Prof. Dr. Miriam Zschoche

Employment

2017- Full Professor of Strategic and International Management, University of Erfurt, Germany

2015-2017 Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany

2011-2015 Post-doctoral researcher, Chair of Organization Theory, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany

2007-2010 Ph.D. student, research and teaching assistant, Chair of Innovation and International Management, University of Augsburg, Germany

2006-2007 Coordinator of “International Business Development” at Fraunhofer headquarters, Munich, Germany

Research visits

2017 Visiting Professor, University of Bergamo, Italy

2013 Visiting post-doctoral researcher, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, U.S.

Education

2007-2011 Ph.D. in International Management, University of Augsburg, Germany

2001-2004 Studies in Economics, University of Potsdam, Germany, degree: Diploma in Economics (equivalent to M.Sc.)

2004 Exchange study placement, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

1998-2001 Undergraduate studies in Economics (equivalent to B.Sc.), University of Leipzig, Germany

1998 A-levels

Grants and Awards

2022 DFG funding for research projects "Family firms and layoff announcements"

2017 CEIBS Best Paper Award in International Management of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta with the paper “Keeping up with the Joneses: How family firms navigate their foreign direct investment” (with S. Fourné)

2013-2014 Research scholarship of Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2014 Honorable mention within the best conference paper award of the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference in Madrid (recognizing the five best papers of the conference) with the paper “Make-or-buy decisions in platform markets” (with M. Reisinger)

Berufserfahrung

2017 -                      Professorin (W3) für Strategisches und Internationales Management an

                                 der Universität Erfurt

2015 - 2017             Junior-Professorin für Strategisches Management und Organisation,

                                 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar

2011 - 2015             Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoktorandin), WHU – Otto

                                 Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar

2007 - 2010             Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin, Lehrstuhl für

                                 Innovation und Internationales Management, Universität Augsburg

2006 - 2007             Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich “International Business

                                 Development”, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München

Ausbildung

2011                         Promotion, Universität Augsburg

2004                         Diplom-Volkswirtin, Universität Potsdam

2001                         Vordiplom in Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Leipzig

1998                         Abitur

Forschungsaufenthalte

2017                         Universität Bergamo, Italien

2013                         Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA

Universitäres Engagement

2023 -                      Prodekanin für Studienangelegenheiten der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt

2019 -                       Mitglied des Senats der Universität Erfurt

2017 - 2023             Gleichstellungsbeauftragte der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt

2017 -                       Mitglied des BA-Prüfungsausschusses der Universität Erfurt

2008 - 2010              Frauenbeauftragte der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität

                                  Augsburg

Fourné, S./Kremer, R./Zschoche, M. (2025) Media reactions to family firms’ downsizing and upsizing decisions, Journal of Business Research, forthcoming.

Königstein, M./Zschoche, M./Brown, T./Königstein, M. (2024) Influence of peer information and personality on social exclusion in a three-person dictator game, Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(5): 3434-3443.

Flickinger, M./Zschoche, M. (2023) The interplay of subsidiary performance and cultural distance in international downsizing decisions, Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 75: 127–147.

Fourné, S./Zschoche, M./Schwens, C./Kotha, R. (2023). Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis, Journal of World Business, 58: 101428.

Fourné, S./Zschoche, M. (2020). Reducing uncertainty in follow-up FDI: Imitation by family firms, Global Strategy Journal, 10(4): 839-860.

Flickinger, M./Zschoche, M. (2018). Corporate divestiture and performance: An institutional view, Journal of Management and Governance, 22(1): 111-131.

Gleich, W./Schmeisser B./Zschoche, M. (2017). The influence of competition on international sourcing strategies in the service sector, International Business Review, 26(2): 279-287.

Zschoche, M. (2016). The effects of foreign direct investment colocation: Differences between manufacturing and service firms, Managerial and Decision Economics, 37(7): 447-460.

Zschoche, M. (2016). Performance effects of divesting foreign production affiliates: A network perspective, Long Range Planning, 49(2), 196-206.

Jost, P.-J./Zschoche, M. (2016). Organizing dynamic capabilities: Exploiting complementarities by organizational bundling, Journal of Competence-Based Strategic Management (früher: Jahrbuch Strategisches Kompetenzmanagement), 8, 11-27.

Jost, P.-J./Schubert, S./Zschoche, M. (2015). Incumbent positioning as a determinant of strategic response to entry, Small Business Economics, 44: 577–596.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2012). The role of operational flexibility in the expansion of international production networks, Strategic Management Journal, 33: 1540-1556.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2012). The effect of operational flexibility on decisions to withdraw from foreign production locations, International Business Review, 21: 806-816.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2011). The effects of liabilities of foreignness, economies of scale, and multinationality on firm performance – An information cost view, Schmalenbach Business Review, Special Issue 3: 51-68.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2011). Do firms benefit from multinationality through production shifting?, Journal of International Management, 17(2): 143-149.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2011). Analyse von internationalen Produktionsnetzwerken mit dem Konzept der Operationalen Flexibilität. In: Puck, J. F. & Leitl, C. (Hrsg.): Außenhandel im Wandel. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Reinhard Moser. Berlin – Heidelberg: 239-257.

Jürgens, D./Sälzer, J./Zschoche, M. (2009). Öffentliche Förderung internationaler Forschungskooperationen – Strategien in der Zusammenarbeit mit Südkorea. In: Fisch, J. H. & Roß, J.-M. (Hrsg.): Fallstudien zum Innovationsmanagement. Wiesbaden: 321-340.

Liessem, C./Ricken, K./Zschoche, M. (2009). MAN Diesel – Schiffsmotoren von Augsburg in die Welt. In: Fisch, J. H. & Roß, J.-M. (Hrsg.): Fallstudien zum Innovationsmanagement. Wiesbaden: 415-430.

Fisch, J.H./Zschoche, M. (2009). Einfluss der Irreversibilität von Investitionen auf Entscheidungen zur Vergrößerung von Auslandsgesellschaften. In: Moser, R. (Hrsg.): Internationale Unternehmensführung – Entscheidungsfelder und politische Aspekte. Wiesbaden: 81-99.

Restructuring international production networks – determinants and performance effects based on operational flexibility

Opus Publication server Universität Augsburg, URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-18275

2025
European Academy of Management Annual Conference (Florenz), Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Kopenhagen)

2024
International Family Enterprise Research Academy (Lissabon), New Institutionalism Workshop (Jena), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Istanbul), European International Business Academy Annual Conference (Helsinki)

2022
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (virtual), NHH Bergen (Norway)

2021
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (virtual)

2020
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (virtual)

2019
Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (Copenhagen), Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Boston), Strategic Management Society Special Conference (Frankfurt)

2018
Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (Minneapolis)

2017
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Atlanta), Strategic Management Society Special Conference (Banff), Universität Bergamo

2016
Pfingsttagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (München), German Economic Association of Business Administration (Basel), Strategic Management Society (Berlin)

2015
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Vancouver), German Economic Association of Business Administration (Hamburg)

2014
Pfingsttagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (Leipzig), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Madrid)

2013
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Orlando), AKempor Arbeitskreis empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung (München), European International Business Academy Annual Conference (Bremen), German Economic Association of Business Administration (Magdeburg), MiDi-Workshop Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt/Main), University of Texas at Dallas

2012
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Boston), German Economic Association of Business Administration (Graz), Kommission Internationales Management im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (Saarbrücken), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Prag)

2010
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Montreal), Academy of International Business Annual Conference (Rio), EIASM Workshop on International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management (Tübingen), European International Business Academy Annual Conference (Porto), Kommission Internationales Management im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (Berlin), MiDi-Workshop Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt/Main), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Rom)

2009
European International Business Academy Annual Conference (Valencia), MiDi-Workshop Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt/Main)