Dr. Mark Okraku

Dissertation title
Platform Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Managing Institutional Voids in the Latin American Sharing Economy (2020)

CV:

February - May 2018: KITFEM-Scholarship of the European Commission for a research stay at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Guadalajara, Mexico.
September & October 2017: Research stay - City of Knowledge, Panama City, Panama
Since October 2016: Research & Teaching Associate and Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Organization and Corporate Development of the University of Goettingen
2013 – 2015: Master of Arts in Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2010 – 2013: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Working student at:

Continentale Sachversicherung AG, Dortmund
Flipintu GmbH
Socal security office Dortmund, Department:Education and Participation

Employee at the state project „Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss“.
Internships at the Social Research Center Dortmund and at the Institute for Work and Qualification in Duisburg

Research interest:

Emerging Markets
Strategic Management
Internationalisierung und multinationale Unternehmen
Sharing Economy
Entrepreneurship

Past Teaching:

Tutorial: Corporate Development (Summer Term 2020)

Empirical Seminar "Social Network Analysis" (Winter Term 2019/2020)

Tutorial Management and Organization (Summer Term 2019)

Empirical Seminar "Social Network Analysis" (Winter Term 2018/2019)

Tutorial Management and Organization (Summer Term 2018)

Tutorial Organizational Design and Change (Winter Term 2017/2018)

Tutorial Management and Organization (Summer Term 2017)

Seminar Organization "Business Cooperation" (Summer Term 2017)

Tutorial Organizational Design and Change (Winter Term 2016/2017)

Conferences / Talks / Invited Workshops:

2019: Organizational hybridity in the platform economy – Sacrificing social goals for transactional safety under conditions of uncertainties. Paper accepted for presentation at 45th European International Business Academy Conference, Leeds, England.

2019: Organizational hybridity in the platform economy – Sacrificing social goals for transactional safety under conditions of institutional uncertainties. Paper invited for presentation at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2019: Platform organizations as institutional intermediaries: Formalization effects on employment relationships in emerging markets. Paper invited for presentation at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland (co-authored with C.E. Weber, 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 invited for presentation at the 44th European International Business Academy Conference, Poznań, Poland (co-authored with C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
2018: Sharing Economy Organizations in Emerging Markets: Institutional Uncertainties, Transactional Risk and Micro Solutions. Paper invited for presentation at the U4 SSEL Cluster Conference on 'Current Challenges for a Sustainable Future', Göttingen, Germany (co-authored with C.E. Weber, 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 C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
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 C.E. Weber and I. Maurer).