Research

From Rise

RISE Management Research contributes to research on strategic management and entrepreneurship, in particular in the context of innovation and change. Innovation and change are particularly promising contexts of research, because they explicitly address the inherently open, uncertain and ambiguous nature of strategy making, business creation and company development. We study these issues in the context of particular industries and technologies, including software engineering, Pharma, artificial intelligence, and information technology; more recently, we have an interest also in the study of particular research institutes (Projects). Our research is presented and published in multiple academic and professional contexts (Publications).

Our research provides unconventional perspectives on multiple current issues and open research questions, in various prominent research streams in strategic management, including research in the areas of strategy process, strategy practice, strategic change and strategic entrepreneurship (References). We address these current issues and open questions in the particular context of innovation, understood as the successful commercialization of scientific research and technological innovation (References); and we address these current issues and open questions from the perspective of strategic management and entrepreneurship.

We benefit from a series of rich theoretical perspectives and intellectual traditions in the social sciences, which are particularly relevant for the study of human agency in the context of uncertainty and ambiguity, characteristic for strategic management and entrepreneurship in the context of innovation and change. Specifically, we build on creative theories of action, practice theories, discourse theories, convention theory and theories of translation (Perspectives). We identify the specific qualities of entrepreneurial and managerial agency, thus at the same time focusing and extending the existing theoretical perspectives.