Chair of Organization and International Management
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The study "Seizing the Day: How the Global Financial Crisis Shaped National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami, and [Richard Sebaggala, Uganda Christian University, Makerere University, and University of Agder, Norway(https://ucu.ac.ug/to-whom-much-is-given-so-much-is-expected-my-phd-journey-and-a-call-to-fellow-scholars/) has been published in Management Revue (MRev) AMJ ranked 2

2025-12-31

19th of November 2025, our colleague Mahsa Samsami will join a panel discussion as GEM launches the new GEM Women’s Entrepreneurship Report. Today's speaker will be:

GEM Executive Director Aileen Ionescu-Somers will moderate this engaging discussion on key takeaways and what policymakers can do to sustain momentum for women entrepreneurs while tackling persistent barriers.

2025-11-19

The study "Immigrant entrepreneurs’ dual embeddedness in home- and host-cultures: cultural arbitrage in form of bicultural capital promoting business growth expectations" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami, and Thomas Schott University of Southern Denmark, SDU has been published in Cross Cultural & Strategic Management AMJ ranked 2

2025-11-19

The registration for the course “Organization and Strategy Research” (formerly “Advances in Organization and International Management I”) in the winter semester 2025/2026 will take place from Mon, 29.09.2025, 8:00 pm to Fri, 10.10.2025, 8:00 pm via OPAL.

You can find the link to enroll here.

All further information about the course will be communicated via OPAL (Please, subscribe to forum in the OPAL course).

2025-09-15

The abstract of the paper "Entrepreneurial Legacy: How Family Tradition and Institutionalization Drive Business Innovation" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami, Thomas Schott University of Southern Denmark, SDU, and Trond Randøy Copenhagen Business School has been published in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. The full paper was presented at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting ENT Devision 2025.

2025-09-02

The abstract of "Professionalization of the Role of the Entrepreneur" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami and Adriana Perez Autonomous University of Madrid has been published in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. The full paper was presented at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting MED Division 2025. The paper Professionalization of the Role of the Entrepreneur in Spain was nominated for the Best Paper Award at SIG (Strategic Interest Group) 03: Entrepreneurship (ENT), at EURAM 2025 European Academy of Management.

2025-09-02

The study "Roles of digitalization in the effect of entrepreneurialorientation on innovation in startups: mediator, moderator,capability?" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami, Paula San-Martín University of Cantabria, Estefanía Palazuelos University of Cantabria, and Thomas Schott University of Southern Denmark, SDU has been published in Information Systems and e-Business Management AMJ ranked 2

2025-09-02

Our colleague Mahsa Samsami received the Best Reviewer Award, SIG (Strategic Interest Group) 03: Entrepreneurship (ENT), at EURAM 2025 (European Academy of Management). Congratulations!

2025-06-25

The working paper "Unpacking the neoliberal university: Insights from critical university studies" by our colleague Christian Huber has been presented at the 14th International Critical Management Studies Conference.

2025-06-19

Our colleague, Mahsa Samsami, completed a research visit in March 2025 at University of Southern Denmark, where she spent around three months collaborating with SDU, Department of Business and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, International Business, and AI.

The visit provided valuable opportunities for academic exchange, research development, and collaboration between Technische Universität Chemnitz, the Chair of Organization and International Management and University of Southern Denmark, Department of Business and Sustainability.

“My time at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark was not only an enriching experience and productive but also pivotal for my academic career. During this period, I achieved several significant milestones.” Dr. Mahsa Samsami said.

We look forward to future collaboration and joint projects and thank Prof. Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Head of the Department of Business and Sustainability University of Southern Denmark, for their warm welcome and hospitality.

2025-05-20

The study "The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and Cross-National Research" by our colleague Mahsa Samsami and Kim Klyver (University of Southern Denmark and University of Adelaide) was published in chapter 12 of De Gruyter Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship edited by: Olav Sorenson (UCLA Anderson School of Management) and Patricia H. Thornton (Texas A&M University) ".

2025-04-10

The registration for the course “Understanding Organizations: Theories and Applications” (formerly “Moderne Organisationstheorien”) in the summer semester 2025 will take place from Tue, 01.04.2025, 8:00 pm to Tue, 08.04.2025, 8:00 pm via OPAL.

You can find the link to enroll here.

All further information about the course will be communicated via OPAL (Please, subscribe to forum in the OPAL course).

2025-03-18

The working paper "Unpacking the neoliberal university: Insights from critical university studies" by our colleague Christian Huber has been presented at the 49th Workshop of the Scientific Commission "Organization".

2025-03-17

TU Chemnitz invites female students, university staff, and interested women from the business sector to the 2nd International Women-in-Science Day, which will be held on March 7, 2025, at the Altes Heizhaus. Our colleague Mahsa Samsami gave a talk on the highlighted outcomes from The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2023/24 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report: Reshaping Economies and Communities and inspirational stories of women entrepreneurs in South Africa, Spain, and Morocco. The event was hosted by Prof. Dr. Anja Strobel, Vice-President for Research and University Development at TU Chemnitz, and Karla Kebsch, the university's Equal Opportunities Officer.

2025-03-12

On 18 February in Bilbao, insights about women's entrepreneurship were featured. The report launch also featured an engaging panel with Aileen Ionescu-Somers, GEM Executive Director, along with our colleague Mahsa Samsami; Cristina Oyon, SPRI representative, Basque Government; Wingee Sin, Global Program Director, Cartier Women's Initiative; Amanda Elam and Iñaki Peña Legazkue, Professor at the University of Deusto and GEM Spain.

In addition to her contribution as one of the speakers in the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Conference in Bilbao, Mahsa Samsami also presented one of her studies regarding GEM longitudinal study co-authored by Richard Sebaggala, "Seizing the Day: How the Global Financial Crisis Shaped National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems" Moreover, Mahsa Samsami co-taught two Global Entrepreneurship Monitor workshops; Training Workshop 1: Analyzing GEM data over time Training Workshop 2: Analyzing GEM data on entrepreneurs’ use of AI

2025-02-27

Around the world, the number of people deterred from starting a business because of fear it might fail is increasing, according to the GEM 2024/2025 Global Report titled Entrepreneurship Reality Check, released on February 18th at a special event to launch the report in Bilbao, Spain. Those who take the leap are uncertain about the expected role of artificial intelligence in their businesses. Our colleague Mahsa Samsami is one of the co-authors with Stephen Hill and Natanya Mayer of Chapter 6, entitled "Entrepreneurship and sustainability". Full Report

2025-02-24

Our colleague Mahsa Samsami has joined as a member of AOM ENT Division Global Scholar Development Committee. The committee organizes impactful workshops and events throughout the year, aiming to empower global entrepreneurship scholarship. These initiatives include workshops designed to help international scholars navigate the AOM meeting and program, as well as hands-on sessions that provide valuable insights into publishing research using non-Western data.

2025-02-24

The study "Returnee entrepreneurs’ international experience: Effects on entrepreneurial orientation and speed of internationalization" by Xinrui Liu (University of Greenwich), our chairholder Michael Mayer, and Dimo Dimov (University of Bath) was published in the Journal "International Business Review".

2025-02-11

Chemnitz University of Technology supports the “#GehWählen” campaign and calls on its members and relatives to exercise their right to vote on site or by postal vote.

Click here for the TUC announcement: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/pressestelle/aktuell/12764

2025-02-10

We congratulate our colleague Christian Huber on his re-election as Equal Opportunities Officer of our faculty. His 2nd term of office starts on April 01, 2025.

2024-12-11

The contributions "Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1990" and "Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990" by our former chair holder Rainhart Lang, Thomas Steger (University of Regensburg), and Miklos Dobak (Corvinus University of Budapest) were published in the "Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance".

2024-12-02

Ms. Marie-Luise Fleißner, former MOS student, was honored with this year's Marie-Pleißner-Award for her master's thesis titled "Gender-specific disadvantage in organizations: Women's perceptions and coping strategies." Supervisor of the master thesis was our colleague Christian Huber. This is the third time in a row that the Marie-Pleißner-Prize has been awarded to a Master's student from our chair. We congratulate Ms. Fleißner and wish her continued success in her future career!

Click here for the press release.

2024-11-15

We congratulate Dr.in Sandra Fiedler on the successful disputation of her dissertation on November 04, 2024, entitled "On the emotional state of indebtedness in family businesses: Antecedents and consequences on next-generations' decision making"!

2024-11-06

The study "Research data management in German academia from a multiple logic perspective" by E. Katharina Donner (University of Passau) and our colleague Christian Huber was published in the Journal "M@n@gement".

2024-10-24

The "TUCteach" format started in the summer semester 2023 with offers by lecturers for lecturers at Chemnitz University of Technology. The aim of the university didactic exchange and further education format is to make proven teaching practice by Chemnitz University of Technology lecturers open to other lecturers, to enable transfer to other departments, but also to put topics of teaching, learning, and examination up for discussion across the university.

Our colleague Christian Huber, winner of the teaching prize in 2022, spoke about his teaching and his SoTL project on 09.09.2024.

2024-09-09

We are pleased to welcome Ms. Dr. Mahsa Samsami as a new research associate at the Chair of Organization and International Management!

2024-04-23

As part of the recently adopted Gender Equality Plan, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Chemnitz University of Technology has decided to provide menstrual hygiene products free of charge in a selected toilet. A tampon and sanitary pad dispenser has been installed in the public women's toilet on the ground floor of the faculty building at Thüringer Weg 7, where the hygiene products can be taken. The procurement of the dispenser was initiated by the Faculty's Equal Opportunities Commissioner, our colleague Christian Huber.

You can find the corresponding press release here.

2024-01-03

Ms. Alina Vogel, former MOS student, was honored with this year's Marie-Pleißner-Award for her master's thesis titled "Mental health in organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic – an analysis in the context of institutional logics." Supervisor of the master thesis was our colleague Christian Huber. This is the second time in a row that the Marie-Pleißner-Prize has been awarded to a Master's student from our chair. We congratulate Ms. Vogel and wish her continued success in her future career!

Click here for the press release.

2023-11-17

Ms. Johanna Hölig, former MOS student, was honored with this year's Marie-Pleißner-Award for her master's thesis titled "Stories from the 'Outskirts' - A Structured Review of Critical Entrepreneurship Literature as Narratives." Supervisor of the master thesis was our colleague Dr. Markus Tümpel. We congratulate Ms. Hölig and wish her continued success in her future career!

Click here for the press release.

2022-12-16

We are pleased to announce that our colleague Christian Huber has been honored with the teaching award for teaching junior researchers 2022 of the Chemnitz University of Technology. The team of our professorship congratulates!

Christian Huber succeeded in an innovative combination of research and teaching within the framework of a SoTL-project (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). SoTL-projects are suitable for teachers who want to develop a deeper understanding of the effectiveness of their didactic interventions and student learning. Huber conducted research on his own teaching according to SoTL and is able to apply the findings to future teaching development processes. His teaching is strongly oriented towards the "shift from teaching to learning", and he also follows the concept of "constructive alignment". Furthermore, he aligns his teaching with the „Principles for Responsible Management Education“ in order to promote sustainable management education at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Huber has been professionalizing himself since the beginning of his teaching activities at the Chemnitz University of Technology and successfully completed the certificate program of the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Saxony. His courses have regularly received excellent evaluations.

Click here for the press release.

2022-12-16

Prof. Dr. Michael Mayer has been appointed to the Chair of Organization and International Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Chemnitz University of Technology as of June 01, 2022.

The whole team welcomes Prof. Dr. Michael Mayer and is looking forward to future cooperation!

You can find the press release of the university here.

2022-06-01