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Dr Andreas Hoecht

Dr. Andreas Hoecht is a Principal Lecturer and the research leader and research degree coordinator  of the Strategy Enterprise and Innovation subject group of Portsmouth Business School. Previously, he was the programme director for the DBA (Professional Doctorate in Business Administration) and he teaches research methods and international business, mainly at postgraduate level.  His main research interest s is trust within and between organisations.  He has been a founding member of FINT (First international network of researchers on trust),

Research interests;

Dr. Hoecht has published on issues of trust and control in inter-organisational relationships, in particular the role of trust in outsourcing relationships and the effect of outsourcing on the innovation capability of business organisations. A key issue in this research has been the risk of information leakage, as a consequence of poor outsourcing decisions and also of collaborative R&D ventures without proper concern for their innovation impact. Another strategic management research concern has focused on problems associated with counterfeiting as a consequence of outsourcing and international business collaboration ventures and the anti-counterfeiting strategies that firms can adopt to control these risks. 

Dr. Hoecht is also interested in Higher education management and has published on issues of trust, professional autonomy and accountability in Higher Education. He is also interested in issues of trust in entrepreneurship.

 Relevant Publications (since 2004):  

Trust, control, outsourcing and b2b collaboration in R&D:

Hoecht, A (2004), Control in collaborative research and technology development: A case study in the chemical industry, Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol.19, No.3, pp. 218-234

Hoecht, A (2005), Managing trust and the risk of information leakage in collaborative research and technology development: results from a case study in a specialist chemicals industry, in: Bijlsma-Frankema, K & Klein Woolthuis, R (Eds), Trust under Pressure. Empirical Investigations of Trust and Trust Building in Uncertain Circumstances, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.105-126

Hoecht, A & Trott, P (2006), The innovation risks of strategic outsourcing, Technovation, Vol.26, pp. 672-681

Hoecht, A & Trott, P (2006), Does strategic outsourcing undermine the innovative capability of organizations?, in: Kehal, H & Sing, V. (Eds), Outsourcing and Off-shoring in the 21^st Century, Brisbane: Idea Group, April 2006

Lowman,M,  Hoecht, A., Trott, P. and Sellam,Z. (2012),  Innovation Risks of Outsourcing in Pharmaceutical New Product Development, Technovation: The International Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management, forthcoming, 2012, available online.

Outsourcing, counterfeiting and strategies against counterfeiters: 

Minagawa, T, Trott, P & Hoecht, A (2007), Counterfeit, imitation, reverse engineering and learning: reflections from Chinese manufacturing firms, R& D Management, Vol.37, No. 5, pp. 455-467

Trott. P & Hoecht, A (2007), Product counterfeiting, non-consensual acquisition of technology and new product development: an innovation perspective, European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 126-143

Trott, P & Hoecht, A (2009), Product counterfeiting, non-consensual acquisition of technology and new product development: an innovation perspective, reprint of 2007 article in European Journal of Innovation Management, (Vol. 10, No.1), in: Kapse, P et al (Eds), Piracy and Counterfeiting: A contemporary Challenge, Icfai University Press.

Hoecht, A, Trott, P (2013), How should firms deal with counterfeiting: A review of the success conditions of anti-counterfeiting strategies,  International Journal of Emerging Markets, forthcoming.

Higher Education management and trust:

Hoecht, A (2006), Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability, Higher Education, Vol.51, No.4, pp. 541-563

Hoecht, A,(2011), Whose ethics, whose accountability: a debate about university research ethics committees, Ethics in Education, special issue "in Search of the Ethical University" of Ethics in Education, October 2011, pp.253-266

Entrepreneurs and trust

Wilson-Edwardes, L & Hoecht, A (2008), Entrepreneurs and risk: A study of German and UK entrepreneurs in Spain, research project funded by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, project no. 1507,

Hoecht, A (2009), Intra-community fraud among UK and German expatriate entrepreneurs in Spain: A trust and social networks-based explanation, in: Ibeh, K and Davies, S, (Eds.) Challenges to International Business, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 285-295.

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