June 15, 2026
New release! Research Handbook on Organizational Control
I am very pleased to announce the publication of our Research Handbook on Organizational Control in Edward Elgar Publishing, co-edited with Laura B. Cardinal and C. Chet Miller.
In this volume we bring together leading scholars to take stock of organizational control research and to develop new perspectives on how control systems, processes, and practices are changing in contemporary organizations. As organizations face rapid technological, institutional, and societal change, established assumptions about hierarchical and formal control increasingly need to be reconsidered. The handbook addresses these developments by integrating micro and macro perspectives and by exploring emerging issues such as digitalization, algorithms, platforms, sustainability, trust, and interorganizational forms of control.
I am grateful to Laura B. Cardinal, who led the editorial team, to C. Chet Miller for the excellent collaboration, and to all contributing authors for their outstanding chapters and insights.
Read our introductory chapter here for free.
April 3, 2026
Wiley Top Cited Article
Happy to see that others are engaging with our work on the role of strategy in tackling ecological issues (with Tima Bansal, Rodolphe Durand, Sven Kunisch, and Anita McGahan).
February 6, 2026
Beyond Core Podcast: From Ecosystem Strategy to Execution
We were invited to the Beyond Core Podcast by fastbreak. Thank you for the great discussion with Matthias Walter.
December 12, 2025
Podcast Platform Insights Episode 18
We were invited to the Platform Insights Podcast of the University of St.Gallen’s Competence Center for Alliances, Platforms and Ecosystems to talk unpack the core ideas behind our Business Ecosystems book. We discuss value creation through modularity and complementarity, platforms vs. business ecosystems, what makes effective ecosystem orchestration, how to embed ecosystem logic across functions, and how to measure success with the EPIC framework while identifying emerging opportunities (e.g., AI, circular economy, community-based ecosystems).
December 06, 2025
German Version of our Business Ecosystem Book
Our book, Business Ecosystems, is now available in German from Springer Gabler. It explains how value creating is increasingly happening through networks of partners, customers, and complementors, and how firms can strategically design, build, and participate in ecosystems. This book is the result of close collaboration with my co-authors, Dr. Erwin Hettich and Dr. Pia Kerstin Neudert.
July 28, 2025
Academy of Management Conference in Copenhagen
We had a great Symposium session on Control and Trust Dynamics in the Age of AI and Big Data, organized by Simon Schafheitle and Chris Long, together with Paul S. Adler, Jorge Walter, Mareike Möhlmann, Robert Wayne Gregory, Ola Henfridsson, and Kirsimarja Blomqvist, in which we presented our paper on control-trust dynamics in the context of agentic algorithms.
