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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesSeminar for Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization

Prof. Dr. Mark Ebers

Room: 3.12a, Herbert-Lewin-Straße 2
Phone: +49 (0) 221 / 470 – 2458
E-mail: ebersSpamProtectionwiso.uni-koeln.de
Office hours: by appointment

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Vita

Prof. Dr. Mark Ebers studied business administration in his native city of Hamburg. After graduating with a degree in business administration, he moved to the University of Mannheim, where he first worked as a research assistant at the Chair of General Business Administration and Organization, Prof. Dr. Alfred Kieser, and after receiving his doctorate, as a university assistant at the Faculty of Business Administration. In 1989/90 he received a fellowship as John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. which enabled him to do research there for one year. In 1993, Professor Ebers was awarded his habilitation at the University of Mannheim. In 1992 and 1993, he initially held the Chair of General Business Administration, in particular Organization at the University-GHS Paderborn cum spe. From 1994 to 2004, Professor Ebers held the Chair of Business Administration, specializing in Corporate Management and Organization at the University of Augsburg. During this time, he received calls to the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, the University of Witten/Herdecke and the University of St. Gallen. He held visiting professorships at Universitá Luigi Bocconi, Milan (1996), Harvard University (1997), Harvard Business School (2002), Tilburg University (2004), Columbia University (2008), and Stern School of Business, New York University (2014; 2018). He has also been appointed as an AIM International Visiting Fellow at the University of Strathclyde (2005) and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem (2012). Since October 1, 2004, Professor Ebers has held the Chair of General Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization at the University of Cologne.

Offices

  • 2004 - today Member of the Executive Board of the Schmalenbachgesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (since 2019 also member of the Presidium)
  • 2007 - today Member of Council of the "International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy", Cologne
  • 2011 - today Head of the Working Group Organization in the Schmalenbachgesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
  • 2013 - 2016 Representative-at-large of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management
  • 2016 - today Member of the Review Board 112 Economics of the German Research Foundation

Awards

  • 2009 Albertus-Magnus-Award for teaching excellence, spring, rewarded by the Student Association of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences of Cologne University
  • 2007 Best Paper Award, German Academic Association for Business Research, for „The dynamics of social capital and their performance implications: Lessons from biotechnology start-ups.” Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 51, 2006, 262-292 (with Indre Maurer)
  • 2007 Best Paper Award of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) for “Learning in project-based organizations: How project members' social capital affects effective knowledge transfer and organizational performance." (Indre Maurer, Vera Bartsch, Mark Ebers and Svenja Knöpfler)
  • 1985 Karin-Islinger Prize, Mannheim University for dissertation "Organisationskultur - Ein neues Forschungsprogramm?"

Research Grants

  • 2015 „Professoren als Entrepreneurship-Promotoren zur Gründungsförderung in Forschungseinrichtungen (PEP II)“. BMBF 1.524.600,00 €
  • 2012 “Professoren als Entrepreneurship-Promotoren zur Gründungsförderung in Forschungseinrichtungen (PEP I)". BMBF 784.600,00 €
  • 2010 „Adoption, Adaption und Erfolgswirkung von Managementkonzepten im Rahmen von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen“. DFG individual funding 276.420,-- €
  • 2008 „Lernen und Innovation in inter-organisationalen Projekten“. DFG individual funding 23.600,-- €
  • 2005 “Knowledge Governance and Projects”. Fund for Investments in Base Research (FIRB), Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) 15.000,-- €
  • 1995 „Die konstitutionelle und organisatorische Gestaltung internationaler gouvernementaler Organisationen“. DFG individual funding 

Edited Volumes

  • 1993 - today Editorial Member "Organization Studies"
  • 2001 - today Editorial Board Member "Strategic Organization"
  • 2003 - today Editorial Board Member "Scandinavian Journal of Management"
  • 2017 - 2020 Editorial Board Member "Academy of Management Review"

Research

Research Interests

  • Networks and social capital of companies Netzwerke und soziales Kapital von Unternehmen
  • Dynamic capabilities of companies Dynamische Fähigkeiten (Dynamic Capabilites) von Unternehmen
  • Innovation and learning Innovation und Lernen
  • Post-merger integration

Publications

Books

  • Kieser, A., & Ebers, M. (Eds.). 2019. Organisationstheorien (8th ed.). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. Details
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M., & Ring, P. S. (Eds.). 2013. Inter-organizational Relations, 5 Volumes. Los Angeles: Sage.
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M., Huxham, C., & Ring, P. S. (Eds.). 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Inter-organizational Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ebers, M. (Eds.). 1997 (paperback edition with new Forward 1999). The Formation of Inter-organizational Networks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Articles in refereed journals (excerpt)

  • Ebers, Mark, M. Kowarsch, A. Tarlatt 2020. Wie Unternehmen sich für Krisen wappnen können. Der Betriebswirt, 2020, 61(3), 151-168.
  • Klingbeil, C., Semrau, T., Ebers, M., Wilhelm, H. 2019. Logics, leaders, lab coats: A multi-level study on how institutional logics are linked to entrepreneurial intentions in academia. Journal of Management Studies, 56(5):929-965. Details DOI: 10.1111/joms.12416
  • Ebers, M., Grundei, J., Schewe, G. 2018. Organizational Health: Was Konzepte zur Bestimmung einer „gesunden“ Organisation leisten und was nicht. Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation (ZFO), 87(3): 196-202. Details
  • Ebers, M., Frost, J., Grundei, J., Reihlen, M., Schewe, G., Wolf, J., & Arbeitskreis Organisation der Schmalenbach­gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V 2018. Implikationen der Digitalisierung für die Organisation. In Krause, Stefean, and Pellens, Bernd (Hrsg.): Betriebswirtschaftliche Implikationen der digitalen Transformation. Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirt­schaft­liche Forschung, Sonderheft, 72/17: 3-27. Details
  • Ebers, M. , Arbeitskreis Organisation der Schmalenbachgesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. 2017. Organisationsmodelle für Innovation. Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 69(1): 81-109. Details DOI: 10.1007/s41471-016-0021-x
  • Ebers, M., & Maurer, I. 2016. To continue or not to continue? Drivers of recurrent partnering in temporary organizations. Organization Studies, 37(12): 1861-1895. Details DOI: 10.1177/0170840616655490
  • Ebers, M., & Oerlemans, L. 2016. The variety of governance structures beyond market and hierarchy. Journal of Management, 42(6). Details DOI: 10.1177/0149206313506938
  • Ebers, M., & Semrau, T. 2014. What drives the allocation of specific investments between buyer and supplier?. Journal of Business Research. Details DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.06.007
  • Ebers, M., & Maurer, I. 2014. Connections count: How relational embeddedness and relational empowerment foster absorptive capacity. Research Policy, 43(2): 318-332. Details DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.10.017
  • Bartsch, V., Ebers, M., & Maurer, I. 2013. Learning in project-based organizations: The role of project teams' social capital for overcoming barriers to learning. International Journal of Project Management, 31(2): 239-251. Details
  • Ebers, M., Arbeitskreis Organisation der Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. 2012. Entwicklungslinien zukünftiger organisatorischer Strukturen und Prozesse. Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation, 81(5): 329-335.
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M.,  Huxham, C., & Ring, P.S. 2011. Packing more punch? Developing the field of inter-organisational relations. International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances, 2(3): 153-170. Details
  • Maurer, I., Bartsch, V., & Ebers, M. 2011. The Value of Intra-organizational Social Capital: How it Fosters Knowledge Transfer, Innovation Performance, and Growth. Organization Studies, 32(2): 157-185. Details
  • Powell, W.W., & Ebers, M. 2007. Biotechnology: Its origins, organization, and outputs. Special Issue of Research, 36(4): 433-437. Details
  • Maurer, I., & Ebers, M. 2006. Dynamics of social capital and their performance implications: Lessons from biotechnology start-ups. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(2): 262-292. Details
  • Ebers, M. 1999. The dynamics of inter-organizational relationships. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 16: 31-56.
  • Oliver, A. L., & Ebers, M. 1998. Networking network studies: An analysis of conceptual configurations in the study of inter-organizational relationships. Organization Studies, 19(4): 549-583.
  • Ebers, M., & Jarillo, J. C. 1997. The Construction, Forms, and Consequences of Industry Networks. International Studies of Management & Organization, 27(4): 3-21.
  • Ebers, M. 1995. The Framing of Organizational Cultures. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 13: 129-170.

Book contributions

  • Ebers, Mark, I. Maurer 2019. Netzwerktheorie. In: Kieser, A., Ebers, M. (Eds.), Organisationstheorien. 8th ed., Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, pp. 391-412. Details 
  • Ebers, Mark, W. Gotsch 2019. Institutionenökonomische Theorien der Organisation. In: Kieser, A., Ebers, M. (Eds.), Organisationstheorien. 8th edition., Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, pp. 196-257. Details 
  • Interorganizational Relationships and Networks. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Vol 12. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015: pp. 621–625. Details
  • Williamson (1985): The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. In: Stefan Kühl (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der Organisationsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2015:  748-751. Details
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M., & Ring, P.S. 2013. Editor's introduction. In S. Cropper & M. Ebers & P. S. Ring (Eds.), Interorganizational Relations, Vol. 5. Los Angeles: Sage. Details
  • Ebers, M., Maurer, I., & Graumann, M. 2011. Organisation: Management von Strukturen und Wandel. In W. Busse von Colbe & A. Coenenberg & P. Kajüter & U. Linnhoff & B. Pellens (Eds.), Betriebswirtschaft für Führungskräfte, 4th ed.: 170-205. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Details
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M., Huxham, C., & Ring, P. S. 2008. Introducing Inter-organizational relations. In S. Cropper & M. Ebers & C. Huxham & P. S. Ring (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Inter-organizational Relations: 3-21. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Details
  • Cropper, S., Ebers, M., Huxham, C., & Ring, P. S. 2008. The field of inter-organizational relations. A Jungle or an Italian Garden? In S. Cropper & M. Ebers & C. Huxham & P. S. Ring (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Inter-organizational Relations: 3-21. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Details
  • Ebers, M. 2007. Unternehmensentwicklung. In R. Köhler & U. Küpper & A. Pfingsten (Eds.), Handwörterbuch der Betriebswirtschaft, Vol. 1, 6th ed.: 1789-1801. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Details
  • Böhringer, A., Bukowsky, I., Ebers, M., & Maurer, I. 2006. Herausforderungen grenzüberschreitender M&A. In B. W. Wirtz (Ed.), Handbuch Mergers & Acquisitions: 131-156. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler. Details
  • Ebers, M. 2001. Property-Rights-Ansatz. In R. Bühner (Ed.), Management-Lexikon: 633-635. München: Oldenbourg. Details
  • Ebers, M. 2001. Interorganizational relationships and networks. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences: 7855-7860. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. Details
  • Ebers, M. 2000. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting. New York 1985. In K. Türk (Ed.), Hauptwerke der Organisationstheorie: 336-339. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Ebers, M., Hermesch, M., Matzke, M., & Mehlhorn, A. 2000. Strukturwandel und Steuerungsformen von Netzwerken in der deutschen Bauindustrie. In J. Sydow & A. Windeler (Eds.), Steuerung von Netzwerken - Konzepte und Praktiken: 251-279. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Ebers, M. 1997. Explaining inter-organizational network formation. In M. Ebers (Ed.), The Formation of Inter-organizational Networks: 3-40. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ebers, M., & Grandori, A. 1997. The forms, costs and development dynamics of inter-organizational networking. In M. Ebers (Ed.), The Formation of Inter-organizational Networks: 265-286. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ebers, M. 1995. Organisationskultur und Führung. In A. Kieser & G. Reber & R. Wunderer (Eds.), Handwörterbuch der Führung: 1664-1682. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel.
  • Ebers, M. 1994. Die Gestaltung interorganisationaler Informationssysteme- Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer transaktionskostentheoretischen Erklärung. In J. Sydow & A. Windeler (Eds.), Management interorganisationaler Beziehungen: 22-48. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.