Dr. Anne Katarina Heider
CO-director of the Witten Institute for Family Business/ Research Fellow at the Endowed Chair of Management of Family Businesses
Dr. Anne Katarina Heider has been co-director of WIFU since 2020. She gained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in economics at the University of Wuppertal. After her Master’s degree she became a research assistant at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics and gained her PhD in ‘Corporate culture and innovation success in family businesses’. Anne Katarina Heider was a post-doctoral scholarship holder at the WIFU Foundation from January 2017 to February 2018. In March 2018 she was appointed as a research assistant to the Family Business Management Department under Professor Dr Marcel Hülsbeck.
Research interests
- Personnel and organisational development
- Corporate culture in family businesses
- Innovation in family businesses
- Innovation process and innovation success in family businesses
- Business model innovation
- Ambidexterity in family businesses
- Resource-specific characteristics and dynamic capabilities
- Corporate governance in family businesses