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Business and Management
Malaysia
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
114
Citations
65374
World Ranking
20
National Ranking
1

Psychology

D-Index
110
Citations
60117
World Ranking
388
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2013 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Michael Frese is affiliated with the Asia School of Business in Malaysia. Their primary research area is within Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on the management of technology and innovation. Their work also spans organizational behavior and human resource management, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include entrepreneurship studies and influences, creativity in education and neuroscience, innovation and socioeconomic development, personality traits and psychology, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, human resource development and performance evaluation, as well as organizational learning and leadership.

Frese has published extensively, with research appearing frequently in venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the European Journal of Public Health, the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and World Development.

Selected recent papers include:

  • The Psychology of Entrepreneurship: Action and Process (2022), Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • Can becoming a leader change your personality? An investigation with two longitudinal studies from a role-based perspective. (2020), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica (2022), World Development
  • When passions collide: Passion convergence in entrepreneurial teams. (2020), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • The Effectiveness of the Effectuation Approach on Opportunity Identification and Pursuit: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Field Experiment (2020), Academy of Management Learning and Education

Frequent collaborators include Michael M. Gielnik, Mona Mensmann, Sylvia Hubner, Jomel Wei Xuan Ng, and Martin Dirksen-Fischer. These partnerships have resulted in multiple coauthored publications.

Their book contributions appear with publishers such as Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks and Informa. Notable book titles are "Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success" (2024), "The Lasting Impact of Personal Initiative Training" (2025), and "The Psychology of Entrpreneurship: New Perspectives" (2021).

Awards received include membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2013 for Psychology and Cognitive Sciences and designation as a Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of Past Research and Suggestions for the Future

    Andreas Rauch;Johan Wiklund;G.T. Lumpkin;Michael Frese

  • Human capital and entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytical review

    Jens M. Unger;Andreas Rauch;Michael Frese;Nina Rosenbusch

  • Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success

    Andreas Rauch;Michael Frese

  • Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

    Markus Baer;Michael Frese

  • 4. Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st century

    Michael Frese;Doris Fay

  • Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?

    Deanne N. Den Hartog;Robert J. House;Paul J. Hanges;S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla

  • Action as the core of work psychology: A German approach.

    Michael Frese;Dieter Zapf

  • Longitudinal studies in organizational stress research: a review of the literature with reference to methodological issues.

    Dieter Zapf;Christian Dormann;Michael Frese

  • The concept of personal initiative : Operationalization, reliability and validity in two German samples

    Michael Frese;Doris Fay;Tanja Hilburger;Karena Leng

  • Explaining the Heterogeneity of the Leadership-Innovation Relationship: Ambidextrous Leadership

    Kathrin Rosing;Michael Frese;Michael Frese;Andreas Bausch

  • Personal Initiative At Work: Differences Between East and West Germany

    Michael Frese;Wolfgang Kring;Andrea Soose;Jeannette Zempel

  • The psychology of entrepreneurship

    Michael Frese;Michael Marcus Gielnik

  • Organizational error management culture and its impact on performance : a two-study replication

    Cathy van Dyck;Michael Frese;Markus Baer;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Psychological approaches to entrepreneurial success

    Andreas Rauch;Michael Frese

  • Methodological issues in the study of work stress: Objective vs subjective measurement of work stress and the question of longitudinal studies.

    Michael Frese;Dieter Zapf

  • Mental fatigue and the control of cognitive processes: effects on perseveration and planning

    Dimitri van der Linden;Michael Frese;Theo F Meijman

  • Why negative affectivity should not be controlled in job stress research: don't throw out the baby with the bath water

    Paul E. Spector;Dieter Zapf;Peter Y. Chen;Michael Frese

  • Cultural variation of leadership prototypes across 22 European countries

    Felix C. Brodbeck;Michael Frese;Staffan Akerblom;Giuseppe Audia

  • A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity

    Ronald Bledow;Michael Frese;Neil Anderson;Miriam Erez

  • The Concept of Personal Initiative: An Overview of Validity Studies

    Doris Fay;Michael Frese

  • Human capital and entrepreneurial success: a meta-analytical review

    Nina Rosenbusch;A. Rauch;J.M. Unger;M. Frese

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix C. Brodbeck
Felix C. Brodbeck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hannes Zacher
Hannes Zacher Leipzig University
Ralf Bartenschlager
Ralf Bartenschlager Heidelberg University
Otto Haller
Otto Haller University of Freiburg
Dieter Zapf
Dieter Zapf Goethe University Frankfurt
Sabine Sonnentag
Sabine Sonnentag University of Mannheim
Volker Lohmann
Volker Lohmann Heidelberg University
David A. Hofmann
David A. Hofmann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Georg Kochs
Georg Kochs University of Freiburg
Michael D. Mumford
Michael D. Mumford University of Oklahoma

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