Prof. Dr. Laura Bechthold

• Technology Assessment & Technology Foresight
• Organizational Culture & Leadership
• (Corporate) Digital Responsibilty
• Responsible Innovation and related future skills

Current projects

• Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) in SMEs and technology-driven startups
• Web3 and new organizational models
• Serious games to study the management of paradoxes

Professional Career

• Since SoSe 2022: Professor for Technology Assessment and Cultural Management
• 2019 – 2022: PostDoc at the Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship (FIF), Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
• 2019 – 2022: Director Science Services & Strategy Consultant, philoneos GmbH, Munich
• 2018 – 2019: Executive Director of the Future of Leadership Initiative, Munich Leadership Institute, Munich
• 2013 – 2018: Management Team and Program Coordinator at the Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM), TUM & LMU Munich
• 2012: Sustainability & Innovation, Deloitte NL, Rotterdam
• 2009 – 2012: Co-Founder & Managing Director, Spread the Word – Connecting Social & Business

Educational Background

• 2014 – 2018: Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation & Competition & LMU Munich, Dissertation in Entrepreneurship
• 2014 – 2017: Master of Business Research, LMU Munich
• 2016: Research stay at UC Berkeley, California
• 2012 – 2013: Master of Science in Sustainability Science & Policy, Maastricht University
• 2008 – 2011: Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Management & Economics (Major), Communication & Cultural Management (Minor), Zeppelin University

Awards

• Junior-Fellowship für Innovationen in der Hochschullehre, Deutscher Stifterverband & Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung (2021)
• Best Paper Award, Diana International Research Conference (2019)
• Best Empirical Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference (2018)
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship (2012 – 2013)
• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V. (2008 – 2013)

2023

Krüger, Clemens, Laura Bechthold und Reinhard Prügl, 2023. Serious games to study the management of paradoxes in family firms: Introducing a research agenda. In: Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss und Andreas Kallmuenzer, Hrsg., Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, S. 391-412. ISBN 978-1-80088-924-8. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889248.00026

2021

Bechthold, Laura, Maximilian Lude und Reinhard Prügl, 2021. Crisis Favors the Prepared Firm: How Organizational Ambidexterity Relates to Perceptions of Organizational Resilience. In: Anita Zehrer, Gundula Glowka, Katrin Magdalena Schwaiger und Victoria Ranacher-Lackner, Hrsg., Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry. Hershey: IGI Global, S. 178-205. ISBN 978-1-79987-354-9. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7352-5.ch008

Bechthold, Laura, Marina Chugunova, Svenja Friess, Karin Hoisl und Michael E. Rose, 2021. Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics. In: Ulla Weber, Hrsg., Fundamental Questions: Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 135-154. ISBN 978-3-8487-7096-0. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869

Hahn, Davide, Dinah Isabel Spitzley, Mara Brumana, Attila Ruzzene, Laura Bechthold, Reinhard Prügl und Tommaso Minola, 2021. Founding or succeeding? Exploring how family embeddedness shapes the entrepreneurial intentions of the next generation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021(173), 121182. ISSN 0040-1625. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121182

2020

Bechthold, Laura und Laura Rosendahl Huber, 2020. Peer Effects in Entrepreneurship Education Field Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender and Team Emotional Intelligence. In: Academy of Management Proceedings. Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.190

2019

Bechthold, Laura, 2019. Motives and motivators for female entrepreneurship: an empirical investigation of fear of failure, social learning, and team emotional intelligence. Dissertation. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

2018

Bechthold, Laura und Florian Lachner, Hrsg., 2018. Fighting hunger in the digital era: trend report 2016. München: Center for Digital Technology and Management. ISBN 978-3-9818511-1-3. Verfügbar unter: https://www.cdtm.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CDTM-Trendreport_Spring16.pdf

Bechthold, Laura und Laura Rosendahl Huber, 2018. Yes, I can! – A Field Experiment on Female Role Model Effects in Entrepreneurship. In: Academy of Management Proceedings. Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management, 12081. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.209

2016

Harhoff, Dietmar, Reto M. Hilty, Laura Bechthold, Claudius Jablonka, Stefan Nothelfer und Alexander Suyer, 2016. Urheberrecht und Innovation in digitalen Märkten - Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz. München: Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb

2015

Bechthold, Laura, Veronika Fischer, Anne Greul, Andre Hainzlmaier, Daniel Hugenroth, Kristina Kroth, Ljudmila Ivanova, Benedikt Römer, Edyta Sikorska und Vincent Sitzmann, 2015. 3D Printing: A Qualitative Assessment of Applications, Recent Trends and the Technology’s Future Potential. Berlin: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI). Verfügbar unter: https://www.e-fi.de/fileadmin/Assets/Studien/2015/StuDIS_17_2015.pdf