Prof. Dr. Laura Bechthold

+49 841 9348-3802

Laura.Bechthold@thi.de

Room: I204

Subject Area: Technology Assessment and Cultural Management

Research

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

Vita

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)

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Memberships

Board Member SDG Alliance, European Technology Chamber

Publications

2024

BECHTHOLD, Laura, 2024. Über die Kraft des Zweifels und wahren Fortschritt: Wie sich die Generation Y mit Vordenkern aus der ganzen Welt auf die Suche nach einer erstrebenswerten Zukunft machte.. In: WRESCHNIOK, Robert, Editors Das große Buch der Strategie: Von der Reformation bis zur digitalen Transformation. München: Franz Vahlen, Page 136-155. ISBN 978-3-8006-7198-4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.15358/9783800671984-136

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: KRAUS, Sascha, Thomas CLAUSS und Andreas KALLMUENZER, Editors Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Page 391-412. ISBN 978-1-80088-924-8. Available at: 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: ZEHRER, Anita, Gundula GLOWKA, Katrin Magdalena SCHWAIGER und Victoria RANACHER-LACKNER, Editors Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry. Hershey (PA): IGI Global, Page 178-205. ISBN 978-1-79987-354-9. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7352-5.ch008

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. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121182

BECHTHOLD, Laura, Marina CHUGUNOVA, Svenja FRIESS, Karin HOISL und Michael E. ROSE, 2021. Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics. In: WEBER, Ulla, Editors Fundamental Questions: Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Page 135-154. ISBN 978-3-8487-7096-0. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869

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. Academy of Management Proceedings. Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.190

2018

BECHTHOLD, Laura und Florian LACHNER, 2018. Fighting hunger in the digital era: trend report 2016. München: Center for Digital Technology and Management. ISBN 978-3-9818511-1-3. Available at: 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. Academy of Management Proceedings. Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management. Available at: 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). Available at: https://www.e-fi.de/fileadmin/Assets/Studien/2015/StuDIS_17_2015.pdf