Thorsten WAHLE

Thorsten Wahle is an Assistant Professor at SKEMA Business School (France) since 2022, with prior academic roles at Alliance Manchester Business School (UK) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). His research focuses on organizational behavior, behavioral strategy, and managerial decision-making, particularly in contexts of innovation persistence and aspiration adaptation.

Research Interests: Wahle’s work bridges organizational learning, behavioral economics, and innovation management, examining how firms respond to failure, adapt aspirations in collaborative settings, and process peer performance information. His studies often employ experimental methods to uncover micro-foundations of strategic behavior.

Scientific Contributions:

• Investigated innovation persistence in emerging markets
• Developed behavioral theories on second-best solutions
• Analyzed aspiration adaptation in dyadic and joint search scenarios
• Explored the paradoxical benefits of inaccurate performance reporting

Awards & Grants:

• 2022 Teaching Excellence recognition (Alliance Manchester)
• 2017 Doctoral Mobility Grant (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Academic Engagement: Active member of the Academy of Management and coordinator of the EOS Masterclass (Experimental Organization Science). Organized symposia at AOM and DRUID conferences, focusing on organizational learning and experimental methodologies.