Laura Bregenzer
Vita
Laura Bregenzer (née Körner) has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Organization, Technology Management und Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau since April 2017. Laura Bregenzer studied Food Management (B.A.) at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and Business Administration and Economics (B.Sc.) at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. She completed her Master's degree in Business Administration (M.Sc.) at the University of Passau. During her studies she spent a semester at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Lyon in France and at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile in Chile. In addition to her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Marketing and Innovation and also gained practical experience during internships at Deutsche Bahn in Frankfurt and Berlin, GfK in Nuremberg and at Hovárth & Partners in Hamburg. At Hovárth & Partners, she also worked as a consultant in the field of organizational development for mobility companies after completing her Master's degree.
Research interests:
- Idiosyncratic influence of founders on the firm's innovation
- Dynamics of governance structures in start-ups
- Technology adoption in SMEs
Lectures:
- Bachelor's Lecture „Organisation“ (summer term 2017)
Tutorials:
- Bachelor's Tutorial „Organisation“ (summer term 2017, 2018)
- Master's Tutorial „Organisational and Competitive Strategy“ (winter term 2017/18 , 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2023/24)
- Master's Tutorial „Strategy for High-Tech Startups” (summer term 2020, 2021, 2024)
Seminars:
- Bachelor's Seminar „Der Einfluss neuer Technologien auf unseren Umgang mit Wissen“ (summer term 2017)
- Master's Seminar „Founders, Inventors and Owners: Decision Making in Startups“ (summer term 2018)
- Bachelor's Seminar "How to manage a startup successfully?" (winter term 2020/21)
- Bachelor's Seminar "Managing Innovation" (winter term 2022/23)
"Digital Technology and Entrepreneurship" Certificate programmes
- "Business Model Incubation" - Seminar & Tutorial (summer term 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- "Entrepreneurial Negotiation" - Seminar (summer term 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- "Ideation - Generate, Develop and Communicate your Startup-Idea" (winter term 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22)
Theses supervision:
- Topics around the field of governance structures and innovation in young and onwer-managed firms
- Empirical and non-empirical theses
Mueller E., Koerner L., Figge P., Haeussler C. (2020) The Influence Of Entrepreneurial Teams' Ownership Distribution On Recombinatory Novelty. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Proceedings (FER).
Peer-Reviewed Conferences:
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Role of the Ownership Distribution in New Venture Teams (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) 27 th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany, 09/2024.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Role of the Ownership Distribution in New Venture Teams (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) DRUID2024, SKEMA Université Cote d’Azur, Nice, France, 06/2024.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Impact of Owner Empowerment (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), Jahrestagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Technologie, Innovation und Entrepreneurship (TIE) des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., Frankfurt, Germany, 2023.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Impact of Ownership Empowerment (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) RISE – 4th Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop, Max Plank Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, Munich, Germany, 12/2021. Virtual Format.
- The Journey of Founders: Changes in Founders' Position when Investors or Joiners enter the Stage (with Figge, P., Müller, E.) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, München, Germany, 06/2021. Virtual Format.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Impact of Ownership Empowerment (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) 1st Conference on Owners as Strategist, Bocconi University, Italy, and University of St. Gallen, Schweiz, 06/2021. Virtual Format.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada, 08/2020. Virtual Format.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Knoxville, TN, 06/2020. Virtual Format.
- Entrepreneurial Team’s Influence on Inventive Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) 10th Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy Research, Passau, Germany, 06/2019.
Academic Presentations:
- Impact of New Owners for Founders: Exits and Position Shifts (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at the Research Seminar by Prof. Carolin Haeussler, 07/2024. Passau, Germany
- Founders' Ownership Dynamics and their Antecedents (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at the Research Seminar by Prof. Carolin Haeussler, Prof. Patricia Klarner and Prof. Andreas König, 12/2023. Passau, Germany.
- Founding Team Dynamics during the Initial Investment: The Role of Founders’ Specific Human Capital (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at the Research Seminar by Prof. Carolin Haeussler and Jeff Reuer, 9/2023. Passau, Germany.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Impact of Ownership Empowerment (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at the Research Seminar by Prof. Carolin Haeussler, Prof. Patricia Klarner and Prof. Andreas König, 06/2022. Vienna, Austria.
- Promoting Novelty Creation: The Impact of Ownership Empowerment (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at the TIM DOCTROAL PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2021, 04/2021. Virtual Format.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at ICEBS Lecture and Paper Development Workshop by and with Prof. Blake Ashforth, 02/2021. Virtual Format.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.), presented at ICEBS Lecture and Paper Development Workshop by and with Victor Gilsing, 10/2020. Virtual Format.
- PhD Overview, presented and discussed at TIM Doctoral Research Development Workshop (DRDW) at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 08/2020. Virtual Format.
- PhD Overview, presented and discussed at BABSON Doctoral Consortium, 06/2020. Virtual Format.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) presented at the Doctoral Seminar at the University of Passau, 01/2020.
- The Influence of an Entrepreneurial Team’s Ownership Distribution on Recombinatory Novelty (with Müller, E., Figge, P., Häussler, C.) ZEW Workshop: Science Data Centers – Recent Developments, Mannheim, Germany, 11/2019.
2020 -2023: Ad-Hoc Reviewer for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference
2020: Reviewer for the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (TIM, ENT)