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Management and Leadership
Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Studenten im Sommer auf dem Campus Nord, rote Zahnräder im Hintergrund © Roland Baege​/​TU Dortmund

Consultation hours

by arrangement

Additional Informations

Research interests

  • Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Sustainability
  • Dynamic (Managerial) Capabilities
  • Innovation and Digitalization in Business Models
  • International and Intercultural Business

Publications

Journal Articles in FT50 Journals

  1. Heubeck, T. & Ahrens, A. (2025). Governing the responsible investments of slack resources in environmental, social, governance (ESG) performance: How beneficial are CSR committees? Journal of Business Ethics, 198(2), 365–385. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05798-6
  2. Heubeck, T. (2024). Untangling the paradoxical relationship between religion and business: A systematic literature review of chief executive officer (CEO) religiosity research. Journal of Business Ethics, 195(1), 191–214. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05688-x

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Heubeck, T. & Ahrens, A. (2025). Governing the responsible investments of slack resources in environmental, social, governance (ESG) performance: How beneficial are CSR committees? Journal of Business Ethics, 198(2), 365–385. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05798-6
  2. Held, P., Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. The influence of individuals’ capability to use generative AI on their idea generation: The mediating role of cognitive information-processing styles. European Journal of Innovation Management, 28(10), 5376–5399. doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-06-2025-0711
  3. Held, P., Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2025). Boosting SMEs’ digital transformation: The role of dynamic capabilities in cultivating digital leadership and digital culture. Review of Managerial Science. doi.org/10.1007/s11846-025-00919-5
  4. Heubeck, T. & Ahrens, A. (2025). Sustainable by ideology? The influence of CEO political ideology and Ivy League education on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(4), 4785–4810. doi.org/10.1002/bse.4212
  5. Ahrens, A. & Heubeck, T. (2025). Top management as an enabler of firms’ sustainable and digital transformation: A literature review and research agenda for twin transformation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 29(05n06), 2540006.
  6. Held, P., & Heubeck, T. (2025). GenAI and employee innovativeness: How employees’ sensing capabilities and the capabilities to use and evaluate GenAI shape their innovative work behavior. Digital Business, 5(2), 100149. doi.org/10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100149
  7. Bendig, D., Schulz, C., Erbar, F., & Heubeck, T. (2025). Apples to apples: Accurately assessing corporate carbon performance. Journal of Cleaner Production, 486, 144338. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144338
  8. Heubeck, T., Storz, A.-S., & Meckl, R. (2024). Success factors of global virtual teamwork: A social capital perspective. Digital Business, 4(2), 100081. doi.org/10.1016/j.digbus.2024.100081
  9. Heubeck, T. (2024). Untangling the paradoxical relationship between religion and business: A systematic literature review of chief executive officer (CEO) religiosity research. Journal of Business Ethics, 195(1), 191–214. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05688-x
  10. Heubeck, T. (2024). Looking back to look forward: A systematic review of and research agenda for dynamic managerial capabilities. Management Review Quarterly, 74(4), 2243–2287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-023-00359-z
  11. Heubeck, T. (2024). Walking on the gender tightrope: Unlocking ESG potential through CEOs’ dynamic capabilities and strategic board composition. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(3), 2020–2039. doi.org/10.1002/bse.3578
  12. Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2024). Does board composition matter for innovation? A longitudinal study of the organizational slack–innovation relationship in Nasdaq-100 companies. Journal of Management and Governance, 28, 597-624. doi.org/10.1007/s10997-023-09687-4
  13. Heubeck, T. (2024). The impact of dynamic managerial capabilities on firm performance: A moderated mediation analysis of German DAX firms. Journal of Management & Organization, 30(5), 1538–1563. doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2023.57
  14. Just, R., Sommer, F., Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2023). Sustainability as a stumbling block in closing acquisitions? The joint effect of target and acquirer ESG performance on time to completion. Finance Research Letters, 58, 104422. doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.104422
  15. Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2023). Microfoundations of innovation: A dynamic CEO capabilities perspective. Managerial and Decision Economics, 4(6), 2999–3754. doi.org/10.1002/mde.3866
  16. Heubeck, T. (2023). Managerial capabilities as facilitators of digital transformation? Dynamic managerial capabilities as antecedents to digital business model transformation and firm performance. Digital Business, 3(1), 100053. doi.org/10.1016/j.digbus.2023.100053
  17. Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2022). Dynamic managerial capabilities and R&D spending: The role of CEO founder status. International Journal of Innovation Management, 26(10), 2250074. doi.org/10.1142/S1363919622500748
  18. Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2022). More capable, more innovative? An empirical inquiry into the effects of dynamic managerial capabilities on digital firms’ innovativeness. European Journal of Innovation Management, 25(6), 892–915. doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-02-2022-0099
  19. Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2022). Antecedents to cognitive business model evaluation: A dynamic managerial capabilities perspective. Review of Managerial Science, 16(8), 2441–2466. doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00503-7

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Meckl, R. & Heubeck, T. (2025). Internationales Management (4., aktualisierte Auflage). Vahlen.

  2. Heubeck, T., & Held, P. (2025). Management capabilities in the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI): A conceptual framework and future research directions. In J. Liebowitz (Ed.), Achieving Digital Transformation through Analytics and AI (pp. 131–153). World Scientific. doi.org/10.1142/13939

Conference Presentations

  1. Kim, Y. A. & Heubeck, T. TMT and Boards in ESG strategy: Religious faultlines. 14TH EIASM Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy Research. Groningen, Netherlands, 2025.
  2. Kim, Y. A. & Heubeck, T. TMT and Boards in ESG strategy: Religious faultlines. Academy of Management Annual Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025.
  3. Kim, Y. A. & Heubeck, T. Value-role conflict and ESG performance: Evidence from the religiosity of the board of directors. Strategic Management Society, 45th Annual Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA, U.S.