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Research projects

Strategic Decisions in Family Businesses
since February 2013
Strategic management represents the core of the management research and has become much more focused in academic research in recent years. A main aspect of strategic management is the answer of the question how a company can, with respect of its indi... more...

Helge Mensching, MSc
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Internationalisierung von Familienunternehmen
September 2012 to June 2013
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

A Network Approach to Cross-border Regions and their Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis
since March 2012
Cross-border regions are collaborations involving contiguous regions belonging to different nation states. In order to be innovative and thus gain or sustain a competitive advantage regions like the Rhine Valley, spanning the different countries Liec... more...

Eve Stocklasa, MSc
Prof. Dr. Christian Marxt

Distance Leadership
since March 2012
Due to a rapidly spreading global access to the internet and newly evolving collaboration technologies, companies can now benefit from saving time and costs by having web-based conferences and meetings. Online document sharing, telephone conferences,... more...

Nadine Poser, MSc
Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger

Organizational Transformation from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
February 2012 to January 2013
Das Ziel dieses Projektes ist es unser Verständnis von Wandel- und Transformationsprozesse in Organisationen die in einem dynamischen Umfeld operieren zu verbessern. Um dies zu erreichen werden Organisationen als Komplexe Adaptive Systeme betrachtet.... more...

Mag.rer.soc.oec. Markus Spiegel
Prof. Dr. Christian Marxt

Der Einfluss der Corporate Gorvernance auf die strategische Veränderungsfähigkeit von unternehmergeführten Firmen in der Wachstumsphase
September 2011 to September 2013
Das Projekt verfolgt drei spezifische Forschungsziele. Zunachst soll in Erfahrung gebracht werden, welche Corporate Governance-Strukturen und -Prozedere in unternehmergefuhrten Unternehmen eingesetzt werden. Im zweiten Schritt soll herausgefunden wer... more...

Dr. Susanne Durst, MSc
Dipl.-Betriebsw. (BA) Stefan Wilhelm, MBA Entrepreneurship

Unternehmerisches Wachstum in der Care-Ökonomie
September 2011 to September 2014
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Dr. rer. soc. oec. Barbara Fuchs

Organizational Transformation in Dynamic Environments - Understanding Success Factors for the Implementation of “Design Thinking” Processes from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
since March 2011
Especially technology driven firms are facing a faster rate of change than ever before. The main drivers are new technological developments, changing demands from customers and fierce competition. The capabilities to successfully transform, adapt and... more...

Mag.rer.soc.oec. Markus Spiegel
Prof. Dr. Christian Marxt
Prof. Dr. Sara L. Beckman
Prof. Dr. Larry J. Leifer

Innovation Lock-In - Beschränkung des Innovationsspielraum durch technologische Pfadabhänigkeit bei KMU in Liechtenstein, Ostschweiz und Vorarlberg
October 2010 to March 2011
Eine Befragung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen in der Region ergab die besondere Herausforderung die sich diese Unternehmen gegenüber sehen, wenn sie gängige Modelle der Innovation einsetzen möchten. Oftmals haben sie in spezifische, teils sehr... more...

Dipl.-Kffr. Claudia Brunner
Mag.rer.soc.oec. Markus Spiegel

Leadership in young firms
since March 2010
Since firms exist, there is the need to lead employees. The main target in leading employees is the realization of an effective leadership. In the 80ies, Bernhard M. Bass developed the Full-Range-Leadership model and started a new era in the leadersh... more...

Simon Zäch, MBA Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack

Family Buyouts - Influence of Corporate Governance on Strategic Renewal
since March 2010
Management Buyouts (MBOs) of family businesses are an alternative solution to the problem of succession. A MBO is the sale of a company to the incumbent management. It offers an opportunity to maintain the company's autonomy and continuity, especiall... more...

Mag. Thomas Götzen
Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Prof. Dr. Arist von Schlippe

New Partners for Innovation - Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs): A theoretical framework for mutually benefiting NGO-business partnerships in open innovation
since March 2010
By using a mixed-method approach, the thesis wishes to show both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, if and how the collaboration of companies with IGOs and (I)NGOs fosters innovation. IGOs and (I)NGOs will be systemized, the process o... more...

Dipl.-Kffr. Claudia Brunner
Prof. Dr. Christian Marxt
Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Pius Baschera

Strategic Knowledge Management
since March 2010
The management of "knowledge" is seen as a key challenge in the current business environment. The most important component of a sustainable competitive advantage is the knowledge/expertise of the individuals working for a company. The aim of every co... more...

Dipl.-Betriebsw. (BA) Stefan Wilhelm, MBA Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Güttel

International knowledge marketing - the commercialization of knowledge based resources with the support of reputation
since September 2009
The two fields of research, knowledge marketing and reputation management of the company has become significantly important in the science community. Both topics have been just fragmentary worked on. The main object of the dissertation is to gain add... more...

Diplom-Sportlehrer Gregor Diehr
Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg
Prof. Dr. Manfred Schwaiger

Intellectual Capital Reports at Universities
since February 2009
Die Bilanzierung von Wissen ist ein Themengebiet, das in der Wissenschaft und in den Unternehmen zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Die Erstellung von Wissensbilanzen umfasst zwei Funktionen: Zum einen kann sie intern als Instrument der strategischen St... more...

Dr. Susanne Durst, MSc
Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing
since January 2009
Das am Institut für Entrepreneurship im Inderscience-Verlag (London/Genf) mitherausgegebene "International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing" (IJEV) hat die Themenschwerpunkte Opportunity, Growth und Value Creation zum Fokus.
Damit wurde zum Jahr... more...

Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Knowledge Governance
since January 2009
By doing our conceptual research on the realm of knowledge worker motivation we want to contribute to the answering of the most important management challenge of the 21st century, namely how to motivate experts in varying organizational settings to p... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg
Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Antoinette Weibel
Dipl.-Psych. Ingo Erich Bildstein

Strategic Entrepreneurship
since January 2009
"Strategisches Entrepreneurship" bezeichnet die Schnittmenge der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschungsdiziplinen Strategisches Management und Entrepreneurship (Unternehmertum). Dieses noch junge Forschungsfeld (erste Forschungsarbeiten stammen aus dem... more...

Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

The Strategic Communication Process
since January 2009
A strong body of literature emphasizes the importance of communication for organizational change and development. In particular, to successfully cope with an increasingly fast changing business environment, a systematic internal communication process... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg
Mag. (FH) Johannes Dietrich

How to Attract Experts to and how to Make Them Productive in Knowledge-based Organizations?
since October 2008
Management in the industrial economy focused on increasing the productivity of single manual workers, because it was easy to determine individual contributions to tangible outputs. Hence carrot-and-stick motivational schemes did a good job i... more...

Dipl.-Psych. Ingo Erich Bildstein
Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg
Prof. Dr. Hora Tjitra

Entrepreneurial Behavior in Family Firms
since June 2008
Familienunternehmen gelten als die Ursprungsform jeglicher Geschäftsaktivität. Sie spielen eine bedeutende Rolle in den wichtigsten Volkswirtschaften weltweit und leisten einen bemerkenswerten Beitrag zu deren Wachstum und Stabilität. Damit sind sie... more...

Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Franchising als Wachstumsstrategie
since May 2008
Ziele: Multiplikation von erfolgreichen Geschäftsmodellen durch Franchising erklären; Voraussetzungen für das erfolgreiche Franchising von Geschäftsmodellen junger Unternehmungen ermitteln. more...

Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes

Managemet Methods for the Measurement and Enhancement of Experts' Productivity
May 2008 to October 2009
A growing number of employees in the OECD countries are no longer involved in generating defined results by means of defined operations, but they have to solve more or less complex area-specific problems. Different inquiries in the fields of their jo... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

Strategy Processes in Research and Development Organizations
since September 2007
Partners: Austrian Research Centers and SoL Austria

In the last few years one could observe a fundamental shift from strategy content to strategy process research. The change from a market- to a resource- or knowledge-based view of strategy can be s... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

Productive Knowledge Management
since March 2007
Partner: FH Wiesbaden
The wealth of the Western civilization rests for the most part upon its ability of efficient management of manual labor which has been linked with an increase of productivity since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Unf... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

Entrepreneurial Marketing
since January 2007
Marktbedürfnisse sind Grundlage für unternehmerische Aktivitäten. Diese wiederum bilden die Ausgangsbasis für die Marketing- wie auch für die Entrepreneurshipforschung, deren Schnittmenge – das Entrepreneurial Marketing – allerdings noch kaum untersu... more...

Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus
PD Dr. Christine Vallaster

The experience, learning and development of owner-managers during their growth phases of their firms with particular reference to human capital management
since January 2007
The objectives of the doctoral thesis are to explore the owner-manager experiences and learning processes that contribute to the management of growth in small firms in the region of the Rhine Valley, with particular respect to HCM. Studies of regiona... more...

Dipl.-Ing. FH Stefan Sohler, MBA
Prof. Ged Watts
Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger

Human Resources im Unternehmenswachstum
October 2006 to April 2010
Die Fachliteratur über Human Resources und Personalführung beschäftigt sich vor allem mit grossen Unternehmungen. Die Gewinnung neuer Mitarbeiter, die Beurteilung und Entlöhnung des Personals und die innerbetriebliche Kommunikation wurden in schnell... more...

Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Dr. Bettina Thurnher

Generic Strategies and Firm Performance in SMEs: A Longitudinal Study of Austrian SMEs
July 2006 to August 2009
Partner: Austrian Research Centers GmbH

The research project studies the impact of generic strategies on firm performance using a longitudinal study of small and medium-sized firms in Austria. In two surveys, data on the strategic behavior and perfo... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

Completed Project

SUSTENTERPRISE
February 2011 to November 2011
Im Projekt "SUSTENTERPRISE" gingen Schülerinnen der 6. Klasse des Privatgymnasiums Sacré Coeur Riedenburg aus Bregenz im zweiten Schulhalbjahr 2011 gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlerinnen aus Sozial-, Natur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie ihrem Geogr... more...

PD Dr. Christine Vallaster

Completed Project

Precision Innovation - Innovation for SME
December 2009 to September 2010
Im Rahmen von 5 Workshops zu Themenbereichen der Innovation, des Model Based Company Developments und der Business Model Innovation, werden Unternehmen der Liechtensteiner Zulieferindustrie über 9 Monate hinweg begleitet und gecoacht. more...

Dipl.-Kffr. Claudia Brunner
Prof. Dr. Christian Marxt

Completed Project

Opportunity Recognition and Entrepreneurship Education
since September 2009
It is crucial for entrepreneurs to identify and evaluate marketable business opportunities. The identification and exploration of opportunities leads to the discovery of new businesses. Hence, opportunity recognition is, and has always been considere... more...

Dr. rer. oec. Andreas Brülhart, MBA Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Prof. Dr. Urs Fueglistaller

Completed Project

Unternehmerisches Handeln von Jugendlichen
January 2009 to January 2011
Entrepreneurship und die Entwicklung einer unternehmerischen Kultur finden in der liechtensteinischen Diskussion über neue Strategien für mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Wachstum, Beschäftigung und sozialen Zusammenhalt zunehmend Beachtung. An der Basis s... more...

Prof. Dr. Urs Baldegger
Mag. Gabriele Hojas
Daniel Müller, MBA

Completed Project

Philosophical and Economic Foundations of Sustainable Leadership: An Interdisciplinary Code of Practice for the Development of Good Conduct Rules
January 2009 to December 2009
Unfortunately theoretical constructs of quality management and sustainable leadership, such as quality circles, continuous improvement, knowledge management or the learning organization, are both impossible to scientifically analyse and to transfer t... more...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg

Completed Project

Happiness and Absenteeism in the Workplace
January 2009 to September 2009
Absenteeism is one of the largest internal cost drivers in
organizations as it causes both direct costs - such as lower
productivity - and indirect costs - such as a drop in work morale.
Research on potential predictors of absenteeism is large... more...

Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Antoinette Weibel
Dr. rer. oec. Harmonie Sauer

Completed Project

Can Formal Rules Promote Happiness in the Workplace? The Influence of Formalization, Types of Rules and Organizational Identity on an Employee’s Happiness
since September 2008
Philosophy has explored what the term happiness describes and how
it can be achieved in great depth. A common distinction of happiness
in the literature is made between the direct experience of enjoyment
(hedonism) and the experience of living in acc... more...

Dr. rer. oec. Harmonie Sauer
Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Antoinette Weibel
Prof. Dr. Heike Bruch

Completed Project

Analyse des aussenwirtschaftlichen Bewusstseins bei KMU - Status Quo (SARI-S)
April 2006 to December 2007
Mit 16 internationalen Partners aus den europäischen Alpenregionen beteiligt sich die Hochschule Liechtenstein am RegioMarket Projekt. Ziel des Projekts ist die Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Marketing- und Markenstrategie für den gesamten Alpenraum u... more...

Dr. Susanne Durst, MSc

Completed Project

Interreg IIIB-Projekt RegioMarket
March 2006 to March 2008
Mit 16 internationalen Partners aus den europäischen Alpenregionen beteiligt sich die Hochschule Liechtenstein am RegioMarket Projekt. Ziel des Projekts ist die Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Marketing- und Markenstrategie für den gesamten Alpenraum u... more...

Dr. Susanne Durst, MSc

Completed Project

Planning and Controlling Cockpit for Entrepreneurs
January 2006 to December 2007
In der Literatur existiert eine Vielzahl von Planungsansätzen für die strategische Ausrichtung eines Unternehmens. Allerdings integrieren diese meist keine passenden Controlling-Instrumente. Es ist Ziel des Projektvorhabens, ein integriertes Planungs... more...

Dr. Christian Hillbrand