Since August 2020, Dr. Todor Stefan Lohwasser is a General Manager at Storck Bicycle GmbH in Idstein (Germany).

Curriculum Vitae:

• Since 08/2020 General Manager at Storck Bicycle GmbH, Idstein (GER)
• 11/2016 - 07/2020 Research Associate at the Institute for Organizational Economics, University of Münster (Professor Dr. Alexander Dilger)
• 02/2019 - 03/2019: Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (RSA)
• 02/2019 - 03/2019: Visiting Scholar at the Darla Moore School of Business (International Business Department), University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)
• 09/2016 - 10/2016: Internship in Financial Advisory / Restructuring Services & Turnaround at Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf (GER)
• 08/2015 – 01/2016 Exchange Semester, Aarhus School of Business (DNK)
• 10/2014 - 08/2016 Studies of Business Administration (M.Sc.) with the focus on Management, University of Münster (GER)
• 07/2014 - 09/2014: Commercial Analyst at SMS Siemag AG, Pittsburgh (USA)
• 04/2014 - 06/2014: Commercial Analyst at SMS Siemag AG, Shanghai (CHN)
• 10/2012 - 03/2014: Assistent to the Chairman of the Board at SMS Holding GmbH, Düsseldorf (GER)
• 09/2009 - 09/2012 Studies of Business Administration (B.A.) with the focus on Marketing and Controlling, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (GER)

Research interests:

• Family Firms & Entrepreneurship
• Digital Transformation
• International Business & Strategy
• Corporate Governance

Publications:

Articles in refereed journals:

• "Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type“, together with Felix Hoch and Franz W. Kellermanns, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 (1), 2022, pp. 117-158.

• "How Do Banks Interact with Fintech Startups?", with Lars Hornuf, Milan Frederik Klus and Armin Schwienbacher, Small Business Economics, Vol. 57 (3), 2021, pp. 1505-1526.
• "Strategic Alliances between Banks and Fintechs for Digital Innovation: Motives to Collaborate and Types of Interaction", with Milan F. Klus, Friedrich Holotiuk and Jürgen Moormann,  Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Vol. 21 (1), 2019, pp. 1-23.

Best Paper Proceedings:

• "Do Institutions Matter for the Relationship between Diversification and Performance? A Meta-Analysis" together with Dominik Wagner, Marc van Essen, Michel Lander and Valentina Marano, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Vol. 2019 (1), 2019.

Discussion Papers:

• "The Advances of Community Cloud Computing in the Business-to-Business Buying Process", together with Nicolas Henn, Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics 6/2020, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2020.
• "Meta-Analyzing the Relative Performance of Venture Capital-Backed Firms", Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics 4/2020, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2020.
• "The Influence of Institutions on Venture Capital: How Transaction Costs, Uncertainty, and Change Affect New Ventures" together with Felix Hoch, Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics 9/2019, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2019.
• "The Relative Performance of Family Firms Depending on the Type of Financial Market", Discussion Papier of the Institute for Organisational Economics 8/2019, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2019.
• "The Influence of Political Characteristics on the Relationship between Family Control and Firm Performance: A Meta-Analytical Approach", together with Felix Hoch, Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics 5/2019, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2019.
• "How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value", together with Lars Hornuf, Milan Frederik Klus and Armin Schwienbacher, CESifo Working Paper No. 7170 7/2018, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH, 2018.
• "Strategic Alliances between Banks and Fintechs for Digital Innovation: Motives to Collaborate and Types of Interaction", together with Milan Frederik Klus, Friedrich Holotiuk and Jürgen Moormann, Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics 6/2018, University of Münster, 2018.

Conferences:

• 4th Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conference on Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players, University of Oxford (online), 27.03.2020:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value
• 82nd Annual Business Researcher Conference, Goethe-University Frankfurt (online), 17.03.-20.03.2020:
  Todor Stefan Lohwasser: The Relative Performance of Family Firms Depending on the Type of Financial Market
• 82nd Annual Business Researcher Conference, Goethe-University Frankfurt (online), 17.03.-20.03.2020:
  Felix Hoch/Todor Stefan Lohwasser: The Influence of Institutions on Venture Capital: How Transaction Costs, Uncertainty, and Change Affect New Ventures
• 7th Paris Financial Management Conference, IPAG Business School, Paris, 16.12.-18.12.2019:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value (accepted)
• 26th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF), University of Duisburg-Essen, 27.09.-28.09.2019:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value
• 23. Interdisciplinary Annual Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Mittelstand (G-Forum), 25.– 27. September 2019, WU Vienna, 25.09.-27.09.2019
  Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Felix Hoch: Do Political Characteristics Influence the Relationship between Family Control and Performance? A Meta-Analytical Approach
• 79th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 09.08.-13.08.2019:
  Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Dominik Wagner/ Marc van Essen/ Michel Lander/ Valentina Marano: Do Institutions Matter for the Relationship between Diversification and Performance? A Meta-Analysis
• 3rd International Conference on The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship 2019, University of Münster, 28.02.-02.03.2019: 
  Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Felix Hoch: Do Political Characteristics Influence the Relationship between Family Control and Performance? A Meta-Analytical Approach.
• EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 21.02.-22.02.2019:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value
• 3rd International Workshop on Financial System Architecture and Stability (IWFSAS), Cass Business School, City University of London, London, 10.09.-12.09.2018:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How do banks cooperate with FinTechs? Forms of alliances and their impact on bank value
• 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium: Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, 20.07.2018:
  Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How do banks cooperate with FinTechs? Forms of alliances and their impact on bank value
• 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium: Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, 20.07.2018:
  Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Friedrich Holotiuk/ Jürgen Moormann: Strategic Alliances between Banks and Fintechs for Digital Innovation: Motives to Collaborate and Types of Interaction 
• 4th International Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, 18.06.-19.06.2018:
  Lars Hornuf/Milan Frederik Klus/Todor Stefan Lohwasser/Armin Schwienbacher: How do banks interact with fintechs? Forms of strategic alliance and their economic impact
• 31st Bled eConference on Digital Transformation: Meeting the Challenges, 17.06.-20.06.2018, Bled, Slovenia, S. 301-316: 
  Friedrich Holotiuk/Milan Frederik Klus/Todor Stefan Lohwasser/Jürgen Moormann: Motives to Form Alliances for Digital Innovation: The Case of Banks and Fintechs
• 5th Crowdinvesting Symposium: The Regulation of FinTechs, Humboldt University of Berlin, 06.10.2017: 
  Lars Hornuf/Milan Frederik Klus/Todor Stefan Lohwasser: How banks interact with FinTechs: Forms of cooperation and their economic impact

Awards (Extract):

• 2020: Best Reviewer Award for the Entrepreneurship Divison at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
• 2019: IM Division Georgetown Best Paper in International Business and Policy Finalist with the research project "Do Institutions Matter for the Relationship between Diversification and Performance? A Meta-Analysis" with Dominik P. Wagner, Marc van Essen, Michel Lander and Valentina Marano, 79th AOM Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Boston, Massachusetts)
• 2019: Best-Paper Award (top 10%) at 79th AOM Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Boston, Massachusetts) with the research project "Do Institutions Matter for the Relationship between Diversification and Performance? A Meta-Analysis" with Dominik P. Wagner, Marc van Essen, Michel Lander and Valentina Marano
• 2019: Winner of the AlumniUM e.V. poster competition for scientific junior staff in the category "Digitalization - Chances and challenges in a digital world" with the research project "How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value" with Lars Hornuf, Milan Frederik Klus, and Armin Schwienbacher
• 2019: Scholarship „IP @ WWU – International Promovieren an der WWU“: Resarch Visit of Darla Moore School of Business, Columbia (US)
• 2018: Best Paper Award of 1st International FinTech, InsurTech & Blockchain Forum (University of Zurich at 24.10.2018) for the joint research project How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value with Lars Hornuf, Milan Frederik Klus and Armin Schwienbacher

• 2017: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

• 2014: Scholarship of Rheinstahl-Stiftung

Reviewer:

• 2020 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• since 2019 AOM Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
• 2018 Bled eConference on Digital Transformation
• 2017 Crowdinvesting Symposium 

Teaching:

• Introduction to Business Administration
• Accounting
• Management of Family Businesses
• Selection of Personnel
• Cultural- and Media-Management

External Presentations:

• "Familienunternehmen - Stabilitätsanker oder Auslaufmodell" at Enabling Innovation Münsterland, FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences, Steinfurt, 23.10.2018