Chair of Leadership and Organization - Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger

Profile

Andreas M. Hilger studied Business Administration (Major: International Management, B.Sc.) at the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management of the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. After his graduation he continued his studies to obtain a Master's degree in Business Administration (Major: Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation, M.Sc.) at the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management as well as Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid.

Alongside his studies he worked for multinational enterprises like ARAG SE and BMW Group. In addition to this, he gathered experience in the academic field as graduate assistant and tutor.

Since August 2017 Mr. Hilger has been employed as a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, especially Leadership and Organization (Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger) at the University of Regensburg. He obtained his PhD in 2023 with a dissertation on "The Internationalization of Central and Eastern European Companies: Market Entry Strategies and Human Resource Management".

Research Topics

International & Intercultural Management

Organizational Change

Transition Economies

Institutional Economics

Innovation Management

Research Projects

Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency (BTHA) Grants

BTHA-AP-2019-30: "The impact of managerial characteristics, practices and ideologies on decision-making in Czech-German company internationalization relations", October - November 2019

BTHA-AP-2020-21: "Plural Voices of German and Czech MNCs subsidiaries‘ Diversity & Inclusion Management Strategies in the Czech Republic and Germany", April - November 2020

BTHA-AP-2020-DIG-1: "Digital Joint Teaching and Research Proposal: Joint online teaching and research project in the area of COVID-19 anti-crisis management measurements at University of Regensburg and Skoda Auto University", June - November 2020

BTHA-AP-2021-2: "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices in the German and Czech Automotive industry", March - Novemeber 2021

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grants

PPP Slovenia 2020: Project-ID: 57513830: „Impact of managerial characteristics, practices and ideologies on decision makers“, January 2020 - December 2021

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Hilger, A.M., Nedelko, Z. and Steger, T. (2023), "Outward foreign direct investment from post-socialist to advanced economies: motives and determinants of Slovene investment in Germany", International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-07-2022-1112
Velinov, E. Hilger, A.M. (2023), "Control and its perception in CEE parent companies and their developed market subsidiaries", JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies 28 (2), 241-264, DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2023-2-241, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0949-6181-2023-2-241.pdf?download_chapter_pdf=1&page=1
Hilger, A.M., Velinov, E. and Özbilgin, M.F. (2023), "Against all odds: how the institutional context shapes diversity management in the Central and Eastern European Oil and Gas industry", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 42 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-11-2022-0308

Book chapters

Nar, S., Rego, K., Scharff, C., Hilger, A.M. (2024), "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on HR Practices". In: Del Val Núñez, M.T., Yela Aránega, A., Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58704-7_9

Other

Hilger, A.M. (2024), "International Business from East to West as Turn in Perspective: Ten years of the Central and Eastern European Chapter in the Academy of International Management", Frictions (24.01.2024), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0030. https://frictions.europeamerica.de/research-note-hilger-international-business-from-east-to-west/