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Hohberger, Jan
Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Investigador, EEI - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute
Investigador, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Education
- Doctorado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
- Strategic Management. Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
- Management. Univ. of Applied Science Kempten
Areas of interest
- SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Biography
Dr. Jan Hohberger is Associate Professor of strategic management in the department of strategy and general management at ESADE.
Before joining ESADE, he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney UTS. He was also a visiting scholar/professor at the Wharton School of Business and Georgetown University and received a PhD from ESADE Business School.
Dr. Hohberger teaches and consults in the areas of strategy and innovation. Thereby, he has worked with companies in the North America, Europe, and Asia across different sectors, including banking, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, industrial groups, and mining, working for companies such as DeBaak, KPMG, SK Group, RioTinto, Bayer and Grifols.
Academic programs in which he thought include the full time MBA at ESADE, UTS and Georgetown, the ESADE-Georgetown Global Executive MBA GEMBA, the Executive MBA EMBA at Georgetown University and UTS, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation UTS and the CEMS master in international management amongst others.
His research focuses on strategy and innovation topics, with a focus on knowledge acquisition, alliances and informal collaborations in high technology industries.
His research has been published in leading journals such as Research Policy, Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Strategic Organization as well as in scholarly books.
Selected publications
- Wilden, R., Lin, N., Hohberger, J. & Randhawa, K. (2023). Selecting Innovation Projects: Do Middle and Senior Managers Differ When It Comes to Radical Innovation?. Journal of Management Studies, 60 (7), pp. 1720-1751. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12874.
- Eckert, C. & Hohberger, J. (2023). Addressing Endogeneity Without Instrumental Variables: An Evaluation of the Gaussian Copula Approach for Management Research. Journal of Management, 49 (4), pp. 1460-1495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221085913.
- Barlatier, P. J., Josserand, E., Hohberger, J. & Mention, A. L. (2023). Configurations of social media-enabled strategies for open innovation, firm performance, and their barriers to adoption. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 40 (1), pp. 30-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12647.
- Hohberger, J. & Wilden, R. (2022). Geographic diversity of knowledge inputs: The importance of aligning locations of knowledge inputs and inventors. Journal of Business Research, 145, pp. 705-719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.016.
- Mendoza Mayordomo, F., Infantes, P. M., Parada, M., Rautiainen, M. & Hohberger, J. (2022). Corporate Strategy in Family Business Groups in Developed Economies. The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups (pp. 81-124). Springer International Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13206-3_5.
- Hohberger, J., Kruger, H. A. & Almeida, P. (2020). Does separation hurt? The impact of premature termination of R&D alliances on knowledge acquisition and innovation. Research Policy, 49 (6), 103944. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103944.
- Wilden, R., Hohberger, J., Devinney, T. M. & Lumineau, F. (2019). 60 Years of March and Simon's Organizations: An Empirical Examination of its Impact and Influence on Subsequent Research. Journal of Management Studies, 56 (8), pp. 1570-1604. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12531.
- Wilden, R., Hohberger, J., Devinney, T. M. & Lavie, D. (2018). Revisiting James March 1991: Whither exploration and exploitation?. Strategic Organization, 16 (3), pp. 352-369. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127018765031.
- Hohberger, J. & Wilden, R. (2018). How corporate entrepreneurs use interfirm collaboration in the search for emerging knowledge in biotech innovation. Entrepreneurship Healthcare (pp. 168-196). Taylor and Francis Ltd.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157993.
- Wilden, R., Akaka, M. A., Karpen, I. O. & Hohberger, J. (2017). The Evolution and Prospects of Service-Dominant Logic: An Investigation of Past, Present, and Future Research. Journal of Service Research, 20 (4), pp. 345-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670517715121.
- Hohberger, J. (2017). Combining valuable inventions: Exploring the impact of prior invention value on the performance of subsequent inventions. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26 (5), pp. 907-930. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtw056.
- Devinney, T. M. & Hohberger, J. (2017, January). The past is prologue: Moving on from Culture's Consequences. Journal of International Business Studies JIBS, 48 (1), pp. 48-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-016-0034-z.
- Randhawa, K., Wilden, R. & Hohberger, J. (2016). A Bibliometric Review of Open Innovation: Setting a Research Agenda. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33 (6), pp. 750-772. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12312.
- Hohberger, J. (2016). Does it pay to stand on the shoulders of giants? An analysis of the inventions of star inventors in the biotechnology sector. Research Policy, 45 (3), pp. 682-698. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.12.003.
- Hohberger, J. (2016). Diffusion of science-based inventions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 104, pp. 66-77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.11.019.
- Hohberger, J., Almeida, P. & Parada, P. (2015). The direction of firm innovation: The contrasting roles of strategic alliances and individual scientific collaborations. Research Policy, 44 (8), pp. 1473-1487. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.009.
- Hohberger, J. (2014). Searching for emerging knowledge: The influence of collaborative and geographically proximate search. European Management Review, 11 (2), pp. 139-157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12031.
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J. & Parada, P. (2011). Individual scientific collaborations and firm-level innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change, 20 (6), pp. 1571-1599. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtr030.
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J. & Parada Balderrama, P. (2011). Informal knowledge and innovation. Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management 2nd ed. (pp. 383-402).
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J. & Parada Balderrama, P. (2010, September). Tracking the frontier of innovation: The contrasting roles of strategic alliances and individual scientific collaborations [Paper presentation]. SMS 30th Annual International Conference.
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J. & Parada Balderrama, P. (2008). Individual collaborations, strategic alliances and innovation: Insights from the biotechnology industry. The handbook of technology and innovation management (pp. 353-364).
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J., Parada Balderrama, P. & Planellas Arán, M. (2007, December). The impact of inter-firm collaborations by researchers on innovation in biotechnology firms [Paper presentation]. 5th International Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management.
- Almeida, P., Hohberger, J. & Parada Balderrama, P. (2007, May). The impact of inter-firm collaborations by researchers on innovation in biotechnology firms [Paper presentation]. Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy 2007.