Alexander Fink awarded 2nd place for master’s thesis conducted at the Chair of Logistics Management
Alexander Fink, a research associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Logistics Management, placed 2nd in the 2018 Plattform für Innovation (PFI) “Young Innovators Professional” Award. Alexander received the award for his master’s thesis, conducted at the Chair during the 2017 fall semester.
PFI is a leading organization for innovation management in Austria. They created the “Young Innovators Professional” Award to acknowledge excellent scientific Master’s theses, Diploma theses, or doctoral dissertations related to innovation research. Entitled “Outsourcing the Start-up Identification Process: How established Firms identify Start-ups through Intermediaries”, Alexander Fink’s study examines why and how incumbent firms outsource the identification process to a specialized intermediary. Since little is known about this outsourcing process and suitable intermediaries, Alexander conducted multiple case studies and drew upon two major theories, namely RBV and TCE.