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Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm

Dorothee Winkler, Dr. Florian Überbacher and Prof. Dr. Andreas Georg Scherer receive the VHB «Best Practice Paper Award 2019»

Dorothee Winkler, Dr. Florian Überbacher and Prof. Dr. Andreas Georg Scherer received the VHB Best Practice Paper Award 2019 for their paper «Maintaining organizational legitimacy during ideological disruptions and societal divisions».

Their study investigates how Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, successfully managed the legitimacy of his organization Tesla in the United States, which has, since the advent of president Donald Trump, become an increasingly divided society.

Congratulations to the three authors on their achievement.

Full citation: Winkler, D., Überbacher, F., & Scherer, A. G. (2019). Maintaining organizational legitimacy during ideological disruptions and societal divisions. Working Paper.