Ann-Kristin Zobel
Ann-Kristin Zobel
Assoziierte Professorin für Management
Dufourstrasse 40a
9000 St. Gallen
Strategisches Management
Innovationsmanagement
open innovation
innovation ecosystems
meta-organizational design
Climate change & net-zero strategies
Transformation of the energy sector
Smart Cities
Digitalization
Bachelor in "International Business", Maastricht University
Master in "Business Research", Maastricht University
Ph.D. "Open innovation: a dynamic capabilities perspective", Maastricht University
Postdoctoral researcher, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
Senior researcher, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
Strategic Management (Bachelor)
Managing Collaborative Innovation for Net-Zero (MUG)
Exploring Sustainability as Strategic Opportunity (SIM)
The Art of Constructive Reviewing (PMA)
Crafting and Evaluating Research Designs (PMA)
Co-creating the future of the energy sector - collaborative strategies at multiple levels of analysis
Boundary spanning - individual-level search openness in co-located & virtual environments
Coordinating at the digital/physical interface in the context of Smart Cities
Accelerating the race to net-zero through open innovation
Academy of Management
EGOS
World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) organizing team
2022 Abbie Griffin High Impact Award, awarded by the Journal of Product Innovation Management for the article "Benefitting from Open Innovation: A Multidimensional Model of Absorptive Capacity"
2021, Overall Best Conference Paper JPIM Research Forum “Sourcing External Digital Solutions: The Interplay of Digital Technology Architecture and Knowledge Exchange Processes”
Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020 Best Paper Award
2020, NRP 77 ‘Digital Transformation’, Swiss National Science Foundation
Most cited article, Industry and Innovation
Maastricht University Best Dissertation Award 2013
Top 3% Students of the Academic Year 2009/2010, Maastricht University
NPF 77 “Digital Transformation”
Free Electrons Research Project