Hendrik Wilhelm

The RMI Professorship of Strategic Organisation at the Reinhard Mohn Institute of Management (RMI) researches how responsible managers can shape employee collaboration in such a way that companies become more successful, adaptable and innovative. To this end, we investigate the interplay between creativity, learning and performance at the individual, team and organisational levels. We regularly publish in leading international journals and have proven expertise in theoretically sound empirical research. We represent an evidence-based management approach that characterises corporate practice. This approach is also reflected in our courses, for example in the seminar "Sustainable Corporate Management in Practice", which we organise in cooperation with well-known companies such as Katjes, König Pilsener and Develey. As part of the RMI, we are actively involved in knowledge transfer through media work and public events in the Ruhr region, such as the RMI debates. This means that we not only have proven research expertise, but also actively promote the exchange between research, business practice and society.

• Strategic adaptation processes
• Innovation, change and learning in organisations
• Employee and team creativity
• Organisational theories

Publications:

Academic staff:

• M. A. Charlotte Glienke

Doctoral students:

• PG Dipl. Strategy Eiko Gerten
• M. A. Tim Kreter

Former doctoral students:

• Dr Johannes Busold

Assistance:

• Helga Wüst
• Claudia Galys

since June 2019

• Holder of the RMI Professorship of Strategic Organisation at Witten/Herdecke University
• Responsible for the degree programme Management (B. Sc.) degree programme
• Member of the faculty council
• Library representative of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
   

December 2018
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification and authorisation to teach Management.

February to April 2018
Visiting professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

November to December 2016
Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge.

April 2014 until May 2019
Temporary Academic Counsellor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne.

January 2014
Doctoral studies
After completing his doctoral studies, candidate for postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne.
Teaching appointments at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the University of Mannheim.

September to December 2012
Visiting Doctoral Student at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge.

April 2009
Joined the Department of General Management, Corporate Development and Organisation at the University of Cologne. As part of his doctoral studies, Hendrik Wilhelm researched change in organisational routines.

until 2009
Studied Management at the University of Mannheim and at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Bachelor

• Strategy
• Sustainable corporate management in practice
• Strategy in Action
• Negotiation Management
• Current Research in Strategy

Master

• International Strategy
• Organisational Culture and Change Management
• Current Issues in Strategy
• Strategic and International Management
• Theories of Organisation

Invitations to workshops, seminars and lectures

• Bochum City Academy, "Successful failure: How our social environment influences our learning in the workplace" (2024)
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Leuphana Center for Organisation & Social Transformation (LOST), Research Talk (2024)
• German Maritime Search and Rescue Association - Die Seenotretter, Workshop. Lecture topic: "Avoiding failure?" (2023)
• Scoping Workshop "Organisational Behavior in Healthcare: Past, Present and Future", Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover, Invitation as expert for management research (2023)
• Paper Development Workshop of the Scientific Commission Organisation, virtual congress, invitation as facilitator (2021)
• Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection, final event Efficiency and quality investigation of municipal water supply in Bavaria, lecture topic: "Employee creativity and innovation" (2020)
• 82nd Annual Conference of the VHB, Panel on "Digital Transformation in the Health Care System", Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2020)
• Greater Region PhD Workshop, University of Trier (2019)
• IE Research Seminar, IE Business School, Madrid (2019)
• Business Management Research Seminar, University of Trier (2019)
• DWA expert discussion on improvement culture in water management (2018)
• Get-together of the Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf (2016)
• 69th German Business Management Conference, Düsseldorf (2015)
• Strategic Competence Management Symposium on Dynamic Capabilities: Change Capabilities between Routine and Rule Breaking, Vienna (2014)
• OMT Junior Faculty Consortium at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia (2014)
• DCR Doctoral Students Workshop, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (2013)
• 1st Austrian Young Scholars Workshop in Management, Johannes Kepler University, Linz (2013)
• OMT PhD thesis Proposal Workshop (Advisor: Walter W. Powell, Stanford University) at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montréal (2010)

• Learning from failure
  How can our working environment help us to learn from our own mistakes? (find out more in this Youtube clip, which was professionally supported by Hendrik Wilhelm).
• Emotions in the workplace
  How emotions affect the way we work together
• Companies in competition
  How strategic change works

Memberships:

• Academy of Management
• German University Association
• European Group for Organisational Studies
• Association of University Professors for Business Management e. V.

Memberships in editorial boards:

• Organization Science
• Journal of Management Studies
• Academy of Management Discoveries
   

Awards:

• 2024: Academy of Management Discoveries Outstanding Reviewer Award
• 2023 Teaching Award BNE Impuls, Witten/Herdecke University
• 2019 Finalist Best International Paper Award, Organisation and Management Theory Division, 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
• 2019 Nomination VHB Best Paper Award. Steigenberger & Wilhelm (2018). Extending Signaling Theory to Rhetorical Signals: Evidence from Crowdfunding. Organisation Science, 29(3), 529-546.
• 2017 Teaching Award of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne
• 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organisation and Management Theory Division, 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2015 Shortlist Young Talent Award of the Association of University Professors of Business Management e. V. (VHB). (VHB). Wilhelm, H. Changing Organisational Routines: Antecedents, Processes, Outcomes.
• 2013 Best Conference Paper Award, 8th Annual INGRoup Conference, Atlanta, GA. Wilhelm, H., Richter, A. W., & Semrau, T. "When does creative failure turn into creative effort? The moderating effect of team psychological safety and transactive memory system".
   

Reviewer activities:

• Organisation Science
• Management Science
• Academy of Management Discoveries
• Academy of Management Discoveries 2023 Best Paper Review Committee
• Journal of Management Studies
• Frontiers in Psychology
• International Journal of Management Reviews
• Long Range Planning
• Organisation
• British Journal of Management
• Creativity and Innovation Management
• Academy of Management Annual Conference
• INGRoup Annual Conference
• Cambridge University Press