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Thorsten WAHLE

Assistant Professor

Managerial decision making - organization design - behavioral strategy - organizational learning

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Thorsten WAHLE

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location

Lille

Discipline

Economics

Thorsten Wahle is an Assistant Professor at SKEMA Business School. Mostly using experiments, he studies how organizational structure affects learning behavior and outcomes, and how decision makers can learn from different types of failure. Thorsten received his PhD from the Università della Szizzera italiana and during that time, was a visiting student at NYU Stern School of Business. Before joining SKEMA, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School and at LMU Munich. He is also involved in running the Masterclass series of the Experimental Organization Science community.  

Education
2020
PhD in Economics, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2014
Master of Science, Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany
2011
Bachelor of Science, Economic Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2022
Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
2020 - 2022
Lecturer, Alliance Manchester Business School, Great Britain
2019 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2022
Teaching Excellence recognition, Alliance Manchester Business School, Great Britain
Research Grants
2021
AMBS Research Support, Alliance Manchester Business School, Great Britain
2017
Doctoral Mobility Grant: Weathering the Storm: Adapting to Environmental Discontinuities, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Other research activities
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2023
EOS23 (Experimental Organization Science community)
2022
AOM Symposium on ”Search at the individual-level, dyadic-level, and aggregation to the organizationallevel”, Academy of Management
Affiliations
Since 2022
EOS Masterclass Coordinator (Experimental Organization Science community)
Other academic activities
Since 2020
Ad-hoc reviewer for various journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Organization Design, Long Range Planning, among others
Since 2018
Member of and reviewer for the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Academy of Management

Conference proceedings

BAUMANN, O., LAUENSTEIN, F. and WAHLE, T. (2022). The Upside of Sugarcoating: Inaccurate Performance Reporting and Exploration in Organizations. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), pp. 10531.
EDRIS, S., WAHLE, T., HORCK, S. and GAUR, A.S. (2021). Emerging market firm’s persistence with failed innovations. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1).
WAHLE, T. (2020). Multiple Goals and Multiple Aspirations: New Questions, New Perspectives.
DUARTE, J., WAHLE, T. and MARTIGNONI, D. (2019). A Behavioral Theory of the Second-best: How Knowledge of Second-best Solutions Affects Agents Search. Academy of Management Proceedings.
WAHLE, T. and DUARTE, J. (2018). The Liability of Peer Performance Information in Broad Choice Sets.

Conference presentations

WAHLE, T. and GUO, J. (2023). Divergent Aspiration in Joint Search. In: Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting. Toronto.
WAHLE, T. and SHAPIRA, Z. (2018). The boiled frog effect. In: Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting: Paris.
WAHLE, T. and SHAPIRA, Z. (2018). The Boiled Frog Effect. In: Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting. Paris.

Faculty research seminar presentations

WAHLE, T. and GUO, J. (2022). Diverse Aspirations in Dyadic Search. In: Strategic Organization Design, University of Southern Denmark. Odense.
WAHLE, T., EDRIS, S., HORCK, S. and GAUR, A.S. (2021). Emerging Market Firms' Persistence with Failed Innovations. In: Grenoble Ecole de Management. Grenoble.
WAHLE, T. (2021). Emerging market firms’ persistence with failed innovations. Grenoble.