• Best Paper Award of the Track “Behavioral Strategy” of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) for “Kindred Spirits: The Influence of Cognitive Frame Similarity on Contingency Planning in Strategic Alliances” (together with Marvin Hanisch, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Carolin Häussler, and Theresa Cho)
• Best Paper Proceedings, Strategic Management Division (STR) of the Academy of Management (AOM) (approx. best 5 percent out of ca. 700 submissions) for “The Double-Edged Effects of Top Managers’ Commitment to the Status Quo on Firms’ Crisis Resolution.” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, USA (together with Fabian Struck, Lasse Milinski, Linda Schädler, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy)

• Best Paper Award, Cooperative Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) for “Kindred Spirits: The Influence of Cognitive Frame Similarity on Contingency Planning in Strategic Alliances” (together with Marvin Hanisch, Carolin Häussler, and Theresa Cho)
• Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Leadership and Governance Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society
• Honorable Mention for Best Conference Paper, (best 5 papers) Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) for “Kindred Spirits: The Influence of Cognitive Frame Similarity on Contingency Planning in Strategic Alliances” (together with Marvin Hanisch, Carolin Häussler, and Theresa Cho)
• Best Paper Award of the Track “Behavioral Strategy” of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) for “The Main Street Dilemma: How Journalists Cover Incumbents’ Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies” (with Markus Rauch, Richard Banfield, and Lorenz Graf-Vlachy)
• Best Paper Proceedings, Strategic Management Division (STR) of the Academy of Management (AOM) (approx. best 5 percent out of ca. 700 submissions) for “The Influence of Cognitive Frame Similarity on Contingency Planning in Strategic Alliances.” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, USA (together with Marvin Hanisch, Carolin Häussler, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, and Theresa Cho)

• Three awards at the 2017 Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management in Glasgow for the paper “Incumbents’ Sensemaking and Responses to Institutional Challenges of the Sharing Economy” (with Julian Lehmann, Florian Weber, and Lorenz Graf-Vlachy): Best Paper Award of the Special Interest Group “Strategic Management”, the Best Paper Award of the Track “Behavioral Strategy” and a Recognition for being one of three runner ups for the EURAM 2017 Best Paper Award (best three out of 1220 papers submitted to the conference).

• Best Paper Award by the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) for the Paper "CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities," published 2013 in the Administrative Science Quarterly together with Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Albrecht Enders, and Donald C. Hambrick

• The Glueck Best Paper Award of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management for the paper “Silver Bullet or Ricochet? CEO Metaphorical Communication Behavior and Analysts’ Evaluations” as the best out of 693 manuscripts submitted to BPS (together with Alexander Wessels, Joanna Walton, Angela Fehn, Martin Weiss, and Albrecht Enders)

• Habilitation Award of the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; to be handed over in November 2013.

2012

• The Distinguished Paper Award of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management for the paper “Organizational Identity and Adaptation to Discontinuous Change: The Role of Focus and Locus” as one of the five best out of 745 manuscripts submitted to BPS (together with Nadine Kammerlander and Albrecht Enders)
• Fellow Award of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society

2011

• The Glueck Best Paper Award of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management for the paper “CEO Narcissism and Incumbent Response to Technological Discontinuities” as the best out of 655 manuscripts submitted to BPS (together with Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Albrecht Enders, and Donald C. Hambrick)

2009

• Best Dissertation Award of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Herrmann-Gutmann-Foundation

2008

• Nomination for the “Best Practice Implication Paper Award” at the Strategic Management Society Conference, Cologne, for the submission “Industry Associations as Driver of Incumbent Inertia” (together with Martin Schulte and Albrecht Enders)

2004/2005/2008

• Wilhelm-Rieger-Award for Excellence in Teaching, summer term 2004, winter term 2004/5 and summer term 2008, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (together with the colleagues at the Chair of Strategic Management of Prof. Dr. Harald Hungenberg)

2000

• Royal Academy of Music Foundation Award

1998

• First Prize at the International Brass Soloist Competition during the Trumpet Festival Bremen