Research focuses

Organization Design, Change Management, Social Capital, Innovation, Strategic Management, Organization Theory

Curriculum vitae

• Since 2016 Elected Member of the German Federal Research Association’s Review Board (DFG Fachkollegium 112), Business Administration
• 2012 - 2013 Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Since September 2011 Academic Head of Working Group “Organization” in the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft Deutsche Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
• 2006 - 2007 Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) International Visiting Fellow. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• 2007 Best Paper Award, German Academic Association for Business Research, for the publication „The dynamics of social capital and their performance implications: Lessons from biotechnology start-ups.” Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 51, 2006, 262-292 (with Indre Maurer)
• 2007 Best Paper Award of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) for Indre Maurer, Vera Bartsch, Mark Ebers and Svenja Knöpfler: “Learning in Project-Based Organizations: How Project Members‘ Social Capital Affects Effective Knowledge Transfer and Organizational Performance.“
• Since 2004 Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, University of Cologne
• Since July 2003 Member of the Board Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft Deutsche Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
• Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Bocconi University, Tilburg University, and New York University
• 1994 - 2004 Professor of Business Administration, Management and Organization, Augsburg University
• 1992 - 1994 Professor of Business Administration and Organization, Paderborn University
• 1989 - 1990 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
• 1985 - 1992 Assistant Professor (Hochschulassistent) at the Faculty of Business Administration, Mannheim University (Dr. rer. pol. habil.)
• 1980 - 1985 Wiss. Angestellter. Graduate studies in Business Administration and Political Science at Mannheim University (Dr. rer. pol.)
• 1974 - 1979 Studies of Business Administration, Hamburg University

Selected Publications

• Ebers, M. & Arbeitskreis Organisation der Schmalenbachgesellschaft, forthcoming. Organisationsmodelle für Innovation. ZfbF, DOI 10.1007/s41471-016-0021-x.
• Ebers, M. & Maurer, I. 2016. To continue or not to continue? Drivers of recurrent partnering in temporary organizations. Organization Studies, 37(6), 2016, pp. 1861-1895.
• Ebers, M., & Oerlemans, L. 2016. The variety of governance structures beyond market and hierarchy. Journal of Management, 42(6), pp. 1491–1529.
• Ebers M. & Semrau, T. 2015. What drives the allocation of specific investments between buyer and supplier? Journal of Business Research 68(2): pp. 415-424.