Niklas Dreymann, M.Sc.


Research interest:

  • Entrepreneurial Action: Strategic network design of start-up firms to attract potential (alliance) partners
  • Creativity and Innovation: Contextual factors fostering individual, team and organizational creativity and innovativeness
  • Innovation Management: New collaborative forms of product development
  • Digital Transformation: Managerial, organizational, and work implications



Educational Background:

  • Since 2020: Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate, Chair of Organization and Corporate Development (Prof. Dr. Indre Maurer), Georg-August-University of Göttingen
  • 2023: Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • 2022: PhD Summer School in Empirical Research, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • 2017-2020: M.Sc. Management and Technology with a Major in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Informatics, Technical University of Munich
  • 2013-2017: B.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 2015-2016: Semester Abroad, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (Grande École), France




Professional Background:

  • 2018-2019: Intern Consulting Strategy and Operations, KPMG AG Deutschland
  • 2017: Intern Product Management C-BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles), Audi AG
  • 2016-2017: Student Research Assistant, Institute of Information Systems and Marketing at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 2014: Intern Inhouse Logistics Planning, Volkswagen AG



Current Teaching:

  • Management and Organization (SoSe 23)
  • Empirical Seminar: Social Network Analysis (WiSe 22/23)
  • Management and Organization Training camp (WiSe 22/23)
  • Management and Organization (SoSe 22)
  • Process Management (SoSe 22)
  • Empirical Seminar: Social Network Analysis (WiSe 21/22)
  • Management and Organization (SoSe 21)
  • Empirical Seminar: Social Network Analysis (WiSe 20/21




Conferences / Talks / Invited Workshops:

  • Dreymann, N., Bort, S. & Maurer, I. (2023, February 08-10). The Different Paths to Innovation Performance: A Longitudinal Configurational Approach to the R&D Alliance Portfolio Development of New Firms [Conference presentation]. Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE) Conference. https://acereconference.com/about/
  • Dreymann, N., Bort, S. & Maurer, I. (2022, December 13-14). The Different Paths to Innovation Performance: A Longitudinal Configurational Approach to the R&D Alliance Portfolio Development of New Firms [Workshop presentation]. International QCA Paper Development Workshop (PDW) 2022. https://compasss.org/
  • Dreymann, N., Bort, S. & Maurer, I. (2022, July 07-09). Alliance portfolio paths and innovation performance: A configurational approach [Conference presentation]. 38th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). https://www.egos.org/2022_Vienna/General-Theme
  • Dreymann, N., Maurer, I. & Bort, S. (2022, July 07-09). Addressing attractive markets or achieving pandemic preparedness? Skillful framing for engaging partners in the medical biotechnology industry [Conference presentation]. 38th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). https://www.egos.org/2022_Vienna/General-Theme
  • Dreymann, N., & Strobel, L.-T. (2021, July-August 29-04). Creative through Time Pressure? A Cross-Level View on Creative Self-Efficacy & Knowledge Sharing [Conference presentation]. 81th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting
    • Dreymann, N., & Strobel, L.-T. (2020, September 17-18). Creative through Time Pressure? A Cross-Level Perspective on Individual Creative Self-Efficacy and Team Knowledge Sharing [Paper presentation]. Herbstworkshop der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Personal, Duesseldorf, Germany. http://hermes.hsu-hh.de/kommissionpersonal/
      • Uludağ, Ö.; Kleehaus, M.; Dreymann N.; Kabelin C.; Matthes, F. (2019, May 24-26). Investigating the Adoption and Application of Large-Scale Scrum at a German Automobile Manufacturer [Conference presentation], ICGSE: International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Montréal, 2019. https://conf.researchr.org/home/icgse-2019