Arne Keller is a post-doctorate researcher at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He earned a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration and Master's of Science in Management & Marketing at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. During this period, he studied abroad at the University of California in Berkeley and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. After his studies, he earned a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation about incumbent inertia and adaptation to technological change analyzes the arduous transition of Leica Camera from analog to digital image processing. He was a visiting scholar at several international universities, including Bocconi University Milan, IESE Business School Barcelona, and Purdue University, and the Krannert School of Management. His research focuses on change and processual dynamics in organizations and interorganizational relationships. Specifically, he is currently examining the role of social status hierarchies in reconfiguring firm capabilities and exploring how conflict and tension unfolds in processes of ambidexterity.

He is currently managing a research project at the JKU funded by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OenB) about digital transformation in hidden champions (Rosenbauer, KTM etc.). Arne presents his work regularly in international conferences, such as the Academy of Management Meeting and meetings organízed by the Strategic Management Society. His work is published in leading management journals, such as Organization Science and Strategic Organization. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as well as Executive Education courses.

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Read one of Arne's publications: Alliance Governance Mechanisms in the Face of Disruption, opens an external URL in a new window

Melanie Wiener joined the Institute of Strategic Management at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) as a post-doctoral researcher in February 2020. Before joining ISM Melanie was deputy head (04/2018 - 11/2019) and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Integrated Quality Design at JKU. She holds a PhD from JKU Linz with guest research visits at the Aalborg University (DEN) and Aarhus University (DEN). Her doctoral dissertation, “open-foresight and corporate culture,” included theory-building on the organizational settings needed to enhance the success of collaborative open foresight with an emphasis on culture, the role of top management, and open foresight team composition. The dissertation was recognized with the Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger CIM Best Paper Award for its academic relevance and the Karl Leitl Partnership Award for outstanding contributions to the field of inter-organizational collaboration.

Melanie’s research interests include strategic and behavioral questions in open strategy and open foresight, sustainability-oriented innovation, as well as circular economy. As an early career scholar, she had the pleasure to present her research over 25 times at leading conferences such as the SMS Conference, AOM Annual Meeting, the R&D Management Conference, ISPIM, EURAM, EGOS, the CINet Conference and Scenario Planning and Foresight. This has led to twelve academic journal articles, a monograph with Springer, and various practitioner articles. Besides her engagement at JKU, she is board member of the global Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) and has five years of experience in collaborative strategic foresight initiatives in a number of different fields.

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Georg Reischauer (a research & teaching fellow at the JKU Institute of Organizational Science) is a Fellow and Principal Investigator for projects funded by the JKU Business School and the Linz Institute of Technology. He is also an assistant professor and head of the Energy & Strategy Think-Tank at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Dr. Georg Reischauer explores just how companies working in established industries can sustainably use digital technologies. He currently focuses on digital market places - such as those used by Amazon, Uber and Airbnb - as well as innovation platforms that include the Android smartphone operating system. His work has been published in several journals, including the Academy of Management Discoveries, Industry and Innovation, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

JKU Business School Rising Scholars are post-doctoral candidates who work at one of the JKU Business School’s supporting institutes and have published outside their dissertation work over the past two years.

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Almina Bešić is a researcher at the department of international management with a tenure track position since March 2019.  
Almina received both of her master degrees (International Business; Financial and Industrial Management in 2010) along with her doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences (2015) from the University of Graz (Austria). In her doctoral thesis, Almina studied the strategies of multinational companies operating in Southeastern Europe, specifically analyzing their employment strategies across borders relating to highly skilled migrants. For her work, Almina was awarded a research fellowship from the Erste Foundation (2012-2014). She has been the recipient of several other prizes during her career, including the Josef Krainer Prize for young researchers from the government of Styria (2017).
Prior to joining the JKU, Almina spent several years working in the private sector and academia. From 2010 until the end of 2014, Almina was a research and teaching assistant in the University of Graz’s Department of Human Resource Management, where she concentrated on international human resource management as well as diversity management. In 2015, she completed a traineeship at the European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation, which focused on developing policies related to employment of highly skilled migrants and migrant entrepreneurship. From 2015 to 2019, Almina worked as a policy researcher for European Policy at ICF Consulting Ltd. London. Her main areas of work included project management and delivery of projects, emphasizing employment and integration of migrants as well as diversity, gender and social inclusion for the European Commission, the European Migration Network (EMN) and European Union agencies (e.g. Eurofound and EIGE). Currently, she is also a visiting lecturer at the Uni for Life at the University of Graz.
Almina’s research and teaching interests are linked to international business and human resource management and migration. Within these, she concentrates on multinational companies in transition economies, macro-level factors that influence these companies, the employment of highly-skilled migrants in organisations and migrant integration. Almina has also research interests in gender and diversity management.
Almina has published several research articles, and her research has appeared in academic journals such as European Management Review and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Almina is a member of EGOS (the European Group for Organizational Studies), IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) and EFA (the European Forum Alpbach).