Michael Frese How Can an Entrepreneurial Mindset be Developed to Encourage Poverty Reduction?
Michael Frese is the Head of the Department of Management and Organization at the National University of Singapore Business School and is Professor of Psychology at Leuphana University, Lüneberg. He has previously held appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Amsterdam and London Business School. His main research interests include stress and unemployment, innovation and innovation processes and the psychology of entrepreneurship. The most cited management scholar in both Germany and the Asia-Pacific Region, Frese received the Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the German Psychological Association in 2016.
Area of Research
Strategic Management
since 2009
Field Editor
Journal of Business Venturing
2009
Tenured Professor
National University of Singapore
Department of Management and Organiszation
2009-2009
Visiting Professor
Makere University Business School
2006-2010
Officer
International Psychoanalytic University
2003-2004
Visiting Professor
Michigan State University
2003-2003
Visiting Professor
University of Maryland
2002-2006
President
International Association of Applied Psychology
2001-2009
Visiting Professor
University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
since 2000
Visiting Professor
Zheijiang University
1998-2002
President-Elect
International Association of Applied Psychology
1991-1998
Journal Editor
International Association of Applied Psychology
1995-2000
Chair for Work and Organizational Psychology
University of Amsterdam
1991-2009
Chair for Work and Organizational Psychology
Justus Liebig University Giessen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
1984-1991
Tenured Professor of Work Psychology
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Department of Psychology
1976-1980
Scientific Assistant
Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin)
Department of Educational and Societal Science
1978-1978
Ph.D. (Dr. phil)
Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin)
1976-1976
Diploma (Dipl.-Psych.)
Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin)
1971-1971
Vordiplom
University of Regensburg (Universität Regensburg)
Prizes
- The 2016 Emerald Africa Academy of Management Trailblazer Award
- Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2015)
- Greif Award for most influential entrepreneurship publications of last 6 years 2015 awarded at AoM conference
- Ranked second in citations for economists in Germany (FAZ-Rankings 2015 for research citations)
- Best Reviewer Award by Academy of Management Journal (2015)
- Ranked among the 10 most cited entrepreneurship scholars at Google Scholar
- Ranked among the 10 most cited organizational psychology scholars at Google Scholar
- Oustanding Researcher Award from NUS Business School (2012)
- Best Researcher Award from Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany (2012)
- Best Paper Award 2005 by Center for Creative Leadership
- Best paper award in 2006 for best paper since last 10 years in JOHP
Fellowships
- Fellow of the Academy of Management (2014)
- Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology, IAAP (2014)
- Elected Fellow of Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP, division of APA), 2000
Good entrepreneurs play a key role in helping poor countries to prosper. In this video, MICHAEL FRESE asks us to consider the fundamental importance of psychological mindset in the development of successful entrepreneurs. Over a two year period, Frese analyzed outcomes achieved by groups of entrepreneurs that had received different forms of training and found that individuals who had been trained to develop an entrepreneurial mindset had been (on average) 30% more profitable. With important implications for poverty reduction in the developing world, backed by the World Bank, Frese is looking at extending his study to countries including Jamaica, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10621
Teaching Personal Initiative Beats Traditional Training in Boosting Small Business in West Africa
- Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie and Mona Mensmann
- Science
- Published in 2017
