Professorship for Psychology, in Particular Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Since August 2009 Michael Frese holds a joint appointment at Leuphana University of Lueneburg and the National University of Singapore, Business School.

His research spans a wide range of basic and applied topics within organizational behavior and work psychology. Most important are the longitudinal studies on psychological effects of unemployment, impact of stress at work, predictors of personal initiative in East Germany and psychological success factors in small scale entrepreneurs. In addition he is studying training - most importantly the concept of error training, leadership training and psychological training for increasing entrepreneurship and personal initiative. Most recently, he has done studies on cultural factors in organization and across nations, as well as research that looks at psychological success factors in entrepreneurs in developing countries and in Europe.

Prof. Frese has authored more than 200 articles and was editor/author of more than 20 books and special issues. He is one of the most frequently cited work and organizational psychologist in Europe.

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Prof. Frese’s research spans a wide range of basic and applied topics within organizational behavior and work psychology. Most important are his longitudinal studies on psychological effects of unemployment, impact of stress at work, predictors of personal initiative in East Germany, as well as psychological success factors of entrepreneurs. He is also known for his cross-national research on innovation. His field studies on errors, error management, and error management culture also have received wide attention.

 

  1. 2023
  2. Imperial College Business School

    Tabea Brüning (Visiting researcher)

    10.202312.2023

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  3. The impact of action-oriented entrepreneurship training on employment, income, and business performance among young adults

    Janina Peschmann (Speaker), Michael Gielnik (Coauthor), Michael Frese (Coauthor) & Kim Marie Bischoff (Coauthor)

    08.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Action Training for entrepreneurship: STEP and Personal Initiative Training

    Michael Frese (Oral presentation)

    17.02.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Africa Academy of Management (External organisation)

    Tabea Brüning (Member)

    2023

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  6. Interdisiplinary Network for Technology and Entrepreneurship Research in Africa (INTERA) (External organisation)

    Tabea Brüning (Member)

    2023

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  7. 2022
  8. 37th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference - SIOP 2022

    Michael Frese (Participant), Dorothee Horvath (Participant), Nina Keith (Participant) & Alexander Klamar (Participant)

    28.04.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  9. Fehler- und Risikomanagement

    Michael Frese (Oral presentation)

    26.04.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. 2021
  11. Life Time Achievement Award of the Organizational Behavior Division

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    30.07.202103.08.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Psychology for economic development to fight poverty

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    15.04.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Psychology of Entrepreneurship: an action theory perspective on entrepreneurial actions and success

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    26.02.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. International Congress of Applied Psychology - 2021

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  15. 2020
  16. Leadership Energy Summit Asia 2020

    Michael Frese (Moderator)

    16.11.202019.11.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Indonesia Global Entrepreneurship Network

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    04.06.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  18. 2019
  19. 6th International Conference on Entrepreneurship - ICOEN 2019

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    30.08.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. 25. Forum Risiko- und Sicherheitsmanagement 2019

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    28.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  21. 2018
  22. How to make use of evidence based management in entrepreneurship: The example of Personal Initiative Training

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    27.09.201829.09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. 29. International Conference of Applied Psychology - ICAP 2018

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    30.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. International Association for Chinese Management Research

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    16.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  25. 2017
  26. Academy of Management Journal (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  27. Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  28. 2014
  29. 3rd Project Conference "Universities, entrepreneurship, and enterprise development in Africa"

    Mona Mensmann (Speaker)

    14.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. 2013
  31. Psychology of Entrepreneurship - 2013

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    27.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  32. 1st East African Regional Conference of Psychology - RCP 2013

    Michael Frese (Organiser)

    06.11.201309.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Training of Entrepreneurs

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    06.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Conference of the Society for Organizational Behavior - SOB 2013

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    01.11.201303.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology - EAWOP 2013

    Kathrin Rosing (presenter)

    09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  36. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - AOM 2013

    Kathrin Rosing (Chair)

    08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Individual error management – Antecedents and its impact on performance

    Kathrin Rosing (Coauthor)

    08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Education

  38. The temporal dynamics of ambidextrous leadership for innovation: A diary study

    Kathrin Rosing (presenter)

    08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  39. 33th Annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference - BCERC 2013

    Michael Frese (Speaker), Kim Marie Bischoff (Speaker) & Thorsten Dlugosch (Speaker)

    05.06.201308.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Practitioner-Scientist Debate “Innovation in Organizations"

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    22.05.201325.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  41. Where are We With? A Dialectic Theory of Innovation

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    22.05.201325.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Student Training Entrepreneurial Promotion Conference - STEP 2013

    Michael Frese (Organiser) & Kim Marie Bischoff (Organiser)

    06.05.201308.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. Healthcare Quality Forum - 2013

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    16.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  44. Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference - DOP 2013

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    09.01.201311.01.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  45. Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference - DOP 2013

    Michael Frese (Organiser)

    09.01.201311.01.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  46. 2012
  47. Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Zukunftsbezogene Kognitionen in Innovationsprojekten - eine intra- und interindividuelle Perspektive

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012

    Anica Zeyen (Organiser), Markus Beckmann (Organiser), Michael König (Participant) & Michael Frese (Organiser)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  50. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012

    Michael Frese (Opponent)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  51. Error management culture, organizational ambidexterity, and firm performance

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. XXX International Congress of Psychology - ICP 2012

    Michael Frese (Organiser)

    22.07.201227.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  53. International Organizational Behaviour Conference - IOBC 2012

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    14.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  54. Colloquium at Business School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    13.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference - SIOP 2007

    Michael Frese (Organiser)

    26.04.201228.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  56. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference - SIOP 2007

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  57. 2011
  58. Toward a Psychology of Entrepreneurship – An Action Regulation Theory Perspective

    Michael Frese (Lecturer)

    27.10.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  59. A Linear Chaos Model of the Innovation Process

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  60. Historisches Kolleg München 2011

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    10.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  61. 2. Symposium Positive Psychologie - 2011

    Michael Frese (Keynote speaker)

    09.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  62. The innovation process: A linear succession of phases or chaos?

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker), Ronald Bledow (Speaker), Michael Frese (Speaker), Nataliya Baytalskaya (Speaker), Johanna E. Johnson (Speaker) & James L. Farr (Speaker)

    25.05.201128.05.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  63. Esade Conference 2011

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    03.05.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  64. 26th Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology - SIOP 2011

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    14.04.201116.04.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  65. EAWOP Small Group Meeting - 2011

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    26.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  66. 2010
  67. Differentielle Bedingungen für kreative versus effiziente Teamleistung

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    29.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie

    Ronald Bledow (Speaker) & Kathrin Rosing (Coauthor)

    29.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  69. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    27.09.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  70. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    26.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  71. 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - 2010

    Kathrin Rosing (Organiser)

    10.08.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  72. Active Performance in Research and Development: The Value of Contextual Fit

    Kathrin Rosing (Coauthor)

    10.08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  73. Momentum - The Psychological Forces Underlying Exploration and Exploitation

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    10.08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  74. Personal Initiative Training for Small Business Owners

    Michael Frese (Speaker), Matthias Glaub (Speaker), Maria Hoppe (Speaker), Sebastian Fischer (Speaker), Goosain Solomon (Speaker), Kristina Gramberg (Speaker) & Christian Friedrich (Speaker)

    06.08.201010.08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Happy and proactive? The role of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in personal initiative.

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  76. Phases of innovation - Do they exist?

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    16.07.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  77. 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology - 2010

    Michael Frese (Organiser)

    07.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  78. 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology - 2010

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    07.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  79. Psychological Success Factors in Entrepreneurs

    Michael Frese (Keynote Speaker)

    07.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  80. Work and Organizational Psychology Conference

    Michael Frese (Speaker)

    07.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  81. Anticipating Barriers and Success: Does it Promote Creativity?

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    10.04.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  82. The Paradox of Innovation Championing: Deviating from the Social Context

    Kathrin Rosing (presenter)

    09.04.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  83. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2010 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  84. 2009
  85. Anticipating Success and Barriers: A Field Study on Innovation Performance in R&D Teams

    Kathrin Rosing (Coauthor)

    09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  86. Die Paradoxie des Innovation Championings: Wenn Handeln und Kontext im Widerspruch stehen

    Kathrin Rosing (Speaker)

    09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  87. Journal of Business Venturing (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editor)

    09.20092016

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  88. Personnel Psychology (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2009 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  89. 2008
  90. The Dark Side of Mindfulness - Why Mindfulness Interventions Are Not Benefical for Everyone

    Kathrin Rosing (presenter)

    07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  91. Journal of Business and Psychology (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2008 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  92. 2006
  93. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Michael Frese (Editor)

    20062017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  94. 2000
  95. Human Performance (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editorial Board)

    2000 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  96. Josef Eul Verlag (Publisher)

    Michael Frese (Editor)

    2000 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  97. 1998
  98. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editor)

    19982000

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  99. 1997
  100. Does planning matter ?: Relations between planning and success in small and medium sized enterprises

    Andreas Jörg Rauch (Speaker) & Michael Frese (Speaker)

    03.06.1997

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  101. 1991
  102. Applied Psychology (Journal)

    Michael Frese (Editor)

    19911998

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch