Dr. Oliver Mork
Research Assistant & Doctoral Student
Team
- Building Q Room 1.012
- +49 40 42878-4741
- oliver.mork@tuhh.de
Biography
My research interests lie at the intersection of Econometrics & Machine Learning.
Research Interests
- Econometrics
- Machine Learning
Appointments & Education
- PhD in Management
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
2020 - current - Master of Science in Economics, Specialization in Statistics & Econometrics
University of Cologne, Germany
2020 - Working Student - Data Analyst
buynomics, Germany
2019 - 2020 - Exchange Semester
University of Economics, Prague (VSE), Czech Republic
2018 - Working Student - Business Analyst
Efficio Consulting, Germany
2016 - 2018 - Bachelor of Science in Economics
University of Cologne, Germany
2016
Selected Publications
PhD Thesis, Technische Universität Hamburg (2025)
PhD Thesis
This dissertation embarks on two complementary paths: (i) it investigates how contextual and structural factors influence entrepreneurial intention, success, and recovery from failure, and (ii) it highlights recent advancements in causal inference, focusing on the identification of treatment effects through valid and robust research designs. The work offers new insights into key phenomena across the entrepreneurial life cycle and proposes methodological approaches to address empirical challenges in entrepreneurship and management science.
Academy of Management Proceedings 2024(1), 18562 (2024)
Conference Paper
Given that mass media can confer organizational legitimacy and act as an information intermediary between startups and relevant stakeholders, we examine the process of establishing legitimacy and the response to failure across different cultural settings. Employing state-of-the-art natural language processing models, we extract sentiments from a sample of 2,041,607 sentences covering 67,306 startups from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Utilizing robust econometric methods, we reveal pronounced cultural differences in the character of media coverage for both operating and closed startups. Specifically, German media tends to portray domestic startups less positively, while the United States exhibits the most positive coverage, with the United Kingdom falling in between. Notably, our findings include a positive in-group bias solely for operating startups in the United States, while Germany displays a negative in-group bias for both operating and closed startups. Our study underscores the role of national culture, the importance of comparative entrepreneurship research, and the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurial phenomena among different cultures.
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