Johannes Meuer


Last Name

Meuer

First Name

Johannes

ORCID

0000-0003-3443-6761

Organisational unit

01359 - Lehre Management, Technologie u. Ök.

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Publications 1 - 10 of 25
  • Using expatriates for adapting subsidiaries' employment modes to different market economies: a comparative analysis of US subsidiaries in Germany, the UK and Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Meuer, Johannes; Kluike, Marlies; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; et al. (2019)
    European Journal of International Management
  • Organizational design choices enabling practice innovation evidence from China's biopharma industry
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Meuer, Johannes (2010)
    Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Interorganizational Sensemaking of the Transition Toward a Circular Value Chain
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kuhlmann, Marianne; Meuer, Johannes; Bening, Catharina R. (2023)
    Organization & Environment
    The transition toward the circular economy requires stakeholders to collaborate along value chains. Yet, such collaborations are considerably challenging. Given the paradigmatic change, stakeholders face high levels of uncertainty and also need to align on a common way forward. We extend research on interorganizational sensemaking and the circular economy by exploring the process of interorganizational alignment in a European consortium of over 150 companies representing the value chain for flexible packaging with the objective to transform the value chain from linear to circular. We find that the interorganizational sensemaking process unfolds across three levels-organization, value chain, and ecosystem-which provide different reference frames for the process. We provide insights into how these frames, power dynamics, and identity considerations influence this process. Our findings highlight the importance of considering interdependencies between stakeholders and a collective reconceptualization of the established value chain to successfully transition toward a circular one.
  • Archetypes of Inter-firm Relations in the Implementation of Management Innovation: A Set-theoretic Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry
    Item type: Journal Article
    Meuer, Johannes (2014)
    Organization Studies
    Innovation research increasingly focuses on understanding why and how firms implement new management practices, processes or structures. Emerging in the shadow of research on technological innovation, growing evidence points towards the inter-firm relation as an important locus of innovation. Yet although organizational theory suggests discrete alternative inter-firm coordination mechanisms, the literature on management innovation has thus far treated the inter-firm relation as one broad mode of organizing. This study takes a configurational perspective to identify archetypes of inter-firm relations leading to the implementation of management innovation. Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to analyse 56 firm partnerships in China’s biopharmaceutical industry, the empirical evidence identifies four such discrete inter-firm archetypes: organic coalitions, bureaucratic foundations, coalitions of intense interdependency and reciprocal foundations. The results suggest that the type of interdependency, rather than the coordination mechanisms governing inter-firm relations, leads to the implementation of management innovation.
  • What a MES(s)! A bibliometric analysis of the evolution of research on multi-energy systems
    Item type: Journal Article
    Balakrishnan, Divya; Haney, Aoife B.; Meuer, Johannes (2016)
    Electrical Engineering
    Multi-energy systems combine different energy vectors (e.g. electricity, heat, cooling) and operate at different levels (e.g. building, district, and region). Although in theory, multi-energy systems should allow for lower carbon impacts compared to systems in which single energy vectors are considered individually, implementation of multi-energy systems is often difficult due to the number of technologies and actors involved and the complexity of their interactions. In this article, we conduct a bibliometric analysis based on over 20,000 articles from the Web of Science to investigate how knowledge on two important multi-energy systems, Microgrids and Smart Grids, has developed. Our findings identify areas that have been under-researched to date, offer a means of transferring learning between different multi-energy systems and provide practical guidance for the implementation of multi-energy systems.
  • Advancing Educational Leadership Research Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Caves, Katherine Marie; Meuer, Johannes; Rupietta, Christian (2015)
    International Research on School Leadership ~ Challenges and Opportunities of Educational Leadership Research and Practice
  • On the Nature of Corporate Sustainability
    Item type: Journal Article
    Meuer, Johannes; Koelbel, Julian; Hoffmann, Volker H. (2020)
    Organization & Environment
    Scholarly and managerial interest in corporate sustainability has increased significantly in the past two decades. However, the field is increasingly criticized for failing to effectively contribute to sustainable development and for its limited impact on managerial practice. We argue that this criticism arises due to a fundamental ambiguity around the nature of corporate sustainability. To address the lack of concept clarity, we conduct a systematic literature review and identify 33 definitions of corporate sustainability. Adopting the Aristotelian perspective on definitions, one that promotes reducing concepts to their essential attributes, we discern four components of corporate sustainability. These components offer a conceptual space of inquiry that, while being parsimonious, offers nuanced understanding of the dimensions along which definitions of corporate sustainability differ. We discuss implications for research and practice and outline several recommendations for how advancements in construct clarity may lead to a better scholarly understanding of corporate sustainability.
  • Layers of co-existing innovation systems
    Item type: Journal Article
    Meuer, Johannes; Rupietta, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi (2015)
    Research Policy
  • Process and Configurational Perspectives in Corporate Sustainability
    Item type: Habilitation Thesis
    Meuer, Johannes (2020)
    The collection of manuscripts submitted as habilitation in management science outlines a research agenda towards more process and configurational research in corporate sustainability. The habilitation thesis is structured in three sections. Section 1 contains five empirical studies that each offer a unique process and configurational perspective on issues of managerial relevance in corporate sustainability. These studies draw on various empirical datasets (e.g., textual documents, interviews, archival analysis, expert workshops) and adopt different research methodologies (e.g., systematic reviews, in-depth case study, comparative case study, process methods). Together, they offer new theoretical insights about the processes through which companies more effectively benefit from sustainable technologies and become more sustainable over time. Section 2 contains four empirical articles that illustrate the opportunities of configurational theory and methods at the individual-, project-, organizational-, and systems-level. While the articles in Section 2 do not explicitly relate to sustainability research, they all contribute to research fields in management (e.g., innovation system, effective policy interventions, managerial commitment) that are highly relevant for sustainability research. In so doing, the articles in Section 2 indirectly inform research on corporate sustainability and directly illustrate the opportunities of configurational research in corporate sustainability. Section 3 includes three articles that develop new methodological approaches for studying organizational phenomena from a configurational-multilevel and comparative configurational process perspective. Both process and configurational research methods are comparably young methods in management sciences. The manuscripts in Section 3 contribute to this growing field of methodological research by offering systematic approaches and advice to research seeking to conduct rigorous process and configurational research in corporate sustainability.
  • Advancing Educational Leadership Research Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Caves, Katherine Marie; Meuer, Johannes; Rupietta, Christian (2015)
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