Florian Schloderer

Florian Schloderer is Director of Digital Innovation at the Deputy Dean's Office and Lecturer. He develops the ecosystem and manages operations at the VR Immersive Learning Initiative, a corporate entrepreneurship initiative that brings business case studies using virtual reality (VR) to management education. He also supports the development of research collaborations around analytics and artificial intelligence for business. Before, he was Director of the Randomized Controlled Trials Lab, a research initiative promoting academic research with firms and organizations using randomized field experiments at INSEAD.

His research focuses on new industry emergence and organizational change, in particular from the perspective of social categorization and network dynamics. He worked on applied research about the development of regional aerospace ecosystems, and on the development of the GulfCom Simulation, an experience-based multimedia learning simulation for the training of change management competences in the Middle Eastern organizations.

He has taught the Uncertainty, Data and Judgment Tutorial (GEMBA program), Applied Quantitative Methods for Business, Economics and Finance Foundation (pre-INSEAD course for GEMBA), and Change Management (Executive Education). He has supported the courses Leadership in the Middle East and Beyond (GEMBA program) and Doing Business in the Middle East (MBA program). He has led projects to renew INSEAD's academic accreditation by the UAE Ministry of Education.

Prior to joining INSEAD, he led the digital transformation and automation of business processes in his family’s business. He holds a doctorate degree from the Department of Economic and Organizational Sciences at the Bundeswehr University Munich in Germany.

Publications

• Mezias S. J., Schloderer F. (2021). Surviving the Commercialization Gap: Identities, Forms, and the Emergence of New Industries.
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• Guadalupe M., Kinias Z., Schloderer F. (2020). Individual Identity and Organizational Identification: Evidence from a Field Experiment. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110
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• Hickie D., Jones N., Schloderer F. (2019). Globalization, Competitiveness and the Supply of Highly Skilled Labour in Civil Aerospace.
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• Mezias S. J., Schloderer F. (2016). Achieving Minimal Consensus for New Industries: Bringing Isomorphism Back in.
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• Schloderer F., Mezias S. J. (2015). All that Glitters is not Gold: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on Social Media Use in Entrepreneurship Education in the United Arab Emirates.
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• Mezias S. J., Schloderer F., Saint Leger G. (2013). Azza Al Qubaisi: The Artist Entrepreneur.
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• Mezias S. J., Schloderer F. (2011). Audiences, Firms, and Networks: A Simulation Study of the Emergence of New Industries.
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• Fliaster A., Schloderer F. (2010). Dyadic Ties among Employees: Empirical Analysis of Creative Performance and Efficiency. Human Relations

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. *Bundeswehr University Munich, Department of Economics and Organizational Studies * (2003 — 2005)
• Dipl.-Kfm. univ. (graduate degree in business administration) Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, LMU Munich School of Management (1992 — 1997)

Companies

• Director of Digital Innovation, Lecturer INSEAD (2020)
• Director of Randomized Controlled Trials Lab, Lecturer INSEAD (2015 — 2020)
• Research Fellow, Post Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer INSEAD (2008 — 2015)
• Research Assistant, Research Associate Bundeswehr University Munich, GfW at the Bundeswehr University Munich (2005 — 2008)
• Family Business (co-owner) Building materials wholesale (1991 — 2002)