Professorship for Psychology, in particular Entrepreneurship

Organisational unit: Professoship

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Michael Gielnik is Professor of Psychology, in particular Entrepreneurship. His research and teaching activities focus on understanding psychological success factors in the entrepreneurial process.

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The research particularly focuses on entrepreneurship trainings. The unit developed action-oriented training programs that have been implemented in several regions in Africa, South-East-Asia, and Latin America. The trainings are evaluated using randomized controlled trials to get a better theoretical understanding of the short- and long-term effects of the training programs.

Furthermore, Michael Gielnik teaches several modules on undergraduate-, graduate-, and PhD-level. He is the program-coordinator of the Master program “International Joint Master in Research in Work and Organizational Psychology (IJMRWOP)”.

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