Dr. Milan Frederik Klus

Chair for Business Administration, in particular Financial Services and Financial Technology
Contact Information:
Address: Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, Room 4270, 28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 (0)421 218 - 99 629
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Research:
• Digital Change
• (Digital) Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• FinTech
Curriculum Vitae
since 10/2020
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Business Administration, especially Financial Services and Financial Technology, University of Bremen
07/2020
Dr. rer. pol. in Business Economics, School of Business & Economics, University of Münster, Topic: Success Factors, Business Alliances, and Leadership Skills in the Digital Age
03/2019 - 03/2019
Research stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
since 02/2019
Research Affiliate and member of the "Analyst Observatory" research group, University of Edinburgh Business School
02/2019 - 02/2019
Research stay at the University of Edinburgh Business School
10/2016 – 09/2020
Research Associate at the Institute for Organisational Economics, University of Münster
03/2016 – 08/2016
Working Student at Dr. Schwerdtfeger Personalberatung GmbH & Co. KG
11/2015 – 02/2016
Junior Consultant with a focus on management consulting and mergers & acquisitions at Prospecting Partners GmbH
10/2015 – 02/2016
Tutor for corporate strategies at the Chair of Business Administration, Corporate Management and Corporate Environmental Policy, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
03/2015 – 10/2016
Founder and Consultant at Business Circle – Studentische Managementberatung e.V.
09/2014 – 08/2016
Studies of Management Consulting at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Degree: Master of Arts
07/2011 – 07/2014
Studies of Health Management at the German University of Prevention and Health Management, Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Publications
Hornuf, L., Klus, M. F., Lohwasser, T. S., & Schwienbacher, A. (2020). How do banks interact with fintech startups? Small Business Economics. Online First.
Johannsen, F., Schaller, D., & Klus, M. F. (2020). Value propositions of chatbots to support innovation management processes. Information Systems and e-Business Management, forthcoming.
Klus, M. F., & Dilger, A. (2020). Success factors of academic journals in the digital age. Business Research, forthcoming.
Klus, M. F., Lohwasser, T. S., Holotiuk, F., & Moormann, J. (2019). Strategic alliances between banks and fintechs for digital innovation: Motives to collaborate and types of interaction. Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 21(1), 1-23.
Dorozalla, F., & Klus, M. F. (2019). Digital leadership – Status quo der digitalen Führung. In M. Groß, M. Müller-Wiegand, & D. F. Pinnow (Eds.), Zukunftsfähige Unternehmensführung – Ideen, Konzepte und Praxisbeispiele (pp. 89-103). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
Klus, M. F. (2020). From signalling to endorsement: The valorisation of fledgling digital ventures. Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics3/2020, Münster.
Klus, M. F., & Müller, J. (2020). Leadership skills required in the digital age. CESifo Working Paper No.8180, Munich.
Dilger, A., & Klus, M. F. (2019). Success factors of academic journals in the digital age. Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics6/2019, Münster.
Klus, M. F., & Müller, J. (2019). The digital leader: What one needs to master today’s organisational challenges. Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organisational Economics11/2019, Münster.
Presentations (Selection)
Diginomics Brownbag Seminar, online-conference, 18.11.2020: Milan Frederik Klus/ Neil Pollock/ Carsten Sørensen: Starting New by Fitting In: FinTech Startup Endorsements by Analysts
3rd Research Workshop between the School of Economics Shanghai of the University of China and the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the University of Bremen, online-conference, 16.11.2020: Milan Frederik Klus/ Julia Müller: The Digital Leader: What One Needs to Master Today’s Organisational Challenges
EURAM Annual Conference 2019, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 26.06.-27.06.2019: Milan Frederik Klus/ Julia Müller: Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
16. Jahrestagung des AKempor, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 22.11.-23.11.2018: Milan Frederik Klus/ Julia Müller: Identifying Leadership Skill Requirements in the Digital Age: A Multi-Level Analysis
1st International FinTech, InsurTech & Blockchain Forum, University of Zurich, Zurich, 24.10.2018: Lars Hornuf/ Milan Frederik Klus/ Todor Stefan Lohwasser/ Armin Schwienbacher: How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value (Best Paper Award)
4th International Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, 18.06.-19.06.2018: Lars Hornuf/Milan Frederik Klus/Todor Stefan Lohwasser/Armin Schwienbacher: How do banks interact with fintechs? Forms of strategic alliance and their economic impact
5th Crowdinvesting Symposium: The Regulation of FinTechs, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, 06.10.2017: Lars Hornuf/Milan Frederik Klus/Todor Stefan Lohwasser: How banks interact with FinTechs: Forms of cooperation and their economic impact