@article{BechtholdRosendahlHuberEddleston2026, author = {Bechthold, Laura and Rosendahl Huber, Laura and Eddleston, Kimberly A.}, title = {Debiasing entrepreneurial careers: A field experiment on female role model effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early-stage career choices}, volume = {41}, pages = {106582}, journal = {Journal of Business Venturing}, number = {3}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {1873-2003}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106582}, year = {2026}, abstract = {Women remain underrepresented not only as founders but also as employees - or "joiners" - in young and small firms, limiting their exposure to entrepreneurial environments that often serve as critical pathways to venture creation. To address this gap, we investigate whether introducing female entrepreneur role models in educational settings can shape young women's entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early career choices. Drawing on role congruity theory and social cognitive career theory (SCCT), we conducted a field experiment involving over 430 university students and 98 early-stage entrepreneurs. Using a pre-test/post-test design and longitudinal tracking of early career choices, we explore the causal effects of exogenously assigned female role models on students' decisions to join a young or small firm. We find that exposure to social interactions with female entrepreneurs significantly boosts female students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy. More importantly, women who were paired with a female entrepreneur were over 10\% more likely to join a young firm after graduation compared to those assigned to a male entrepreneur. Mediation analysis confirms that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a key mechanism linking exposure to same-sex role models with women's decision to join a young firm. These findings highlight the potential of targeted role model interventions to reduce gender disparities in entrepreneurial entry pathways and expand the diversity of entrepreneurial ecosystems.}, language = {en} } @inbook{KruegerBechtholdPruegl2023, author = {Kr{\"u}ger, Clemens and Bechthold, Laura and Pr{\"u}gl, Reinhard}, title = {Serious games to study the management of paradoxes in family firms: Introducing a research agenda}, booktitle = {Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms}, editor = {Kraus, Sascha and Clauss, Thomas and Kallmuenzer, Andreas}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing}, address = {Cheltenham}, isbn = {978-1-80088-924-8}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889248.00026}, pages = {391 -- 412}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @article{Bechthold2025, author = {Bechthold, Laura}, title = {Rendering new futures or enshrining pictures of the past? The double-edged sword of using AI-generated imagery for anticipation}, journal = {Journal of Futures Studies}, publisher = {Tamkang University}, address = {Taipei}, issn = {1027-6084}, url = {https://jfsdigital.org/rendering-new-futures-or-enshrining-pictures-of-the-past-the-double-edged-sword-of-using-ai-generated-imagery-for-anticipation/}, year = {2025}, language = {en} } @inbook{Bechthold2024, author = {Bechthold, Laura}, title = {{\"U}ber die Kraft des Zweifels und wahren Fortschritt}, booktitle = {Das große Buch der Strategie: Von der Reformation bis zur digitalen Transformation}, subtitle = {Wie sich die Generation Y mit Vordenkern aus der ganzen Welt auf die Suche nach einer erstrebenswerten Zukunft machte.}, editor = {Wreschniok, Robert}, publisher = {Franz Vahlen}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-8006-7198-4}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.15358/9783800671984-136}, pages = {136 -- 155}, year = {2024}, language = {de} } @article{SchoenhoferKomonenSchwarzetal.2026, author = {Sch{\"o}nhofer, Gerhard and Komonen, Pauli and Schwarz, Jan Oliver and Bechthold, Laura}, title = {Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios}, volume = {8}, pages = {e70030}, journal = {Futures \& Foresight Science}, number = {1}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {2573-5152}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.70030}, year = {2026}, abstract = {Scenario reports, holding a long-standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field from public to private sector—through qualitative content analysis. Our guiding question is: How can anthropological perspectives such as cultural relativism or postcolonial discourses contribute to an in-depth, qualitative interpretation depictions of future everyday life? Acknowledging anthropology's colonial origins and its growing commitment to the interests of indigenous and other marginalized groups, we offer alternative readings of prominent scenario reports. Our findings suggest that scenario reports, in addition to anticipating possible futures, construct certain futures based on a systematic analysis of empirical data but also speculative interpretation. The results of these interpretative acts often appear elitist, stereotypical, and technocratic, often replicating dominant societal narratives rather than fostering substantive shifts in how the future is imagined. We therefore call for a more polyphonic representation of futures in scenario writing and foresight work that can produce more discontinuous and transformative images of the future. We understand polyphonic representations as coined by various independent, predominant as well as subaltern perspectives on the same issue at stake while being offered the same amount of space. Therefore, as we will indicate in our analysis, most of the reports referred to are rather monophonic and do not offer discuptive perspectives on the future of everyday life. As an avenue of methodological development, we propose a more nuanced and comprehensive perception of culture and social structures in scenario narrative writing. In addition, ethnographic methods could increase our understanding of how futures are collaboratively constructed and produced by different actors and their respective backgrounds and knowledge in scenario processes.}, language = {en} } @inbook{BechtholdWiesmueller2026, author = {Bechthold, Laura and Wiesm{\"u}ller, Sabine}, title = {Corporate Digital Responsibility im Zeitalter der k{\"u}nstlichen Intelligenz - Eine praktische Einf{\"u}hrung}, booktitle = {Regenerative Zuk{\"u}nfte und k{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz: Band 3: PROFIT}, editor = {Gondlach, Kai and Brinkmann, Birgit and Brinkmann, Mark and Plath, Julia}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-46577-3}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46577-3_6}, pages = {57 -- 72}, year = {2026}, language = {de} } @inbook{Bechthold2024, author = {Bechthold, Laura}, title = {Mein algorithmischer Kollege}, booktitle = {Regenerative Zuk{\"u}nfte und k{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz: Band 2: PEOPLE}, subtitle = {Drei Erz{\"a}hlungen zu Mensch und Maschine als kollegiale Einheit in der Daten{\"o}konomie}, editor = {Gondlach, Kai and Brinkmann, Birgit and Brinkmann, Mark and Plath, Julia}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-44852-3}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44852-3_25}, pages = {359 -- 368}, year = {2024}, language = {de} }