Researchers
Dr. Meike Stephan
Phone: 02 71-7 40 50 01 Fax: 02 71-7 40 15 00 1 E-Mail: Dr. Meike Stephan Room: US-A 127/1 Office Hours: by Appointment |  |
Dr. Simone Schmid
Phone: 02 71-7 40 41 70 Fax: 02 71-7 40 14 17 0 E-Mail: Simone Schmid Room: US-A 127 Office Hours: by Appointment |  |
Simone Schmid studied at the University of Regensburg. She holds diplomas in Educational Science and Economics. From 06/2010 to 05/2016 she worked as a doctoral researcher and teaching associate and from 06/2016 to 03/2021 as a post-doctoral researcher and teaching associate at the Chair of Human Resources Management and Leadership Studies, Economics and Business Administration, University of Chemnitz. In 2016, she received her doctorate (summa cum laude). Her dissertation titeled „Success factor team!? A multi-methodological and multi-case approach to empirically analyze factors that determine successful teamwork“ was awarded with the dissertation prize at the University of Chemnitz. Since 04/2021 she is a post-doctoral researcher at the Professorship of Business Administration, in particular of SME Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Siegen (SFB 1472 “Transformation of the Popular" funded by the German Research Foundation).
Her main research areas are Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Strategic Management, Organizational Learning, and Human Resource. She investigates how organizations and their members cope with extreme events, uncertainty, and how organizations can be led and managed to be more adaptive. The use of both qualitative and/or quantitative methods of social research methodologically reflects her theoretical agenda.
Her very recent interest is in the discursive construction and selective popularization of entrepreneurship as well as how non-popular everyday entrepreneurship deals with the images of business that are considered popular (SFB 1472 - Subproject B06 - Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter - “Paradoxes of Popularity – Between Hidden Champions and Everyday Entrepreneurship“).
Felix Becker
Phone: 02 71-74 05 24 8 Fax: 02 71-74 01 52 48 E-Mail: Felix Becker Room: US-A 127/1 Office Hours: by Appointment |  |
Biography & Research
Felix Becker graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor's degree (B. Sc.) in economics from University of Bonn. He then gained practical experience in business management in the areas of project management and consulting in various companies. In 2020 he completed his Master of Science in "Entrepreneurship and SME Management" at the University of Siegen. His master's thesis dealt with entrepreneurship in multigenerational family businesses. His current research ties in thematically with this and he is investigating how entrepreneurship, especially in SMEs, is changing and evolving in the digital era.
Jessica Espinoza Trujano
External Researcher
E-Mail: Jessica Espinoza Trujano
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Biography & Research
Jessica Espinoza Trujano holds a double degree in International Business Management from ESB Business School at Reutlingen University and Dublin City University. She is an external PhD candidate researching the transformative impact potential of gender lens investing under the supervision of Univ.-Prof.in Dr. Friederike Welter at University of Siegen. Her research interest lies at the intersection of female entrepreneurship, and finance and investing. Most recently, she contributed two empirical research papers to the Special Issue on Gender Lens Investing of the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.
She is a member of the International Association of Feminist Economics (IAFFE) where she also serves as Chair of the online events committee, and of Diana International Research Institute. She is also a gender lens investment practitioner, having worked in the international field of entrepreneurship, finance and investment for over a decade. In her current role as CEO of the 2X Collaborative, a global industry body for gender lens investing, she aims to bring theory and practice more closely together in the field of finance and female entrepreneurship.
