Prof. Dr. Isabell M. Welpe

Academic Career and Research Areas

Her research focuses on the digital transformation of companies, business model innovations, the impact of digital technologies on business and organizations, and the future of leadership and work/organizational design.

She studied Management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. She also completed an MSc at the London School of Economics. She is a research fellow at University College London.Isabell Welpe teaches strategy and business model innovation, digital transformation, leadership, organizational design and managing people and organizations. Her research has been reported in the media, e.g. Harvard Business Manager and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Awards

  • Best Practice Paper Award VHB - Association of University Teachers of Business Administration (2010)
  • Best Paper Award NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference (2010)
  • Best Paper Award NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference (2008)
  • Nominated for Best Paper Award, VHB-Human Resources Division (2007)

Oehler, P. J., Stumpf-Wollersheim, J., Welpe, I. M., & Obstfeld, D. (2021). Beyond the truce: how conflict affects teams’ decisions whether to enact routines or creative projects. Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(3), 799-822.

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Graf, L., Wendler, W. S., Stumpf-Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2019). Wanting more, getting less: Gaming performance measurement as a form of deviant workplace behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 157(3), 753-773.

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Kobarg, S., Stumpf-Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2019). More is not always better: Effects of collaboration breadth and depth on radical and incremental innovation performance at the project level. Research Policy, 48(1), 1-10.

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Theurer, C. P., Tumasjan, A., & Welpe, I. M. (2018). Contextual work design and employee innovative work behavior: When does autonomy matter? PLoS One, 13(10), e0204089.

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Drescher, M. A., Korsgaard, M. A., Welpe, I. M., Picot, A., & Wigand, R. T. (2014). The dynamics of shared leadership: Building trust and enhancing performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(5), 771-783.

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