Georg von Krogh - Professor and Group Head

von Krogh serves as Chairman of the International Advisory Board at the Research Council of Norway, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the University of Vienna. He holds an honorary position as Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and is an Affiliated Scholar with the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University. He is also an Associated Faculty Member at the Artificial Intelligence Center at ETH Zurich. He served on ETH Zurich’s Strategy Commission until 2024.

von Krogh specializes in competitive strategy, digital innovation, and organisational knowledge. He has conducted research in several industries including financial services, media, computer software and hardware, life -sciences, and consumer goods. He teaches courses on Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategic Management, and Innovation Theory and Research. He received his MSc from the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology at the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science, and a Ph.D. from this University's Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. He has served on the faculties at SDA Bocconi, Bocconi University, and BI Norwegian Business School. He was a Professor of Management at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, and a Director of this University's Institute of Management (1994-2006). He was President of the Research Commission at the University of St. Gallen. He has been Visiting Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Hitotsubashi University in Japan, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the Head of the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich during 2008-2011, member of ETH Zurich’s Strategy Commission until 2024, and served on the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) during 2012-2020. From 2008 to 2014 he was a board member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), and currently serves on the Scientific Council at EURAM. In 2020 he was elected as Chair of the Global Advisory Board (GBA) of ETH Zurich, advising in matters regarding the international strategy of ETH Zurich, and in 2021 he was appointed to the Risk Management Committee at ETH Zürich.

Since 2024, von Krogh is the Chair of the Public Interest Committee at PWC in Switzerland. He has consulted on strategy and trained executives for companies in Asia, Europe, and the USA. His experience as board- or advisory board/member covers various companies and NGOs, including Swiss Bank Corporation (UBS), the SKAT Foundation, and the World Web Forum. He is a member of a Chapter Board at the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and a previous Academic Fellow and Faculty Member of the World Economic Forum (2002-2007).
His awards and recognitions include for example the Association of American Publishers' "Best Professional Business Book Award", Harvard Business Review's "Breakthrough Idea,” ETH's Teaching Award "Goldene Eule,” and various awards from the Academy of Management. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Fellow of the European Academy of Management. He serves as an active member on the College of Fellows at EURAM.

Editorial Boards memberships include:

• Academy of Management Discoveries
• Journal of Strategic Information Systems
• European Management Review
• European Management Journal
• California Management Review
• Long Range Planning

He is the Deputy Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, and has served as Associate Editor at Academy of Management Discoveries (2 terms), and Senior Editor at Organisation Studies.

Grimes, M., von Krogh, G., Feuerriegel, S., Rink, F., & Gruber, M. (2023). From Scarcity to Abundance: Scholars and Scholarship in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Academy of Management Journal, 66(6). 

Weiser, A. K., & von Krogh, G. (2023). Artificial intelligence and radical uncertainty. European Management Review, 20(4), 711-717. 

Shrestha, Y. R., von Krogh, G., & Feuerriegel, S. (2023). Building Open-Source AI. Nature Computational Science. 

von Krogh, G., Roberson, Q., and Gruber, M. (2023). Recognizing and Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities with Artificial Intelligence. Academy of Management Journal, 66(2), 367–373.

Park, C., von Krogh, G., Stadtfeld, C., Meboldt, M, and Shrestha, Y. (2023). Healthcare hackathons as open innovation. Nature Reviews Bioengineering, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-​023-00070-4.

von Krogh, G., Roberson, Q., and Gruber, M. (2023). Recognizing and Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities with Artificial Intelligence. Academy of Management Journal, 66(2), 367–373. 

Splitter, V., Dobusch, L., von Krogh, G., Whittington, R., & Walgenbach, P. (2023). Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization studies, 44(1), 7–27. 

Bailey, D. E., Faraj, S., Hinds, P. J., Leonardi, P. M., & von Krogh, G. (2022). We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing. Organization Science, 33(1), 1–18.

He, V. F., von Krogh, G., Sirén, C., & Gersdorf, T. (2021). Asymmetries between partners and the success of university-industry research collaborations. Research Policy, 50(10), 104356.

de Jong, J. P., Ben-Menahem, S. M., Franke, N., Füller, J., & von Krogh, G. (2021). Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion. Research Policy, 50(8), 104270.

He, V. F., von Krogh, G., & Sirén, C. (2021). Expertise Diversity, Informal Leadership Hierarchy, and Team Knowledge Creation: A study of pharmaceutical research collaborations. Organization Studies.

Shrestha, Y. R., He, V. F., Puranam, P. and von Krogh, G., (2021) Algorithm Supported Induction for Building Theory: How Can We Use Prediction Models to Theorize? Organization Science 32 (3) 856-880

von Krogh, G., Kucukkeles, B., & Ben-Menahem, S. (2020) “Leave no stone unturned:” What the COVID-19 Pandemic can teach us about ultrafast innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review

He, V. F., Puranam, P., Shrestha, Y. R., & von Krogh, G. (2020). Resolving governance disputes in communities: A study of software license decisions. Strategic Management Journal, 41(10), 1837–1868.

Ben-Menahem, S. M., Nistor-Gallo, R., Macia, G., von Krogh, G., & Goldhahn, J. (2020). How the new European regulation on medical devices will affect innovation. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 4(6), 585–590.

Sirén, C., He, V. F., Wesemann, H., Jonassen, Z., Grichnik, D., & Krogh, G. (2020). Leader Emergence in Nascent Venture Teams: The Critical Roles of Individual Emotion Regulation and Team Emotions. Journal of Management Studies, 57(5), 931–961.

external page Gersdorf, T., He, V. F., Schlesinger, A., Koch, G., Ehrismann, D., Widmer, H., & von Krogh, G. (2019). Demystifying industry-academia collaboration. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 019-00001-2.

external page von Krogh, G., Netland, T., & Wörter, M. (2018). Winning With Open Process Innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(2), 53-56.

external page He, F., Sirén, C., Singh, S., Solomon, G. T., & von Krogh, G. (2017). Keep calm and carry on: Emotion regulation in entrepreneurs’ learning from failure. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.  

external page Trantopoulos, K., von Krogh, G., Wallin, M., & Wörter, M. (2017). External Knowledge and Information Technology: Implications for Process Innovation Performance. MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 287-300. 

external page Faraj, S., von Krogh, G., Monteiro, E., & Lakhani, K. (2016). Special Section Introduction - Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows. Information Systems Research, 27(4), 668-684.

external page Ben-Menahem, S., von Krogh, G., Erden, Z., & Schneider, A. (2016). Coordinating Knowledge Creation in Multidisciplinary Teams: evidence from Early-stage drug Discovery. Academy of Management Journal, 59(4), 1308-1338.

external page von Hippel, E., & von Krogh, G. (2016). Identifying Viable ‘Need-Solution Pairs’: Problem Solving Without Problem Formulation. Organization Science, 27(1), 207-221.

external page Spaeth, S., von Krogh, G., & He, F. (2015). Perceived Firm Attributes and Intrinsic Motivation in Sponsored Open Source Software Projects. Information Systems Research, 26(1), 224-237.

Hacklin, F., Battistini, B., & von Krogh, G. (2013). Strategic choices in converging industries. MIT Sloan Management Review, 55(1), 65-73.

Garriga, H., von Krogh, G., & Spaeth, S. (2013). How constraints and knowledge impact open innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 34(9), 1134-1144.

von Krogh, G., Nonaka, I., & Rechsteiner, L. (2012). Leadership in organizational knowledge creation: A review and framework. Journal of Management Studies, 49(1), 240-277.

von Krogh, G., Haefliger, S., Spaeth, S., & Wallin, M. W. (2012). Carrots and rainbows: Motivation and social practice in open source software development. MIS Quarterly, 36(2), 649-676.

von Krogh, G., Battistini, B., Pachidou, F., & Baschera, P. (2012). The changing face of corporate venturing in biotechnology. Nature Biotechnology, 30(10), 911-915.

external page Haefliger, S., Jäger, P., & von Krogh, G. (2010). Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs. Research Policy, 39(9), 1198-1213.

external page Gächter, S., von Krogh, G., & Haefliger, S. (2010). Initiating private-collective innovation: The fragility of knowledge sharing. Research Policy, 39(7), 893-906.

Raisch, S., & von Krogh, G. (2009). Focus intensely on a few great innovation ideas. Harvard Business Review, 87(10), 32.

Nonaka, I., & von Krogh, G. (2009). Tacit knowledge and knowledge conversion: Controversy and advancement in organizational knowledge creation theory. Organization Science, 20(3), 635-652.

Haefliger, S., von Krogh, G., & Spaeth, S. (2008). Code reuse in open source software. Management Science, 54(1), 180-193.

Maillart, T., Sornette, D., Spaeth, S., & von Krogh, G. (2008). Empirical tests of Zipf’s law mechanism in open source Linux distribution. Physical Review Letters, 101(21), 218701-1--218701-4.

von Krogh, G., & Haefliger, S. (2007). Nurturing respect for IP in China. Harvard Business Review, 85(4), 23-24.

Raisch, S., & von Krogh, G. (2007). Navigating a path to smart growth. MIT Sloan Management Review, 48(3), 65-72.

von Krogh, G. (2006). Customers demand their slice of IP. Harvard Business Review, 84, 45-46.

von Krogh, G., & von Hippel, E. (2006). The promise of research on open source software. Management Science, 52(7), 975-983.

Nonaka, I., von Krogh, G., & Voelpel, S. (2006). Organizational knowledge creation theory: Evolutionary paths and future advances. Organization Studies, 27(8), 1179-1208.

von Hippel, E., & von Krogh, G. (2003). Open source software and the “private-collective” innovation model: Issues for organization science. Organization Science, 14(2), 209-223.

external page von Krogh, G., Spaeth, S., & Lakhani, K. R. (2003). Community, joining, and specialization in open source software innovation: a case study. Research Policy, 32(7), 1217-1241.

external page von Krogh, G. (2003). Networks of Innovation: Change and meaning in the age of the Internet. Research Policy, 32, 1714-1716.

external page von Krogh, G., & Von Hippel, E. (2003). Special issue on open source software development. Research Policy, 32(7), 1149-1157.

von Krogh, G., & Cusumano, M. A. (2001). Three strategies for managing fast growth. MIT Sloan Management Review, 42(2), 53-62.

von Krogh, G., & Roos, J. (1996). A Tale of the unfinished. Strategic Management Journal (1986-1998), 17(9), 729-739.

von Krogh, G., Roos, J., & Slocum, K. (1994). An essay on corporate epistemology. Strategic Management Journal, 15(S2), 53-73.

List is based on Financial Times' journal list. Four major outlets in natural science included. For a full list of refereed journal publications, please see here