Ann-Kristin Zobel
Ann-Kristin Zobel
Prof. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
Institute of Management & Strategy
Dufourstrasse 40a
9000 St. Gallen
Dufourstrasse 40a
9000 St. Gallen
Publications
Main Focuses
Strategic management
Innovation management
Fields of research
open innovation
innovation ecosystems
meta-organizational design
Climate change & net-zero strategies
Further fields of research
Transformation of the energy sector
Smart Cities
Digitalization
Education
Bachelor in "International Business", Maastricht University
Master in "Business Research", Maastricht University
Ph.D. "Open innovation: a dynamic capabilities perspective", Maastricht University
Professional Career
Postdoctoral researcher, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
Senior researcher, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
Teaching Activities
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)
Projects
Co-creating the future of the energy sector - collaborative strategies at multiple levels of analysis
Boundary spanning - individual-level search openness and knowledge transfer 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
Affiliations
Academy of Management
EGOS
World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) organizing team
Awards
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
Research Cooperation
NPF 77 “Digital Transformation”
Free Electrons Research Project