CHRISTIAN LECHNER

CURRENT POSITION AND ACTIVITIES
 Full Professor Free University of Bolzano (since 2013)
 Tenured full professor at ESC Toulouse (2000-2013)
 Director of the Research Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Groupe ESC Toulouse
 Director of the Specialized Masters Program in Entrepreneurship, Groupe ESC Toulouse
 Co-Director of the Business Incubator at Groupe ESC Toulouse
 Member of the Strategic Management Department, Groupe ESC Toulouse

 Member of the scientific committee of the Doctoral School in Management at the University LUISS Guido Carli – Roma;
 Appointments as visiting professor (LUISS Guido Carli – Roma; Free University of Bolzano; WHU, Schloss Kracht; WWZ, University of Basel; Rutgers University; University of Regensburg; University of Bologna)
 Member of the Academy of Management, The Strategic Management Society, L’Academie de l’Entrepreneuriat;
 Reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Management Journal, Small Business Economics, Management International Review, Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Babson Kaufmann Entrepreneurship Research Conference, IECER and Electronic Markets.
o Best Reviewer Award in Entrepreneurship of the Academy of Management in 2004
 Member of the Research Audit Committee CNR (consiglio nazionale di ricerca), Italy
 Member of the research audit committee for the Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Position calls at Rutgers University, New York Politechnic Institut, EM Lyon

EDUCATION
- IAE Toulouse, Université de Toulouse,
Toulouse, France,
HDR - HABILITATION À DIRIGER LA RECHERCHE, FRENCH HABILITATION

2000-2013
Groupe ESC Toulouse
(Toulouse Business School)
Toulouse, France
TENURED FULL PROFESSOR (SINCE JANUARY 2006)

July 2000
University of Regensburg
Regensburg, Germany
DOCTOR (PH.D.) OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Title of the thesis: “The competitiveness of firm networks”;
Ph.D. supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling, University of Regensburg;
Prof. Dr. Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufsess, Free University of Berlin
Distinction: “Summa cum Laude”

1994 to 1995
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Strategic Marketing, International Business, Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship

March 1993
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich, Germany
B.B.A. (GERMAN DIPLOM IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)
Organization, Empirical Research, Marketing

October 1988 to August 1989
University of Florence
Florence, Italy
DIPLOMA IN ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES

LANGUAGES

 Teaching languages
o English, German, Italian, French
 Basic communication skills
o Spanish & Portuguese



COURSES TAUGHT
 Doctoral Programs:
o Research Seminar on the Resource-Based-View
• L’ école doctorale Sciences de Gestion, Université Toulouse 1 (since 2006)
• LUISS Roma (2006, 2008, 2009)
o Entrepreneurship as a research field
• LUISS Roma (2007, 2009)
 MBA – level:
o Strategic Management
• Aerospace MBA, ESC Toulouse (since 2004)
• LUISS Roma (2005)
o Entrepreneurship
• LUISS Roma (since 2006)
o Change Management (WWZ – Basel, 2006, 2007)
 Master - Level
o Strategic Management (ESC Toulouse, ESSEC Barcelona)
o Technology Management (ESC Toulouse)
o International Strategy (ESC Toulouse)
o Entrepreneurship (ESC Toulouse, University of Florence, Free University of Bolzano since 2003)

 Bachelor - Level
o Business Administration (Free University of Bolzano, 2004, 2005)
Teaching at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, MBA, doctoral program)
PH.D. THESIS SUPERVISION/ CO-SUPERVISION
o Florian Kirschenhofer: « Long-term success factors of habitual entrepreneurs» (Doctoral degree received from the University of Regensburg in 2008, Magna cum Laude).
o Leilanie Mohd Nor: « Factors affecting decision making in family businesses » (TBS-Unirazak Malaysia, Ph.D program, completed 2014).

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
- Academy of Management
- Academie de l‘Entrepreneuriat
- Deutscher Hochschulverband
- Strategic Management Society

REVIEW ACTIVITIES
- Academy of Management Journal
- Electronic Markets
- Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
- Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice
- International Small Business Journal
- Journal of Business Venturing
- Journal of Management Studies
- Management International Review
- Small Business Economics
- Small Business Management Journal
- Strategic Management Journal