Research Interests

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Business Model Design and Development
• Analysis and Support of Decision Processes
• Negotiation Analysis and Mediation Support
• Proactive Knowledge Transfer
• Strategic Economic Policy

Selected Publications

• Negotiating the Organizational Effectiveness of Social Ventures among Multiple Stakeholders
  with Christoph Starke (Magdeburg),
  VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 28 (4), 2017, 1473–1499

• Commercial Transfer – a Business-Model Innovation for the Entrepreneurial University
  with Olaf Gaus (Magdeburg),
  Industry and Higher Education, 30 (3), 2016, 183-201

• Monetizing Social Value Creation - a Business-Model Approach
  with Susanne Dohrmann and Nicole Siebold (Magdeburg),
  Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 5 (2), 2015, 127-154

• The Value of Business Planning before Start-up - A Decision Theoretical Perspective
  with Anne Chwolka (Magdeburg),
  Journal of Business Venturing, 27, 2012, 385-399.

• Knowledge Networks and Their Impact on New and Small Firms in Local Economies
  with A. Proti, S. Tani (Trento), J. Bühnemann, and O. Gaus (Magdeburg)
  OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers, 2012/02, OECD Publishing.

• A Framework for Telestroke Network Design
  with Franziska Günzel, Stephan Theiss and Georg Rose
  in G. Grachew, T. A. Roelofs (Eds.): Advances in Telemedicine - Applications in Various Medical Disciplines and Geographical Regions, InTech, 2011, Ch. 2, 29-42.

• Predicting Acute Neurological Diseases with Bayesian Networks
  with S. Theiss, G. Rose, J. Schwarz, and J. Grunwald,
  Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), Nov./Dec. 2010, 121-125

• The Goal Achievement of Federal Lending Programs
  with Thorsten Staak and Christoph Starke (Magdeburg),
  Small Enterprise Research, Special Issue: Public Policy and Enterprise Development, 17, 2010

• The Future of Entrepreneurship Research: Results of a Research Workshop with Invited Speakers and Discussants at the International Council for Small Business World Conference in Halifax
  with L J. Filion, L.-P. Dana, P.-A. Julien, J. M. Veciana and T.A. Johannessen,
  International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 11, 2010, 105-120

• A Decision-Analytic Approach to Blue-Ocean Strategy Development
  with Thortsen Staak and Helge Wilker (Magdeburg),
  in: Operations Research Proceedings 2007,
  J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel (Eds.), Springer Berlin, 2008, 225-229

• Procedural Design for Conflict Resolution
  in: Diplomacy Games - Formal Models and International Negotiations,
  R. Avenhaus, I. W. Zartman (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2007, 297-322

• Unemployment and Pollution - Is One Policy Suited for Two Problems?
  with Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann (Bielefeld),
  Economic Record, 81, 2005, 378-393

• Should High-Tax Countries Pursue Revenue-Neutral Ecological Tax Reforms?
  with Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann (Bielefeld),
  European Economic Review, 47, 2003, 41-60

• Bidding for Envy-freeness: A Procedural Approach to n-Player Fair-Division Problems
  with Claus-Jochen Haake (Bielefeld) und Francis Edward Su (Claremont, CA, USA),
  Social Choice and Welfare, 19, 2002, 723-749

• Group Preference Aggregation with the Analytic Hierarchy Process - Implications for Multiple-issue Agendas
  with Anne Chwolka (Bielefeld),
  European Journal of Operational Research, 132, 2001, 176-186

• Optimizing Multi-Stage Negotiations
  with Reinhard John (Bonn),
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45, 2001, 155-173

• Fair-Negotiation Procedures
  Mathematical Social Sciences, 39 (3), 2000, 303-322

• The Structure of Fair-Division Problems and the Design of Fair-Negotiation Procedures
  in Game Practice: Contributions from Applied Game Theory,
  F. Patrone, I. Garcia-Jurado, S. Tijs (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, ch. 14

• Strategic Step-by-Step Negotiation
  with Reinhard John (Bonn),
  Journal of Economics, 70 (2), 1999, 127-154

• Is there a Tragedy of a Common Central Bank?
  with Bas van Aarle and A. Lans Bovenberg (Tilburg, NL),
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 21, 1997, 417-447

• Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction and Government Debt Stabilization
  with Bas van Aarle and A. Lans Bovenberg (Tilburg, NL),
  Journal of Economics, 62 (2), 1995, 111-140

Selected Funded Projects

• MovE: Mobilization of Female Entrepreneurs
  Financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF),
  the Ministry of Justice and Gender Equality of Saxony-Anhalt (Sept. 2009 to Dec. 2011),
  and the Ministry of Science and Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt (July 2012 to June 2014)

• Uni:prise: Universities as Enterprises
  In Association with B. Vogt (Economics, Magdeburg), J. Wildt (Higher Education, Dortmund), C. Bremer (E-Learning, Frankfurt/Main),
  Financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  (July 2011 to June 2014)

• ProST: Pro-Active Science Transfer
  Financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Ministry of Science and Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt
  (May 2012 to April 2014)

• SeJu: Senior- & Juniorpreneurship
  In association with S. Vajna (Mechanical Engineering, Magdeburg),
  Financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Ministry of Science and Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt
  (Feb. 2011 to Jan. 2013)

• TASC: Telemedical Acute Stroke Care
  In association with G. Rose (Electrical Engineering and Information Technology), H.-J. Heinze, M.-W. Goertler (Neurology) and M. Skalej (Neuroradiology), Magdeburg
  Financial Support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, ForMaT
  (First Phase: May 2008 to Oct. 2008, Second Phase: June 2009 to July 2011)

• Knowledge Networks and their Impact on New and Small Firms in Local Economies
  Financial support by the OECD and the University of Trento
  (Jan. 2010 to Oct. 2010)

• HEE: High-Expectation Entrepreneurship
  In Cooperation with the Business-Angels Network of Saxony-Anhalt;
  Financial Support by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Exist III
  (Jan. 2007 to Apr. 2010)

• Impulse-Network Saxony-Anhalt
  Financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Ministry of Economics and Labor of Saxony-Anhalt
  (May 2005 to Dec. 2009)

• ZiF-Research-Group: Procedural Approaches to Conflict Resolution
  Designing analytical support for interactive decision making
  In association with J. Rosenmüller, W. Trockel (Bielefeld)
  Supported by the Centre of interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
  (Oct. 2001 to Sept. 2002)