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Overview

Ulrich Lichtenthaler is affiliated with the International School of Management in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management, and Accounting, with an emphasis on Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Information Systems, Marketing, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models

Ulrich Lichtenthaler has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Digitainability: The Combined Effects of the Megatrends Digitalization and Sustainability" (2021) in the Journal of Innovation Management
  • "Five Maturity Levels of Managing AI: From Isolated Ignorance to Integrated Intelligence" (2020) in the Journal of Innovation Management
  • "A Conceptual Framework for Combining Agile and Structured Innovation Processes" (2020) in Research-Technology Management
  • "Explicating a sustainability-based view of sustainable competitive advantage" (2021) in the Journal of strategy and management
  • "Data management efficiency: major opportunities for shared value innovation" (2021) in Management Research Review

Their research has been disseminated in several journals over time, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Innovation Management
  • Journal of Business Strategy
  • International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
  • Research-Technology Management
  • Journal of strategy and management

Best Publications

  • Absorptive Capacity, Environmental Turbulence, and the Complementarity of Organizational Learning Processes

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • A Capability‐Based Framework for Open Innovation: Complementing Absorptive Capacity

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Eckhard Lichtenthaler

  • OpenInnovation:rentDebates,andFutureDirections

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  • Open Innovation: Past Research, Current Debates, and Future Directions

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Research on Technological Innovation in Family Firms: Present Debates and Future Directions

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Federico Frattini;Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Open Innovation in Practice: An Analysis of Strategic Approaches to Technology Transactions

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  • Outbound open innovation and its effect on firm performance: examining environmental influences

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Attitudes to externally organising knowledge management tasks: a review, reconsideration and extension of the NIH syndrome

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Opening up the innovation process: the role of technology aggressiveness

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • External technology commercialization in large firms: results of a quantitative benchmarking study

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • External Commercialization of Knowledge: Review and Research Agenda

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  • The Drivers of Technology Licensing: An Industry Comparison

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Technology Transfer across Organizational Boundaries: Absorptive Capacity and Desorptive Capacity

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Eckhard Lichtenthaler

  • Developing reputation to overcome the imperfections in the markets for knowledge

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Antecedents and Consequences of Firms’ Process Innovation Capability: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework

    J. Frishammar;M. Kurkkio;L. Abrahamsson;U. Lichtenthaler

  • Where process development begins: A multiple case study of front end activities in process firms

    Monika Kurkkio;Johan Frishammar;Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Digitainability: The Combined Effects of the Megatrends Digitalization and Sustainability

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  • Extremes of acceptance: employee attitudes toward artificial intelligence

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  • Innovation Intermediaries: Why Internet Marketplaces for Technology Have Not Yet Met the Expectations

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Integrated Roadmaps for Open Innovation

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Identifying Technology Commercialization Opportunities: The Importance of Integrating Product Development Knowledge

    Johan Frishammar;Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Jonas Rundquist

  • Technology exploitation in the context of open innovation: Finding the right ‘job’ for your technology

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Intermediary Services in the Markets for Technology:: Organizational Antecedents and Performance Consequences

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Not-Sold-Here: How Attitudes Influence External Knowledge Exploitation

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst;Martin Hoegl

  • RETRACTED: Externally commercializing technology assets: An examination of different process stages

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Ernst
Holger Ernst WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Johan Frishammar
Johan Frishammar Luleå University of Technology
Martin Hoegl
Martin Hoegl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Federico Frattini
Federico Frattini Polytechnic University of Milan
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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