Moritz Maier is a research associate at the Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a doctoral candidate at the DFG Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems". He studied Business Administration and Economics (B.Sc.) and Development Studies (M.A.) at the University of Passau and the ESIC Business & Marketing School Madrid. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Business Administration teaching unit and the Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau and as a research assistant of Prof. Dr. Albrecht Enders at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). He gained practical experience as a business developer in and still works  as a consultant for start-ups in the fields of EdTech (Studybees), FinTech (MES & DAK), E-Commerce (Regiona), PropTech (VePa), BioTech (Alganize) and NewSpace (OroraTech). He is an entrepreneur himself and is co-founder of  the Pura Eatery at Pura Cosmos, the cookbook GUT FÜRS GESICHT and founder of the upcycling fashion label PER • FINES.

Moritz Maier teaches the following courses:

• Strategic Management
• Strategic Sensitivity and Digitalization
• Pitch Workshops for Entrepreneurs

It’s All About… Us? – How CEO Narcissism Shapes Business Ecosystems, accepted for presentation at the Strategic Management Society 44th Annual Conference: Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences, Istanbul, Turkey, 10/2024

Panel Symposium: Exploring Top-Executive Cognition in Business Ecosystems (co-organizers: Anastasiya Shylina, Urszula Wiszniowska Ayache; panelists: Theresa Cho, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Michael J. Mannor, Henk W. Volberda, Daniel Gamache, Mark P. Healey, Mary Tripsas, Timo O. Vuori), accepted at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Innovating for the Future, Chicago, USA, 08/2024.

It’s All About… Us? – How CEO Narcissism Shapes Business Ecosystems (with Anastasiya Shylina, Andreas König, Don Lange), accepted for presentation at the 13^th EIASM Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy Research: Strategic Leadership and Attention in a Post-Chandlerian World, University of Passau, Germany, 06/2024

It’s All About… Us? – How CEO Narcissism Shapes Business Ecosystems (with Anastasiya Shylina, Andreas König, Don Lange), accepted for presentation at the 1^st DPE Forum 2024: Bytes and Behemoths: Understanding Power in Digital Platform Ecosystems, University of Passau, Germany, 06/2024

Reischauer, G., Figge, P., Lanzolla, G., Khanagha, S., Ansari, S., Jovanovic, M., Visnjic, I., Sjödin, D., Parida, V., Bruck, C., Engelmann, A., Hoffmann, W. H., Haeussler, C., Maier, M., Nowak, R., & Wiesmueller, A. 2023. Competition and Governance Strategies of B2B Platforms. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1).