchow, A.-M.; Lüth, F.; Köpke, S.; Friede, T.; König, H.H.; Hummers, E.; Maurer, I.; Balzer, K. (2022). Implementation, mechanisms of change and contextual factors of a complex intervention to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of medical care for nursing home residents: Study protocol of the process evaluation of the interprof ACT intervention package. Trials 23(1): 1-21. [VHB Jourqual 3: -]
  • Weber, C.E.; Kortkamp, C.; Maurer, I.; Hummers, E. (2022). Boundary work in response to professionals’ contextual constraints: Micro-strategies in interprofessional collaboration. Organization Studies 43(9): 1453-1477. [VHB Jourqual 3: A]
  • Weber, C.E.; Okraku, M.; Mair, J., Maurer, I. (2021). Steering the transition from informal to formal service provision: labor platforms in emerging-market countries. Socio-Economic Review 19(4): 1217–1243. [VHB Jourqual 3: B]
  • Abel, R.; Bort, S.; Maurer, I.; Weber, C.E.; Wilhelm, H. (2020). Tensions in portfolios of temporary organizations: How project portfolio maturity attenuates the negative effects of portfolio ambidexterity. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 67: 209-231. [VHB Jourqual 3: B]
  • Weber, C.E.; Chahabadi, D.; Maurer, I. (2020). Antecedents and performance effect of managerial misperception of institutional differences. Journal of World Business, 55 (1): 1-18. [VHB Jourqual 3: B]

    • Weber, C.E.; Chahabadi, D.; Maurer, I. (2017). Managerial misperception of differences between home and host countries – Antecedents and effect. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.
    • Weber, C.E. (2017) Knowledge, trust, and misperception across institutional environments – Evidence from the German renewable-energy industry. Dissertation. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.



    Conferences / Talks / Invited Workshops:

    • 2022: Not so perfect after all: Overfunding, category spanning, and development outcomes of crowdfunded products. Paper presented at the 38th EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria (co-authored with N. Steigenberger and H. Wilhelm).
    • 2022: Interaction-based services and virtual work: Video consultations in primary care during COVID-19. Paper presented at the 13th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference, Birmingham, UK (co-authored with M. Diel and C. Kortkamp).
    • 2021: interprof HOME: Entwicklung und Testung eines interprofessionellen personenzentrierten Versorgungskonzeptes für in der Häuslichkeit lebenden Patient*innen (Studiendesign). Paper presented at the Kongress für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin (DEGAM), Lübeck, Germany (co-authored with A. Mazur, C. Müller, K. Balzer, T. Friede, L. Gärtner, H.-H. König, A. Konnopka, S. Köpke, I. Maurer, T. Ruppel, M. Scherer, B. Tetzlaff, E. Hummers).
    • 2021: The ready-made network: Networking and exchange activity of independent workers in coworking spaces. Paper presented at the virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual meeting (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2021: How overfunding and category spanning affect release and quality of crowdfunded products. Paper presented at the virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual meeting (co-authored with N. Steigenberger and H. Wilhelm).
    • 2021: Upholding of routines in interprofessional collaboration: A qualitative study in nursing homes. Paper invited for presentation at the virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual meeting (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp).
    • 2021: Creating proximity at a distance: A qualitative study of video consultation between General Practitioners and patients in Germany. Paperpresented at the 37th EGOS Colloquium, virtual meeting, hosted by VU Amsterdam (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp and I. Maurer).
    • 2021: The ready-made network: Networking and exchange activity of independent workers in coworking spaces. Paper presented at the 37th EGOS Colloquium, virtual meeting, hosted by VU Amsterdam (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2021: Steering the transition from informal to formal service provision: Labor platforms in emerging-market countries. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), virtual meeting (co-authored with M. Okraku, J. Mair and I. Maurer).
    • 2020: Tensions in portfolios of temporary organizations: How project portfolio maturity attenuates the negative effects of portfolio ambidexterity. Paper presented at the PDW "For a limited time only: A practice-based view of strategizing in temporary organizations" at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual meeting (co-authored with R. Abel, S. Bort, I. Maurer, H. Wilhelm).
    • 2020: Boundary work and contextual demands: Micro-strategies in interprofessional collaboration. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual meeting (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp and I. Maurer).
    • 2020: Flexible upholding of routines in interprofessional collaboration: A qualitative study in German nursing homes. Paper presented at the 36th EGOS Colloquium, virtual meeting, hosted by University of Hamburg (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp).
    • 2020: Micro-strategies to enforce competing demands in interprofessional collaboration: The case of geriatric nurses and general practitioners in German nursing homes. Paper presented at the 12th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference, Manchester, UK, virtual meeting (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp und I. Maurer).
    • 2020: Bringing control back in: Using coworking spaces for motivation-as-control in independent work. Paper presented at the Journal of Management Studies & Society for Advancement of Management Studies Special Conference on “The Future of Work”, Birmingham, UK, virtual meeting (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2020: Steering the transitioning from informal to formal service provision: The case of labor platforms in emerging markets. Paper presented at the colloquium „Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt“, TU Berlin, Institut für Soziologie (co-authored with M. Okraku, J. Mair, I. Maurer).
    • 2019: Bringing control back in: Using coworking spaces for motivation-as-control in independent work. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2019: Competing demands in interprofessional collaboration between geriatric nurses and general practitioners – Reconfiguration practices in German nursing homes. Paper presented at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland (co-authored with C.P. Kortkamp und I. Maurer).
    • 2019: Tensions between unknown and familiar alliances: The moderation effect of alliance portfolio maturity. Paper presented at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland (co-authored with R. Abel, S. Bort, I. Maurer, H. Wilhelm).
    • 2019: Platform organizations as institutional intermediaries: Formalization effects on employment relationships in emerging markets. Paper presented at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland (co-authored with M. Okraku, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
    • 2018: Platform organizations in emerging markets: Creating trust under conditions of high uncertainty and liability of newness. Paper presented at the U4 SSEL Cluster Conference on Current Challenges for a Sustainable Future, Goettingen, Germany (co-authored with M. Okraku, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
    • 2018: Constructing new working environments: Community organization in co-working spaces. Paper presented at the U4 SSEL Cluster Conference on Current Challenges for a Sustainable Future, Goettingen, Germany (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2018: Unknown and familiar: Gradations of temporality in alliance portfolios. Invited presentation at the 4th Workshop of the Scientific Network “Temporary Organizing” in Berlin, Germany (co-authored with R. Abel, S. Bort, I. Maurer, H. Wilhelm).
    • 2018: Constructing transactional confidence under conditions of institutional uncertainties: Social and technological micro solutions of platform-based organizations in emerging markets. Paper invited for presentation at the 44th European International Business Academy Conference, Poznań, Poland (co-authored with M. Okraku, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
    • 2018: Constructing transactional confidence under conditions of institutional uncertainties: Social and technological micro solutions of platform-based organizations in emerging markets. Paper presented at the 34th EGOS Colloquium, Tallinn, Estonia (co-authored with M. Okraku, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
    • 2018: Organizing new ways of working: The interplay between governance and the construction of a community. Paper invited for presentation at the 8th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands (co-authored with J. Klutt).
    • 2017: Partner selection and trust in inter-organizational relationships. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA. The paper was selected as a finalist paper for the 2017 OMT Best Student Paper Award.
    • 2017: Managerial misperception of differences between home and host countries - Antecedents and effect. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA (co-authored with D. Chahabadi and I. Maurer). The paper is included in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings 2017.
    • 2017: Expanding performance feedback theory to temporary organizations. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA. (co-authored with H. Wilhelm, N. Steigenberger, and J. Juntunen).
    • 2017: Partner selection and trust in inter-organizational relationships: The role of selection effort and selection criteria. Paper presented at the 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • 2017: Internationalization in the Sharing Economy - Business model adaptation for emerging markets. Research project presented at the 4th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Lund, Sweden (co-authored with M. Okraku and I. Maurer).
    • 2016: Managerial misperception of differences between home and host countries - An empirical study on antecedents and performance effect. Paper presented at the European International Business Academy (EIBA) Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria (co-authored with D. Chahabadi and I. Maurer).
    • 2016: Managerial misperception of institutional differences between home and host countries - An empirical study on its antecedents and performance effect. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Berlin, Germany (co-authored with D. Chahabadi and I. Maurer).
    • 2016: Finding someone to trust: Partnership formation in international inter-organizational relationships. Paper accepted for presentation at the McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Vaasa, Finland.
    • 2016: Effects of inter-organizational and institutional trust on knowledge acquisition across borders. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA (co-authored with I. Maurer).
    • 2015: Dimensions of inter-organizational and institutional-based trust and their joint effects on knowledge acquisition in cross-border partnerships. Paper presented at Stanford University, USA (co-authored with I. Maurer).
    • 2015: Dimensions of inter-organizational and institutional-based trust and their joint effects on knowledge acquisition in cross-border partnerships. Paper presented at the 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece (co-authored with I. Maurer).
    • 2015: Acquiring knowledge from local partners: The role of inter-organizational and institutional trust in international relationships of market-seeking firms. Paper presented at ANZIBA 2015 Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
    • 2013: Internationalization Strategies: Old Questions, New Contexts. Medici Summer School in Management Studies of NYU Stern, HEC Paris, Alma Graduate School, Florence, Italy.
    • 2013: The institutional and relational embeddedness of multinational enterprises. Research project presented at the PhD Seminar "Strategy within markets as disciplinary structures", HEC Paris, France.