Associate Professor Frederik von Briel
Associate Professor
School of Business
+61 7 344 31241
Room 621- Desk 5, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), St. Lucia Campus
Researcher biography
Frederik is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Program Leader of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UQ Business School. His research and teaching focus on how business opportunities emerge and how organizations from early-stage start-ups to mature enterprises can identify and seize such opportunities. A large share of Frederik's current research investigates specifically how crises and digital technologies create opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation. He works closely with companies from small start-ups to large ASX listed enterprises and has successfully helped many of them with research-based evidence and innovation facilitation.
Prior to joining UQ Business School, Frederik was a Senior Research Fellow at QUT Business School and responsible for managing the collaborative research program with Woolworths Ltd. He received his PhD from City University of Hong Kong for his work on business accelerators and high-tech start-ups. Before joining City University, he was a business intelligence consultant at Hewlett-Packard and a customer relationship management specialist at IBM.
Book Chapter
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2022). External enablers of entrepreneurship. Oxford research encyclopedia of business and management. (pp. 1-42) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.383
Journal Articles
Mirkovski, Kristijan, von Briel, Frederik, Lowry, Paul Benjamin and Liu, Libo (2023). Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries. Small Business Economics, 62 (1), 1-28. doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00777-z
Recker, Jan, von Briel, Frederik, Yoo, Youngjin, Nagaraj, Varun and McManus, Mickey (2023). Orchestrating human-machine designer ensembles during product innovation. California Management Review, 65 (3), 27-47. doi: 10.1177/00081256231170028
Breidbach, Christoph F., Joshi, Amol M. , Maglio, Paul P. , von Briel, Frederik , Twigg, Alex , Dickens, Graham and Wünderlich, Nancy V. (2022). How everything-as-a-service enabled Judo to become a billion-dollar bank without owning IT. MIS Quarterly Executive, 21 (3) 3, 185-203. doi: 10.17705/2msqe.00065
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2021). COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research. Business Research Quarterly, 24 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/23409444211008902
von Briel, Frederik, Recker, Jan, Selander, Lisen, Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L., Hukal, Philipp, Yoo, Youngjin, Lehmann, Julian, Chan, Yolande, Rothe, Hannes, Alpar, Paul, Fürstenau, Daniel and Wurm, Bastian (2021). Researching digital entrepreneurship: current issues and suggestions for future directions. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48 33, 284-304. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.04833
Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2020). Unternehmerisches Umdenken. Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management, 13 (1), 62-67. doi: 10.1365/s35764-020-00304-9
Patroni, Joanne, von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2020). Unpacking the social media–driven innovation capability: how consumer conversations turn into organizational innovations. Information and Management, 59 (3) 103267, 103267. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2020.103267
Berger, Elisabeth S.C., von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Kuckertz, Andreas (2019). Digital or not – The future of entrepreneurship and innovation: introduction to the special issue. Journal of Business Research, 125, 436-442. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.020
von Briel, Frederik, Schneider, Christoph and Lowry, Paul Benjamin (2019). Absorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms. Decision Sciences, 50 (1), 7-45. doi: 10.1111/deci.12314
von Briel, Frederik, Recker, Jan and Davidsson, Per (2018). Not all digital venture ideas are created equal: implications for venture creation processes. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 27 (4), 278-295. doi: 10.1016/j.jsis.2018.06.002
von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2018). Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the IT hardware sector. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 42 (1), 47-69. doi: 10.1177/1042258717732779
von Briel, Frederik (2018). The future of omnichannel retail: a four-stage Delphi study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 132, 217-229. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.02.004
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2018). External enablement of new venture creation: a framework. Academy of Management Perspectives, 34 (3) amp.2017.0163, 311-332. doi: 10.5465/amp.2017.0163
von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2017). Lessons from a failed implementation of an online open innovation community in an innovative organization. MIS Quarterly Executive, 16 (1), 35-46.
Patroni, Joanne, Von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2016). How enterprise social media can facilitate innovation. IT Professional, 18 (6) 7763735, 34-41. doi: 10.1109/MITP.2016.102
Mirkovski, Kristijan, Von Briel, Frederick and Lowry, Paul Benjamin (2016). Semantic learning-based innovation framework for social media. IT Professional, 18 (6) 7763726, 26-32. doi: 10.1109/MITP.2016.104
Conference Papers
Nazar, Samira, Von Briel, Frederik and Burgers, Henri (2023). Women Entrepreneurs’ Resource Mobilization in Fragile Contexts. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA United States, 4-8 August 2023. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2023.113bp
Nazar, Samira, Burgers, Henri and Von Briel, Frederik (2023). Entrepreneurs: Navigate, Develop, and Transform Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA United States, 4-8 August 2023. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2023.12012abstract
Von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2022). Societal crises as external enablers of extreme scaling by digital ventures. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, United States, 5-9 August 2022. Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.11061abstract
Nazar, Samira, von Briel, Frederik and Burgers, Henri (2021). Women entrepreneurs’ resource mobilisation in fragile context. Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACERE) Conference, Robina, QLD, Australia, 9-12 February 2021.
von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per and Recker, Jan (2021). What to do during downtime? How time injections from crises influence new venture creation. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (BCERC), Online, 6 - 8 June 2021. Babson Park, MA United States: Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship.
von Briel, Frederik and Davidsson, Per (2019). Digital platforms and network effects: using digital nudges for growth hacking. Fortieth International Conference on Information Systems, Munich, Germany, 15-18 December 2019. Association for Information Systems.
Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2019). The future of digital entrepreneurship research: existing and emerging opportunities: professional development workshop. 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019), Munich, Germany, 15-18 December 2019. Atlanta, United States: Association for Information Systems (AIS) .
Yin, Chunxiao, Mirkovski, Kristijan, Liu, Ivy Libo, Lim, Kai H. and von Briel, Frederick (2017). An empirical investigation on the impact of crowd participation on the degree of project success: The perspective of crowd capital. 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa Village, HI United States, 4-7 January 2017. Washington, DC United States: IEEE Computer Society.
Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan and Von Briel, Frederik (2017). Characteristics, roles and mechanisms of external enablers in new venture creation processes: A framework. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017, Atlanta, GA United States, 4-8 August 2017. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.12
Patroni, Joanne, von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2016). Do retailers leverage consumer social media content for innovation? An exploratory study. 27th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2016, Wollongong, NSW Australia, 5-7 December 2016. Wollongong, NSW Australia: University of Wollongong.
Von Briel, Frederik and Recker, Jan (2016). The dual nature of information systems in enabling a new wave of hardware ventures: Towards a theory. 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, HI, United States, 5-8 January 2016. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.231
Patroni, Joanne, Recker, Jan and von Briel, Frederik (2015). How does enterprise social media help retail employees innovate?. 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015), Muenster, Germany, 26-29 May 2015.
Mirkovski, Kristijan, Lowry, Paul Benjamin, Von Briel, Frederick and Liu, Libo (2015). The role of innovation intermediaries in collaborative networks of small and mediumsized enterprises. 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Singapore, Singapore, 5-9 July 2015. Atlanta, GA USA: Association for Information Systems.
Schneider, Christoph and von Briel, Frederik (2013). Crowdsourcing large-scale ecological monitoring: identifying design principles to motivate contributors. 21st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2012), Prato, Italy, 29-30 August 2012. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_39
von Briel, Frederik and Schneider, Christoph (2012). A taxonomy of web-based inbound open innovation initiatives. 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012, Seattle, WA, United States, 9-12 August 2012.