Prof. Dr. Stefan Haefliger

Background

Prior to joining Bayes Business School Stefan worked as a researcher at ETH Zurich where he is currently affiliated as a faculty member (PD) at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics. He received a master's degree in financial economics and a PhD in management science from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. Stefan held visiting positions at Università degli Studi di Trento, MIT, Hitotsubashi and Politecnico di Milano.

His research and teaching focuses on co-creation strategies as well as knowledge reuse, creation, and design in innovation processes. Stefan serves as an associate editor for Long Range Planning and his research has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, and MIS Quarterly. Stefan’s and his co-authors' work on knowledge reuse and private-collective innovation contributed to a deeper understanding of the development strategies and practices of open source software developers as well as the entrepreneurial consequences of user innovation.

The strategic implications of knowledge reuse across organizational boundaries inform the corporate use of social software, open design processes in IS, learning from outside peers, the economics of distributed innovation processes, as well as new business models.

The current research agenda focuses on collaborative innovation as a strategy and a social practice centered around technology as material and immaterial artifacts that determine how members in organizations seek and share information, communicate and build on each others' work, and cultivate motivation to strive for excellence in their work.

In corporate life, Stefan blends art and business in the area of fine arts and sculpture and acts as the president of the board of etoy.CORPORATION (an art firm based in Zug, Switzerland). He's a member of the academic advisory board of Winnovation (an innovation consultancy based in Vienna, Austria).