Corpo docente

Christian LINDER

Professor
Imagem
Christian LINDER

Academia

Innovation

Centro de pesquisa

SKEMA Centre for Sustainability Studies

Localização

Paris

Disciplina

Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

I am a Professor of Strategy at SKEMA Business School based in Paris, France. Further, I am one of the directors for SKEMA's Global Doctor in Business Administration Programme in Sustainability. I also hold a permanent visiting professor position at University of Johannesburg, SZ and an adjunct professor position at CVFG French Vietnamese School of Management, Vietnam. Beside these positions, I currently serve as Associate Editor for the European Management Journal.

Previously, I was an Associate Professor of Strategy and Leadership at ESCP Business School's London campus, UK, and the Academic Director of the MBA in International Management in London. I joined ESCP from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, where I worked as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Prior to this, I have been engaged as Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany.

Beside faculty positions, I served as research manager for the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) which is part of the German Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg, Germany. In this position, I was in charge of managing several change projects as well as research and management-related projects. I started my academic career as Research Associate at the Fraunhofer-Institute of Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, and the Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. During this time, I pursued my doctoral studies.

My non-academic career is very diverse. In the past, I for instance worked as IT consultant for SAP solutions in the health care area. Further, I am a certified Black Jack dealer and worked several years at the Spielbank Hamburg, Germany, during the first years at the Intercontinental Hotel and later on the Spielbank Reeperbahn. I also completed a 4-year vocational training in special needs care and worked in different care homes for people with multiple special needs. My responsibility was the support of people within day-to-day settings including medical and pedagogical/psychological assistance.

My research interests exceed the boundaries of business studies. At the moment, my research centres on entrepreneurship, strategy and small businesses with a particular interest on methodological questions. Beside these topics, I am also interested in ethical questions of doing business, sustainability, and diversity. For more information klick to the next page (Research).

My teaching experiences during the last decades has truly been an international and very diverse one, and I believe there barely is any nationality I do not have classroom experience with. I provided workshops, seminars, classical lectures, etc. on bachelor, master, grand ecole, doctoral, and executive programme level. Further, I taught in very small-group settings with 5-10 executives as well as in large lectures with more than 700 students. Examples of institutions where I taught classes and conducted research are CVFG French Vietnamese School of Management, Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, COTRUGLI Business School, Zagreb, Croatia and Belgrad, Serbia, CEIBS China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China, the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, The Philippines, the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and many more.

Education
2017
Certification in the function of University Professor, Business administration, Management, Italy
2013
Doctorate, Philosophy, Munich School of Philosophy (HfPh), Germany
2011
Doctorate, Business administration, Engineering, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
2009
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, University of Ulm, Germany
2006
Master of Arts, Entrepreneurship, University of Hamburg, Germany
2004
Bachelor in Business Administration, Business administration, Management, University of Hamburg, Germany
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2021
Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2007 - 2012
Research Associate, Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT), Universität Stuttgart, Germany
2006 - 2007
Research Associate, Pforzheim University Business School, Germany
Other professional experiences
2017 - 2021
Associate Professor of Strategy and Leadership, ESCP Business School, Great Britain
2015 - 2017
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
2014 - 2015
Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior (Akademischer Rat a.Z.), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
2012 - 2013
Research Manager, Institute of Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB), Germany
2004 - 2006
IT Consultant, STEEB Systemhaus, Germany
2002 - 2003
Heilerziehungspfleger, Ev. Stiftung Alsterdorf, Germany
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2023
First prize of the EBS Best Paper Award for their paper "Employee Incentives and Family Firm Innovation: A Configurational Approach", EBS University, Germany
Other research activities
Senior or Associate Editor
2021
European Management Journal