Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Professor of Corporate Management at TU Dortmund University and Senior Research Fellow at ESCP Research Institute of Management. His research has been published in, for example, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Management, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Before his academic career, Dr. Graf-Vlachy was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a Project Manager at the World Economic Forum (WEF). He holds a master's level degree in Information Systems and a doctoral degree from Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as a habilitation from the University of Passau. His personal website can be found at www.graf-vlachy.com.