LEHRSTUHL FÜR

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Academic Interests and Research

• Identification of the basic motivation of social entrepreneurs and theoretical analysis of their decision making behavior
• Theoretical analysis of the interactive decision making between social entrepreneurs and their stakeholders
• Theoretical analysis of the creation of high-growth ventures
• Theoretical and experimental analysis of intuitive decisions and gut feelings of entrepreneurs

Publications, Working Papers, and Conferences

Raith, M. G., Starke, C. (2016): "Negotiating the Organizational Effectiveness of Social Ventures among Multiple Stakeholders", VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 28(4), 1473-1499, DOI: 10.1007/s11266-016-9716-1.

Starke, C. (2012): "Serving the Many or Serving the Most Needy?", Economics of Governance, 13(4), 365-386, DOI: 10.1007/s10101-012-0116-8.

Raith, M. G., Staak, T., Starke, C. (2010): "The Goal Achievement of Federal Lending Programs", Small Enterprise Research, Vol. 17 (1) (Special Issue: Public Policy and Enterprise Development), 43-57. (Also available as FEMM Working Paper Series, 06019)

Starke, C. (2008): "Social Entrepreneurs, Lead Donors and the Optimal Level of Fundraising", In: Operations Research Proceedings 2007, J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel (eds.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 237-241.

Burchhardt, S., Starke, C. (2014): "Revealing the Preferences of Social Financiers", FEMM Working Paper Series, 14002.

Burchhardt, S., Starke, C. (2010): "Target-Group and Quality Decisions of Inequity-Averse Entrepreneurs", FEMM Working Paper Series, 10011.

Awards and Third-Party Funding

• FGF Best Social Entrepreneurship Research Award 2016 sponsored by the Hans Sauer Stiftung and the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie for the paper "The Utility of Becoming a Commercial or a Social Entrepreneur" (co-authored by Charlott Menke).
• Contract research within the project ELLIPSE - Locating and Leveraging the Intrapreneurship Potential of Small Enterprises (financed by European Social Fund (ESF) and the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt), July 2017 - December 2019.

Conferences

• European Academy of Management (EURAM) in Glasgow, UK (2017) and Paris, France (2016)
• PET 11 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA (2011)
• 9th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics in Ischia, Italy (2009)
• European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meeting (EEA-ESEM) in Barcelona, Spain (2009)
• Annual Congress of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Magdeburg (2009) and Bayreuth (2006)
• Annual Conference of the German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA) in Hamburg (2015) and Magdeburg (2013)
• Annual Conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research in Bozen, Italy (2012) and Kaiserslautern (2011)
• NYU-Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in New York, USA (2011)
• Annual Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Conference (G-Forum) in Leipzig (2016), Kassel (2015), Oldenburg (2014), Cologne (2010), and Jena (2005)
• Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) in Munich (2011) and Regensburg (2006)
• Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Operations Research 2007, in Saarbrücken (2007)

Scientific Reviewing

• Economics Bulletin
• Journal of Small Business Management
• Member of the FGF-Reviewer Board

Teachings

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

• Bachelor lecture "Entrepreneurship"
• Bachelor lecture "Venture Creation" ("Unternehmensgestaltung")
• Bachelor lecture "Academic Skills"
  with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith
• Bachelor seminar "Bachelor Thesis"
  with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith
• Tutorial for Master lecture "Business Decision Making"
• Master seminar "Business-Plan Creation" ("Businessplan-Gestaltung")
  with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith
• Master seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse")
  with M. Raith
• Master seminar "Social-Entrepreneurship-Business Models" ("Social Entrepreneurship - Geschäftsmodelle")
  with M. Raith
• Tutorial for undergraduate lecture "Introduction to Managerial Economics" ("Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre")
• Graduate seminar "Opportunity Analysis" ("Gelegenheitsanalyse")
  with M. Raith
• Graduate seminar "Business-Simulation Game" ("Unternehmensplanspiel")
  with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith
• Graduate seminar "Entrepreneurship Promotion in Credit Markets" ("Gründungsförderung über Kreditmärkte")
  with M. Raith
• Graduate seminar "Balanced Scorecard"
  with A. Luhmer and M. Raith
• "Junior Entrepreneurs Team" ("Nachwuchsgruppe Entrepreneurship")
  with B. Gansel, M. Raith, T. Staak, H. Wilker, and T. Zomack

External

• German MBA Program, Academy of Economics, Moscow
  Lecture "Decision Analysis" ("Entscheidungsanalyse")
  "Business-Simulation Game" (Unternehmensplanspiel)
  with S. Halberstadt
• Chemnitz University of Technology
  Seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse")
  with T. Staak
• TU Bergakademie Freiberg
  Seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse")
  with T. Staak

Education and Occupation

• July 2017, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Head of contract research within the project ELLIPSE - Locating and Leveraging the Intrapreneurship Potential of Small Enterprises (financed by European Social Fund (ESF) and the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt)
• October 2016, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Assistant in the research project SMART - Science-to-Market-Accelerators for Regional Transfer
• November 2010, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Postdoc
• November 2010, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Degree: Dr. rer. pol.
  Title: Objectives of Social Entrepreneurs and Federal Lending Programs, and the Optimal Allocation of External Funds
• September 2004, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Research associate
• May 2004, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt (Master equivalent degree in Management and Economics)
  Specialization: economic policy
• March 2003, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  Diploma thesis "Die Förderkreditvergabe der Privatbanken - Eine mikroökonomische Analyse"
  with T. Staak

 Membership

• German Economic Association of Business Administration e.V. (GEABA)
• Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. (FGF)