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Management and Leadership
Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Publications

We would like to give an overview of selected published articles that we have created. Further publications by the individual employees can be found in the respective web profiles on the team pages.

2026

  • Blay, T., Schöbel, S., Heubeck, T., Reinwald, M., Zeller-Lanzl, J., Froese, F. J., Tenzer, H., Presbitero, A., Stein, M.-K., Taras, V., & Kolbe, L. (2026). The future of global virtual work: Toward an interdisciplinary and integrative research agenda. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 23970022261436919. https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022261436919
  • Held, P., Heubeck, T., & Meckl, R. (2026). Boosting SMEs’ digital transformation: The role of dynamic capabilities in cultivating digital leadership and digital culture. Review of Managerial Science, 20(5), 1687–1715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-025-00919-5

2025

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Kim, Y. A. & Heubeck, T. TMT and Boards in ESG strategy: Religious faultlines. Academy of Management Annual Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025.
  • 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.
  • Meckl, R. & Heubeck, T. (2025). Internationales Management (4., aktualisierte Auflage). Vahlen.

2024

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

2023

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

2022

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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