Prof. Dr. Julia Brennecke
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Prof. Dr. Julia Brennecke

Julia Brennecke is Full Professor and Chair for Organization and Leadership at the University of Oldenburg since March 2025. She is also a part-time professor at the University of Liverpool Management School. Her research focuses on networks and collaboration within and between knowledge-intensive organizations and is regularly published in world-leading management journals. She serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Management and the Journal of Management Studies.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 03/2025 | Full professor and chair for organization and leadership, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany |
Since 2017 | Lecturer (until 2018), Senior Lecturer (until 2019), Reader (until 2021) and Full Professor and Chair (since 10/2021) for innovation management, Department of Strategy, IB and Entrepreneurship, University of Liverpool Management School |
2021 – 2025 | Full professor and chair for business administration, in particular innovation management at the University of Potsdam |
2017 | Habilitation and venia legendi in Management, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Management, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland |
2014 – 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia |
2013 | Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO), Sciences Po Paris, France |
2013 | Doctor of Business Economics (summa cum laude), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
2011 – 2014 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Organization and HRM, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
2008 – 2011 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Organization and Management, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
2003 – 2008 | Diploma in Social Sciences (German equivalent to a Master’s degree), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
Selected publications
Brennecke, J., Coutinho, J. A., Gilding, M., Lusher, D., & Schaffer, G. (2025). Invisible iterations: How formal and informal organization shape knowledge networks for coordination. Journal of Management Studies, 62 (2), 706-747. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4, FT 50)
Han, R., Brennecke, J., Borah, D., & Lam, H. K. S. (2025). The use of social media in different phases of the new product development process: A systematic literature review. R&D Management, 55(1): 108-126. (VHB-Ranking 2024: B, ABS 3)
Brennecke, J., Ertug, G., & Elfring, T. (2024). Networking fast and slow: The role of speed for tie formation. Journal of Management, 50(4): 1230-1258. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*, FT 50)
Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., & Tasselli, S. (2023). Theorizing about the implications of multiplexity: An integrative typology. Academy of Management Annals, 17(2): 626-654. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*)
Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Kovács, B., & Zou, T. (2022). What does homophily do? A review of the consequences of homophily. Academy of Management Annals, 16(1): 38-69. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*)
Brennecke, J., Sofka, W., Wang, P., & Rank, O.N. (2021). How the organizational design affects informal search behavior of R&D professionals – A network study. Research Policy, 50(5): 104219 (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*, FT 50)
Glaser, L., Fourné, S. P. L., Brennecke, J., & Elfring, T. (2021). Leveraging middle managers’ brokerage for corporate entrepreneurship: The role of multilevel social capital configurations. Long Range Planning, 54(4): 102068. (VHB-Ranking 2024: B, ABS 3)
Brennecke, J. (2020). Dissonant ties in intra-organizational networks: Why do individuals seek problem-solving assistance from difficult colleagues? Academy of Management Journal, 63(3): 743-778 (VHB-Ranking 2024: A+, ABS 4*, FT 50)
Gilding, M.+, Brennecke, J.+, Bunton, V., Lusher, D Molloy, P., & Codoreanu, A. (2020). Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters. Research Policy, 49(2): 103902 (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*, FT 50)
David, N., Brennecke, J., & Rank, O.N. (2020). Extrinsic motivation as a determinant of knowledge exchange in sales teams: A social network approach. Human Resource Management, 59(4), 339-358 (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4, FT 50)
Brennecke, J. & Stoemmer, N. (2018). The network-performance relationship in knowledge-intensive contexts – A meta-analysis and cross-level comparison. Human Resource Management, 57(1): 11-36. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4, FT 50)
Schierjott, I.+, Brennecke, J.+, & Rank, O.N.+ (2018). Entrepreneurial attitudes as drivers of managers’ boundary-spanning knowledge ties in the context of high-tech clusters. Journal of Small Business Management, 56(S1): 108–131. (VHB-Ranking 2024: B, ABS 3)
Brennecke, J. & Rank, O.N. (2017). The firm’s knowledge network and the transfer of advice among corporate inventors – A multilevel network study. Research Policy, 46(4): 768–783. (VHB-Ranking 2024: A, ABS 4*, FT 50)