Research Assistant

Office hours

Upon appointment

University education

Since 2008
Freie Universität Berlin
PhD student at the Chair of Business Administration in the focus area "Organization and Management" for General Professional Preparation (GPP).

2004 - 2008
Freie Universität Berlin
Course of studies: Business Administration, degree: Diplomkaufmann
Diploma thesis on: "Perspective of Creative Industries: Projekt Networks in Production of Online Content between Relational Competitive Advantages and Path Dependency"

2003 - 2004
Georg August Universität Göttingen
Study of Anglistics, degree: Neuenglischschein (New English Certificate)

Professional experience

Seit 2008
Freie Universität Berlin
Chair of Prof. Dr. Gersch
Research Associate for the  „Innoweb 3.0“ project at the Chair of Business Administration, in the focus area "Organization and Management" for General Professional Preparation

2006
Burning Heart Records Germany
Internship

2004 - 2008
PETA Deutschland e.V.
Working Student

2003 - 2004
Städtische Archäologie Göttingen
Student Assistant

Seit 2002
Independent Music Journalist
Independent personal services for amongst others „Ox“ magazine, „Klangstelle.net/Spiegel Online“, „Piranha“ magazine, „Pleasure Snowboard“ magazine

1999 - 2008
ROTERFADEN.org (Online music magazine)
Founder, publisher and chief editor                       

Research interests:

• Company Networks

• Project Management

• „New Media“ Industry

• Customer Relationship Management

• Corporate Social Responsibility

Journal articles

Schüßler, E., Wessel, L., & Gersch, M. 2012. “Taking stock: Capability development in interorganizational projects”, in: sbr, Schmalenbach Business Review (64), pp. 171-186. [Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the colloquia of EGOS and IRNOP in 2009 and at the 35th Workshop of the Community of German Organization Researchers (WK ORG) 2011].

Wessel, L., Gersch, M., & Goeke, C. 2010.  “Netzwerk-Ambidextrie: Ist eine Balance explorativen und exploitativen Lernens auch in Netzwerken möglich?“, in: Stephan, M., & Kerber, W. (Eds.): Jahrbuch Strategisches Kompetenz Management Vol. 4 (2010), Munich: Hampp, pp. 121-147.  [An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 6th colloquium on competence-based strategic management in September 2009 in Marburg, Germany].

Gersch, M., Goeke, C., & Wessel, L. 2009. “Interorganisationale Routinen – Entstehung, Implikationen sowie Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer zielgerichteten Gestaltung“, in: Zeitschrift für Management (4), Special Issue: “Evolutionäre Prozesse und Emergenz in und zwischen Organisationen“, pp. 209-234. [German]  

Book chapters

Gersch, M., & Wessel, L. 2012. “Diffusionshemmnisse innovativer AAL- und E-Health-Anwendungen”. German textbook chapter on business model innovation in the German health care system. Forthcoming in a series of teaching material of the Chair of Health Management at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Conference contributions (2012)

Wessel, L., & Gersch, M. 2012. “Fine tuning institutional analysis: Technology, agency and an example of practices in transition”. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, OMT Division, August 3rd - August 7th, Boston, USA. [Earlier versions of this paper were presented at EGOS 2011, the colloquium on competence-based strategic management 2011 and at the 36th Workshop of the Community of German Organization Researchers (WK ORG) 2012].

Wessel, L., & Klaußner, S. 2012. “In the shadow of the legitimate: Abusive supervision and the institutionalization of inequality”. 28th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Helsinki, Finland. Sub-theme: “Institutional Work and the Institutionalization of Inequality” convened by Tom Lawrence, Kamal Munir and John Amis.

Other publications

Gersch, M., Wessel, L., Schröder, S., Rüsike, T., Meroth, L. 2010. „Diffusionshemmnisse besonderer Versorgungsformen - Verdichtete Zusammenfassung ausgewählter Ergebnisse einer Delphi-Analyse mit Experten des CCEC Branchen-Panels ‚Transformation des deutschen Gesundheitswesens‘ zwischen Mai und Oktober 2010“, in: Engelhardt, W.H., Gabriel, R., Gersch, M. (Eds.): Trendberichte des Branchen-Panels "Transformation des deutschen Gesundheitswesens" am Competence Center E-Commerce, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft sowie Institut für Unternehmensführung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.