Prof. Dr. Anne Tryba

Anne Tryba joined the TUM School of Management in February 2023 as a Professor of Entrepreneurial Education. Prior to her employment at TUM, she was a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Munich Business School where she also served as the Academic Director of the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Vice Dean of Learning and Teaching. She completed her doctoral studies in Entrepreneurship at the University of Luxembourg and joined TUM’s Entrepreneurship Research Institute as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Previously, Anne worked as a Strategy Consultant at Capgemini Invent in Europe and China, as a Senior Manager in Telefónica Germany’s Corporate Marketing and Strategy departments, and she co-founded a startup in the premium fashion industry.

In her research, Anne studies how individual and team cognition, competencies, motivations, and decisions in entrepreneurial and innovation contexts arise and shape organization design, behavior, and outcomes. Her recent interests mainly revolve around exploring how decision-makers, entrepreneurial education design, and organizational factors influence sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation practices and outcomes. Her research has been published in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. Anne is experienced in developing, introducing, and teaching lectures and seminars on the undergraduate and graduate level on a variety of entrepreneurship and innovation topics such as entrepreneurial mindset, strategy & business design, ideation & prototyping, scaling startups, sustainable entrepreneurship & innovation, innovation strategy, and international entrepreneurship. Her teaching is highly interactive and combines action-oriented and experiential learning with theory from latest research findings and practical examples. Anne collaborates closely with the players of the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem. She is experienced in guiding startups and corporates and creating joint entrepreneurial education offerings.

 

Research Interests
  • Entrepreneurial Education
  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial motivations
  • Academic entrepreneurship

 

Academic Program Director
  • TUM Entrepreneurial Masterclass
  • Entrepreneurship Exchange Program

 

Contact

anne.tryba@tum.de
Phone: +49.89.289.52803

 

 

Key Publications

  • Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola: Knowledge diversity and venture growth: The contingent effects of early planning and experimentation. British Journal of Management 34 (1), 2023, 343-362 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Tryba, Anne; Fletcher, Denise: How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams. Small Business Economics 54 (3), 2019, 665-688 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Tryba, Anne; Block, Joern: Shared vision and founding team reconfigurations: The role of prior work relations. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management , 2019Boston, Massachusetts, USA more… BibTeX
  • Tryba, Anne: Venture creation by teams: How joint pre-founding circumstances imprint on effectual decision-making. Academy of Management Proceedings 2017 (1), 2017, 13570 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola: Knowledge diversity and venture growth: The contingent effects of early planning and experimentation. British Journal of Management 34 (1), 2023, 343-362 more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Fletcher, Denise: How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams. Small Business Economics 54 (3), 2019, 665-688 more…
  • Tryba, Anne: Venture creation by teams: How joint pre-founding circumstances imprint on effectual decision-making. Academy of Management Proceedings 2017 (1), 2017, 13570 more…

Conferences

  • Tacke, Friedrich; Patzelt Holger; Tryba, Anne: Entrepreneurial greed, explorative behavior, and the role of situational strength. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2024Chicago more…
  • Behrens, Judith; Tryba, Anne: Keeping R&D employees engaged in failure contexts: The role of managerial responsibility. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2024Chicago more…
  • Nawrath, David; Tryba, Anne: Co-creating a new venture’s organizational culture: A study on stakeholder influence strategies. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2024Chicago more…
  • Nawrath, David; Tryba, Anne: Learning how to tie a knot: A model on organizational culture creation in new venture teams. 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2024Ingolstadt more…
  • Mayer, Carmen; Tryba, Anne: Creating hope to tackle grand societal challenges through entrepreneurship in higher education. 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2024Ingolstadt more…
  • Waldmann, Laurin; Tryba, Anne: From research to practical impact: Mechanisms motivating doctoral students to engage in academic entrepreneurship. 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2024Ingolstadt more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Kachhawaha Khushpreet: Leveraging consumer insights at the front end of innovation: The role of identities and communities. accepted for presentation at 30th IPDMC: Innovation and Product Development Management Conference , 2023Lecco, Como Lake, Italy more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Kachhawaha Khushpreet: Identity spanning communities for integrating consumer insights into technology analyses at the fuzzy front end of innovation. 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2022Dresden, Germany more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Röhm, Thomas: New ventures’ sustainability missions – A marketing necessity or all-embracing management tool? 24th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2021Dresden, Germany more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Block, Jörn: Shared vision and entrepreneurial team member exits and entries: The role of joint work history. 23rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2019Vienna, Austria more…
  • Preller, Rebecca; Tryba, Anne: I am the opportunity. How social media influencers cope with liminality between private and public self over time. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2019Babson College, USA more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Block, Joern: Shared vision and founding team reconfigurations: The role of prior work relations. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management , 2019Boston, Massachusetts, USA more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Preller, Rebecca: Shared vision and resource reconfigurations in entrepreneurial teams: The moderating role of joint work history. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2019Babson College, USA more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola: Unlocking the potential of educationally diverse founding teams for firm growth: The moderating role of new venture activities. Journal of Management Studies Diversity Perspective on Management Conference, 2018Wellesley, MA, USA more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola: Tapping the potential of diverse founding teams for firm growth: The role of new venture activities. 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2018Chicago, IL, USA more…
  • Tryba, Anne; Breugst, Nicola: How should entrepreneurial teams behave to achieve firm growth? Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2018Waterford, Ireland more…
  • Tryba, Anne: Should entrepreneurial teams plan or experiment? The interplay of early behavior, diversity and young firm growth. IESEG Entrepreneurial Team Workshop, 2017Paris, France more…
  • Tryba, Anne: Should entrepreneurial teams plan or experiment? The interplay of early behavior, diversity and young firm growth. 21th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (G-Forum), 2017Wuppertal, Germany more…
  • Tryba, Anne: Venture creation by teams: How joint pre-founding circumstances imprint on effectual decision-making. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2017Atlanta, U.S. more…