Georg von Krogh

Georg von Krogh (born 24 May 1963) is a Norwegian organizational theorist and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation.

Biography Born in Oslo, Norway to a family of Danish nobility, Von Krogh received his MSc from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science, and a Ph.D. from this university's Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. and is an Affiliated Scholar with the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the University of Vienna. Additionally, he is an Associated Faculty Member at the Artificial Intelligence Center at ETH Zurich and was a member of ETH Zurich's Strategy Commission until 2024. Since 2021, he has also been part of the Risk Management Committee at ETH Zurich and he chairs the Global Advisory Board that advises the President of ETH Zurich in matters regarding its international strategy. He also serves as a member of the Scientific Council at EURAM, and is a member of the advisory board at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano.

Von Krogh serves as editorial board member of various journals which include Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, European Management Review, European Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and Long Range Planning. He is a Deputy Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, and previously served as Senior Editor at Organisation Studies and as an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Discoveries. European Management Review's "Best Paper Award 2012," and Journal of Strategic Information Systems' "Best Paper Award 2008."

Selected publications

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. Park, C., von Krogh, G., Stadtfeld, C., Meboldt, M, and Shrestha, Y. (2023). Healthcare hackathons as open innovation. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 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 von Krogh, G., Kucukkeles, B., & Ben-Menahem, S. (2020) “Lessons in Rapid Innovation From the COVID-19 Pandemic. MIT Sloan Management Review He. F., Puranam P., Shrestha Y. R., & von Krogh, G. (2020) Resolving governance disputes in communities: A study of software license decisions. Strategic Management Journal. Ben-Menahem, S., 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. Sirén, C., He, F., Wesemann, H., Jonassen, Z., Grichnik, D., & von Krogh, G. (forthcoming) Leader emergence in nascent venture teams: The critical roles of individual emotion regulation and team emotions. Journal of Management Studies. 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. von Krogh, G., Netland, T., & Wörter, M. (2018). Winning With Open Process Innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(2), 53-56. 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. 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. 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. 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. von Hippel, E., & von Krogh, G. (2016). Identifying Viable ‘Need-Solution Pairs’: Problem Solving Without Problem Formulation. Organization Science, 27(1), 207-221. 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. Haefliger, S., Jäger, P., & von Krogh, G. (2010). Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs. Research Policy, 39(9), 1198-1213. 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. 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. von Krogh, G. (2003). Networks of Innovation: Change and meaning in the age of the Internet. Research Policy, 32, 1714-1716. 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.