Research Areas
- inter- and intra-organizational trust and control
- supply chain management and interorganizational collaboration
- organizational innovativeness and creativity
- compliance management and corporate responsibility
Doctoral Thesis
Trust as a way to promote corporate responsibility in increasingly anonymous supply chains
- Supervisors
- Doctoral Subject
- Betriebswirtschaftslehre
- Doctoral Degree
- Dr. rer. pol.
- Awarded by
- Department 04 – Münster School of Business and Economics
CV
Education
- PhD Student (Business Administration)
- Master of Science in Business Administration, Münster School of Business and Economics
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Münster School of Business and Economics
Positions
- PhD Student, Research Training Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World” (1712/1)
- Research stay at the University of Haifa, Israel (Faculty of Management)
- Research fellow, Chair of Organization, Human Resource Management and Innovation
Honors
- Dissertation prize of the School of Business and Economics of the University of Münster – University of Münster
- Best Reviewer Award – British Academy of Management (BAM)
- Best Conference Reviewer – European Academy of Management (EURAM)
- Best Full Paper Award – British Academy of Management Conference, Organizational Psychology Track, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- MeisterSinger-AlumniUM-Bachelor-Award – Alumni-Verein der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Münster (AlumniUM)
External Functions
- Academy of Management
- European Academy of Management
- Australian New Zealand Academy of Management
- European Group of Organizational Studies
- British Academy of Management
- First International Network on Trust
- ex-cellence – Münster's Management Network for Organization, HR and Innovation
- AlumniUM
Projects
Selection
- GRK 1712 – RTG 1712 - Trust and Communication in a Digitized World ( – )
Main DFG-project hosted at WWU: DFG - Research Training Group | Project Number: GRK 1712
Complete List
- GRK 1712 – RTG 1712 - Trust and Communication in a Digitized World ( – )
Main DFG-project hosted at WWU: DFG - Research Training Group | Project Number: GRK 1712
- EURAM Track 06_04 "Organising Creativity for Innovation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Theories, and Practices" (since )
Own resources project - GRK 1712 – RTG 1712 - Trust and Communication in a Digitized World ( – )
Main DFG-project hosted at WWU: DFG - Research Training Group | Project Number: GRK 1712
- GRK 1712 – RTG 1712 - Trust and Communication in a Digitized World ( – )
Publications
Selection
- . . ‘Trust in Teams: A Review across Levels.’ In The Routledge Companion to Trust, edited by , 105–128. New York: Routledge.
- . . ‘Lone Star or Team Player? The Interrelationship of Different Identification Foci and the Role of Self-Presentation Concerns.’ Human Resource Management 57, No. 2: 529–547. doi: 10.1002/hrm.21868.
- . . ‘Untangling the Trust-Control Nexus in International Buyer-Supplier Exchange Relationships: An Investigation of the Changing World Regarding Relationship Length.’ European Management Journal 35, No. 4: 523–537. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2016.09.005.
Complete List
- . . ‘Trickle-down effect of organizational trust on co-worker trust: The moderating role of cultural dissimilarity and relationship length.’ European Management Review 20, No. 1: 97–112. doi: 10.1111/emre.12523.
- . . ‘Cooperation in the Face of Conflict: Effects of Top Managers’ Trust Beliefs in their Firms’ Major Suppliers.’ British Journal of Management 31, No. 2: 253–273. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12350.
- . . ‘Trust in Teams: A Review across Levels.’ In The Routledge Companion to Trust, edited by , 105–128. New York: Routledge.
Articles
Research articles (Journals)
Published - . . ‘Success through Trust, Control, and Learning? Contrasting the Drivers of SME Performance between Different Modes of Foreign Market Entry.’ Administrative Sciences 7, No. 2. doi: 10.3390/admsci7020009.
- . . ‘Lone Star or Team Player? The Interrelationship of Different Identification Foci and the Role of Self-Presentation Concerns.’ Human Resource Management 57, No. 2: 529–547. doi: 10.1002/hrm.21868.
- . . ‘Untangling the Trust-Control Nexus in International Buyer-Supplier Exchange Relationships: An Investigation of the Changing World Regarding Relationship Length.’ European Management Journal 35, No. 4: 523–537. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2016.09.005.
- . . „Erfolgsfaktoren des Employer Branding - eine empirische Analyse.“ PERSONALquarterly 2017, No. 2: 36–44.
Online First - . . ‘Knowledge Comes but Wisdom Lingers! Learning Orientation as the Decisive Factor for Translating Social Capital into Organizational Innovativeness and Performance in Turkey.’ European Journal of International Management 2017.
Conference Contributions
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences) - . . ‘Understanding the Effect of Strategic Orientation on Innovativeness: Examining Employee-Level Factors.’ Contributed to the Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta (GA), USA.
- . . ‘From Strategic Orientation to Organizational Innovativeness: Examining Employee-Level Factors.’ Contributed to the European Academy of Management Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences) - . ‘Trust in Teams: A Review across Levels.’ contributed to the Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta (GA), USA, .
- . ‘When Does Extrinsic Motivation Work? Analyzing the Motivational Foundations of Employees’ Compliance Intention.’ contributed to the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, .
Working Papers
- . . Organisationale CSR-Aktivitäten und individuelle Auswirkungen: Eine empirische Mehrebenenanalyse im Bereich der Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie . Münster: FATM, .
- . . ‘Interorganizational Trust: A Special Governance Mechanism or One of Several Alternatives?’ Contributed to the European Academy of Management Conference, Paris, France.
- . . ‘Cooperation in the Face of Conflict: The Effects of Interorganizational Trust Beliefs.’ Contributed to the Australian New Zealand Academy of Management, Brisbane, Australia.
- . . ‘Is Interorganizational Trust Really Special? A Test of Two Competing Models.’ Contributed to the First International Network on Trust Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
- . . ‘Context Matters! How do Organizational Size, Age, and Trust Influence Interpersonal Trust? Effects in a Cultural Setting.’ Contributed to the British Academy of Management Conference, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- . . ‘Organizational Spill-Over Effects on Interpersonal Trust between Turkish and German Co-Workers.’ Contributed to the 31th EGOS Colloquium (Pre-Colloquium Development Workshop), Athens, Greece.
- . . ‘Learning is Future, but Some Don't Realize That: The Impact of Learning and Embeddedness on Firm Innovativeness and Performance.’ Contributed to the 24th Annual IAMOT Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
- . . ‘What Triggers Compliance? The Influence of Trust and Control in High-Dependency Relationships.’ Contributed to the Global Corporate Governance Institute First Annual Conference, Guildford, United Kingdom.
- . . ‘What Happens, as Partnerships Grow Older? The Changing Performance Effects and Interplay of Control and Trustworthiness.’ Contributed to the British Academy of Management Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- . . ‘What Changes in Partnerships over Time? Trustworthiness, Style of Control and Performance Perception.’ Contributed to the Social Relations, Transformation, and Trust Conference, Coventry, United Kingdom.
- . . ‘When to Trust in Compliance: The Interplay of Control and Competence in High-Dependency Settings.’ Contributed to the First International Network on Trust (PhD/Early Careers Workshop), Coventry, United Kingdom.
Talks
- von Gehlen, K; Holtgrave, M (): ‘Trust me, please! Strategies for entrepreneurs to convince investors of their business idea’. Newton Institutional Link/ British Council Project Workshop, Coventry University, UK, .
- Holtgrave, Max; Nienaber, Ann-Marie (): ‘The Role of Trust Beliefs in Negotiations and in the Face of Conflicts’. Current Issues in Management II “Trust-Based Organizing” (Reinhard-Mohn-Institut für Unternehmensführung, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Deutschland), Reinhard-Mohn-Institut für Unternehmensführung, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Deutschland, .
- Holtgrave, Max (): ‘Presentation Skills and Design’. CTPSR On The Road, Coventry University, Coventry, UK, .
Dr. Maximilian Holtgrave, MScBA, BScBA
Chair of Organization, Human Resource Management and Innovation
