Dr. Michael Wyrwich

Current Status

Research associate at the chair of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Dr. Michael Wyrwich (FSU)

Education

2008 economist Freidrich-Schiller-University Jena (economics)
2012 Ph.D. Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (economics)

Functions

since 2008 Member of the DFG graduate college “The Economy of Innovative Change”
2008-2012 Research associate of the Collaborative Research Center 580 “Social Developments in Post-socialistic Societies” at the Univ. of Halle and Jena (DFG financed)
since 2012 Research associate at the chair of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena and in the project “Higher Education Strategies for Contributions to Regional Development Under Conditions of Demographic Change”

Research Topics

  • Institutional and Cultural Aspects of Foundation Activities
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  • Persistence of Regional Differences in Development
  • Organizational Change
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    Recent publications (selected)

  • (with Michael Fritsch) The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship: Germany 1925 to 2005, Regional Studies, 48 (2014).
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  • Can socioeconomic heritage produce a lost generation with regard to entrepreneurship?, Journal of Business Venturing, 28/5 (2013), pp. 667-682.
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  • Regional entrepreneurial heritage in a socialist and a post-socialist economy, Economic Geography, 88/4 (2005), pp. 423-445.
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  • (with Ina Krause) Coping with the market: Are there cohort effects for organisations in transition?, Journal for East European Management Studies, 16/1 (2011),pp. 54-74.
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  • (with Elisabeth Bublitz, Michael Fritsch and Alina Sorgner) How Much of a Socialist Legacy? The Re-emergence of Entrepreneurship in the East German Transformation to a Market Economy. Forthcoming in Small Business Economics. DOI 10.1007/s11187-014-9544-x.
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    A complete bibliography is available

    Contact

    Address FSU Jena, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3, 07743 Jena
    E-mail michael.wyrwich@uni-jena.de
    Webpage http://www.uiw.uni-jena.de/index.php/team/mwyrwich