Dr. Mark Okraku
Dissertation title
Platform Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Managing Institutional Voids in the Latin American Sharing Economy (2020)
CV:
- February - May 2018: KITFEM-Scholarship of the European Commission for a research stay at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- September & October 2017: Research stay - City of Knowledge, Panama City, Panama
- Since October 2016: Research & Teaching Associate and Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Organization and Corporate Development of the University of Goettingen
- 2013 – 2015: Master of Arts in Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- 2010 – 2013: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Working student at:
- Continentale Sachversicherung AG, Dortmund
- Flipintu GmbH
- Socal security office Dortmund, Department:Education and Participation
- Employee at the state project „Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss“.
- Internships at the Social Research Center Dortmund and at the Institute for Work and Qualification in Duisburg
Research interest:
- Emerging Markets
- Strategic Management
- Internationalisierung und multinationale Unternehmen
- Sharing Economy
- Entrepreneurship
Past Teaching:
Conferences / Talks / Invited Workshops:
- 2019: Organizational hybridity in the platform economy – Sacrificing social goals for transactional safety under conditions of uncertainties. Paper accepted for presentation at 45th European International Business Academy Conference, Leeds, England.
- 2019: Organizational hybridity in the platform economy – Sacrificing social goals for transactional safety under conditions of institutional uncertainties. Paper invited for presentation at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 2019: Platform organizations as institutional intermediaries: Formalization effects on employment relationships in emerging markets. Paper invited for presentation at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland (co-authored with C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
- 2018: Constructing transactional confidence under conditions of institutional uncertainties: Social and technological micro solutions of platform-based organizations in emerging markets. Paper invited for presentation at the 44th European International Business Academy Conference, Poznań, Poland (co-authored with C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
- 2018: Sharing Economy Organizations in Emerging Markets: Institutional Uncertainties, Transactional Risk and Micro Solutions. Paper invited for presentation at the U4 SSEL Cluster Conference on 'Current Challenges for a Sustainable Future', Göttingen, Germany (co-authored with C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
- 2018: Constructing transactional confidence under conditions of institutional uncertainties: Social and technological micro solutions of platform-based organizations in emerging markets. Paper presented at the 34th EGOS Colloquium, Tallinn, Estonia (co-authored with C.E. Weber, I. Maurer, and J. Mair).
- 2017: Internationalization in the Sharing Economy - Business model adaptation for emerging markets. Research project presented at the 4th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Lund, Sweden (co-authored with C.E. Weber and I. Maurer).