Auszeichnungen

Regelmäßig werden die Mitglieder der WHU-Fakultät für ihre herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Publikationen sowie für ihre Leistungen als Peer-Reviewer mit nationalen und internationalen Preisen und Awards ausgezeichnet:

Best Paper Awards

Winner of the Runner Up Best Paper Award 2021 at the International Product Development Conference with the paper ‘Innovation theater in corporate venturing activities.’, Product Development and Management Association, 2021

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation


Winner of the 2021 SIG Strategic Management CENA Best Paper Award at the Euram conference with the paper ‘What drives the appointment of directors: Linking resource dependence and monitoring to human capital value in wind farm joint ventures.’, European Academy of Management, 2021

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation


2021 Best Research Methods Paper Prize at the SMS Conference, Strategic Management Society (SMS), 2021

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation


2022 Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management SIG at the EURAM conference, European Academy of Management, 2022

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation

Best Paper Award BFGA Conference 2022, Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) , 2022

Prof. Dr. Christian Andres, Chair of Empirical Corporate Finance

Best Paper Award: Reversing the lens: developing a taxonomy of destructive follower behavior, Herbst Workshop 2020 der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Personal, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 2020

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


OB Division: Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2022

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


Best Management Accounting Paper Award American Accounting Association, American Accounting Association, 2021

Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer, Institute of Management Accounting and Control

Best Reviewer Awards

Outstanding Reviewer Award 2019; Journal of Product Innovation Management, John Wiley & Sons, 2020

Prof. Dr. Holger Ernst, Chair of Technology and Innovation Management

Best Reviewer Award AOM – Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of Management, 2019

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


Journal of Business & Psychology - Reviewer of the Year Award, 2022

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


Outstanding Reviewer Award, American Accounting Association, 2022

Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer, Institute of Management Accounting and Control

Other Awards

Winner of the 2019 SITE Innovation Management Award, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, 2019

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation


WirtschaftsWoche Ökonomen-Ranking 2020: Rank 99, Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, 2020

Prof. Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation


Lifetime Achievement in Business Education, WirtschaftsWoche Ranking ranking of the most successful research-oriented economists 2022, Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, 2022

Prof. Dr. Franz Kellermanns

2019 SCM List University Research Ranking, Arizona State University, 2019

Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier, Chair of Production Management


SCM Journal List Ranking, Arizona State University, 2020

Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier, Chair of Production Management


WirtschaftsWoche Ökonomen-Ranking 2020, Handelsblatt GmbH, 2020

Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier, Chair of Production Management


Lifetime Achievement in Business Education, WirtschaftsWoche Ökonomen-Ranking 2022, Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, 2022

Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier, Chair of Production Management

Top Research-Oriented Economists under 40: Rank 54, WirtschaftsWoche Ökonomen-Ranking 2022, Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, 2022

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


40 führende HR-Köpfe in Management, Wissenschaft und Beratung, Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG, 2023

Prof. Dr. Fabiola Gerpott, Chair of Leadership


Lifetime Achievement in Business Education, WirtschaftsWoche Ökonomen-Ranking 2022, Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, 2022

Prof. Dr. Peter-Jürgen Jost, Chair of Organizational Theory