Germany

International

2024
Research cooperation with a team of researchers from University of Mannheim and University of Foggia (Dr. Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Melania Riefolo) on family firms and organizational age and its impact on organizational sustainability, as well as the diversity of top management teams (cultural background, gender, age, profession) and the impact on sustainable decision making for the organization (ABDC ranking: A*)

2023
Guest editor (with Prof. Christoph Barmeyer and Prof. Jaime Bonache) in the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management with the Special Issue “Paradigms, discourses and counter-narratives in CCM as an opportunity for broadening horizons: a call for multi-layered insights” (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/ccm/callforpapersspecialissue) (ABDC ranking: B)

2022/23
Research cooperation with Prof. Jaime Bonache (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) on the project of a multi-paradigm analysis of existing empirical data (stay in Passau January 2022/23, June 2023)

2022
Research stay from September-December 2022 in Montréal, Canada, at the Université du Québec à Montréal on the project "Intercultural resources of migrant entrepreneurs in Québec and Bavaria" with focus on foundation support structures, as well as engagement for the establishment of the Research Centre for Intercultural Entrepreneurship (CEEII) in Montréal

Preparation of a German Research Foundation (DFG) proposal on "Multicultural Individuals, Organisational Routines and Change - A Constructive Approach", planned submission summer 2024

2020
Research project on migrant entrepreneurs, networks and innovation with Prof. Kerstin Kuyken (Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada), ongoing (research stay in September 2021, 2022, 2023)

2019
Monograph as a dissertation project on migrants as multicultural individuals in organizations (finalized 2023)

2018
German-French cooperation on the integration of qualified migrants with Prof. Sylvie Chevrier (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée in France); stays in Paris 2018, 2019, 2020 (discussion and conceptual elaboration)

Proposal for a European research project: "Integrating highly skilled migrants in workplaces"; submitted "Challenges for Europe" VW Foundation, Compagnia de San Paolo, Carlsberg Foundation (with Prof. Mette Zølner, Prof. Christoph Barmeyer, Prof. Sylvie Chevrier, Prof. Eric Davoine, Prof. Henriett Primecz, Ass. Prof. Annette Risberg); and for the British Academy "Migrant INtegration, Organisations and Agency (MINOA)" (additionally with Prof. Laurence Romani, Prof. Peter Lugosi and Dr. Martina Maletzky) (rejected)

Monograph

1. Grosskopf, S. (2023): Potenziale entfalten und organisationale Routinen gestalten: Migranten als multikulturelle Individuen und interkulturelle Aushandlung in verschiedenen Organisationskontexten. Wiesbaden: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-658-42975-1) (engl. Unfolding potentials and shaping organisational routines: Migrants as multicultural individuals and intercultural negotiation in different organisational contexts) (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-42975-1)

Peer-reviewed articles

8. Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C./ Landes, A. (2024): Organizational integration of highly skilled migrants? Social worlds as multiple cultures dismantling conventional framings. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics

, doi.org/10.1007/s40812-023-00290-0

7. Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2023): Sozialwissenschaftliche Paradigmen in der Interkulturellen Managementforschung. Plädoyer für eine Öffnung des Forschungsfeldes (engl. Social science paradigms in intercultural management research. Plea for an opening of the research field). Interculture Jorunal, 22(38), 73–77.

6. Primecz, H./ Lugosi, P./ Zølner, M./ Chevrier, S./ Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2023): Organizations and migrant integration: Towards a multiparadigm narrative approach. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management,

23(1), 7–30, doi.org/10.1177/14705958231155011 (ABDC ranking: B)

5. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2022): Das Kreativitätspotenzial von Bikulturalität. Fallstudie eines migrantischen Unternehmers (engl. The creative potential of biculturalism. Case study of a migrant entrepreneur). Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 91(2), 86-89.

4. Grosskopf, S./ Landes, A./ Barmeyer, C. (2021): A black-box yet to be opened: Multi-level processes during migrant's organizational socialization. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 23, 1875–1902, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00906-1.

3. Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2021): Learning from multi-paradigmatic sensitivity in cross-cultural management? Empirical and theoretical considerations. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 21(2), 181-202, https://doi.org/10.1177/14705958211019437 (ABDC ranking: B)

2. Ruesga Rath, C./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2021): Leadership in the VUCA World - A Systematic Literature Review and its Link to Intercultural Competence. European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, 5(3), 195-219.

1. Maletzky, M./ Grosskopf, S. (2020): Personnel mobility in German non-profit organizations - an institutional perspective. Journal of Global Mobility, 8(3/4), 353-380, https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-04-2020-0028. (ABDC ranking: B)

Book chapters

4. Grosskopf, S. (2023): Interkulturalität als Entwicklungsprozess – Milton Bennett (engl. Interculturality as a developmental process – Milton Bennett). In: C. Barmeyer and D. Busch (eds.), Meilensteine der Interkulturalitätsforschung. Biographien, Konzepte, Positionen. Wiesbaden: Springer, 373–405.

3. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S./ Maletzky, M. (2021): Konstruktives interkulturelles Coaching bei Auslandsentsendungen mithilfe eines multiperspektivischen Instrumentariums (engl. Constructive intercultural coaching in expatriate assignments with the help of a multi-perspective toolkit). In: J. Eidems and S. Höntzsch (eds.), Coaching im Rahmen der Auslandsentsendung. Wiesbaden: Springer, 107-124.

2. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2019): Von sozialem zu interkulturellem Kapital – Migranten als interkulturelle Brückenbauer (engl. From social to intercultural capital – migrants as intercultural boundary spanners). In: P. Genkova and A. Riecken (eds.), Handbuch Migration und Erfolg

. Wiesbaden: Springer, 407-422 (available online link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-658-18403-2_28-1.pdf).

1. Barmeyer, C./ Großkopf, S. (2018): Sozialwissenschaftliche Paradigmen der Interkulturellen Managementforschung (engl. Social science paradigms of intercultural management research). In: C. Barmeyer (ed.), Konstruktives Interkulturelles Management. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 79-91.

Articles

4. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S./ Kuyken, K. (2022): Interkulturelle Kreativität und Migrantisches Unternehmertum in Montréal (engl. Intercultural Creativity and Migrant Entrepreneurship in Montréal). DKG Journal Magazin der Deutsch-Kanadischen Gesellschaft e.V., Issue: 2/2022.

3. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2021): Constructive Intercultural Management. Knowledge Bite SIETAR España

(available online sietar.es/tag/knowledge-bites/).

2. Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2020): Bicultural Creativity – A Syrian fashion designer in Munich, Germany. SIETAREUROPA Journal

, March - May 2020, 12-14 (available online www.sietareu.org/seu-journal-march-2020/).

1. Landes, A./ Grosskopf, S. (2019): Ortlose Eliten? – Interkulturelle Integration hochqualifizierter Migranten (engl. Placeless elites? – Intercultural Integration of Highly Qualified Migrants). In: W. Gamerith and N. Scharfenort (eds.), Passauer Kontaktstudium Geographie – Menschen, Migration und Mobilität, 195-209. 

Conference paper:

Riefolo, M./ Grosskopf, S./ Ahrens, J.-P. (2024): “Organisational sustainability, governance, and time- insights from AI and Big Data” European Academy of Management Annual Conference (EURAM). University of Bath School of Management, UK. (presented by Jan-Philipp Ahrens in June)

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C (2024): “The interplay of theory and context:  Getting empirical to understand contextualized explanation!” 40th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS). Milano, IT. (with presentation in July)

Ruesga Rath, C./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2024): “The Potential of Interculturality for Entrepreneurship – A Case Study on Problem Solving and Creativity in Intercultural Entrepreneurial Teams.” California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2024. San Diego State University, USA. (with presentation in April)

Riefolo, M./ Grosskopf, S./ Ahrens, J.-P. (2024): “When time is not a healer, but a killer: temporality and organizational sustainability.” Academy of Management Journal Paper Development Workshop. TU Darmstadt, GER. (presented by Jan-Philipp Ahrens in January)

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C (2023): “Multicultural individuals as creative change agents – Migrants breaking through organizational routines in four German organizations”. International Association of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management Conference 2023. Naples, IT. (with presentation in October)      

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2023): “Organizational integration” of highly skilled migrants? Social worlds as multiple cultures dismantling conventional framings. 39th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS). Cagliari, IT. (mit Vortrag im Juli)

Barmeyer, C./ Grosskopf, S./ Lubianski, I./ Kuyken, K. (2023): “Creativity is everything when it comes to entrepreneurship” – Cultural-based creativity of migrant entrepreneurs in Montréal. 23rd Conference of the European Academy of Management. Dublin, IRL. (mit Vortrag im Juni)

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2022): (Im-)perfection of Processes-Multiculturals and routines as drivers for innovation in organizations. 38th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS). Vienna, AUT. (with presentation in July)

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2021): Does biculturality enhance creativity? The case of a Syrian fashion designer in Germany. Constructive Intercultural Management Towards Constructive Intercultural Management. A conference on research approaches and perspectives. Istanbul, TK. (poster presentation in October)

Kuyken, K./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2021): Biculturalisme et innovation: une étude de cas exploratoire d'UN entrepreneur migrant dans le secteur de la mode, 8e édition des Journées Doriot. Paris, FRK, virtual. (presented by Kerstin Kuyken in May)

Grosskopf, S./ Ruesga Rath, C./ Molz, C. (2021): What role does interculturality play in the process of migrants’ organizational socialization? A systematic literature review in the period 2000-2019. 21st Conference of the European Academy of Management, Québec, Kanada, online.

Bausch, M./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2020): “Translating” management practices across cultures: the role of boundary spanners’ social capital. European International Business Academy, Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshop, Madrid, Spanien, online.

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C./ Kuyken, K. (2020): Innovation through biculturality – migrant entrepreneurs in Germany. 36th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Hamburg, DE, online.

Bausch, M./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2020): "“Translating” management practices across cultures: the role of boundary spanners’ social capital". Academy of International Business (AIB), Miami, USA.

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C./ Kuyken, K. (2020): "Innovation through biculturality – migrant entrepreneurs in Germany". 36th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS). Hamburg, DE.

Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer,C. (2020): “Does biculturality enhance creativity? The case of a Syrian fashion designer in Germany”. ION, Aberdeen, UK. (poster presentation)

“That´s Interesting” Paper Award: Rath, C./ Grosskopf, S. (2019): “Leadership in the VUCA World - A Systematic Literature Review”. IACCM-IESÉG 2019 Conjoint Conference. Paris, FRK.

Landes, A./ Grosskopf, S./ Barmeyer, C. (2019): "Organizations as places of socialization and identification – skilled migrants in their new organizational and socio-cultural environment." 19th Conference of the European Academy of Management. Lissabon, PT.

Barmeyer, C./ Chevrier, S./ Grosskopf, S./ Lugosi, P./ Primecz, H./ Romani, L./ Zølner, M. (2019): "Integrating skilled migrants in European workplaces: Multi-paradigm perspectives on narrative approaches". 35th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS). Edinburgh, UK.

Barmeyer, C. / Grosskopf, S. (2019): "Social Science Paradigms in Cross-Cultural Management: From Exclusion to Inclusion". SIETAR Europa Congress 2019. Leuven, BEL.

Maletzky, M./ Großkopf, S. (2018): Personnel Mobility in German Non-Profit Organisations: a multiple case study. 18th Conference of the European Academy of Management. Reykjavik, IS.

2024
21 February 2024 “Unlocking the power of culture: Navigating interculturality and communication” Annual General Meeting of the Biodiversity Exploratories Office (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung), Wernigerode, Germany.

18 February 2024 “A "space" for interculturality – migration and creative processes in the aerospace industry“, Panelist at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien e.V. in Grainau, Germany.

11 January 2024 “Migranten als multikulturelle Individuen und Akteure konstruktiver Interkulturalität
in Arbeitskontexten“ (engl. Migrants as multicultural individuals and actors of constructive interculturality in work contexts), together with Professor Barmeyer, Research laboratory at the University of Passau, Germany.

2023
14 December 2023 “Diversity, Intercultural Creativity and Migrant Entrepreneurship – Intercultural Community Building” Christmas Forschungscafé der Bayerischen Forschungsallianz, virtually.

11 December 2023 “Multikulturelle Individuen als Akteure konstruktiver Interkulturalität in Arbeitskontexten“ (engl.  Multicultural individuals as actors of constructive interculturality in work contexts), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.

25 September 2023 “Creativity of immigrant entrepreneurs – cases of multicultural individuals”, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

25 September 2023 “Multi-paradigmatic sensitivity in management research”, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

27 July 2023 “Potenziale entfalten und organisationale Routinen gestalten” (engl. Unfolding potential and shaping organisational routines), University of Passau, Germany, Young Researchers Excellence Centre.

13 July 2023 Workshop „Intercultural Marketing“, Honours Degree for students at the University of Passau who are setting up their own business.

22 June 2023 Workshop „Intercultural Negotiation“, Honours Degree for students at the University of Passau who are setting up their own business.

1 June 2023 Workshop „Intercultural Sensibilization“, Honours Degree for students at the University of Passau who are setting up their own business.

26 May 2023 “Migrant Entrepreneurship in Montréal”, University of Passau, Germany, at the Québec Day “Diversity, Intercultural Creativity and Migrant Entrepreneurship. Québec-Bavaria”.

24 March 2023 Talent Workshop for Highly Talented A-Level Students “Culture and Interculturality in Organisations – A Constructive Perspective”, University of Passau, Germany.

22. February 2023 „Cultural, Interculturalidad y Competencia Intercultural“, Außenhandelskammer Panama, virtual.

23. September 2022 „Migrant entrepreneurship - Cases of multicultural individuals“, HEC Montréal.

22. September 2022 „Migrant Entrepreneurs as multicultural individuals“, Inauguration CEEII UQAM Montréal.

27 July 2022 "What do we learn from this? Interculturality as a resource for the organisation" Weßling, OHB SE.

9 May 2022 (Co)Moderation of the community event "Intercultural Entrepreneurship Community Bavaria & Québec", virtually via Agora (software start-up in Québec).

6 May 2022 Pitch to the Interculturality Hub of the 5€ Business Competition of the University of Passau, Incubator, Germany.

25 March 2022 Talent Workshop for Highly Talented A-Level Students "Culture and Interculturality in Organisations - A Constructive Perspective", University of Passau, Germany.

4 November 2021 "Migrant and Intercultural Entrepreneurship in Bavaria and in Québec in Comparison: Preliminary Remarks" at the Research Café/ Science Café of the Bavarian Research Alliance with Professor Kerstin Kuyken (UQAM), Professor Christoph Barmeyer (University of Passau), virtual.

17-21 May 2021 Workshop/Training DAAD Summer Academy "Business in West and East - Challenges of Intercultural Communication" (Prof. Dr. Wünsch, University of Passau), virtual.

8 April 2021 Workshop "Intercultural Communication" as part of the Student Legal Advice Service of the University of Passau e.V., Refugee Law Clinic, virtual.

20 March 2021 Workshop "Boosting (y)our team - an intercultural surprise evening". OHB SE, virtual.

10 February 2021 "Biculturalism in Organisations", joint PhD colloquium with Prof. Dr. Nadine Thielemann (WU Vienna), virtual.

13 November 2020 Workshop "Online experiments as forms of teaching and learning in intercultural communication" WU Vienna, virtual.

12 November 2020 Presentation "Biculturalism as a Resource for Organisations", WU Vienna, Linguistics Circle, virtual.

 02 October 2019 Presentation at the PhD seminar "(Cultural) capital of migrants and its constructive use in organisations", Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, FRK

14 December 2018 Short Presentation "Integrating Highly Skilled Migrant - The Role of Organizations." Workshop European Challenges of Migrant Inclusion in Companies, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, FRK.

17 July 2018 "Ortlose Eliten? – Placemaking und interkulturelle Integration hochqualifizierter Migranten" (engl.: Local elites? – Placemaking and intercultural integration of skilled migrants). Passau Kontaktstudium Conference for Gymnasium and Realschule Teachers. University of Passau, Passau, Germany.