Research

Due to the corona pandemic, this year's ISPIM Conference could not take place in Berlin as planned. Nevertheless, our chair team was able to participate in this research convention in a digital way. Our research associate Marc Rücker presented our study “Why Employees Refuse Innovative Offices - Bar...

Despite of the current challenging situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire Chair of Industrial Management is working hard on both teaching and research themes – no matter whether being at the chair or at home. We are proud that in these challenging times, we are able to provide an exci...

The Chair of Industrial Management participated in the scientific symposium “Supply Management”, organized by the Federation of Material Management, Purchasing, and Logistics (Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik) on 10th March 2020. Johannes Veile and Prof. Dr. Julian Müller prese...

It is a pleasure to announce that our paper “Does applying design thinking result in better new product concepts than a traditional innovation approach? An experimental comparison study” has been accepted for publication in The European Management Journal (EMJ). EMJ is a flagship scholarly journal, ...

We are proud to announce that our article “The role of absorptive capacity and innovation strategy in the design of Industry 4.0 Business Models - A comparison between SMEs and large enterprises” has been published in European Management Journal (VHB B-Ranking, Impact Factor 2,985). The article auth...

In the week of 8 to 10 January 2020, the International Project Seminar, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt and Daliborka Witschel from the FAU, and Prof. Jonathan Beebe from Boston College (USA), successfully started in Nuremberg. At the beginning of the project, the representatives f...

The Journal of Business Economics (JBE, former ZfB), founded in 1924, is one of Germany’s leading journals in the field of management and business economics. Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Günter Fandel, and Co-Editor Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt are proud to announce that a new Special Issue of this journa...

We are pleased to announce that our article “Sustainable Industrial Value Creation in SMEs: A Comparison between Industry 4.0 and Made in China 2025”, published in the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology (IJPEM-GT), was recently selected for the Springer...

We are happy to announce that our study “Marktveränderungen durch die digitale Transformation in der Industrie“ (Engl. Market changes caused by the digital transformation in the industry) was published in the book “Marktchancen 4.0” edited by Prof. Marion Steven and Lisa Grandjean. The article, comp...

On November 26th, Prof. Voigt once again invited the EFI project teams comprising of twelve chairs of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg for the seventh research meeting. The teams discussed their latest research results on the topics of...