Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Senior Research Fellow at ESCP Business School, Chaired Professor of Strategic Management and Leadership at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, as well as International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

His work has been published in, for example, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He serves or has served on various editorial boards, including for the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and the Journal of Management. Going beyond the field of management, he has also published in information systems (e.g., ECIS, ICIS), software engineering (e.g., ICSE-NIER, TOSEM), and medical outlets (e.g., IJSP). His work has been covered by various news media, including the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Harvard Business Manager, Business Insider, Forbes, and Fortune.

Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and Professor and Chair of Strategy at ESCP Business School. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Passau. He held visiting positions at other universities, for instance Harvard University, UC Berkeley, and Columbia Business School.

Before his academic career, he was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich. He was repeatedly invited to work with the BCG Henderson Institute in New York and was selected for a year-long secondment to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva. Prior, he had started a small software company that he sold to a U.S. competitor.

He holds a master’s level degree in Information Systems and a doctorate in Strategic Management from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, a doctorate in Software Engineering from TUM, as well as a habilitation from the University of Passau.