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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesChair of Strategic Management

Thilo Heyer, M.Sc.

Vita

Thilo Heyer, born in 1987, is research assistant at the Department of Business Policy and Logistics since November 2013.

Mr. Heyer studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne specializing in corporate development, human resources management and business psychology. As a part of his CEMS Master he completed his semester abroad at the Graduate School of Management in St. Petersburg, Russia. During his studies Mr. Heyer gained foreign work experiences in the real estate industry (England) and the consumer goods industry (Indonesia).

Research Interests

  • Strategic management, especially management of inter-organizational business relations
  • Inter-sectoral cooperation, especially cooperation between enterprises and Non-Profit-Organizations
  • Context: developing countries

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Büchler, Jan-Philipp; Heyer, Thilo (2015): You'll Never Walk Alone: Stakeholder Management and Corporate Strategy at Borussia Dortmund; in: Albers, Sascha; Schweiger, Bastian; Raueiser, Markus (Eds.): Strategy Case Book; 2. edition, Köln: Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, p. 67-82.
  • Heyer, Thilo; Segger, Lukas; von Danwitz, Simon (2015): Managing Without Management - How Companies Succed Without Hierarchy; in: Strategy Case Book; 2. edition, Köln: Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, p. 153-166.

Conference Papers

  • Heyer, Thilo (2015): Internationalising into developing countries - businesses, governments or non-governmental organisations as potential partners?; paper presented at the 7th International Conference on the Economics and Management of Networks, 2015 in Cape Town (South Africa).
  • Heyer, Thilo (2014): Corporate Hypocrisy - the influence of code of conduct violation on perceived corporate hypocrisy from a consumer perspective; paper presented at the 11th CEMS Research Conference on Supply Chain Management, 2014 in Riezlern (Austria).

Supervised Theses (Selection)

  • Geschäftsmodelle in der urbanen Share Economy: Eine Analyse am Beispiel Carsharing (2015)
  • Corporate Social Performance von CSR Standards im Global Supply Chain Management der Textilindustrie –  Erstellung eines Prüfungsmodells zur Arbeitssicherheit bei Zulieferern (2015)
  • Turnaround in the football industry: the case of Borussia Dortmund (2014)
  • Fairphone: Zur Möglichkeit einer Nischenstrategie im Mobilfunkgerätemarkt (2014)
  • Avoiding bad als Bestandteil von CSR - Besteht die Notwendigkeit eines strategischen Perspektivwechsels? (2014)