Prof. Zeynep Erden Özkol

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Management and Law, Department of International Business
• Zeynep Erden is a senior lecturer and researcher at ZHAW. Zeynep is also a Visiting Professor and coach at Vlerick Business School and a lecturer (PDA) at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (MTEC) at ETH Zurich. She teaches innovation management, healthcare management and strategy in various programmes, including Masters programmes and Online MBA.

Focus

Innovation and strategic management in knowledge-intensive industries with a special focus on the coordination of work practices and the impact of digital technologies on the design of "Future of Work" in the global life sciences industry.

Teaching

Innovation, Strategy, Healthcare Management

Experience

Zeynep Erden is a Professor of Global Strategy and Leadership at ZHAW. Zeynep is also a Visiting Professor and coach at Vlerick Business School and a lecturer (PDA) at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (MTEC) at ETH Zurich. Previously, Zeynep held a faculty position at Vlerick Business School, where she was Program Director of the Master in General Management. She received her Habilitation and PhD in Strategic Management and Innovation at ETH Zürich and an MSc from RWTH Aachen University Aachen. She was a visiting faculty at Chalmers University of Technology. Zeynep’s research and teaching activities are in the field of innovation strategies and leadership in global, multinational corporations, with particular focus on strategic renewal, team dynamics and organizational change in the global life sciences and healthcare industry. She has led projects with big pharma players and gained experience in the banking industry.
ZHAW
2021 - today

Education and Continuing education

Education

• ETH Zurich / Strategic Management and Innovation
  Habilitation
  12 / 2010 - 12 / 2016
• ETH Zurich / Strategic Management and Innovation
  PhD
  11 / 2006 - 03 / 2011
• RWTH Aachen / Mechanical Engineering
  MSc
  2003 - 2006
• METU / Major in Industrial Engineering and Minor in Psychology
  BSc
  1998 - 2003

Continuing Education

• Name der Weiterbildungsstätte Englisch
  INSEAD
  2021
• Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
  MIT Executive Program
  2019

Network

Membership of networks

• ZHAW Digital Futures Lab
• Academy of Management Society
• European Academy of Management
• European Group for Organization Studies

Awards

• Best Paper Award - European Management Review
  European Management Review
  01 / 2012
• Best Paper Award - Journal of Strategic Information Systems
  Journal of Strategic Information Systems
  01 / 2008

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Revolutionizing Education60+: Digital Lifelong Learning / Team member / Project ongoing
• Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• A ‘Too-good-to-go' for non-used medicine? A Feasibility Study / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Crowdworking in Switzerland (CroWiS) - an interdisciplinary analysis taking the example of nurse crowd workers / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Haefliger, Stefan; Wallin, Martin W.; von Krogh, Georg; Erden, Zeynep; Spaeth, Sebastian,

  2019.

  Excellence in management research : how universities support or destroy intellectual virtues [paper].

  In:

  35th EGOS Colloquium : Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organisations, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 4-6 July 2019.

• Erden Özkol, Zeynep,

  2023.

  Building team resilience in healthcare.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2023/06/22/building-team-resilience-in-healthcare/

• Erden Özkol, Zeynep,

  2022.

  Measuring and demonstrating the value of digital health solutions.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2022/09/15/measuring-and-demonstrating-the-value-of-digital-health-solutions/

• Erden Özkol, Zeynep,

  2022.

  Three questions leaders in the healthcare sector should seriously consider while developing an innovation strategy.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2022/02/24/three-questions-leaders-in-the-healthcare-sector-should-seriously-consider-while-developing-an-innovation-strategy/

• Erden Özkol, Zeynep; Findikoglu, Melike Nur,

  2019.

  Digitalization of primary care delivery : consequences of EHR usage for physicians’ professional identities [paper].

  In:

  Organizing in the Era of Digital Technology, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 12-15 June 2019.

• Erden Özkol, Zeynep; Findikoglu, Melike,

  2021.

  Multiple institutional logics : how primary care physicians respond to conflicts.

  In:

  ETH Zurich Chair of Technology and Innovation Management Research Presentation Series, Zurich, Switzerland, 1 July 2021.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Ben-Menahem, S., Erden, Z. 2020. “Safeguarding Serendipitous Creativity During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, California Management Review Insight.   Erden, Z., Ben-Menahem, S., Von Krogh, G., Schneider, A., Koch, G, & Widmer. H. 2019. “Fostering multidisciplinary collaboration in drug discovery”, Drug Discovery World, Spring: 58-62.   Erden, Z. 2017. “The publishing and patenting strategies of successful university spinoffs in the biopharmaceutical industry”, Drug Discovery Today.   Ben-Menahem, S., von Krogh, G., Erden, Z. and Schneider, A., 2016. “Coordinating knowledge creation in multidisciplinary teams: Evidence from early-stage drug discovery”, forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal.   Erden, Z., Klang, D., Sydler, R., von Krogh, G., 2015. "How can we signal the value of our knowledge? Knowledge-Based Reputation and its Impact on Firm Performance in Science-Based Industries”, Long Range Planning.   Erden, Z., Schneider, A., von Krogh, G., 2014. “The multifaceted nature of social practic

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