Prof. Dr. Suleika Bort

Head of Chair

Room: HK14b 228
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Straße 14b
Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3250
Suleika.Bort@uni-passau.de

Suleika Bort graduated in Business Administration (Diplom-Kauffrau) at the University of Mannheim with a focus on Organization, Marketing, and Industrial Psychology. Suleika Bort worked as a Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Business Administration and Organization (Prof. Dr. Alfred Kieser) at the University of Mannheim and wrote her Habilitation at the Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode) also at Mannheim University. During this time, she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (USA) and Northwestern University (USA). In addition, Suleika Bort held an interim professorship at the TU Kaiserslautern for one year. After a period as Lecturer at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Professor of Organization and International Management at the TU Chemnitz, she was appointed as the Head of the Chair of International Management and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau in 2020. Currently, Suleika Bort is also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems at the University of Passau and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Applied Ethics in Business, Education and Training at the University of Passau.

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Suleika Bort works at the intersection of international management, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Her research focuses in particular on globally active organizations and the question of how these organizations can be designed and managed in a socially and sustainably responsible manner. Furthermore, Suleika Bort deals with the emergence and management of international cooperation and networks, organizational theories and the development of new markets.

Bort, S., & Kieser, A. (2023). Coping with devils and climate change with the help of asceticism? Exploring the role of asceticism as trigger of collective climate action. Environmental Values (forthcoming).

Istipliler, B., Ahrens, J. P., Bort, S., & Isaak, A. (2023). Is exposure to the family firm always good for the next CEO? How successor pre-succession firm experience affects post-succession performance in family firms. Journal of Business Research, 167, 114179.

Istipliler, B., Bort, S., & Woywode, M. (2023). Flowers of adversity: Institutional constraints and innovative SMEs in transition economies. Journal of Business Research, 154, 113306.

Aharonson, B. S., Bort, S., & Woywode, M. (2020). The influence of multinational corporations on international alliance formation behavior of colocated start-ups. Organization Science, 31(3), 770-795.

Degener, P., Maurer, I., & Bort, S. (2018). Alliance portfolio diversity and innovation: The interplay of portfolio coordination capability and proactive partner selection capability. Journal of Management Studies, 55(8), 1386-1422.

Oehme, M., & Bort, S. (2015). SME internationalization modes in the German biotechnology industry: The influence of imitation, network position, and international experience. Journal of International Business Studies, 46(6), 629-655.

Aharonson, B. S., & Bort, S. (2015). Institutional pressure and an organization’s strategic response in Corporate Social Action engagement: The role of ownership and media attention. Strategic Organization, 13(4), 307-339.

Wilhelm, H., & Bort, S. (2013). How managers talk about their consumption of popular management concepts: identity, rules and situations. British Journal of Management, 24(3), 428-444.

Bort, S., & Kieser, A. (2011). Fashion in organization theory: An empirical analysis of the diffusion of theoretical concepts. Organization Studies, 32(5), 655-681.