Overview
Background
Frederik is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Program Leader of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UQ Business School. His research and teaching focus on how business opportunities emerge and how organizations from early-stage start-ups to mature enterprises can identify and seize such opportunities. A large share of Frederik’s current research investigates specifically how crises and digital technologies create opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation. He works closely with companies from small start-ups to large ASX listed enterprises and has successfully helped many of them with research-based evidence and innovation facilitation.
Prior to joining UQ Business School, Frederik was a Senior Research Fellow at QUT Business School and responsible for managing the collaborative research program with Woolworths Ltd. He received his PhD from City University of Hong Kong for his work on business accelerators and high-tech start-ups. Before joining City University, he was a business intelligence consultant at Hewlett-Packard and a customer relationship management specialist at IBM.
Availability
- Associate Professor Frederik von Briel is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong
Research interests
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Digital entrepreneurship and innovation
How digital technologies enable and potentially upend entrepreneurship and innovation.
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External enablers of entrepreneurship
How changes in the business environment (e.g., sociodemographic developments, trade wars, or technological advances) create opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to do things differently and better
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Entrepreneurship as a process
Factors that influence how entrepreneurs create new ventures, how these ventures evolve over time, and whether they become successful or not.
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Entrepreneurial growth and scaling
How new and established organizations manage to successfully serve more users and customers, enter new markets, and commercialize new market offerings.
Works
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Featured
2018
Journal Article
Not all digital venture ideas are created equal: implications for venture creation processes
von Briel, Frederik, Recker, Jan and Davidsson, Per (2018). Not all digital venture ideas are created equal: implications for venture creation processes. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 27 (4), 278-295. doi: 10.1016/j.jsis.2018.06.002
Featured
2018
Journal Article
Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the IT hardware sector
von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2018). Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the IT hardware sector. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 42 (1), 47-69. doi: 10.1177/1042258717732779
Featured
2018
Journal Article
External enablement of new venture creation: a framework
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2018). External enablement of new venture creation: a framework. Academy of Management Perspectives, 34 (3) amp.2017.0163, 311-332. doi: 10.5465/amp.2017.0163
2023
Conference Publication
Women Entrepreneurs’ Resource Mobilization in Fragile Contexts
Nazar, Samira, Von Briel, Frederik and Burgers, Henri (2023). Women Entrepreneurs’ Resource Mobilization in Fragile Contexts. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA United States, 4-8 August 2023. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2023.113bp
2023
Conference Publication
Entrepreneurs: Navigate, Develop, and Transform Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Nazar, Samira, Burgers, Henri and Von Briel, Frederik (2023). Entrepreneurs: Navigate, Develop, and Transform Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA United States, 4-8 August 2023. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2023.12012abstract
2023
Journal Article
Orchestrating human-machine designer ensembles during product innovation
Recker, Jan, von Briel, Frederik, Yoo, Youngjin, Nagaraj, Varun and McManus, Mickey (2023). Orchestrating human-machine designer ensembles during product innovation. California Management Review, 65 (3), 27-47. doi: 10.1177/00081256231170028
2023
Journal Article
Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries
Mirkovski, Kristijan, von Briel, Frederik, Lowry, Paul Benjamin and Liu, Libo (2023). Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries. Small Business Economics, 62 (1), 1-28. doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00777-z
2022
Conference Publication
Societal crises as external enablers of extreme scaling by digital ventures
Von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2022). Societal crises as external enablers of extreme scaling by digital ventures. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, United States, 5-9 August 2022. Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.11061abstract
2022
Book Chapter
External enablers of entrepreneurship
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2022). External enablers of entrepreneurship. Oxford research encyclopedia of business and management. (pp. 1-42) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.383
2022
Journal Article
How everything-as-a-service enabled Judo to become a billion-dollar bank without owning IT
Breidbach, Christoph F., Joshi, Amol M. , Maglio, Paul P. , von Briel, Frederik , Twigg, Alex , Dickens, Graham and Wünderlich, Nancy V. (2022). How everything-as-a-service enabled Judo to become a billion-dollar bank without owning IT. MIS Quarterly Executive, 21 (3) 3, 185-203. doi: 10.17705/2msqe.00065
2021
Conference Publication
Women entrepreneurs’ resource mobilisation in fragile context
Nazar, Samira, von Briel, Frederik and Burgers, Henri (2021). Women entrepreneurs’ resource mobilisation in fragile context. Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACERE) Conference, Robina, QLD, Australia, 9-12 February 2021.
2021
Conference Publication
What to do during downtime? How time injections from crises influence new venture creation
von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2021). What to do during downtime? How time injections from crises influence new venture creation. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (BCERC), Online, 6 - 8 June 2021. Babson Park, MA United States: Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship.
2021
Journal Article
COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2021). COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research. Business Research Quarterly, 24 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/23409444211008902
2021
Journal Article
Researching digital entrepreneurship: current issues and suggestions for future directions
von Briel, Frederik, Recker, Jan, Selander, Lisen, Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L., Hukal, Philipp, Yoo, Youngjin, Lehmann, Julian, Chan, Yolande, Rothe, Hannes, Alpar, Paul, Fürstenau, Daniel and Wurm, Bastian (2021). Researching digital entrepreneurship: current issues and suggestions for future directions. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48 33, 284-304. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.04833
2020
Journal Article
Unternehmerisches Umdenken
Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2020). Unternehmerisches Umdenken. Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management, 13 (1), 62-67. doi: 10.1365/s35764-020-00304-9
2020
Journal Article
Unpacking the social media–driven innovation capability: how consumer conversations turn into organizational innovations
Patroni, Joanne, von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2020). Unpacking the social media–driven innovation capability: how consumer conversations turn into organizational innovations. Information and Management, 59 (3) 103267, 103267. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2020.103267
2019
Journal Article
Digital or not – The future of entrepreneurship and innovation: introduction to the special issue
Berger, Elisabeth S.C., von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Kuckertz, Andreas (2019). Digital or not – The future of entrepreneurship and innovation: introduction to the special issue. Journal of Business Research, 125, 436-442. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.020
2019
Journal Article
Absorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms
von Briel, Frederik, Schneider, Christoph and Lowry, Paul Benjamin (2019). Absorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms. Decision Sciences, 50 (1), 7-45. doi: 10.1111/deci.12314
2019
Conference Publication
The future of digital entrepreneurship research: existing and emerging opportunities: professional development workshop
Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2019). The future of digital entrepreneurship research: existing and emerging opportunities: professional development workshop. 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019), Munich, Germany, 15-18 December 2019. Atlanta, United States: Association for Information Systems (AIS) .
2019
Conference Publication
Digital platforms and network effects: using digital nudges for growth hacking
von Briel, Frederik and Davidsson, Per (2019). Digital platforms and network effects: using digital nudges for growth hacking. Fortieth International Conference on Information Systems, Munich, Germany, 15-18 December 2019. Association for Information Systems.
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Frederik von Briel is:
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses ventures
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, Dr Jonah Zankl
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Doctor Philosophy
Conglomerate cross-innovation: An exploratory investigation of cognitive challenges and potential for internal cross-industry innovation management.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Henri Burgers
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Entrepreneurship in fragile contexts: A qualitative study of women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Henri Burgers
Media
Enquiries
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- Business opportunities
- crises as opportunities
- digital start-ups
- digitization
- hardware start-ups
- high growth start-ups
- Megatrends
- scale-ups
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