Field of Expertise
«SME Management and Entrepreneurial Practice»

Urs Fueglistaller on the university's research platform «Alexandria»

The field of experience «SME Management and Entrepreneurial Practice» addresses the effectiveness of leadership, entrepreneurship and strategy, especially in the context of SMEs and innovative organizations, and specifically also delves into the question of how aesthetic qualities strengthen and expand the creativity and effectiveness of entrepreneurial experience, thinking, evaluation and action. 

Julian Grah, Christian Karaschewitz, Joana Racine, Felix Rüdiger, Andreas Schwendener 

1. «Effective (SME-)Management and Aesthetic Practice»
   We understand and explain how and why aesthetic processes and practices are effective in entrepreneurial experience, thinking, evaluating and acting under uncertainty, in leadership practice and in designing consistent customer experiences, and enable inspiration through cultural and artistic contexts.
2. «Entrepreneurial Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship»
   We ask what motivates and enables employees to engage in entrepreneurship within the context of an existing organization. In particular, we examine how learning and exchange relationships within the organization can increase the intention to engage in entrepreneurial behavior, as well as which structural and cultural measures support the development of conducive relationships.
3. «Strategizing: A Process and Practice Perspective»
   We study how entrepreneurs, executives and supervisory boards enact the future value creation of their enterprises and thus strengthen their future agency by mobilizing creative practices of strategizing and embedding them in routinized strategy processes, in resonance with relevant strategic contexts. 

1. «Effective (SME) Leadership and Aesthetic Practice» 

• Fueglistaller, Urs; Fust, Alexander; Halter, Frank & Schlegel, Pascal (2024). SME Leadership Skills – A framework approach for leadership and reflection in business life (4th edition), KMU Verlag HSG
• Fust, Alexander; Fueglistaller, Urs; Brunner, Christoph; Züger, Thomas & Graf, Alexander (2024): Schweizer KMU: Eine Analyse der aktuellsten Zahlen (Ausgabe 2024). St. Gallen: OBT AG
•  Fueglistaller, Urs (2019): KMU und konsequente Kundenorientierung – Wirkungskonsequenz gegenüber Kunden im Kontext der Führungskompetenz (SMEs and consistent customer orientation - consequence of impact on the customer in the context of leadership skills). SMEs and consistent customer orientation (2. Auflage.). St.Gallen: KMU Verlag HSG.
• Fueglistaller, Urs (2021): KMU und Ästhetik: Filigraner Grundpfeiler konsequenter Kundenorientierung. SMEs and aesthetics (1. Auflage.). St.Gallen: KMU Verlag HSG.
• Fust, Alexander; Fueglistaller, Urs; Brunner, Christoph; Züger, Thomas & Graf, Alexander (2022): Schweizer KMU: Eine Analyse der aktuellsten Zahlen (Ausgabe 2022). St. Gallen: OBT AG
• Grand, Simon (2021): Routine Dynamics and Management Practice. In Feldman, Martha S., Pentland, Brian T., D’Adderio, Luciana, Dittrich, Katharina, Rerup, Claus & Seidl, David: Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 397-406
• Grand, Simon & Ackerert, Adrian (2012): Management Knowledge: A Process View. In Schultz, Majken; Maguire, Steve; Langley, Ann & Tsoukas, Haridimos (eds.): Constructing Identity in and around Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 261-305
• Griesbach, David & Grand, Simon (2013): Managing as transcending: An ethnography. Scandinavian Journal of Management, (29), 63-77

2. « Entrepreneurial Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship» 

• Gasda, J.-M., & Fueglistaller, U. (2016). Fostering individual-level ambidexterity in SMEs: a relational-contract perspective on informal external drivers of employees' ambidextrous behaviour. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 8 (3), 217—236.
• Fueglistaller, U., Fust, A., Müller, C., Müller, S., & Zellweger, T. (2020). Entrepreneurship. Modelle – Umsetzung – Perspektiven. Mit Fallbeispielen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. (5. Auflage). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
• Grand, Simon & Bartl, Daniel (2012): Executive Management in der Praxis: Entwicklung – Durchsetzung – Anwendung. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag.
• Grand, Simon & Fust, Alexander (2011): «Unternehmerische Strategien» versus «Strategic Entrepreneurship»: Zukunftsperspektiven für die unternehmerische Forschung und Praxis. ZfKE Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, 59 (3), 185-202
• Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes & Simon Grand (2017): Das St. Galler Management-Modell, 3., überarbeitete und weiterentwickelte Auflage, Bern: Haupt Verlag

3. «Strategy: a process and practice perspective»

• Schwendener, Andreas; Grand, Simon (2024): Strategic Improvising: A Routine Dynamics Perspective, in: Mahringer Christian A., Brian T. Pentland, Renzl, Birgit, Kathrin Sele, Spee, Paul (Hrsg.): Routine Dynamics: Organizing in a World in Flux, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 88, pp. 179-202
• Grand, Simon; Weckere Christoph (2024): Strategische Kreativität: Zukunft gestalten, um Gegenwart zu verändern, Zürich, Versus Verlag
• Grand, Simon (2016): Routines, Strategies, and Management: Engaging for recurrent creation ‘at the edge’. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Grand, Simon (2016): What if? Strategy Design for Enacting Enterprise Performance. In Brenner, Walter & Uebernickel, Falk (ed.): Design Thinking for Innovation. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 103-113
• Grand, Simon; Bartl, Daniel (2019): Making New Strategic Moves Possible: How Executive Management Enacts Strategizing Routines to Strengthen Entrepreneurial Agility. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Routine Dynamics in Action: Replication and Transformation, (61), 123-151.
• Grand, Simon, Von Arx, Widar & Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes (2023): Constructivist paradigms and their relevance for strategy-as-practice research. In Golsorkhi, Damon, Rouleau, Linda, Seidl, David & Vaara, Eero (eds.): Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, forthcoming
• Sele, Kathrin & Grand, Simon (2016): Unpacking the Dynamics of Ecologies of Routines: Mediators and Their Generative Effects in Routine Interactions. Organization Science, 27 (3), 722-738

• Urs Fueglistaller, Alexander Fust & Pascal Schlegel: KMU Führungskompetenz (Master in General Management)
• Alexander Fust, J.-Michael Gasda: «Capstone-Projekt» (Practice-oriented seminars at Bachelor level)
• Simon Grand: «Management Studies: Forschungspraktiken I & II» (DOK Seminar, every two years)
• Simon Grand: «Zur Zukunft des Strategischen Management» (MOK focus course, annually)
• Simon Grand: «Kreation als Wertschöpfung: Unternehmerische Strategien in kreativen Ökologien erforschen» (MOK Practical project, annually)

• experience groups of entrepreneurs
• study block in «KMU-Intensivstudium»
• consistent customer orientation