Invited speakers

Erik E. Lehmann

Erik E. Lehmann is a Full Professor of Management and Organization at Augsburg University, Germany, Dean of Student affairs and Director of the Master Program Global Business Management (GBM). He received his doctoral degree 1999 from Rostock University and his habilitation (venia legendi) from University of Konstanz in 2005. From 2004-2005 he joined the Max Planck Institute (Jena) as an assistant director.
Together with Silvio Vismara (University of Bergamo/Italy) he directs the CISAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE). He is appointed as an adjunct Professor at SPEA (School of Public and Environmental Affairs) Indiana University/Bloomington. Lehmann’s research is focused on the links between corporate governance in family and entrepreneurial firms, innovation systems, and knowledge spillovers.
His research has been published in leading academic journals like Review of Finance, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Technology Transfer among others. He serves as an associate editor of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurial Journal.
His most cited and co-authored books include Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth by Oxford University Press in 2006, Technology Transfer in a Global Economy by Springer in 2012 and Corporate Governance in Small and Medium Sized firms with Edward Elgar in 2011.

Andy Neely

Andy Neely is Founding Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance and the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Complex Services. He is widely recognized for his work on the servitization of manufacturing, as well as his work on performance measurement and management.
Previously he has held appointments at Cranfield University, London Business School, Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Churchill College, Nottingham University, where he completed his PhD and British Aerospace.
He was Deputy Director of AIM Research – the UK’s management research initiative – from 2003 until 2012 and was elected a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute in 2005, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2007, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2008, a Fellow of the European Operations Management Association in 2009 and President of the European Operations Management Association in 2013.