Prof. Dr. Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß

Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß is a professor of business administration at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He holds the chair for Strategic Leadership and Global Management. Before he joined TU Berlin in late 2008, he served as a chair professor at the universities of Jena (1994-1999) and Bamberg (1999-2008) and as an endowment professor at the University of Heidelberg (all universities in Germany). He received a degree as “Diplomkaufmann”, his doctoral degree and his “Habilitation” degree at the University of Munich in 1985, 1988 and 1994, respectively. He has served as a dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at TU Berlin from 2011-2013, as the vice president and president of the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB) from 2011-2014, and as a co-program chair of the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Berlin, 2016. His and his chair’s research focuses on stakeholder influence on strategic decisions, mergers & acquisitions, diversification, top management teams and, most recently, on the strategic management of cities and on sustainability issues. Dodo’s research has been published in outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Long Range Planning, Industrial & Corporate Change, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, British Journal of Management and Business Research, Business Research, Schmalenbach Business Review, and Journal of Business Research.