Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Strobl

Senior Lecturer +43 512 2070 - 3142 andreas.strobl@mci.edu

Professional work experience

09/2019 - 05/2026
Associate Professor in International Strategy - Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University Management School
03/2013 - 09/2019
Assistant Professor (Post-Doc) - Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck
03/2008 - 02/2013
Lecturer - Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck
08/2006 - 02/2008
Freelance Journalist, Bezirksblätter

Education

12/2023 - 12/2024
Senior Fellowship of Advance HE
12/2021 - 12/2022
Fellowship of Advance HE
03/2013 - 01/2020
Habilitation (facultas docendi and venia legendi) in Management - University of Innsbruck
10/2007 - 06/2012
Doctorate - University of Innsbruck
Economics
10/2000 - 06/2005
MMag. - University of Innsbruck
General Economics/Business Administration

Teaching (faculty internships etc.)

09/2026 - 09/2026
British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2026
Meet the Non-BAM Editors I Prof Ajai Gaur, Journal of World Business; Prof Mirella Kleijnen, Journal of Business Research; Prof Thomas Lawton, Long Range Planning; Prof Andreas Strobl, European Management Journal. Facilitated by Prof Wilson Ng, IDRAC Business School
06/2025 - 06/2025
25th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Meet the Editors
12/2024 - 12/2024
2nd Annual European M&A Institute Conference
Learning from Acquisitions – Managing Acquisition Integration Heuristics
06/2024 - 06/2024
24th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Meet the Editors
06/2023 - 10/2023
Elsevier Webinar Series
Demystifying Journal Publishing Webinar - European Management Journal (EMJ)

Practice related research and developmental project

08/2026 - present
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Scheme
Missing from the Table: Women’s Underrepresentation in Mergers & Acquisitions
12/2025 - 12/2026
Joy Welch Post-Doctoral Fund 2024/2025
Strategic Foresight in SMEs: How Generative AI can Secure SME Growth and Survival
12/2023 - 12/2024
Joy Welch Post-Doctoral Fund 2022/23
Regenerative place stewardship in local entrepreneurial ecosystems
12/2016 - 12/2017
Tourismusforschungszentrum des Landes Tirol
Family Businesses in the Tyrolean Tourism Industry: Family vs Non-Family Members in the Company
12/2016 - 12/2016
EUREGIO Mobility Fund 2016
ECO & Management Graduate Education - Joint Catalogue (GRECA)
12/2015 - 12/2016
Tiroler Innovationsförderung
Mycard App – Ticket to GO!
12/2009 - 12/2011
Grant from the Alpine Space Program of the European Union
ClimAlpTour – Climate Change and its Impact on Tourism in the Alpine Space

Competitive Research Award

10/2026 - present
Long Range Planning
Best Reviewer Award 2025
06/2026 - present
Strategic Management Special Interest Group, European Academy of Management
Best Paper Award of the Track Mergers & Acquisition and Divestitures (Paper Title: Drivers of Post-Acquisition Business Model Innovation: The Interplay of Shared Mental Models, Organizational Agility, and Integration Speed)
12/2017 - present
Outstanding Paper Award, Group & Organization Management
02/2015 - present
International Management Strategic Interest Group, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Warsaw, Poland
Most Inspirational Paper Award
02/2013 - present
Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
Highly Commended Winner

Editorial board service

07/2025 - present
Co-Editor European Management Journal
07/2024 - 06/2025
Senior Associate Editor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, European Management Journal
10/2021 - 06/2024
Associate Editor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, European Management Journal

Peer reviewed journal article

Strobl, A., Bauer, F., Alichi, A., Dao, M.A., Koprax, I. (2026, forthcoming). Effective enactment of acquisition-integration heuristics: An organizational learning perspective. European Management Journal.
Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Teichmann, K., Aigner, G. (2026) Testing the Predictive Validity of the Net Promoter Score in Ski Resorts: A Longitudinal Analysis. Review of Managerial Science. Review of Managerial Science.
Strobl, A., Bauer F., Shepherd, N.G., Lou, B., Tarba S., Dao, M.A. (2025). Dynamic Capabilities in Acquisitions: When Acquirer and Target Employees Face Contradictory and Complementary Human Resource Signals. British Journal of Management 36(3), 1146-1164.
Strobl, A. Shepherd, N., Hughes, P. (2025). Unleashing R&D Networks for Ambidexterity in SMEs: The Interplay between Internal and External Networking Capabilities. Industrial Marketing Management, 124, 254-265.
Lou, B., Shepherd, N.G., Strobl, A., Bauer F. (2025). Playing Politics: An Upper Echelons’ Perspective on Political Behavior in Strategic Decision-Making. British Journal of Management, 36(1), 110-129.
Mooradian, T.A., Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Teichmann, K. (2023). Tell me where you come from and I know what makes you tick: Managing the consumer personality–satisfaction link in diverse cultures. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 22(2), 253-271.
Strobl, A., Kallmünzer, A., Peters, M. (2023) Entrepreneurial Leadership in Austrian Family SMEs: A Configurational Approach. International Small Business Journal 41(2), 152-180.
Matzler, K., Mazanec, J., Strobl, A., Teichmann, K. (2021). Customer satisfaction management: Exploring temporal changes in nonlinearities in satisfaction formation of skiers. Problems and Perspectives in Management, 19(2), 398-417.
Miroshnychenko, I., Strobl, A., Matzler, K., De Massis, A. (2021). Absorptive capacity, strategic flexibility, and business model innovation: Empirical evidence from Italian SMEs. Journal of Business Research, 130, 670-682.
Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Krill, E. (2020). Managing Change in Transnational Companies: Does Cultural Distance Matter? European Journal of International Management, 14(3), 494-523.
Strobl, A., Matzler, K., Nketia, B., Veider, V. (2020). Individual Innovation Behavior and Firm-level Exploration and Exploitation – How Family Firms make the most of their Managers. Review of Managerial Science, 14(4), 809-844.
Strobl, A., Niedermair, J., Matzler, K., Mussner, T. (2019). Triggering Subordinate Innovation Behavior: The Influence of Leaders' Dark Personality Traits and Level 5 Leadership Behavior. International Journal of Innovation Management, 23(5), 1950045.
Matzler, K., Teichmann, K., Strobl, A., Partel, M. (2019). The effect of price on word of mouth: First time versus heavy repeat visitors. Tourism Management, 70, 453-459.
Bauer, F., Strobl, A., Dao, M.A., Matzler, K., Rudolf, N. (2018). Examining links between pre and post M&A value creation mechanisms - exploitation, exploration and ambidexterity in Central European SMEs. Long Range Planning, 51(2), 185-203.
Strobl, A., Bauer, F., Matzler, K. (2020). The Impact of Industry-wide and Target Market Environmental Hostility on Entrepreneurial Leadership in Mergers and Acquisitions. Journal of World Business, 55(2), 100931.
Dao, M.A., Strobl, A. (2019). Exploration outcomes of M&A: the interplay between coordination mechanisms and acquisition experience. R&D Management, 49(1), 86-102.
Mussner, T., Strobl, A., Veider, V., Matzler, K. (2017). The effect of work ethic on employees' individual innovation behavior. Creativity and Innovation Management, 26(4), 391-406.
Dao, M.A., Strobl, A., Bauer, F., Tarba, S. (2017). Triggering Innovation through Mergers and Acquisitions – The Role of Shared Mental Models. Group & Organization Management, 42(2), 195-236.
Kallmünzer, A., Strobl, A., Peters, M. (2018). Tweaking the entrepreneurial orientation-performance relationship in family firms: the effect of control mechanisms and family-related goals. Review of Managerial Science, 12(4), 855-883.
Strobl, A., Kronenberg, C. (2016). Entrepreneurial Networks across the Business Life Cycle: The Case of Alpine Hospitality Entrepreneurs. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 28(6), 1177-1203.
Dao, M.A., Bauer, F., Strobl, A., Matzler, K., Eulerich, M. (2016). The complementing and facilitating nature of common ground in acquisitions – Why task and human integration are still necessary in the presence of common ground. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(20), 2505-2530. (AJG 3)
Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Stokburger-Sauer, N., Bobovnicky, A., Bauer, F. (2016). Brand personality and culture: The role of cultural differences on the impact of brand personality perceptions on tourists' visit intentions. Tourism Management, 53, 507-520.
Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Bailom, F. (2016). Leadership and the Wisdom of Crowds: How to tap into the Collective Intelligence of an Organization. Strategy & Leadership, 44(1), 30-35.

Editorial-reviewed journal

Strobl, A., Muratbekova-Touron, M., Dudau, A. (2026). Publishing in the age of AI: An editorial from the European Management Journal. European Management Journal, 44(4), 548-549.
Strobl, A., Fernández-Mesa, A., Miroshnychenko, I., Özturan, P., Korzynski, P. (2025). Publishing Quantitative Research in EMJ: Some Editorial Guidelines and Recommendations. European Management Journal, 43(1), 2-9.
Robinson, S., Muratbekova-Touron, M., Linder, C., Bouncken, R.B., Findikoglu, M.N., Garbuio, M., Hartner-Tiefenthaler, M., Thanos, I.C., Aharonson, B.S., Strobl, A., Zhang, H., Erz, A., von Wallpach, S., Karapinar, P.B., Diedrich, A., Saint-Germes, E., Cole, R., (2022). 40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research. European Management Journal, 40(4), 459-466.

Chapters in books

Strobl, A. (2026). 57: Exploitation. In Angwin, D. N., King, D. R., Bauer, F. Elgar Encyclopedia of Mergers and Acquisitions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 146-148.
Strobl, A. (2026). 58: Exploration. In Angwin, D. N., King, D. R., Bauer, F. Elgar Encyclopedia of Mergers and Acquisitions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 149-151.
Strobl, A. (2026). 81: Innovation. In Angwin, D. N., King, D. R., Bauer, F. Elgar Encyclopedia of Mergers and Acquisitions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 211-213.
Strobl, A. (2026). 97: Leadership. In Angwin, D. N., King, D. R., Bauer, F. Elgar Encyclopedia of Mergers and Acquisitions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 249-251.

Peer reviewed academic/professional meeting proceedings

Wowerath, C., Matzler, K., Strobl, A., Schweiger, N., Oliveira, A., (2026). It is open now: How open strategy drives innovation performance. 26th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM 2026), Kristiansand.
Strobl, A., Shepherd, N.G., Bauer, F. (2026). Drivers of Post-Acquisition Business Model Innovation: The Interplay of Shared Mental Models, Organizational Agility, and Integration Speed. 26th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM 2026), Kristiansand.
Haidar, M.A., Strobl, A. (2026). Entrepreneurship in Place: A Systematic Literature Review of Community-Based Entrepreneurship Through A Spatial Lens. 26th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM 2026), Kristiansand.
Hautz, J., Matzler, K., Mayer, M., Schneck, S., Stadler, C., & Strobl, A. (2020). Narcissistic CEOs in Family Firms: How They Shape Diversification. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2020, No. 1, p. 19763). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Supervised master theses

Bommer Paul (2017): Characteristics of successful innovation intermediaries
Salomon Gina (2016): Examination of Dynamic Pricing Models on Fairness Perception in the Sharing Economy