Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen

Markus Reihlen is Professor of Strategic Management at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. From 2010 to 2012 he was Graduate School Dean of Studies and from 2012 until 2020 Vice President responsible for Leuphana Graduate School, Young Academics and Entrepreneurship. 

After his studies of Business Administration at the Universities of Giessen, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Cologne, Professor Reihlen received his doctorate (1996) and post-doctorate (Habilitation) (2007) qualification degree at the University of Cologne. Before joining the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, he held various visiting professor and guest researcher positions, including the University of St. Gallen, the University of Mannheim, the University of Technology Aachen, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Oxford, the Copenhagen Business School, and McGill University. He has received awards in research and teaching, including eight Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Marketing, and the Gold Star Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin. 

Professor Reihlen is the author and co-editor of eight books on innovation, process management, networks and alliances, internationalization of professional services, entrepreneurship in professional services, and higher education governance. His academic work has been published in such journals as Accounting, Organization and Society, Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Research in the Sociology of Organization, and the Scandinavian Journal of Management. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies and the Journal of Professions and Organization and regularly reviews for a number of international journals. 

His research interests are in the field of corporate and digital entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory and new forms of organizing, philosophy of social sciences, qualitative research methods, especially qualitative meta-studies, international practice transfer in multinational firms.

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