Michael Frese

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Rauch, A., Saaeed, S., & Frese, M. (2024 in press). Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting. Journal of Small Business Management.
• Frese, M. (2024). Learning from African entrepreneurship: On the psychological function of entrepreneurial preparedness. Small Business Economics, 1-16 (2y impact 4.8).
• Klamar, A., Horvath, D., Frese, M., Keith, N. (2024). Different approaches to learning from errors: Comparing the effectiveness of high reliability and error management approaches. Safety Science, (2y impact 6.1).
• Wei, Deng, Hubner-Benz, Frese, M., Song, Z. (2023). Different ways lead to ambidexterity: Configurations for team innovation across China, India, and Singapore. Journal of International Management, 29 (3), 101027. (2y impact 6.1).
• Frese, M., & Gielnik, M. M. (2023). The Psychology of Entrepreneurship: Action and Process. Annual review of organizational psychology and organizational behavior, 10, 137-164 (2y impact 18.33).
• Horvath, D., Keith, N., Klamar, A., & Frese, M. (2023). How to Induce an Error Management Climate: Experimental Evidence from Newly Formed Teams. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(4), 763-775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09835-x (2y impact 6.76).
• Lex, M., Gielnik, MM., Spitzmuller, M., Jacob, G.H., Frese, M. (2022). How passion in entrepreneurship develops over time: A self-regulation perspective. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 46 (4), 985–1018 (2-year impact 10.07)
• Ubfal, D., Arraiz, I., Beuermann, D. W., Frese, M., Maffioli, A., & Verch, D. (2022). The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica. World Development, 152, 105787. (2y impact 6.3).
• Keith, N., Horvath, D., Klamar, A., & Frese, M. (2022). Failure to learn from failure is mitigated by loss-framing and corrective feedback: A replication and test of the boundary conditions of the tune-out effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(8), e19. (2y impact 4.9)
• Klamar, A., Horvath, D., Keith, N., & Frese, M. (2021). Inducing Error Management Culture–Evidence From Experimental Team Studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (2y impact 2.99).
• Hubner, S., Frese, M., Song, Z., Tripathi, N., Kaschner, T. & Kong, X.L. (2021): An Asia-Centric Approach to Team Innovation: Cultural Differences in Exploration and Exploitation Behavior. Journal of Business Research,138, 408-421 (2y impact 10.67)
• Lisbona, A., Las Hayas, H., Palací, F.J. & Frese, M. (2021). Initiative in work teams: Lever between authentic leadership and results. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 4947 (2y impact 3.78) (honorary mention in 2023: the 5th most cited paper of Psicothema within 5 years)
• Zhu, J., Bischoff, K. M., Frese, M., Gielnik, M. M., Handrich, E., & Bellstedt, D. (2021). The effectiveness of the effectuation approach on opportunity identification and pursuit: evidence from a randomized controlled field experiment. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(4), 562-577 (2-year impact 4.37)
• Horvath, D., Klamar, A., Keith, N. & Frese, M. (2021). Are all errors created equal. Testing the effects of error characteristics on learning from errors in three countries. countries, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30:1, 110-124, DOI:10.1080/1359432X.2020.1839420 (2-year impact factor 3.97)
• Uy, M. A., Jacob, G. H., Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Antonio, T., & Wonohadidjojo, D. M. (2021). When passions collide: Passion convergence in entrepreneurial teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(6), 902. (2-year impact 11.80)
• Li, W.-D., Li, S., Feng, J. J., Wang, M., Zhang, H., Frese, M., & Wu, C.-H. (2021). Can becoming a leader change your personality? An investigation with two longitudinal studies from a role-based perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(6), 882. (2-year impact 11.80)
• Bischoff, K. Gielnik, M.M., Frese, M. (2020). When Capital Does Not Matter: How Entrepreneurship Training Buffers the Negative Effect of Capital Constraints on Business Creation. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 14, 69–395. (5-year impact 6.13)
• Frese, M. (2021). Primed Goals and Primed Actions: A Commentary from an Action Theory Point of View. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 70, 262-267. doi: 10.1111/apps.12271 (2-year impact 5.41)
• Carroll, J.S., Christianson, M., Frese, M., Lei, Z., Naveh, E., Vogus, T.J. (2021). Errors in organizations: New frontiers in research and practice. Academy of Management Discoveries, 7, (No 4), 451-460 . (2-year impact: 6.53).
• Hubner, S., Baum, M., & Frese, M. (2020). Contagion of entrepreneurial passion: Effects on employee outcomes. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(6), 1112-1140 (2-year impact: 10.07).
• Tripathi, N., Zhu, J., Jacob, H.G., Frese, M. Gielnik, M.M. (2020). Intraindividual variability in identity centrality: Examining the dynamics of perceived role progress and identity centrality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(8), 889-907 (2-year impact 11.80)
• Frese, M. (2019). On the power of an open scientific approach to actions.- commentary. Motivation Science, 5, 112-113. (no impact factor, new journal)
• Li, W.-D, Li, S., Fay, D., Frese, M. (2019). Reciprocal Relationships between Dispositional Optimism and Work Experiences: A Five Wave Longitudinal Investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology,104, 1471- 1486 (2-year impact 7.45)
• Jacob, G. H., Frese, M., Krauss, S. I., & Friedrich, C. (2019). On the Importance of a Motivational Agency Variable: Being a Formal Business in Developing Countries Is Only Helpful for Growth if Business Owners Show a High Degree of Personal Initiative. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 1181 – 1194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ apl0000398 (5-year impact 7.45)
• Mensmann, M., & Frese, M. (2019). Who stays proactive after entrepreneurship training? Need for cognition, personal initiative maintenance, and well‐being. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40(1), 20-37. (5year impact: 5.89)
• Wolf, K., & Frese, M. (2018). Why husbands matter: Review of spousal influence on women entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa Journal of Management, 4(1), 1-32. (https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2018.1428019) (new journal no impact factor calculated)
• Lisbona, A., Palaci, F., Salanova, M., Frese, M. (2018). The effects of work engagement and self-effiacy on personal initiative and performance. Psicothema, 30, 89-96 (2 y impact: 1.5; 5 year impact: 1.91)
• Campos, F., Frese, M., Goldstein, M., Iacovone, L., Johnson, H. C., McKenzie, D., Mensmann, M. (2018). Is personal initiative training a substitute or complement to the existing human capital of women? Results from a randomized trial in Togo. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 108, 256–261.
• Rosing, K., Bledow, R., Frese, M., Baytalskaya, N., Johnson, J., & Farr, J. L. (2018). The temporal dynamics of creativity and idea implementation in teams. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91, 798-822. DOI:10.1111/joop.12226 (5year impact 3.97)
• Fischer, S.; Frese, M.; Mertins, J.C.; Hardt-Gawron, J.V. (2018). The role of error management culture for firm and individual innovativeness. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 67, 428-453 (3.27) (2-year impact) and 3.53 (5-year impact))
• Dlugosch, T. J., Klinger, B., Frese, M., & Klehe, U. C. (2018). Personality‐based selection of entrepreneurial borrowers to reduce credit risk: Two studies on prediction models in low‐and high‐stakes settings in developing countries. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(5), 612-628. (5year impact: 5.89)
• Campos, F., Frese, M., Goldstein, M., Iacovone, L., Johnson, H., McKenzie, D., Mensmann, M. (2017). Teaching personal initiative beats traditional business training in boosting small business in West Africa. Science 357, 1287-1290 (22 Sept 2017) DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5329 (2y journal impact 37.2)
• Sahai, R., & Frese, M. (2019). If you have a hammer, you only look for nails: The relationship between Einstellung effect and business opportunity identification. Journal of Small Business Management,57, 927-942. (5year impact: 2.87)
• Kanfer, R., Frese, M., & Johnson, R.E.  (2017): Motivation related to work: A century of progress. Centennial Special Issue of Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 338-355 (5-year impact: 7.13) doi:10.1037/apl0000133
• Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Bischoff, K. M., Muhangi, G., & Omoo, F. (2016). Positive impact of entrepreneurship training on entrepreneurial behavior in a vocational training setting. Africa Journal of Management, 2, 330–348. (new journal)
• Keith, N., Unger, J. M., Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2016). Informal learning and entrepreneurial success: A longitudinal study of deliberate practice among small business owners. Applied psychology: An International Review, 65, 515-540. (5-year impact: 2.65)
• Frese, M., Gielnik, M. & Mensmann, M. (2016):  Psychological Training for Entrepreneurs to Take Action: Contributing to Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 196–202 (5-year impact: 6.78) doi:10.1177/0963721416636957
• Zacher, H., Hacker, W., Frese, M. (2016). Action Regulation Across the Adult Lifespan (ARAL): A Metatheory of Work and Aging. Work, Aging and Retirement, 2016, 2 (3), 286–306 (new journal, 2-year impact 2019: 2.281).
• Frese, M., Hass, J. & Friedrich, C. (2016). Personal initiative training for business owners. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 5, (June), 27–36 (5-year impact: not determined; new internet based journal) DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2016.01.001
• Rooks, G., Sserwanga, A., & Frese, M. (2016). Unpacking the personal initiative – performance relationship: A multi-group analysis of rural and urban Ugandan entrepreneurs. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 65, 99-131; DOI: 10.1111/apps.12033 (5-year impact: 2.65)
• Rauch, A., Rosenbusch, N., Unger, J., Frese, M. (2016). The effectiveness of cohesive and diversified networks: A meta-analysis. Journal of Business Research, 69, 554-568; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.05.011 (5-year impact: 2.47)
• Frese, M. (2015). Cultural Practices, Norms, and Values – Commentary; Special Issue on Intersubjective Norms; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 1327-1330. (5-year impact: 2.31) doi:10.1177/0022022115600267
• Frese, M., & Keith, N. (2015). Action errors, error management and learning in organizations. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 661–687. (5-year impact: 26.62)
• Gielnik, M.M., Spitzmuller, M., Schmitt, A., Klemann, D.K., Frese, M. (2015). I put in effort, therefore I am must be passionate: Investigating the path from effort to passion in entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 58 (4), 1–20. (5-year impact: 9.81)
• Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Kahara-Kawuki, A., Katono, I. W., Kyejjusa, S., Munene, J.,  Ngoma, M, Namatovu-Dawa, R., Florence Nansubuga,  Orobia, L.,  Oyugi, J.,  Sejjaaka, S., Sserwanga, A.,  Walter, T.,  Bischoff, K. and Dlugosch, T.  (2015). Action and action-regulation in entrepreneurship: Evaluating a student training for promoting entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14, 69–94. (5-year impact: 3.08)
• Unger, J.M., Rauch, A., Weis, S.E., & Frese, M. (2015). Biology (prenatal testosterone), psychology (achievement need) and entrepreneurial impact. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 4, 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2015.05.00 (5-year impact: not determined)
• Li, W.-D., Fay, D., Frese, M., Harms, P. D., & Gao, X. Y. (2014). Reciprocal relationship between proactive personality and work characteristics: A latent change score approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 948-965. (Received the Hogan Award for best paper in the area of personality and work in 2015). (5-year impact:7.75)
• Glaub, M., Frese, M., Fischer, S., Hoppe, M. (2014). Increasing personal initiative in small business managers/owners leads to entrepreneurial success: A theory-based controlled randomized field intervention for evidence-based management. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 13, 354-379. (5-year impact: 3.08)
• Frese, M., Rousseau, D. M., & Wiklund, J. (2014). The emergence of evidence-based entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 38, 209-216. (5-year impact: 3.61?)
• Gielnik, M. M., Krämer, A.-C., Kappel, B., & Frese, M. (2014) Antecedents of business opportunity identification and innovation: Investigating the interplay of information processing and information acquisition. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 63, 344-381. (5-year impact: 2.65)
• Kraimer, M. L., Takeuchi, R., & Frese, M. (2014). The global context and people at work: Special issue introduction. Personnel Psychology, 67, 5-21. (5-year impact:4.49)
• Gielnik, M. M., Barabas, S., Frese, M., Namatovu-Dawa, R., Scholz, F. A., Metzger, J. R., et al. (2014). A temporal analysis of how entrepreneurial goal intentions, positive fantasies, and action planning affect starting a new venture and when the effects wear off. Journal of Business Venturing, 29, 755-772. (5-year impact: 5.31)
• Fischer, S., Frese, M., Mertins, J. C., Hardt, J. V., Flock, T., Schauder, J., Schmitz, M. Wiegel, J. (2014). Climate for personal initiative and radical and incremental innovation in firms: A validation study.  Journal of Enterprising Culture, 22, 91–109. (5-year impact: not determined)
• Frese, M., & Gielnik, M. M. (2014). The psychology of entrepreneurship. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 413–438 (inaugural issue; formally part of Annual Review of Psychology; 1-year impact factor was 6.956 for 2016 for the first time);  reprinted Boyle, Gregory J. (Ed); O’Gorman, John G. (Ed) & Fogarty, Gerard J. (Ed). (2016). Work and organisational psychology: Research methodology; Assessment and selection; Organisational change and development; Human resource and performance management; Emerging trends: Innovation/globalization/ technology, Vols. 1-5, (pp. 89-122). Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications
• Solomon, G., Frese, M., Friedrich, C., & Glaub, M. (2013). Can personal initiative training improve small business success? A longitudinal South African evaluation study. Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 14(4), 255–268.
• Rauch, A., Frese, M., Wang, Z.-M., Unger, J., Lozada, M., Kupcha, V., et al. (2013). National culture and cultural orientations of owners affecting the innovation-growth relationship in five countries. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, 25, 732–755.
• Bledow, R., Rosing, K., & Frese, M. (2013). A dynamic perspective on affect and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 56, 432-450.
• Frese, M. (2013). Es gibt so viel zu tun, warum gegen Evidenzbasiertes Management polemisieren? Ein Plädoyer gegen die Bedeutungslosigkeit der Managementforschung, Stellungnahme zum Beitrag von Gunter Frank und Alfred Kieser »Kann man Managementwissenschaft nach dem Muster der Evidenzbasierten Medizin betreiben? Die Betriebswirtschaft,73,221-232.
• Schloesser, O., Frese, M. et al. (2013). Humane Orientation as a New Cultural Dimension of the GLOBE Project: A Validation Study of the GLOBE Scale and Out-Group Humane Orientation in 25 Countries; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 535-551.
• Tornau, K., & Frese, M. (2013). Construct clean-up in proactivity research: A meta-analysis on the nomological net of work-related proactivity concepts and their incremental validities. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 62, 44–96 (Corrigendum: Applied Psychology: An International Review, 64, 626-636).
• Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Graf, J. M., & Kampschulte, A. (2012). Creativity in the opportunity identification process and the moderating effect of diverse information. Journal of Business Venturing, 27, 559-576.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2012). Entrepreneurship as a key element in advancing the psychology of competitive advantage. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 5, 108-111.
• Gielnik, M. M., Zacher, H., & Frese, M. (2012). Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationship between business owners’ age and venture growth. Journal of Business Venturing, 27, 127-142.
• Frese, M., Bausch, A., Schmidt, P., Rauch, A., & Kabst, R. (2012). Evidence-based Entrepreneurship (EBE): Cumulative science, action principles, and bridging the gap between science and practice. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 8, 1-62.
• Schmitt, A., & Frese, M. (2011). Family involvement in Chinese and German Small Business. Journal of Entreprising Culture, 19, 261-285.
• Bledow, R., Schmitt, A., Frese, M., & Kuehnel, J. (2011). The affective shift model of work engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 1246-1257.
• Hahn, V.C., Frese, M., Binnewies, C. & Schmitt, A. (2011). Happy and proactive? The role of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in business owners’ personal initiative. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 36, 97-114.
• Rosing, K., Frese, M., & Bausch, A. (2011). Explaining the heterogeneity of the leadership-innovation relationship: Ambidextrous leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 956–974. One of the finalists for the best paper award 2011 of Leadership Quarterly.
• Zacher, H., Rosing, K., Henning, T., & Frese, M. (2011). Establishing the next generation at work: Leader generativity as a moderator of the relationships between leader age, leader-member exchange, and leadership success. Psychology and Aging, 26(1), 241-252.
• Glaub, M. & Frese, M. (2011). A critical review of the effects of entrepreneurship training in developing countries. Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 22, 335-353.
• Zacher, H., & Frese, M. (2011). Maintaining a focus on opportunities at work: The interplay between age, job complexity, and the use of selection, optimization, and compensation strategies. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(2), 291-318.
• Zacher, H., Rosing, K. & Frese, M. (2011). Age and leadership: The moderating role of legacy beliefs. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 43-50.
• Unger, J.M., Rauch, A., Frese, M., & Rosenbusch, N. (2011). Human capital and entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytical review. Journal of Business Venturing, 26, 341–358 (in 2018 WOS placed this paper in the top 1% of the academic field of Economics & Business)
• Zacher, H., Heusner, S., Schmitz, M., Zwierzanska, M. M., & Frese, M. (2010). Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationships between age, job complexity, and work performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 76(3), 374-386.
• Grant, A.M., Fried, Y., Parker, S.K., Frese, M. (2010). Putting job design in context: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31, 145-157.
• Zhao, X., & Frese, M. & Giardini, A. (2010). Business owners’ network size and business growth in China: The role of comprehensive social competency. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 22, 675–705. (reprinted in L.P.Dana (Ed): Asian Entrepreneurship, New Delhi, India: Sage Publication, Sage Library in Business and Management)
• Zacher, H., Degner, M., Seevaldt, R., Frese, M., & Lüdde, J. (2009). Was wollen jüngere und ältere Erwerbstätige erreichen? Altersbezogene Unterschiede in den Inhalten und Merkmalen beruflicher Ziele [What do younger and older workers want to accomplish? Age-related differences in content and characteristics of occupational goals]. Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, 8(4), 191-200.
• Frese, M. (2009). Psychologie und Policy implications: Sachverstaendigenrat fuer Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau, 60, 248-249.
• Frese, M. (2009). Towards a psychology of entrepreneurship – An action theory perspective. Foundation and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 5(6), 437-496. (translated into Portoguese and published in A.C.R. Tupinamba & F.G. Rodriguez (Eds): Lideranca e empreendorismo: Em perspectiva intercultural. Fortaleza, Brasilia: Edicoes UFC, 2019)
• Bledow, R., Frese, M., Anderson, N.R., Erez, M., & Farr, J.L. (2009). Extending and refining the dialectic perspective on innovation: There is nothing as practical as a good theory; nothing as theoretical as a good practice. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2(3), 363-373.
• Bledow, R., Frese, M., Anderson, N.R., Erez, M., & Farr, J.L. (2009). A dialectical perspective on innovation: Conflicting demands, multiple pathways, and ambidexterity. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2(3), 305-337.
• Zacher, H., & Frese, M. (2009). Remaining time and opportunities at work: Relationships between age, work characteristics, and occupational future time perspective. Psychology and Aging, 24, 487-493.
• Bledow, R., & Frese, M. (2009). A situational judgment test of personal initiative and its relationship to performance. Personnel Psychology, 62, 229-258.
• Rauch, A., Wiklund, J., Lumpkin, G.T., & Frese, M. (2009). Entrepreneurial orientation and business performance: A meta-analysis. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 33, 761-787. (Academy of Management: Received Greif award in 2015 for most impactful publication in entrepreneurship of last 6 years; as of November/December 2016, WOS places this paper in the top 1% of the academic field of Economics & Business)
• Unger, J.M., Keith, N., Hilling, C., Gielnik, M.M., & Frese, M. (2009). Deliberate practice among South African small business owners: Relationships with education, cognitive ability, knowledge, and success. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 21-44.
• Steinmetz, H., Frese, M., & Schmidt P. (2008). A longitudinal panel study on antecedents and outcomes of work-home interference. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 231-241.
• Wang, Z.-M., Guo, W.-W., Frese, M., & Rauch, A. (2008). Impacts of entrepreneurs’ error orientation on performance: A cross-culture comparison. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 40 (11), 1203-1211 (in Chinese).
• Frese, M. (2008). The word is out: We need an active performance concept for modern workplaces. Commentary on focal article by Macey & Schneider: The meaning of employee engagement. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 67-69.
• Keith, N., & Frese, M. (2008). Effectiveness of error management training: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 59-69.
• Giardini, A., & Frese, M. (2008). Linking service employees’ emotional competence to customer satisfaction: A multilevel approach. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29, 155-170.
• Giardini, A., & Frese, M. (2007). Affective complementarity in service encounters. Management Revue, 18(1), 75-87.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2007). Let’s put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners’ personality traits, business creation, and success. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 16(4), 353-385.
• Frese, M., Krauss, S.I., Keith, N., Escher, S., Grabarkiewicz, R., Luneng, S.T., Heers, C., Unger, J.M., & Friedrich, C. (2007). Business owners’action planning and its relationship to business success in three African countries. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1481-1498.
• Koenig, C., Frese, M., Steinmetz, H., Rauch, A., & Wang, Z.-M. (2007).  Scenario based scales measuring cultural orientations of business owners. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 17, 211-239.
• Van Gelder, J.-L., De Vries, R.E., Frese, M., & Goutbeek, J.-P. (2007). Differences in psychological strategies of failed and operational business owners in the Fiji Islands. Journal of Small Business Management, 45(3), 388-400.
• Frese, M., Garst, G., & Fay, D. (2007). Making things happen: Reciprocal relationships between work characteristics and personal initiative (PI) in a four-wave longitudinal structural equation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(4), 1084-1102 (selected as one of the 70 most non-intuitive empirical observations of 2007 in the domain of personality and social psychology by Moss & Wilson 2010)
• Raabe, B., Frese, M., & Beehr, T.A. (2007). Action regulation theory and career self-management. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 297-311.
• Hiemstra, M.F.,  Van der Kooy, K., & Frese, M. (2006). Entrepreneurship in the street food sector of Vietnam – Assessment of psychological success and failure factors. Journal of Small Business Management, 44(3), 474-481.
• Giardini, A., & Frese, M. (2006). Reducing the negative effects of emotion work in service occupations: Emotional competence as a psychological resource. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 11(1), 63-75.
• Dormann, C., Fay, D., Zapf, D., & Frese, M. (2006). A state-trait analysis of job satisfaction: On the effect of core self-evaluation. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 55(1), 27-51.
• Van Dyck, C., Frese, M., Baer, M., & Sonnentag, S. (2005). Organizational error management culture and its impact on performance: A two-study replication. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(6), 1228-1240.
• Rauch, A., Frese, M., & Utsch, A. (2005). Effects of human capital and long-term resources development and utilization on employment growth of small-scale businesses: A causal analysis. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 29(6), 681-698.
• Krauss, S. I., Frese, M., Friedrich, C., & Unger, J.M. (2005). Entrepreneurial orientation: A psychological model of success among Southern African small business owners. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 14, 315-344.
• Keith, N., & Frese, M. (2005). Self-regulation in error management training: Emotion control and metacognition as mediators of performance effects. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(4), 677-691.
• Rank, J., Pace, V.L., & Frese, M. (2004). Three avenues for future research on creativity, innovation, and initiative. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 53, 518-528.
• Van der Linden, D., Frese, M., & Sonnentag, S. (2003). The impact of mental fatigue on exploration in a complex computer task: Rigidity and loss of systematic strategies. Human Factors, 45, 483-494.
• Frese, M., Beimel, S., & Schoenborn, S. (2003). Action training for charismatic leadership: Two evaluation studies of a commercial training module on inspirational communication of a vision. Personnel Psychology, 56, 671-698.
• Heimbeck, D., Frese, M., Sonnentag, S., & Keith, N. (2003). Integrating errors into the training process: The function of error management instructions and the role of goal orientation. Personnel Psychology, 56, 333-361.
• Brandstätter, V., Heimbeck, D., Malzacher, J.T., & Frese, M. (2003). Goals need implementation intentions: The model of action phases tested in the applied setting of continuing education. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 12, 37-59.  (Award: Best paper award by the journal)
• Van der Linden, D., Frese, M., & Meijman, T.F. (2003). Mental fatigue and the control of cognitive processes: Effects on perseveration and planning. Acta Psychologica, 113, 45-65.
• Baer, M., & Frese, M. (2003). Innovation is not enough: Climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24, 45-68.
• Escher, S., Grabarkiewicz, R., Frese, M., Van Steekelenburg, G., Lauw, M., & Friedrich, C. (2002). The moderator effect of cognitive ability on the relationship between planning strategies and business success of small scale business owners in South Africa: A longitudinal study. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 7, 305-318.
• Frese, M., Brantjes, A., & Hoorn, R. (2002). Psychological success factors of small scale businesses in Namibia: The roles of strategy process, entrepreneurial orientation and the environment. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 7, 259-282.
• Brodbeck, F., Frese, M., & Javidan, M. (2002). Leadership made in Germany: Low on compassion, high on performance. The Academy of Management Executive, 16, 16-30.
• Frese, M., Garman, G., Garmeister, K., Halemba, K., Hortig, A., Pulwitt, T., & Schildbach, S. (2002). Training zur Erhöhung der Eigeninitiative bei Arbeitslosen: Bericht über einen Pilotversuch. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 46, 89-97.
• Frese, M., & Fay, D. (2001). Personal initiative (PI): An active performance concept for work in the 21st century. Research in Organizational Behavior, 23, 133-187.
• Van der Linden, D., Sonnentag, S., Frese, M., & van Dyck, C. (2001). Exploration strategies, performance, and error consequences when learning a complex computer task. Behaviour and Information Technology, 20, 189-198.
• Fay, D., & Frese, M. (2001). The concept of personal initiative (PI): An overview of validity studies. Human Performance, 14, 97-124.
• Van Gelderen, M., Frese, M., & Thurik, R. (2000). Strategies, uncertainty, and performance of small business startups. Small Business Economics, 15, 165-181.
• Evers, A., Frese, M., & Cooper. C.L. (2000). Revisions and further developments of the Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI): LISREL results from four Dutch studies. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 73, 221-240.
• Fay, D., & Frese, M. (2000). Working in East German socialism in 1980 and in capitalism 15 years later: A trend analysis of a transitional economy’s working conditions. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49, 636-657.
• Pearce, J.L., & Frese, M. (2000). Introduction to the special issue on Applied Psychology from transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49, 613-618.
• Rauch, A., Frese, M., & Sonnentag, S. (2000). Cultural differences in planning-success relationships. A comparison of small enterprises in Ireland, West Germany, and East Germany. Journal of Small Business Management, 38(4), 28-41.
• Garst, H., Frese, M., & Molenaar, P.C.M. (2000). The temporal factor of change in stressor-strain relationships: A growth curve model on a longitudinal study in East Germany. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 417-438.
• Wood, R.E., Kakebeeke, B.M., Debowski, S., & Frese, M. (2000). The impact of enactive exploration on intrinsic motivation, strategy, and performance in electronic search. Appplied Psychology: An International Review, 49, 263-283.
• Frese, M., Chell, E., & Klandt, H. (2000). Introduction. In M. Frese, E. Chell & H. Klandt (Eds.), Psychological approaches to entrepreneurship (special issue). European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9, 3-6.
• Frese, M., van Gelderen, M., & Ombach, M. (2000). How to plan as a small scale business owner: Psychological process characteristics of action strategies and success. Journal of Small Business Management, 38(2), 1-18.
• Spector, P.E., Zapf, D., Chen, P.Y., & Frese, M. (2000). Why negative affectivity should not be controlled in job stress research: Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 21, 79-95.  (Award: this article received an award for being one of the eight most cited (influential) articles in the Journal of Organizational Behavior since its inception in 1980)
• Fay, D., & Frese, M. (2000). Conservative’s approach to work: Less prepared for future work demands? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 1, 171-195.
• Brodbeck, F., Frese, M., et al. (2000). Cultural variation of leadership prototypes across 22 European countries (GLOBE survey). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 73, 1-29.
• House, R. J., Hanges, P. J., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S. A., Dorfman, P. W., Javidan, M., Dickson, M., & 159 co-authors [Frese, M.] (1999). Cultural influences on leadership and organizations: Project GLOBE. Advances in global leadership, 1(2), 171-233.
• Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1999). On the importance of the objective environment in stress and attribution theory. Counterpoint to Perrewé and Zellars. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20, 761-765.
• Frese, M., Teng, E., & Wijnen, C.J.D. (1999). Helping to improve suggestion systems: Predictors of giving suggestions in companies. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20, 1139-1155.
• Den Hartog, D., House, R.J., Hanges, P., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S.A., Dorfman, P.W., & 159 co-authors [Frese, M.] (1999). Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed? Leadership Quarterly, 10, 219-256.
• Rybowiak, V., Garst, H., Frese, M. & Batinic, B. (1999). Error orientation questionnaire (EOQ): Reliability, validity, and different language equivalence. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20, 527-547.
• Frese, M. (1999). Social support as a moderator of the relationship between work stressors and psychological dysfunctioning: A longitudinal study with objective measures. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 4, 179-192.
• Utsch, A., Rauch, A., Rothfuß, R., & Frese, M. (1999). Who becomes a small-scale entrepreneur in a post-socialist environment? On the differences between entrepreneurs and managers in East Germany. Journal of Small Business Management, 37, 31-42.
• Sonnentag, S., Frese, M., Brodbeck, F.C., & Heinbokel, T. (1997). Use of design methods, team leaders’ goal orientation, and team effectiveness: A follow-up study in software development projects. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 9, 443-454.
• Frese, M., Fay, D., Hilburger, T., Leng, K., & Tag, A. (1997). The concept of personal  initiative: Operationalization, reliability and validity in two German samples. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 70, 139-161.
• Speier, C., & Frese, M. (1997). Generalized self-efficacy as a mediator and moderator between control and complexity at work and personal initiative: A longitudinal field study in East Germany. Human Performance, 10, 171-192.
• Heinbokel, T., Sonnentag, S.  Frese, M., Stolte, W., & Brodbeck, F.C. (1996). Don’t underestimate the problems of user involvement in software development – there are many! Behaviour and Information Technology, 15, 226-236.
• Clegg, C.W., & Frese, M. (1996). Integrating organizational and cognitive approaches towards computer-based systems. Behaviour and Information Technology, 15, 203-204.
• Zapf, D., Dormann, C., & Frese, M. (1996). Longitudinal studies in organizational stress research: A review of the literature with reference to methodological issues. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1,2, 145-169.  (Award: Best paper award (one of two best papers) published in JOHP within the past 10 years since its inception)
• Frese, M., Kring, W., Soose, A., & Zempel, J. (1996). Personal initiative at work: Differences between East and West Germany. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 37-63.
• Wagner, T., Frese, M., & Hilligloh, S. (1995). Ressourcen ostdeutscher Arbeitnehmer als Determinanten von Weiterbildungsintentionen. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 39, 94-103.
• Prümper, J., Hartmannsgruber, K., & Frese, M. (1995). KFZA. Kurz-Fragebogen zur Arbeitsanalyse. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 39, 125-131.
• Frese, M., Albrecht, K., Kreuscher, R., von Papstein, P., Prümper, J. & Schulte-Göcking, H. (1995). Handlungsstile und Leistungsverhalten: Die Rolle von Plan- und Zielorientierung in Problem- und Lernsituationen. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 39, 67-77.
• Sonnentag, S., Frese, M., Stolte, W., Heinbokel, T. & Brodbeck, F.C. (1994). Goal orientation of team leaders: Its effect on performance and group interaction in software development projects. European Work and Organizational Psychologist, 4, 153-168.
• Hesse, W., & Frese, M. (1994). Zur Arbeitssituation in der Software-Entwicklung. Resümee einer empirischen Untersuchung. Informatik, Forschung und Entwicklung, 9, 179-191.
• Dormann, T. & Frese, M. (1994). Error training: Replication and the function of exploratory  behavior. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 6, 365-372.
• Frese, M., Erbe-Heinbokel, M., Grefe, J., Rybowiak, V., & Weike, A. (1994). “Mir ist es lieber, wenn ich genau gesagt bekomme, was ich tun muss”: Probleme der Akzeptanz von Verantwortung und Handlungsspielraum in Ost und West. Themenheft: Werte und Verhalten im Ost/West-Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 38,  22-33.
• Frese, M., & Plüddemann, K. (1993). Umstellungsbereitschaft im Osten und Westen Deutschlands: Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittuntersuchung. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 24, 3, 198-210.
• Brodbeck, F.C., Zapf, D., Prümper, J. & Frese, M. (1993). Error handling in office work with computers: A field study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 66, 303-317.
• Frese, M. & Hesse, W. (1993). The work situation in software-development – Results of an empirical study. Software Engineering Notes, 18/3, 65-72.
• Brodbeck, F.C., Sonnentag, S., Heinbokel, T., Stolte, W. & Frese, M. (1993). Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte und Qualifikationsanforderungen in der Softwareentwicklung. Eine empirische Untersuchung.  Softwaretechnik-Trends, 13/2, 31-40.
• Prümper, J., Zapf, D., Brodbeck, F.C. & Frese, M. (1992). Errors of novices and experts: Some surprising differences in computerized office work. Behaviour and Information Technology, 11, 319-328.
• Zapf, D., Brodbeck, F., Frese, M., Peters, H., & Prümper, J. (1992). Errors in working with office computers. A first validation of a taxonomy for observed errors in a field setting. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 4, 311-339.
• Frese, M., Brodbeck, F.C., Zapf, D., & Prümper, J. (1991). Users’ errors and error handling: Its relationships with task structure and social support. SIGCHI Bulletin, 23, 2, 59-62.
• Prümper, J., Zapf, D., Brodbeck, F., & Frese, M. (1991). Errors in computerized office work: Differences between novice and expert users. SIGCHI Bulletin, 23, 2, 63-66.
• Frese, M. Brodbeck, F., Heinbokel, T., Mooser, C.,  Schleiffenbaum, E., & Thiemann, P. (1991). Errors in training computer skills: On the positive function of errors. Human-Computer Interaction, 6, 77-93.
• Frese, M. (1990). Einfluss der deutschsprachigen Arbeits- und Organisationpsychologie im englischsprachigen Bereich: Ein Diskussionbeitrag zur Zitationshäufigkeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 34, 155-158.
• Peters, H., Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1990). Funktions- und Nutzungsprobleme bei unterschiedlichen Dialogformen. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 44, 145-152.
• Frese, M. (1989). Gütekriterien der Operationalisierung von sozialer Unterstützung am Arbeitsplatz. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 43, 112-122.
• Frese, M. (1989). Human-Computer Interaction within an industrial psychology framework. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 38, 29-44.
• Waldron, I., Baron, J., Frese, M., & Sabini, J. (1988). Activism against nuclear weapons: Build-up student participation in the 1984 primary campaigns. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 18, 826-836.
• Frese, M., Albrecht, K., Altmann, A., Lang, J., Papstein, P.v., Peyerl, R., Prümper, J., Schulte-Göcking, H., Wankmüller, I., & Wendel, R. (1988). The effects of an active development of the mental model in the training process: Experimental results on a word processing system. Behaviour and Information Technology, 7, 295-304.
• Frese, M., & Peters, H. (1988). Zur Fehlerbehandlung in der Software-Ergonomie: Theoretische und praktische Überlegungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 42, 9-18.
• Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1987). Eine Skala zur Erfassung von sozialen Stressoren am Arbeitsplatz. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 41, 134-141.
• Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1987). Die Einführung von neuen Techniken verändert Qualifikationsanforderungen, Handlungsspielraum und Stressoren kaum: Ergebnisse einer Längschnittuntersuchung. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 41, 7-14.
• Frese, M., Stewart, J., & Hannover, B. (1987).  Goal-orientation and planfulness: Action styles as personality concepts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1182-1194.
• Frese, M., & Mohr, G. (1987). Prolonged unemployment and depression in older workers: A longitudinal study on intervening variables. Social Science and Medicine, 25, 173-187 (Special issue edited by L. Levi).
• Frese, M. (1987). Alleviating depression in the unemployed: On the effects of adequate financial support, hope, and early retirement. Social Science and Medicine, 25, 213-215 (Special issue edited by L. Levi).
• Frese, M., & Semmer, N. (1986). Shiftwork, stress and psychosomatic complaints: A comparison between workers in different shiftwork schedules, non-shiftworkers and former shiftworkers. Ergonomics, 29, 99-114.
• Frese, M. (1985). Stress at work and psychosomatic complaints: A causal  interpretation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 70, 314-328.  (reprinted in C.L. Cooper (Ed.), The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology 1: Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Vol. II. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991, 358-372.)
• Frese, M., & Hartwich, C. (1984). Shiftwork and the length and quality of sleep. Journal of Occupational Medicine, 26, 561-566. (article wrong author  spelling Harwich)
• Frese, M., & Stewart, J. (1984). Skill learning as a concept in lifespan developmental psychology: An action theoretic analysis. Human Development, 27, 145-162.
• Frese, M., & Okonek, K. (1984). Reasons to leave shiftwork and psychological and psychosomatic complaints of former shiftworkers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 509-514.  (reprinted in F. Landy (Ed.), Readings in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Chicago: Dorsey, 1986).
• Frese, M. (1983). Der Einfluß der Arbeit auf die Persönlichkeit: Zum Konzept des Handlungsstils in der beruflichen Sozialisation. Zeitschrift für Sozialisationsforschung und Erziehungssoziologie, 3, 11-28.  (reprinted in S. Nolda (Ed.), Denken, Handeln und Verstehen. Bad Heilbronn: Klinkhardt, 1986).
• Frese, M. (1982). Occupational socialization and psychological development – an underemphasized research perspective in industrial psychology. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 55, 209-224.
• Frese, M., & Rieger, A. (1981). Beschreibung und Kritik einer Skala zur Prädiktion von psychophysischem Befinden bei Schichtarbeitern. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 35, 95-100.
• Frese, M., & Semmer, N. (1979). Beziehungen zwischen Arbeitspsychologie und Klinischer Psychologie. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 38, 239-243.

Books, edited books, special issues editor

• Frese, M., & Sabini, J. (Eds.). (2021). Goal directed behaviour: The concept of action in psychology. eBook;  reprint in the series Psychology Revivals of the 1985 classic book. Routledge, books.google.com.
• Special issue: Carroll, J.S., Christianson, M., Frese, M., Lei, Z., Naveh, E., Vogus, T.J. (2021). Errors in organizations: New frontiers in research and practice. Academy of Management Discoveries, 7, (No 4)
• Gielnik, M. M.  Frese, M., Cardon, M (Eds). (2021). New Perspectives on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. SIOP Frontier Series, London, UK: Taylor and Francis, Routledge.
• Wiegel, J. & Frese, M. (2018). Das Konzept Eigeninitiative (The concept of personal initiative). Frankfurt, New York: Campus Verlag.
• Mumford, M. D. & Frese, M. (Eds.) (2015). The psychology of planning in organizations: Research and applications. New York City: Taylor & Francis: Routledge.
• Frese, M., Rousseau, D. M., & Wiklund, J. (Special Issue Eds) (2014). The emergence of evidence-based entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 38, (2).
• Kraimer, M.L., Takeuchi, R., Frese, M. (special issue Eds) (2014). The global context and people at work. Personnel Psychology, 67, (1).
• Lisbona, A. & Frese, M. (2012). Iniciativa personal: como hacer que las cosas sucedan. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Piramide.
• Hofmann, D. & Frese, M. (2011) (Eds). Errors in Organizations. SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series. London: Taylor and Francis.
• A. Grant, Y. Fried, S. Parker, M. Frese (2010) (Eds). Putting Job Design in Context, Journal of Organizational Behavior; Special Issue, Volume 31, Issue 2-3.
• Baum, R., J. Frese, M., Baron, R. A. (2007).(Eds.). The Psychology of Entrepreneurship. SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Frese, M., & Friedrich, C. (Eds.) (2002). Entrepreneurship in Africa: What do we know and where do we have to go from here? Special issue for Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.
• Pearce, J.L., & Frese, M. (Eds.) (2000). Applied psychology from transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Special issue for Applied Psychology: An International Review (Vol. 49, Issue 4, Oct. 2000). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
• Frese, M., Chell, E., & Klandt, H. (Eds.) (2000). Psychological approaches to entrepreneurship. Special issue for The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000). Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
• Frese, M. (Ed.). (2000). Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Frese, M. (Ed.). (1998). Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer. Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitungen für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Göttingen: Verlag für Angewandte Psychologie. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Prümper, J., & Frese, M. (1996). Software-Ergonomie und Neue Techniken. Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Kurseinheit für die FernUniversität Hagen. Hagen: Eigendruck.
• Clegg, C., & Frese, M. (Eds.) (1996). Special issue on “Integrating cognitive and organizational approaches towards computer-based systems” for Behaviour and Information Technology.
• Brodbeck, F.C., & Frese, M. (Eds.) (1994). Produktivität und Qualität in Software-Projekten. Psychologische Analyse und Optimierung von Arbeitsprozessen in der Software-Entwicklung. München: Oldenbourg-Verlag.
• Frese, M., & von Rosenstiel, L. (1994). (Eds.). Themenheft: Werte und Verhalten im Ost/West-Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 38, Heft 1.
• Frese, M. & Zapf, D. (Eds.). (1991). Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer: Ergebnisse von Beobachtungen und Befragungen im Bürobereich. Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., Kasten, C., Skarpelis, C., & Zang-Scheucher, B. (Eds.). (1991). Software für die Arbeit von Morgen. Heidelberg: Springer.
• Frese, M., & Brodbeck, F. (1989). Computer in Büro und Verwaltung: Psychologisches Wissen für die Praxis. Heidelberg: Springer.
• Frese, M. (1988). Die Führung der eigenen Person: Stress-Management. Munich: Institut Mensch und Arbeit. (Neudruck: Köln: Bachem Verlag)
• Editor of Heft 3/1987 of Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie; Schwerpunkt Mensch-Computer Interaktion.
• Frese, M., Ulich, E., & Dzida, W. (Eds.). (1987). Psychological issues of human-computer interaction in the work place. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
• Frese, M., & Sabini, J. (Eds.). (1985). Goal directed behaviour: The concept of action in psychology. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Frese, M. (Eds). (1981). Stress im Büro (Schriftenreihe zur Arbeitspsychologie, edited by E. Ulich, No. 34). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., Hartwich, C., Kühbauer, B., Okonek, K., Rieger, A., & Weber, M. (1981). Projekt Schichtarbeit: Gesamtergebnis der Problemanalyse Schichtarbeit im Organisationsbereich IG Chemie, Papier, Keramik. Hannover, Eigendruck.
• Frese, M., Greif, S. & Semmer, N. (Eds.). (1978). Industrielle Psychopathologie (Schriftenreihe zur Arbeitspsychologie, edited by E. Ulich, No. 23). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M. (1977). Psychische Störungen bei Arbeitern: Zum Einfluß von gesellschaftlicher Stellung und Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen (Beiträge zur Klinischen Psychologie). Salzburg:  Otto Müller.
• Hoffmann, N., & Frese, M. (1972, reprints in 1973, 1975). Verhaltenstherapie in der Sozialarbeit (Arbeitsbücher zur psychologischen Schulung). Salzburg: Otto Müller.  (translated into Japanese, Lugar Publishing, 1978)

Chapters in books and in proceedings

• Hubner-Benz, S. Frese, M. (2023). Creativity in entrepreneurship: Dancing between nothing and structure. Handbook of Organizational Creativity, 377-392
• Kaur, A., Frese, M. (2021). Understanding Shared Leadership for Team Creative Output: A Qualitative Study using WhatsApp. Academy of Management Proceedings 2021 (1), 14021
• Ng, J.W.X., Hubner, S., Teow, I, Song, Y., Wang, Y., Kaur, A., Frese, M., & Song,Z. (2021). Development of cultural inventory on Asian countries and exploratory approach to predict innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings 2021 (1), 14547
• Frese, M. Sabini, J. (2021). Action theory: An introduction. In: Goal Directed Behavior: The Concept of Action in Psychology (pp. xvii–xxv). e-book; reprint in the series Psychology Revivals of the 1985 classic book. Routledge, books.google.com
• Sabini, J., Frese, M. Kossman, D.A. (2021). Some contributions of action theory to social psychology: Social action and actors in the context of instituitons and an objective world. In: Goal Directed Behavior: The Concept of Action in Psychology (pp. 246–257). Reprint in the series Psychology Revivals of the 1985 classic book. Routledge, books.google.com.
• Semmer, N., Frese, M. (2021). Action theory in clinical psychology. In: Goal Directed Behavior: The Concept of Action in Psychology (pp. 296–310). Reprint in the series Psychology Revivals of the 1985 classic book. Routledge, books.google.com.
• Gielnik, M.M., Cardon, M.S. & Frese, M. (2021). Introduction to psychology of entrepreneurship: New perspectives. In M. M. Gielnik, M. Frese, & M. Cardon (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 1- 4). London, Uk: Taylor and Francis, Routledge.
• Frese, M. (2021). An Action Theory (AT) approach to the psychology of entrepreneurial actions and entrepreneurial success. In M. M. Gielnik, M. Frese, & M. Cardon (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 182-209). London, Uk: Taylor and Francis, Routledge.
• Cha, V., Ruan, Y., Frese, M. (2020) Re-visiting effectuation: The relationships with causation, entrepreneurial experience, and innovativeness. In A. Caputo & M.M. Pellegrini (Editors) The Entrepreneurial Behaviour. Unveiling the cognitive and emotional aspect of entrepreneurship, (213-237), Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing
• Uy, M. A., Jacob, G. H., Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Antonio, T., Wonohadidjojo, D. M., & Christina, C. (2019). When Passions Collide: Emergence and Consequence of Passion Convergence in Entrepreneurial Teams. Academy of Management Proceedings.
• Mensmann, M, Frese, M., Campos, F., Goldstein, M., Iacovone, L., &  Johnson, H. (2018) Closing the gender gap–personal initiative training and female business performance Academy of management proceedings 2018 (1), 10669
• Zacher, H., & Frese, M. (2018). Action Regulation Theory: Foundations, Current Knowledge, and Future Directions. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, H. K. Sinangil & C. Viswesvaran (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work, & Organizational Psychology (2nd ed., Vol. Organizational Psychology, pp. 122-144). New York: Sage
• Lex, M., Gielnik, M. M., & Frese, M. (2019). Effort and Success as Predictors of Passion. In R. Vallerand & N. Houlfort (Eds.), Passion for Work. Cambridge, Mass: Oxford University Press (pp 227 – 259).
• Li, W.-D., Frese, M., & Haidar, S. (2017). Distinguishing Proactivity and Citizenship Behavior: Similarities and Differences. In P. M. Podsakoff, S. B. MacKenzie & N. P. Podsakoff (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Cambridge, Mass.: Oxford
• Mensmann, M., & Frese, M. (2017). Proactive behavior training: Theory, design, and future directions. In S. K. Parker & U. K. Bindl (Eds.), Makings things happen in organizations (pp. 434-468). New York City: Routledge.
• Frese, M. & Mumford, M.D. Organizational Planning: The Psychology of Performance (2015). In M. D. Mumford & M. Frese (Eds.), In M. D. Mumford & M. Frese (Eds.), The psychology of planning in organizations: Research and applications (pp. 1-8). New York City: Taylor & Francis: Routledge.
• Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., & Stark, M. S. (2015). Planning and entrepreneurship. In M. D. Mumford & M. Frese (Eds.), The psychology of planning in organizations: Research and applications (pp. 289-311). New York City: Taylor & Francis: Routledge.
• Bischoff, K. M., Gielnik, M. M., & Frese. M. (2014). Entrepreneurship training in developing countries. In W. Reichman (Ed.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology Serves the Underserved: Helping the Most Vulnerable (pp. 92-119). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Fischer, S., & Frese, M. (2014). Erfolgreiche Unternehmer. In Untgernehmer – Fakten und Fiktionen (pp. 57-79). Munich, Germany: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Zhu, J. L., Frese, M., & Li, W. D. (2014). Proactivity and adaptability. In D. Chan (Ed.), Individual adaptability to changes at work: New directions in research (pp. 36-51). Boston. Mass.: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Fay, D. & Frese, M. (2013).  Eigeninitiative. In W. Sarges (Ed): Management-Diagnostik (pp. 316-322). Goettingen, Germany: Hogrefe
• Gielnik, M., & Frese, M. (2013). Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: Applying I-O Psychology to microbusiness and entrepreneurship in developing countries. In J. Olson-Buchanan, L. Koppes Bryan & L. Foster Thompson (Eds.), Using I-O Psychology for the greater good: Helping those who help others (pp. 394-438). New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
• Sun, S., & Frese, M. (2013). Multiple goal pursuit. In E. A. Locke & G. P. Latham (Eds.), New developments in goal setting and task performance (pp. 177-194). New York: Routledge.
• Sonnentag, S., & Frese, M. (2012). Stress in organizations. In N. Schmitt & S. Highhouse (Eds). Handbook of psychology (Volume 12, pp. 560-592). Hoboken: Wiley. Volume 12: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2nd edition. (pp 117-New York: Wiley
• Frese, M., Bausch, A., Schmidt, P., Rauch, A., & Kabst, R. (2012). Evidence-based Entrepreneurship (EBE): A systematic approach to cumulative science. In D. M. Rousseau (Ed.), Handbook of evidence-based management: Companies, classrooms, and research; (pp 92-111). New York: Oxford Publishing Co.
• Sonnentag, S., & Frese, M. (2012). Dynamic performance. In S. W. J. Kozlowski (Ed.), Oxford handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 548-575). Cambridge, Mass.: Oxford University Press.
• Bledow, R., Frese, M., & Mueller, V. (2011). Ambidextrous leadership for innovation: The influence of culture. In W. H. Mobley, M. Li & Y. Wang (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership. (Vol. 6, pp. 41–69). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
• Rosing, K., Frese, M., & Rosenbusch, N. (2011). Ambidextrous leadership in the innovation process. In A. Gerybadze, U. Hommel, H. W. Reiner & D. Thomaschewski (Eds.), Innovation and international corporate growth (pp. 191-204). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
• Gelfand, M.J., Frese, M. & Salmon, E. (2011). Cultural Influences on Errors: Prevention, Detection, and Management; in D. A. Hofmann & M. Frese (Eds): Errors in Organizations (pp. 273-316), London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor and Francis, SIOP Frontier Series.
• Hofmann, D. A. & Frese, M. (2011). Errors, error taxonomies, error prevention and error management: Laying the groundwork for discussing errors in organizations. In D. Hofmann & M.Frese (Eds): Errors in Organizations (pp. 1-44), London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor and Francis, SIOP Frontier Series.
• Frese, M. & Hofmann, D. A. (2011). A new look at errors: On error, error prevention, and error management in in organizations. In D. Hofmann & M.Frese (Eds): Errors in Organizations (pp. 317-326), London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor and Francis, SIOP Frontier Series.
• Keith, N., & Frese, M. (2010). Enhancing firm performance and innovativeness through error management culture. In N. M. Ashkanasy, C. P. M. Wilderom & M. F. Peterson (Eds.), The handbook of organizational culture and climate (2nd ed., pp. 137-157). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frese, M. (2010). Entrepreneurial actions: An action theory approach. In K. Murnighan, R. van Dick & D. De Cremer (Eds.), Social psychology of organization (pp. 87-118). New York: Routledge.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2011). Entrepreneurial orientation. In A. Bausch & T. Fritz (Eds.), Handbook of Utility Management.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2008). A personality approach to entrepreneurship. In S. Cartwright & C. L.Cooper (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology (pp. 121-136). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rank., J., & Frese, M. (2008). The impact of emotions, moods, and other affect-related variables on creativity, innovation and initiative. In N.M. Ashkanasy & C.L. Cooper (Eds.), Research companion to emotion in organizations (pp. 103-119). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers.
• Utsch, A., Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2007). Unternehmer trifft Mitarbeiter: Ein Interaktionsmodell für Unternehmenserfolg. In: Schöning, St. , Richter, J., Wetzel, H., & Nissen, D. (Hrsg.) Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen: Unternehmensnachfolge und Innovationspotenzial. Frankfurt a. M.:Peter Lang, S. 41-66.
• Unger, J., Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2007). Persönlichkeit und Entrepreneurship. In R. Bader, G. Keiser, & T. Unger (Eds.), Entwicklung unternehmerischer Kompetenz in der Berufsbildung (pp. 122-136). Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann Verlag.
• Brodbeck, F. C., & Frese, M. (2007). Societal culture and leadership in Germany. In J. Chhokar, F. Brodbeck, & R. House (Eds.), Culture and leadership across the world: The GLOBE book of in-depth studies of 25 societies (GLOBE Book 2). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (the full book received the Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Awards of Division 52 of APA in 2009)
• Baron, R.A., Frese, M., & Baum, J.R. (2007). Research gains: Benefits of closer links between I/O psychology and entrepreneurship. In J.R. Baum, M. Frese, & R.A. Baron (Eds.), SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 347-373). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Tung, R.L., Walls, J., & Frese, M. (2007). Cross-cultural entrepreneurship: The case of China. In J.R. Baum, M. Frese, & R.A. Baron (Eds.), SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 265-286). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2007). Born to be an entrepreneur? Revisiting the personality approach to entrepreneurship. In J.R. Baum, M. Frese, &  R.A. Baron (Eds.), SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 41-65) . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. .
• Frese, M. (2007). The psychological actions and entrepreneurial success: An action theory approach. In J.R. Baum, M. Frese, &  R.A. Baron (Eds.), SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 151-188). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Baum, J.R., Frese, M., Baron, R.A., & Katz, J.A. (2007). Entrepreneurship as an area of psychology study: An Introduction. In J.R. Baum, M. Frese, &  R.A. Baron (Eds.), SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (pp. 1-18). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Giardini, A., & Frese, M. (2006). Eigeninitiative als Konzept positiven Verhaltens in Organisationen. In M. Ringlstetter, S. Kaiser, & G. Müller-Seitz, G. (Eds.), Positives Management (pp. 53-70). Wiesbaden: Gabler.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2006). Meta-analysis as a tool for developing entrepreneurship research and theory. In J.Wiklund, D. Dimov, J. A. Katz, & D.  Shepherd (Eds.), Entrepreneurship: Frameworks and empirical investigations from forthcoming leaders of European research. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (Vol. 9, pp. 29-52). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Frese, M., & Fay, D. (2006). Quel est le role de l’initiative personnelle ? In C. Lévy-Leboyer, C. Louche, & J.-P. Rolland (Eds.), 1. Management des Personnes. RH, Les apports de la psychologie du travail (pp. 247-266). Paris : Editions d’Organisation, Groupe Eyrolles.
• Sonnentag, S., Frese, M., & Coch, J. (2005). Interventionen zur Reduktion von Stress und Stressauswirkungen in der Arbeit. In R. Schwarzer (Ed.), Enzyklopaedie der Psychologie, Band 1: Gesundheitspsychologie (pp. 319-332). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Frese, M. (2005). Grand theories and mid-range theories: Cultural effects on theorizing and the attempt to understand active approaches to work. In K.G. Smith & M.A. Hitt (Eds.), Great minds in management: The process of theory development (pp. 84-108). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (translated into Chinese)
• Rauch, A., Wiklund, J., Frese, M., & Lumpkin, G.T. (2004). Entrepreneurial orientation and business performance: Cumulative empirical evidence. In Zahra, S.A. et al. (Eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2004. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference (pp. 164-177). Braintree: P & R Publications.
• Brodbeck, F. C., Frese, M., Javidan, M. (2004). Leadership made in Germany: Low on compassion, high on performance (Managerial Insights Excerpt). In S. M. Puffer (Ed.), International management (pp. 192-202). London: M. E. Sharpe.
• Giardini, A., & Frese, M. (2004). Emotionen in Organisationen. In G. Schreyögg & A. von Werder (Eds.), Handwörterbuch Unternehmensführung und Organisation (pp. 205-214). Stuttgart: Schaeffer-Poeschel.
• Sonnentag, S., Fay, D., & Frese, M. (2004). Handeln in Organisationen. In H. Schuler (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie (pp. 251-291). Goettingen: Hogrefe
• Sonnentag, S., & Frese, M. (2003). Stress in organizations. In W.C. Borman, D.R. Ilgen, & R.J. Klimoski (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume 12: Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 453-491). New York: Wiley (The full handbook set received the 2003 Award of Excellence among multi-volume references from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers).
• Hesketh, B., & Frese, M. (2002). Simulation and training in work settings. In P.B. Baltes & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (pp. 14097-14101). Oxford: Elsevier Science.
• Frese, M., & Rauch, A. (2002). The psychology of entrepreneurship. In P.B. Baltes & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 4552-4556). Oxford: Elsevier Science.
• Sonnentag, S., & Frese, M. (2002). Performance concepts and performance theory. In S. Sonnentag (Ed.), Psychological management of individual performance (pp. 3-25). Chichester: Wiley.
• Frese, M. (2001). Personal initiative (PI): The theoretical concept and empirical findings. In M. Erez, U. Kleinbeck & H. Thierry (Eds.), Work motivation in the context of a globalizing economy (pp. 99-110). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. .
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2000). Effects of human resources strategies on success of small-scale businesses: A longitudinal study. In P.D. Reynolds, E. Autio, C.G. Brush, W.D. Bygrave, S. Manigart, H.J. Sapienza, & K.G. Shaver (Eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2000 (pp. 530-541). Babson Park. Mass.: Babson College, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
• Fay, D., & Frese, M. (2000). Self-starting behaviour at work: Toward a theory of initiative. In J. Heckhausen (Ed.), Motivation psychology of human development. Developing motivation and motivating development (pp. 307-324). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2000). Ein Kontingenzansatz zu Planung und Erfolg von Kleinunternehmen: Verschiedene Umweltbedingungen als Moderatoren. In H. Klandt, K. Nathusius, N. Szyperski, A.H. Heil (Eds.), G-Forum 1999. Dokumentation des 3. Forums Gründungsforschung, Köln, 8. Oktober 1999, Reihe: FGF Entrepreneurship-Research Monographien, Band 29 (Eds. Klandt/Szyperski)(pp. 273-288). Lohmar: Eul-Verlag.
• Frese, M. (2000). Ein psychologisches Modell unternehmerischen Erfolgs und einige empirische Ergebnisse. In H. Klandt, K. Nathusius, N. Szyperski, A.H. Heil (Eds.), G-Forum 1999. Dokumentation des 3. Forums Gründungsforschung, Köln, 8. Oktober 1999, Reihe: FGF Entrepreneurship-Research Monographien, Band 29 (Eds. Klandt/Szyperski)(pp. 259-272). Lohmar: Eul-Verlag.
• Frese, M. (2000). Job stress. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 403-409). Washington: APA & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (2000). Psychological approaches to entrepreneurial success. A general model and an overview of findings. In C.L. Cooper & I.T. Robertson (Eds.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 101-142). Chichester: Wiley.
• Frese, M. (2000). Executive summary, conclusions, and policy implications. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 161-190). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publ.
• Frese, M. (2000). For the Specialist: Methodological issues of the studies in Zambia, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 149-159). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Frese, M., Krauss, S., & Friedrich, C. (2000). Micro-enterprises in Zimbabwe: On the function of socio-demographic factors, psychological strategies, personal initiative, and goal setting for entrepreneurial success. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 103-130). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Van Steekelenburg, W., Lauw, M., Frese, M., & Visser, K. (2000). Problems and coping, strategies and initiative in microbusiness owners in South Africa. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 77-101). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Koop, S., de Reu, T., & Frese, M. (2000). Socio-demographic factors, entrepreneurial orientation, personal initiative, and environmental problems in Uganda. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 55-76). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Keyser, M., de Kruif, M., & Frese, M. (2000). The psychological strategy process and socio-demographic variables as predictors of success in micro- and small-sacle business owners in Zambia. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 31-53).Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publ.
• Frese, M., & de Kruif, M. (2000). Psychological success factors of entrepreneurship in Africa: A selective literature review. In M. Frese (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 1-30). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, Greenwood
• Frese, M. (2000). The changing nature of work. In N. Chmiel (Ed.), An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology (pp. 424-439). Oxford: Blackwell Publ. (second edition: 2008)
• House, R. J., Hanges, P., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S. A., Dorfman, P. W., Javidan, M., et al. [Frese, M. ] (1999). Cultural influences on leadership and organizations: Project GLOBE. In W. Mobley, M. J. Gessner, & V. Arnold (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership (Vol. 1, pp.171-233). Stamford, CN: JAI Press.
• Göbel, S., & Frese, M. (1999). Persönlichkeit, Strategien und Erfolg bei Kleinunternehmern. In K. Moser, B. Batinic & J. Zempel (Eds.), Unternehmerisch erfolgreiches Handeln (pp. 93-113). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Zapf, D., Frese, M., & Brodbeck, F.C. (1999). Fehler und Fehlermanagement. In D. Frey, C. Graf Hoyos & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (pp. 398-411). Weinheim: Beltz Psychologie Verlags Union.
• Udris, I., & Frese, M. (1999). Belastung und Beanspruchung. In D. Frey, C. Graf Hoyos & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (pp. 429-445). Weinheim: Beltz Psychologie Verlags Union.
• Van Gelderen, M., & Frese, M. (1998). Strategy process as a characteristic of small scale business owners: Relationships with success in a longitudinal study. In P.D. Reynolds, W.D. Bygrave, N.M. Carter, S. Manigart, C.M. Mason, G.D. Meyer & K.G. Shaver (Eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (pp. 234-248). Babson Park, MS: Babson College.
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (1998). A contingency approach to small scale business success: A longitudinal study on the effects of environmental hostility and uncertainty on the relationship of planning and success. In P.D. Reynolds, W.D. Bygrave, N.M. Carter, S. Manigart, C.M. Mason, G.D. Meyer & K.G. Shaver (Eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (pp. 190-200). Babson Park, MS: Babson College.
• Fay, D., Sonnentag, S., & Frese, M. (1998). Stressors, innovation, and personal initiative: Are Stressors always detrimental? In C. Cooper (Ed.), Theories of organizational stress (pp. 170-189). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Utsch, A., & Frese, M. (1998). Für den Spezialisten: Methodische und theoretische Aspekte des Projekts EKU: Operationalisierung der Variablen, Analysestrategien und Anlage der Untersuchung. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 205-219). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Göbel, S., & Frese, M. (1998). Konsequenzen für die Praxis: Ein Leitfaden für erfolgreiches Unternehmertum. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 171-204). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Utsch, A., Frese, M., & Rothfuß, R. (1998). Ost- und westdeutsche Unternehmer im Vergleich. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 149-158). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Utsch, A. & Frese, M. (1998). Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Unsere Stichprobe und beschreibende Ergebnisse. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 47-58). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (1998). Was wissen wir über die Psychologie erfolgreichen Unternehmertums. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 5-34). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Frese, M. (1998). Einführung in den Gegenstand. In M. Frese (Ed.), Erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer: Psychologische Analysen und praktische Anleitung für Unternehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland (pp. 1-4). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (translated into Russian 2006)
• Frese, M. (1998). Work and organizational psychology. In M. Eysenck (Ed.), Psychology: An integrated approach (pp. 624-667). Essex, Engl.: Addison Wesley Longman. (translated into Chinese, Pearson Education, Harlow, Essex/UK, 2005)
• Rauch, A., & Frese, M. (1997). Does planning matter: Relations between planning and success in small enterprises in Ireland and in Germany. Proceedings of the ICSB 42nd World Conference of the International Council for Small Business. June 1997, San Francisco.
• Frese, M. (1997). Dynamic self-reliance: An important concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. In C.L. Cooper & S.E. Jackson (Eds.), Creating tomorrow’s organizations: A Handbook for future research in Organizational Behavior (pp. 399-416). Chichester: Wiley.
• V.d.Schaaf, T.W., Frese, M., & Heimbeck, D. (1996). Human recovery and error management. Proceedings of the XV. European Annual Conference on Human Decision Making and Manual Control. Soesterberg, June 1996, 5.2-1 – 5.2-10.
• Frese, M., van der Schaaf, T., & Heimbeck, D. (1996). Error management and recovery in technical system design. Proceedings of the ICESA ’96 Multiconference. Symposium on Robotics and Cybernetics. Lille, France, July 1996, 161-164.
• Frese, M. (1995). Error management: An alternative concept to error prevention in organizations and in technical system design. In T.B. Sheridan (Ed.), Proceedings of Man-Machine Systems (MMS’95). Cambridge, Mass. June 1995. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publ.
• Frese, M. (1995). Stress factors and health: A multicausal relationship. In O. Svane & C. Johansen (Eds.), Work and health. Scientific basis of progress in the working environment. Proceedings of the International Conference, February 1993, Copenhagen (pp. 19-26). Copenhagen/Brussels: European Commission, Directorate-General of Employment, Industrial Relations, and Social Affairs.
• Heinz, S., & Frese, M. (1995). The relationship between personality factors and marketing strategies and entrepreneurial success in East-Germany. In G.E. Hills, D.F. Muzyka, G.S. Omura & G.A. Knight (Eds.), Research at the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface (pp. 297-310). University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Frese, M. (1995). Error management in training: Conceptual and empirical results. In C. Zucchermaglio, S. Bagnara & S.U. Stucky (Eds.), Organizational learning and technological change (pp. 112-124). Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer. (translated into Portuguese (Antonio C.R. Tupinambá), Revista de Psicologia, Fortaleza, V. 20(1), Jan/Jun 2002, 81-90)
• Frese, M. (1995). Entrepreneurship in East Europe: A general model and empirical findings. In C.L. Cooper, & D.M. Rousseau (Eds.), Trends in Organizational Behavior. Vol. 2 (pp. 65-83). Chichester: Wiley.
• Kensik, A., Prümper, J., & Frese, M. (1995). Ergonomische Gestaltung von Software auf Grundlage handlungsorientierter Fehleranalysen. In H.-D. Böcker (Ed.), Software-Ergonomie ‚95 (pp. 217-232). Stuttgart: Teubner.
• Brodbeck, F.C. & Frese, M. (1994). Beschreibung der Untersuchung von Projekt IPAS. In F.C. Brodbeck & M. Frese (Eds.), Produktivität und Qualität in Software-Projekten (pp. 185-196). München: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Frese, M., Prümper, J. & Solzbacher, F. (1994). Eine Fallstudie zu Benutzerbeteiligung und Prototyping. In F.C. Brodbeck & M. Frese (Eds.), Produktivität und Qualität in Software-Projekten (pp. 135-143). München: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Gail, K. & Frese, M. (1994). Positive Gefühle in der Arbeit. In F.C. Brodbeck & M. Frese (Eds.), Produktivität und Qualität in Software-Projekten (pp. 87-101). München: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Frese, M. (1994). Psychische Folgen von Arbeitslosigkeit in den fünf neuen Bundesländern: Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittuntersuchung. In L. Montada (Ed.), Arbeitslosigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit (pp. 193-213). Frankfurt: Campus.
• Sonnentag, S. & Frese, M. (1994). Neue Technik. In L. von Rosenstiel, C.M. Hockel & W. Molt (Eds.), Handbuch der Angewandten Psychogie (VI-2, pp. 1-7). Landsberg: Ecomed.
• Frese, M. & Hilligloh, S. (1994). Eigeninitiative am Arbeitsplatz im Osten und Westen Deutschlands: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung. In G. Trommsdorf (Ed.), Psychologische Aspekte des sozio-politischen Wandels in Ostdeutschland (pp. 200-215). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• Frese, M. & Zapf, D. (1994). Action as the core of work psychology: A German approach. In H.C. Triandis, M.D. Dunnette & L.M. Hough (Eds.), Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 4 (pp. 271-340). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press (2nd ed.).
• Frese, M., & Immler, B. (1993). Eigeninitiative: Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland und der spezifische Fall der Weiterbildung. In D. Eißel (Ed.), Wirtschaftsstandort Ostdeutschland: Bestandsaufnahme und Bedingungen für den Wiederaufbau (pp. 62-77). Marburg: Schüren Presseverlag.
• Frese, M. (1992). A plea for realistic pessimism: On objective reality, on coping with stress and psychological dysfunctioning. In L. Montada, S.-H. Filipp & M.J. Lerner (Eds.), Life crises and experiences of loss in adulthood (pp. 81-94). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Pekrun, R., & Frese, M. (1992). Emotions in work and achievement. In C.L. Cooper, & I.T. Robertson (Eds.), International review of industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 153-200). Chichester: Wiley.
• Frese, M. (1991). Error management or error prevention: Two strategies to deal with errors in software design. In H.-J. Bullinger (Ed.), Human aspects in computing: Design and use of interactive systems and work with terminals (pp. 776-782). Elsevier Science Publ.
• Zapf, D., Frese, M., Irmer, C., & Brodbeck, F. (1991). Konsequenzen von Fehleranalysen für die Softwaregestaltung. In M. Frese, & D. Zapf, (Eds.), Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer (pp. 177-191). Bern: Huber.
• Irmer, C., Pfeffer, S., & Frese, M. (1991). Konsequenzen von Fehleranalysen für das Training: Das Fehlertraining. In M. Frese, & D. Zapf (Eds.), Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer (pp. 151-165). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M. (1991). Fehlermanagement: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen. In M. Frese, & D. Zapf (Eds.), Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer (pp. 139-150).. Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1991). Fehlersystematik und Fehlerentstehung: Eine theoretische Einführung. In M.  Frese, & D. Zapf (Eds.), Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer (pp. 14-31). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., Irmer, C., Peters, H., & Prümper, J. (1991). Eine Strategie des Umgangs mit Handlungsfehlern in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion: Das Konzept Fehlermanagement. In M. Frese, C. Kasten, & B. Zang-Scheucher (Eds.), Software für die Arbeit von Morgen (pp. 241-251). Heidelberg: Springer.
• Zapf, D., & Frese, M. (1991). Soziale Stressoren am Arbeitsplatz. In S. Greif, E. Bamberg, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz (pp. 168-184). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Frese, M., & Semmer, N. (1991).  Stressfolgen in Abhängigkeit von Moderatorvariablen: Der Einfluss von Kontrolle und sozialer Unterstützung. In S. Greif, E. Bamberg, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz (pp. 135-153). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Frese, M. (1991). Stress und neue Techniken. Was verändert sich? In S. Greif, E. Bamberg, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz (pp. 222-240). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Frese, M. (1991). Stressbedingungen in der Arbeit und psychosomatische Beschwerden: Eine kausale Interpretation. In S. Greif, E. Bamberg, & N. Semmer. (Eds.), Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz (pp. 120-134). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Frese, M. (1990). Arbeit und Emotion – Ein Essay. In F. Frei, & I. Udris (Eds.), Das Bild der Arbeit (pp. 285-301). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., & Altmann, A. (1989). The treatment of errors in learning and training. In L. Bainbridge, & S.A.R. Quintanilla (Eds.), Developing skills with new technology (pp. 65-86). Chichester: Wiley.
• Frese, M. (1989). Theoretical models of control and health. In S.L. Sauter, J.J. Hurrel (jr.), & C.L. Cooper (Eds.), Job control and worker health (pp. 107-128). Chichester: Wiley.
• Zapf, D., & Frese, M. (1989). Benutzerfehler im Kontext von Arbeitsaufgabe und Arbeitsorganisation. In H. Oberquelle, & S. Maaß (Eds.), Software Ergonomie’89. (pp. 213-222). Stuttgart: Teuber.
• Udris, I., & Frese, M. (1988). Belastung, Stress, Beanspruchung und ihre Folgen. In D. Frey, C. Graf Hoyos, & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Angewandte Psychologie (pp. 427-447). München: Psychologie Verlags Union.
• Frese, M., & Zapf, D. (1988). Methodological issues in the study of work stress. In C.L. Cooper, & R. Payne (Eds.), Causes, coping and consequences of stress at work (pp. 375-411). Chichester: Wiley.
• Papstein, P. v., & Frese, M. (1988). Transferring skills from training to the actual work situation: The role of task application knowledge, action styles and job decision latitude. In E. Soloway, D. Frye, & S.B. Shepard (Eds.), Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM SIGCHI Proceedings, CHI’88, 55-60.
• Papstein, P.v., & Frese, M. (1988). Training und Transfer im Mensch-Computer-Bereich – ein arbeitspsychologischer Ansatz. In F. Ruppert, & E. Frieling, E. (Eds.), Psychologisches Handeln in Betrieben und Organisationen (pp. 69-80). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M. (1987). Stress at work, coping-strategies and musculoskeletal complaints. In U. Osterholz, W. Karmaus, B. Hullmann, & B. Ritz (Eds.), Work related musculo-skeletal disorders.Wirtschaftsverlag, Verlag für Neue Wissenschaft.
• Frese, M. (1987). En teorie om kontroll och stress. In H. Leymann, & L. Swensson (Eds), Forskning för framtidens arbetsliv. En minnesbok till Bertil Gardell (pp. 192-199). Stockholm: Prisma.
• Frese, M. (1987). A concept of control: Implications for stress and performance in human-computer interaction. In G. Salvendy, S.L. Sauter & J.J. Hurrell (jr.) (Ed.), Second International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 43-50). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Wendel, R., & Frese, M. (1987). Developing exploratory strategies in training: The general approach and a specific example for manual use. In J.-H. Bullinger, & B. Shackel (Eds.), Human-computer interaction. Interact 1987 (pp. 943-951). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
• Frese, M., Schulte-Göcking, H., & Altmann, A. (1987). Lernprozesse in Abhängigkeit vom Trainingsprogramm, von Personenmerkmalen und von der Benutzeroberfläche (direkte Manipulation vs. Konventionelle Interaktion). In W. Schönpflug, & M. Wittstock (Eds.), Software Ergonomie ‚87 (pp. 377-386). Stuttgart: Teubner.
• Frese, M. (1987). Human-computer interaction in the office. In C.L. Cooper, & I. Robertson (Eds.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 117-165). Chichester: Wiley.
• Frese, M. (1987). A theory of control and complexity: Implications for software design and integration of computer system into the work place. In M. Frese, E. Ulich, & W. Dzida (Eds.), Psychological issues of human-computer interaction in the work place (pp. 313-337). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
• Frese, M. (1986). Kontrolle und Komplexität in der Computertechnologie. In H. Raum, & W. Hacker (Eds.), Optimierung geistiger Arbeitstätigkeiten (Vol. 2, pp. 33-39). Dresden: University of Dresden, Eigendruck.
• Frese, M. (1986). Coping as a moderator and mediator between stress at work and psychosomatic complaints. In M.H. Appley, & R. Trumbull (Eds.), Dynamics of Stress (pp. 183-206). New York: Plenum.
• Frese, M. (1985). Zur Verlaufstruktur der psychischen Auswirkungen von Arbeitslosigkeit. In T. Kieselbach, & A. Wacker (Eds.), Individuelle und gesellschaftliche Kosten der Massenarbeitslosigkeit (pp. 224-241).Weinheim: Beltz.
• Semmer, N., & Frese, M. (1985). Action theory in clinical psychology. In M. Frese, & J. Sabini (Eds.), Goal directed  behavior: The concept of action in psychology (pp. 296-310). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Sabini, J., Frese, M., & Kossman, D. (1985). Some contributions of action theory to social psychology: Social actions and social actors in the context of institutions and an objective world. In M. Frese, & J. Sabini (Eds.), Goal directed  ehaviour: The concept of action in psychology (pp. 249-257). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Frese, M., & Sabini, J. (1985). An introduction to action theory. In M. Frese, & J. Sabini (Eds.), Goal directed  ehaviour: The concept of action in psychology (pp. xvii-xxv). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Frese, M. (1984). Einstellungen zur Technologie und Computern: Entwicklung von Messinstrumenten. In: Sektion Arbeits- und Betriebspsychologie im BdP (Ed.), Arbeit in moderner Technik (pp. 97-108). Eigenverlag.
• Frese, M. (1984). Transitions in jobs, occupational socialization and strain. In V. Allen, & E.v.d. Vliert (Eds.), Role transitions: Explorations and explanations (pp. 239-253). N.Y.: Plenum Press.
• Frese, M. (1984). Do workers want control or don’t they: Some results on denial and adjustment. IfHA Report No. 5.
• Frese, M., & Greif, S. (1983). Arbeit und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. In R. Silbereisen, & L. Montada (Eds.), Entwicklungspsychologie in Schlüsselbegriffen (pp. 214-219). München: Urban & Schwarzenberg.
• Frese, M., Schmidt-Hieber, E., & Leitner, K. (1981). Arbeitsbedingungen, kognitive Kontrolle und psychisches und psychophysisches Befinden: Welcher Erkenntnisfortschritt lässt sich aus einer quantitativen Querschnittsuntersuchung ziehen? In W. Michaelis (Ed.), Bericht über den 32. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Zürich 1980 (pp. 549-552). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Saupe, R., & Frese, M. (1981). Faktoren für das Erleben und die Bewältigung von Stress im Schreibdienst. In M. Frese (Ed.), Stress im Büro (pp. 199-224). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., Saupe, R., & Semmer, N. (1981). Stress am Arbeitsplatz von Schreibkräften: Ein Vergleich zweier Stichproben. In M. Frese (Ed.), Stress im Büro (pp. 225-252). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M. (1981). Arbeit und psychische Störungen. In U. Baumann, H. Berbalk, & G. Seidenstücker (Eds.), Klinische Psychologie – Trend in Forschung und Praxis, Vol 4 (pp. 48-77). Bern: Huber.  (reprinted in „Berichte über Tagungen der Bundesvereinigung für seelische Gesundheit“ (Ed. D. Thamm), Seelische Gesundheit möglich machen – mehr als Krankheit verhindern. Bundesvereinigung für seelische Gesundheit, Hamburg, 1983.)
• Frese, M. (1979). Arbeitslosigkeit, Depressivität und Kontrolle: Eine Studie mit Wiederholungsmessung. In T. Kieselbach, & H. Offe (Eds.), Arbeitslosigkeit (pp. 222-257). Darmstadt: Steinkopff.
• Frese, M., & Semmer, N. (1979). Arbeit und Depression: Zum Zusammenhang von Arbeitslosigkeit und Depressivität unter Berücksichtigung der Arbeitslosigkeit. In M. Hautzinger. & N. Hoffmann (Eds.), Depression und Umwelt (Beiträge zur Klinischen Psychologie) (pp. 125-158). Salzburg: Müller. (translated into Italian)
• Frese, M. (1979). Industrielle Psychopathologie. In P. Groskurth (Ed.), Arbeit und Persönlichkeit: Berufliche Sozialisation in der arbeitsteiligen Gesellschaft (pp. 47-72). Reinbek: Rowohlt.  (reprinted in Schmidt, B. & Schmidt, H.-J. (Eds.), Leistung, Leistungsbereitschaft, Leistungsdruck. Konstanz, Christliche Verlagsanstalt, 1983).
• Semmer, N., & Frese, M. (1978). Handlungstheoretische Implikationen für die kognitive Therapie. In N. Hoffmann (Ed.), Grundlagen kognitiver Therapie (pp. 115-153). Bern: Huber.  (translated into English, New York, Plenum Press, 1985).
• Frese, M., & Mohr, G. (1978). Die psychopathologischen Folgen des Entzugs von Arbeit: Der Fall Arbeitslosigkeit. In M. Frese, S. Greif, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Industrielle Psychopathologie, (Schriftenreihe zur Arbeitspsychologie, Nr. 23) (pp. 282-320). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M., & Greif, S. (1978). Humanisierung der Arbeit und Stresskontrolle. In M. Frese, S. Greif, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Industrielle Psychopathologie (Schriftenreihe zur Arbeitspsychologie, Nr. 23) (pp. 216-231). Bern: Huber.
• Frese, M. (1978). Partialisierte Handlung und Kontrolle: Zwei Themen der industriellen Psychopathologie. In M. Frese, S. Greif, & N. Semmer (Eds.), Industrielle Psychopathologie (Schriften zur Arbeitspsychologie Nr. 23) (pp. 159-183). Bern: Huber.  (translated into Swedish: In G. Aronsson (Ed.) Arbetskrav och Mänsklig Utveckling. Stockholm: Prisma, 1983).
• Mohr, G., & Frese, M. (1978). Arbeitslosigkeit und Depression. Zur Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeiter. In Wacker, A. (Ed.), Vom Schock zum Fatalismus? (pp. 179-193). Frankfurt: Campus.
• Frese, M. (1978). Industrielle Arbeitsbedingungen – ein lange vernachlässigter Faktor in Ätiologie und Prävention von psychischen Störungen. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie  (pp. 109-118). Berlin 1977, Sonderheft II/1978 d. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie.
• Hoffmann, N., Frese, M., & Hartmann-Zeilberger, J. (1976, 1982). Psychologische Therapie bei Depressionen. In N. Hoffmann (Ed.), Depressives Verhalten (Beiträge zur klinischen Psychologie) (pp. 218-269). Salzburg: Müller.
• Frese, M., & Schöfthaler-Rühl, R. (1976, 1982). Kognitive Ansätze in der Depressionsforschung. In N. Hoffmann (Ed.), Depressives Verhalten (Beiträge zur klinischen Psychologie) (pp. 57-107). Salzburg: Müller.

Articles in Professional Outlets

• Alibhai, Salman, Niklas Buehren, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Kathrin Wolf (2019) “Full Esteem Ahead? Mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 8892.
• Montalvao, J., M. Frese, M. Goldstein, T. Kilic. (2017): “Soft Skills for Hard Constraints: Evidence from High-Achieving Female Farmers.,” Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank, Washington, DC., 8095, 871–915
• Ubfal, Diego, Irani Arráiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch (2019) “The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica”, IZA Discussion Paper no. 12325.
• Michael Frese (2016). 2016 Emerald Africa Academy of Management Trailblazer Awardee, Africa Journal of Management, 2, 230-233, DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2016.1207477
• Frese, M. & Steinmetz, H. (2015). Wie HR-Maßnahmen Innovationen fördern. Personal quarterly, 67(4), 6-8.Frese, M. & Tschischka, A. (2014). Fehler sind nicht falsch.Report Psychologie, 39(9), 338-340.
• Frese, M. (2013) Führen mit Visionen. In U.J.Heuser & S. Spoun (Eds.). DIE ZEIT erklärt die Wirtschafts – Betriebswirtschaft (p.47-52). Hamburg: Germany: Murmann Verlag.
• Frese, M. (2009). Psychologie und Policy implications: Sachverständigenrat für Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau, Diskussionsforum 3/2009.
• Arvey, R., & Frese, M. (2008). The psychology behind the mess. In I. Png (Ed.), Financial Crisis 2008 (pp. 53-57). Singapore: Saw Centre for Financial Studies. National University of Singapore.
• Frese, M. (2008). Arbeitslosigkeit. Was wir aus psychologischer Perspektive wissen und was wir tun können. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Ausgabe: Psychosoziale Folgen den Arbeitslosigkeit. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 40-41/2008.
• Frese, M., Tornau, K., & Fay, D. (2008). Forschung zur Analyse und Förderung der Eigeninitiative: Love it, leave it or change it. Personalführung, 3 (2008), 48-57.
• Frese, M. (2005). Doing science while practicing training: On the evaluation of training for entrepreneurs. In C. Friedrich, & Visser, K. (Eds.),  South African Entrepreneurship: Education and Training (pp. 75-83).Cape Town, South Africa: Leap Publishing.
• Frese, M. (2003). Eigeninitiative und Leistung müssen sich lohnen. In S. Unger (Ed.), Vertrauen ist gut. Braucht die Wirtschaft mehr Kontrolle? Frankfurt: Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch.
• Frese, M. (2002). Administracao de erros em trainamentos: Resultados teórecos e empiricos. Revista de Psicologia, Fortaleza, V.20(1), 81-90.
• Frese, M., Garman, G., Garmeister, K., Halemba, K., Hortig, A., Pulwitt, T., & Schildbach, S. (2002). Motivations- und Eigeninitiativetraining für Arbeitslose. Trainingsrational, Trainingsdurchführung und Trainingsmaterial. Institute for Empirical and Applied Social Research at the University of Giessen.
• Frese, M., & Lührmann, H. (2001). Mitarbeiter zu Unternehmern heranbilden. Nahverkehrspraxis, 4, 39-40.
• Friedrich, C., & Frese, M. (2001). Faktoren für erfolgreiches unternehmerisches Handeln. Personalführung, 2, 74-78.
• Frese, M., Garman, G., Garmeister, K., Halemba, K., Hortig, A., Pulwitt, Th., & Schildbach, S. (2001). Erfolgskonzept: Eigeninitiative. Psychologie Heute, 28(1), 12-13.
• Zempel, J., & Frese, M. (2000). Prädiktoren der Erwerbslosigkeit und Wiederbeschäftigung. Verhaltenstherapie und Psychosoziale Praxis Schwerpunktheft “Arbeitslosigkeit und soziale Ausgrenzung”, 32. Jg (3), 379-390.
• Frese, M., & Fay, D. (2000). Entwicklung von Eigeninitiative: Neue Herausforderung für Mitarbeiter und Manager. In M.K. Welge, K. Häring & A. Voss (Eds.), Management-Development. Praxis, Trends und Perspektiven (pp. 63-78). Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel-Verlag (USW Schriften für Führungskräfte).
• Beimel, S., Frese, M., Schreiner, F., & Kleinert, U. (1999). Visionen begeisternd vermitteln. Wirtschaft und Weiterbildung, 1/99, 22-23.
• Frese, M. (1998). Managementfehler und Fehlermanagement . Personalführung, 2, 58-62.
• Frese, M. (1997). Zelfvertrouwen op het werk. De Psycholoog, 32(3), 108-113. (reprinted in K. van Dam & W. Bloemers (Eds.), Individu, arbeid en organisatie. Ontwikkelingen in de arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (pp. 139-152).  Utrecht: De Tijdstroom).
• Frese, M. (1997). Die Bedeutung von Leitbildern: Führung von Unternehmen durch Visionen. Gabler’s Magazin, 10, 6-9.
• Zempel, J., & Frese, M. (1997). Arbeitslose: Selbstverantwortung überwindet die Lethargie. Psychologie Heute, June 1997, 37-41.
• Tag, A., & Frese, M. (1993). Das Lehrangebot in Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie an deutschen Fachhochschulen: Übersicht über die Ergebnisse einer Fragebogenaktion 1991/92. In S. Greif & E. Bamberg (Eds.), Die Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (pp. 174-175). Göttingen: Hogrefe Verlag.
• Bamberg, E., Frese, M., Greif, S., Schultz-Gambard, J., Wilpert, B., & Zimolong, B. (1993). Weiterbildung für Diplom-Psychologinnen und -Psychologen. In S. Greif & E. Bamberg (Eds.), Die Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (pp. 86-97). Göttingen: Hogrefe Verlag.
• Bamberg, E., Frese, M., & Kleinbeck, U. (1993). Schwerpunktstudium Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie im Diplomstudiengang Psychologie. In S. Greif & E. Bamberg (Eds.), Die Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (pp. 73-81). Göttingen: Hogrefe Verlag.
• Frese, M. (1993). Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer: Empirische Ergebnisse und Fehlermanagement. In F. Wimmer & L. Bittner (Eds.), Software-Marketing (pp. 93-105). Wiesbaden: Gabler.
• Frese, M. (1993). Sich voll am Arbeitsplatz einsetzen: Eigeninitiative im Osten und Westen Deutschlands. Psychologie Heute, March 1993.   (reprinted in Erziehung zu Eigeninitiative und Unternehmensgeist. Handbook edited by Arbeitsstellen für Community Education e.V. Essen: COMED-Verlag, 1994.)
• Frese, M. (1992). Eine empirisch validierte Fehlertaxonomie: Generalisierungsmöglichkeiten im Bereich der Kraftfahrzeugforschung. Daimler-Benz Workshop-Report on”Psychologische Fehlerforschung”. Berlin: Eigendruck.
• Frese, M. (1992). Softwareergonomische Überlegungen zu graphischen Oberflächen: Aufgaben für Gegenwart und Zukunft. Proceedings of the PC-Windows 1992 Conference. München: LTW-Verlag.
• Frese, M. (1992). Geht’s auch ohne (Hierarchie)? Allgemeiner Hochschulanzeiger der FAZ, Wintersemester 1992/93, Heft 15, 1-2.
• Frese, M. & Brodbeck, F. (1992). Psychologische Aspekte der Software-Entwicklung. IBM-Nachrichten 42, 309, 15-20.
• Frese, M., Schulte-Göcking, H., & Altmann, A. (1988). Bessere Lehrmethoden für die Computerarbeit. Gablers Magazin. Betriebswirtschaft für Manager, 10, 40-45.
• Frese, M., & Rosenstiel, L. V. (1988). The Organizational Psychology and Psychology of Economics Unit, Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Federal Republic of Germany.  The Industrial Organizational Psychologist, 25, 39-44.
• Frese, M. (1987). Arbeit und psychische Störungen. Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, 11, 679-691.  (reprinted in K. Höchstetter, L. Gunkel, R. Beck & M. Szpilok (Eds.), Gesundheitsförderung im Betrieb: Neue Antworten auf neue Herausforderungen. München: Fachhochschulschriften Prof. Dr. Jürgen Sandmann)
• Frese, M. (1987). Die Bewältigung von Akzeptanzproblemen bei der Einführung neuer Technologien am Arbeitsplatz. IBM-Nachrichten, 13-17.
• Frese, M. (1985). Psychische Gesundheit, Arbeitsbedingungen und neue Technologien. WSI-Mitteilungen, 38, 226-233.
• Frese, M., & Saupe, R. (1981). Stress im Büro. Psychologie Heute 8, 30-37. (reprinted in “Geschafft. Über Arbeit, keine Arbeit und Freizeit” Ein Psychologie-Heute Sonderband, Weinheim: Beltz, 1985.).
• Frese, M. (1979). Arbeitswissenschaften und Arbeitslehre: Ein Beitrag einer neuorientierten Arbeitswissenschaft zur Arbeitslehre. Technica Didactica, 137 – 147.
• Mohr, G., & Frese, M. (1979). Soziale Maßnahmen für Arbeitslose: Überlegungen im Rahmen einer psychologischen Untersuchung. In E. Ulich (Ed.), Psychosozial, Vol. 1.
• Frese, M., & Mohr, G. (1977). Die psychischen Folgen von Arbeitslosigkeit: Depression bei älteren Arbeitslosen. WSI Mitteilungen, 30, 674-679.
• Frese, M. (1976). Thesen zum gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert der psychologischen Therapie – speziell der Verhaltens-therapie – in der Sozialarbeit. In P.A. Fiedler, & G. Hoerman (Eds.), Therapeutische Sozialarbeit, Sonderheft II/1976 der “Mitteilungen der GVT e.V.,” Münster.
• Frese, M., & Kolakovicz, M. (1976). Verhandlungsführung für Betriebsräte, Wirtschaft und Wissen.

Keywords, Book Reviews, and Abstracts in Journals

• Gielnik, M.M., Frese, M. & Rauch (2016) Entrepreneurship. In Rogelberg, S.G. (Ed.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frese, M., Rank, J., & Zacher, H. (2015). Action regulation theory. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frese, M. & Rauch, A.J. Entrepreneurship. In Rogelberg, S. G. (Ed.). (2006). Sage Encyclopedia of industrial and organizational psychology. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frese, M., & Sonnentag, S. (2005). Stress. In N. Nicholson, P.G. Audia & M.M. Pillutla (Eds.), Organizational Behavior. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management (2nd ed. Vol. XI) (pp. 378-380). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Frese, M., & Fay, D. (2005). Personal initiative. In N. Nicholson, P.G. Audia & M.M. Pillutla (Eds.), Organizational Behavior. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management (2nd ed. Vol. XI) (pp. 311-312). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Frese, M. (2005). Errors. In N. Nicholson, P.G. Audia & M.M. Pillutla (Eds.), Organizational Behavior. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management (2nd ed. Vol. XI). (pp. 111-113). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Frese, M. (2003). Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organisational growth and development. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, 124.
• Frese, M. & van Dyck, C. (1996). Error management: Concept to error prevention in technical system design. International Journal of Psychology. Abstracts of the XXVI. International Congress of Psychology, Montréal, Canada, Aug. 16-21, 1996, Vol. 31, 147.
• Frese, M. (1995). Human-computer interaction. In N. Nicholson (Ed.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Blackwells.
• Frese, M. (1995). Errors. In N. Nicholson (Ed.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Blackwells.
• Sonnentag, S. & Frese, M. (1995). Action theory. In N. Nicholson (Ed.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Blackwells.
• Heinbokel, T. & Frese, M. (1995). Software ergonomics. In N. Nicholson (Ed.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Blackwells.
• Zapf, D. & Frese, M. (1993). Stress. In A. Schorr (Ed.), Handwörterbuch der Angewandten Psychologie (pp. 658-660). Bonn: Deutscher Psychologen Verlag GmbH.
• Zapf, D., & Frese, M. (1992). Psychische Gesundheit. In E. Gaugler & W. Weber (Eds.), Handwörterbuch des  Personalwesens HWP (2nd ed.)(1953-1962). Stuttgart: Poeschel.
• Frese, M. (1991). To err is human. Review of Human Factors in Hazardous situations by D.E. Broadbent, A. Baddeley & J.T. Reason (Eds.). The Psychologist, 14, 8, 341.
• Frese, M. (1989). Kontrolle. In Greif, S., Holling, H. & Nicholson, N. (Eds.), Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie: Internationales Handbuch in Schlüsselbegriffen. Psychologie Verlags Union.
• Frese, M. (1985). Arbeit. In Herrmann, T. & Lantermann, E. (Eds.), Schlüsselbegriffe der Persönlichkeitspsychologie. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg.
• Frese, M., & Greif, S. (1984). Arbeit und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. In Silbereisen, R. & Montada, L. (Eds.), Entwicklungspsychologie in Schlüsselbegriffen. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg.
• Frese, M., & Semmer, N. (1983). Streß. In Frey, D. & Greif, S. (Eds.), Schlüsselbegriffe der Sozialpsychologie. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg.
• Frese, M., & Volpert, W. (1980).  Berufliche Sozialisation. In Asanger, R. & Wenninger, G. (Eds.), Handwörterbuch Psychologie. Weinheim: Beltz.
• Frese, M. (1980). Arbeitslosigkeit. In Asanger, R. & Wenninger, G. (Eds.), Handwörterbuch Psychologie. Weinheim: Beltz.
• Frese, M., & Greif, S. (1981). Review of Cooper, C.L. & Payne, R. (Eds.), Stress at work. Journal of Occupational Behavior, 2, 73-78.
• Preface for German edition of Seligman, M.E.P. Hilflosigkeit. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1979.

Invited keynote speeches and invited addresses

• Invited Speech: Royal Swedish Academy of Entineering Science. Personal Inititive Training. May 30th, 2024.
• Invited Speech: Personal Initiative Training. Jönköping University. May 29th, 2024
• Invited Speech Hourse of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economis. Personal Initiative Training. Stockholm May 28th, 2024.
• 2024 Award Lecture: Learning from African entrepreneurship: On the psychological function of entrepreneurial preparedeness in low and middle income countries. Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research to Michael Frese, Stockholm May 27, 2024 (https://www.e-award.org/).
• 2023 Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) Best Seminar Series: Entrepreneurial Mindset and Soft Skills Training for Business Growth, Invited Talk: Scaling Up Psychological Preparedness for Entrepreneurial Actions, Nov 2023, Zoom talk
• Invited keynote: 2023 Jilin University International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ICIE 2023: Creative Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy- Some Hypotheses, Zoom talk
• Invited keynote: Rethinking Agripreneurship Webinar of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), Feb 1, 2023 Impact of personal initiative agripreneurship training on MSME success; Zoom talk.
• Invited talk: Ministry of Culture and Francophonie: Culture coupled with the national week of artis and culture Ivory Coast Korholo Feb 24 2023 – Personal Initiative Short Intro (with Eric Kacou)
• Invited keynote: SWEDD Assinie Retreat, Ivory Coast, Feb 17, 2023, Action training for entrepreneurship: STEP and Personal Initiative Training (SWEDD is a female oriented program for 14 – 25 youngsters often without education)
• Invited keynote: Introduction to Personal Initiative Training. Retreat of Entrepreneurial Solutions Partner (ESP, Abidjan Ivory Coast), Jan 23, 2023.
• Invited: University Training for Entrepreneurs: poverty reduction and employment. Jan, 18th 2023. DAAD KIWI connect and match event Entrepreneurship in Jordan and Germany.
• Invited keynote: IAAP conference: Early Career Marathon: What if Applied Psychology Mattered to the World. Oct 17th 2021, Online Conference.
• Invited keynote speech at the occasion of the Life Time Achievement Award of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. How can OB Scholars have an influence on society? Grand Research Questions – July 30th to Aug 3, 2021 online
• Invited keynote speech Psychology Day at the UN ‘Psychology for economic development to fight poverty’ organized by Psychology Coalition of NGOS Accredited at the United Nations (PCUN) New York City, April 15, 2021 (Zoom).
• Invited keynote, online: Psychology of Entrepreneurship: an action theory perspective on entrepreneurial actions and success. ANEGEPE (Brazilian Ass. on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Studies). Brazil, Feb 26, 2021.
• Invited Masterclass: The psychology of excellent entrepreneurship. Leadership Energy Summit Asia (LESA) Conference by ICLIF Executive Education Center, 16 Nov – 19 Nov 2020, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Invited Keynote: Indonesia Global Entrepreneurship Network; Transformational Entreprenership Developing a Growth Mindset. Webinar June 4, 2020; 17.00 – 18.30 (Jakarta time)
• Invited Keynote: Development Entrepreneurship and Personal Initiatives: Long term massive randomized experiments on personal initiative training for entrepreneurs to reduce poverty in developing countries 2019 Stanford Social Innovation Review-Hauyang University Global Impact Conference. 29th- 30th of Oct 2019, Seoul, Korea.
• Invited keynote: Innovation and Personal Initiative to Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries; The 6th International Conference on Entrepreneurship 2019, Surabaya, Indonesia’ 30th of Aug 2019
• Invited Keynote: Umgang mit Fehlern und Fehler-managementkultur in Unternehmen (Dealing with errors and error management culture in companies). 25 Forum Risko-und Sicherheitsmanagement (25th Forum for Risk and safety management) Hochschule fuer Oeffentliche Verwaltung Bremen 28 June 2019
• Invited keynote: How to make use of evidence based management in entrepreneurship: The example of Personal Initiative Training; XVI. National Congress of the Work and Organizational Psychology group in the Associazone Italiana di Psicologia, Rome 27-29 Sept 2018
• Invited keynote: How to Use Science-Based Theories to Develop Training Concepts for Reducing Poverty in Developing Countries, 29th International Conference of Applied Psychology, 30th of June 2018, Montreal Canada.
• Invited keynote: Training Personal Initiative as Responsible Research in Developing Countries: The Example of the Togo Study, International Association for Chinese Management Research, Congress Wuhan June 16, 2018
• Invited Talk: Long term massive randomized experiments on personal initiative training for entrepreneurs to reduce poverty in developing countries. Association of Psychological Science (APS) Conference, Boston, May, 2017.
• Psychological Driver of Entrepreneurial Scucess and How to Change Key Behaviors. Speech ISPACE, Shanghai, Nov 2016
• Invited Talk: Leadership for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Unleashing Personal Initiative. Leadership Conference 2016 (Leadership and innovation in a changing global environment) LEADCON conference of the Centre for Islamic Banking and Finance. Univ of Brunei. Nov 7, 2016
• Invited Keynote Speech: Psychological Interventions for Effective Entrepreneurial Mindsets. (VHB) Verband der Hochschullehrer fuer Betriebswirtschaft Conference, Munich, Germany, 18-21 May, 2016
• Invited Addess: GIZ Integrated Mineral Resource Initiative, in cooperation with National University of Mongolia, Faculty for International Relations and Public Administration, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Unleashing personal initiative: How to become a successful entrepreneur. April 12, 2016
• Invited Talk: GIZ Integrated Mineral Resource Initiative, in cooperation with National University of Mongolia, Faculty for International Relations and Public Administration, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: How to develop effective entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth. April 11, 2016
• Invited Talk: GIZ Integrated Mineral Resource Initiative, in cooperation with National University of Mongolia, Faculty for International Relations and Public Administration, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: The Problems of Personal Initiative in Transitional Economies – the Example of East Germany and Some Generalizations to Other Countries. April 11, 2016.
• Invited Address for SIOP Award (Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 2015): Contrarian Thoughts and Attention to Phenomena: A Scientific Journey. Confererence of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Anaheim, 13-16.March 2016.
• Invited Talk: What happens after an error has occurred. The concept of error management and its effects on profitability, accidents, and learning from errors. Leopoldina Symposium: Action and Decision in Heidelberg, February 25-26, 2016
• Invited short address as recipient of the Emerald Africa Academy of Management Trailblazer Award, 3rd Biennual Conference of the Africa Academy of Management, Nairobi, 6-9- Jan 2016
• Invited Address: Leadership in the Service Era; Fung Scholars Leadership Conference 2015, Oct 10, 2015
• Keynote Speech: Interventions to Develop Effective Entrepreneurial Mindsets; International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Aug 27-29, 2015, Ciputra University, Surabaya, Indonesia
• Invited keynote: The International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference, Towards a micro view of innovation in family firms, June/July 2015, Hamburg, Germany.
• World Bank, Washington: Africa Economics Seminar Series and Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice, April, 2015 Psychological Drivers of Entrepreneurial Success and the Role of Training
• Invited Colloqium: Chinese European International Business School, Nov 9, 2015, Shanghai, China: An Action Regulation Theory Perspective of the Psychology of Entrepreneurship
• World Bank: Impact Evaluation Workshop: Trade up and Compete, Istanbul May, 2015 Invited Address: Psychological Interventions for Effective  Entrepreneurial Mindsets
• World Bank Addis Adaba May 2015 Invited Colloqium Personal Initiative Training to Develop Effective  Entrepreneurial Mindsets
• Kenyatta University invited Talk: The Project STEP: Psychological Interventions for Effective Entrepreneurial Mindsets, May 2015
• Mount Kenya University, Nairobi, Kenya, invited Addess: Psychological Interventions for Effective Entrepreneurial Mindsets, May 2015
• Bridging the micro-macro divide: Levels of analysis in management research. INSEAD, Singapore, March 8, 2015.
• Error Management: How to maximize the positive effects of errors and minimize their negative effects. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft f. Psychologie, Bochum 2014
• Errors are a central fact of life: Dealing with them and learning from them – 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology, ICAP 2014 Paris, July 2014
• How can we learn from errors and mistakes – a contribution to applied psychology Singapore Psychological Society Meeting March 2014
• Psychology of Entrepreneurship – Presentation at School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, 27 November 2013
• Error Management – Presentation at Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 27 November 2013
• Action Regulation Theory – Presentation at Renmin University of China, 26 November 2013
• Error Management at work  – Presentation at Tsinghua University, Department of Psychology, 25 November 2013
• Personal Initiative  – Presentation at Department of Psychology, Peking University, 25 November 2013
• Training of Entrepreneurs  – Keynote speech at Eastern Africa Regional Conference of Psychology (EARCP 2013 Conference), Uganda, 6-8 November 2013
• Towards an action regulation theory of entrepreneurship – Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 30 October 2013; Presentation as Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar
• Fehlermanagement: Lernen aus Fehlern, Leibniz-Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund (IfADo), Dortmund, 12 June 2013
• Fehler, Fehlermanagement und Lernen aus Fehlern: Wie man aus einem Problem das Rohmaterial für besseres Management schmiedet , Production Sytems 2013, Frankfurt, 5 June
• “Fehler zulassen, systematisch aus ihnen lernen – kreativer, innovativer und erfolgreicher sein.”, invited adress, 20. Innovationstag Mittelstand des BMWi, Berlin, 16 May2013 Berlin
• Organisational Culture and Human Factors in Mistakes and Errors in Healthcare. Healthcare Quality Forum 2013, 16. March 2013, Singapore
• Evidence-based management – Keynote Address at Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2013, Connecting and Contributing to Make a Difference, Crowne Plaza, Chester, 9-11 January 2013
• Toward a Psychology of Entrepreneurship – An Action Regulation Theory Perspective. Keynote Speech at Organizational Behaviour Conference, Technicon, Haifa, Israel, May 14, 2012
• Dialectics of Innovation – Colloquium at Business School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 13, 2012
• Invited Colloquium: Toward a Psychology of Entrepreneurship – An Action Regulation Theory Perspective. Darla Moore School of Business University of South  Carolina, Columbia, 27th  October 2011.
• Symposium Positive Psychologie. Invited talk: Eine positive Psychologie der Arbeit, July 2011
• Historisches Kolleg München, Keynote address: Der Erfolg des Unternehmers, July 2011
• Esade, Barcelona May 2011. Invited Colloquium. An Active Behavior Approach to Entrepreneurship
• Invited  Friday Seminars: Economic Downturn:  Psychological Issues. At the SIOP 26th Annual Conference, Chicago, 14-16th April 2011.
• International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne July 2010: IAAP Division 1 Work & Organizational Psychology – Invited Keynote: Psychological Success Factors in Entrepreneurs
• Action regulation theory as a basic theory of applied psychology. Work and Organizational Psychology Conference Brazil, Sao Paulo, July 2010.
• Entrepreneurship in transitional economies: Psychological factors for entrepreneurial success. Invited Adress; First South East European Congress of Psychology, Sofia Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2009.
• Active approaches to work  – A topic of positive psychology. Invited speaker at First World Congress on Positive Psychology, Philadelphia, USA, June 18-21, 2009.
• The entrepreneur in the entrepreneurial process: State of the art. Winter School Erasmus Mundus, Barcelona/Spain, March 3-4, 2009
• Krisen und Fehler: Chance und Probleme. Invited speech at 3. AKAD-Forum, Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr, October 25, 2008.
• Learning from errors by individuals and organizations. Invited speech at 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Chicago, USA, May 22-25, 2008.
• What do we know about the psychological make-up of entrepreneurs? Towards developing a new field of inquiry for I/O psychology. Invited keynote speech at 29th Annual Conference of Industrial-Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior (IOOB). Denver, Colorado, USA, March 14-16, 2008.
• Stress, Belastung, Beanspruchung – Wissenschaftliche Zugänge zur Stressforschung. Keynote speech at DLR Graduierten-Workshop, Heidelberg, October 10, 2007.
• Ein aktives Konzept der Performanz in der Arbeits- und Organisationpsychologie: Entwicklungen und neue Forschungsfragen. Keynote speech at 5. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Trier, September 19-21, 2007.
• On building better evidence in entrepreneurial research. Invited keynote speech at 4th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange. Brisbane Graduate School of Business. Brisbane, Australia, February 7, 2007.
• What if applied psychology mattered in the world? Keynote speech at Opening Ceremony of 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 16-21, 2006.
• Advances in training research during the last 20 years. Invited address at the Asian Applied Psychology International-Regional Conference. Bangkok/Thailand. November 14-16, 2005.
• Entrepreneurship and culture. 5th International conference of the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF). Cape Town, South Africa. September 7-9, 2005.
• Can we train managers to be charismatic/inspirational leaders? Guest speaker at The Delta Forum, Baruch College, New York. December 11, 2003.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contribution to organizational growth and development. Distinguished Speaker Series, George Mason University. October 10, 2003.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. 5th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference. Melbourne, Australia, June 26-29, 2003.
• Taking charge and initiative: An active approach to work, organizations, and entrepreneurship. Chinese SIOP conference on HR and Entrepreneurship. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. March 31-April 2, 2003.
• Psychology in the present world from a European perspective. Thai Symposium of the Psychological Association of Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand, July 13-14, 2002.
• Taking charge and initiative: An active approach to work, organizations, and entrepreneurship.XXVIII Congress of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (ISP). Santiago de Chile, Chile, July 29 – August 3, 2001.
• German action theory: A fundamental theory for applications, particularly in the area of work and organisational psychology. VII European Congress of Psychology. London, July 1-6, 2001.
• The role of work and organizational psychology for future work places. 10th European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology. Prague, Czech Republic, May 16-19, 2001.
• Self-regulation at work: The case of personal initiative. Centenary Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. Glasgow, England, March 30, 2001.
• The function of errors in human behavior: Applications in training, job design, tool design, and organizational culture. XXVII. Int. Congress of Psychology. Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-28, 2000.
• First African Regional Congress of Psychology. Organizer: PSYSSA. Durban, South Africa, July 18-23, 1999.
• Implications of globalization and change of job concept for work and organizational psychology: Empirical examples from studies on initiative and on entrepreneurs. Ninth European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology: Innovations for Work, Organization and Well-being. Espoo-Helsinki, Finland, May 12-15, 1999.
• Increased flexibility in time place and social environment. Conference: Health hazards and challenges in the New Working Life. Stockholm, Sweden, January 11-13, 1999.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August 9-14, 1998.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. International Work Psychology Conference, Sheffield, UK, July 1-3, 1998.
• The concept of self-reliance: Learning processes, initiative and occupational socialisation. The Open University Psychological Society, Nottingham University, Nottingham, England,  July 4-6, 1997.
• Self reliance – work in the 21st century. Postgraduate Occupational Psychology Conference 1996. The University of Hull. September 11, 1996.
• Distinguished Speaker Series. The concept of error training and its implications. University of Montréal, April 24, 1996.
• From socialism to capitalism in former East Germany. The Strand Group conference: Management of change, hosted by The Royal Mail, London, June 23, 1994.
• Action errors, error prevention and error management.  Occupational Psychology Conference, British Psychological Society, Liverpool, Jan. 6-8, 1992.
• Stress prevention. Industrial and Organizational Psychology Graduate Student Convention in New Orleans. March, 11, 1989.

Organization of Scientific Congresses, Symposia, Workshops

• Organizer (with Eric Kacou and Ily Coulibaly): Train-the-trainer workshop on Personal Initiative Mindset Training for trainers in Africa. Abidjan, CoteD’Ivoire, March, 2023.
• Organizer (with Tabea Bruening): Train-the-trainer workshop on Personal Initiative Mindset Training for trainers in Africa and beyond. Harare, Zimbabwe, Dec, 2018.
• Organizer (with Gabriel Jacob): Train-the-trainer workshop on Personal Initiative Mindset Training for trainers in the Asian Region and beyond. Atheneo University, Manila, Feb 19 – 26, 2018.
• Organizer (with Alois Geiwitsch): Train-the-trainer workshop on Error Management Culture Change Program for trainers in the Indian Automobile Industry. TUEV SUED India, Pune, Feb 13-14, 2018.
• Co-organizer with Kathrin Wolf: Rigorous Evidence on Training Interventions to Improve Entrepreneurial Success of Micro and Small Businesses in Africa: 4th Biennial Africa Academy of Management, Jan 3 – 6, 2018, Addis Ababa.
• Co-organizer with Mona Mensmann: Active training  approaches for employees and entrepreneurs. Professional Development Workshop (76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 5-9, 2016 – Anaheim, California)
• Co-organizer with Gabriel Jacob and Michael Gielnik: Train-the-trainer workshop for four Universities in the Philippines (De la Sallle, Atheneo, U of Philippines, Bicol University) in the method developed by our research group: Enhancing entrepreneurial skills through action regulation training, Manila, 5-10 Dec, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the East African Regional Conference of Psychology in Kampala, Uganda, Nov 6 – 9, 2013
• STEP Conference, Makerere Business University Kampala Uganda, 6-8 May, 2013
• Workshop Getting published; Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2013, Crowne Plaza, Chester, January 9-11, 2013
• Facilitator Professional Development Workshop “JBV as a  Multidisciplinary Forum for Entrepreneurship Research on the Informal Economy”, AoM 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Symposium “International Research on Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship”, 30th International Congress of Psychology, July 22-27, 2012,  Cape Town, South Africa.
• Errors in Organizations – A Panel Discussion, SIOP 27th Annual Conference, April 26- 28, 2012, San Diego, California
• Workshop on Entrepreneurship. 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Workshop/Seminar on The psychology of Entrepreneurship at Winter School (Erasmus Mundus, WOP). Barcelona, March 3-4, 2009.
• Workshop: Publishing in international journals. London Business School, February 6 & 7, 2009.
• Publishing internationally. Pre-Congress Workshop at XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, July 20-25, 2008.
• Workshop on The psychology of Entrepreneurship at Winter School (Erasmus), Conference Centre of the University of Bologna, Bertinoro. February 18-19, 2008.
• Chair of workshop: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Publizieren. 5. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Trier, September 19-21, 2007.
• Chair of workshop: Publishing in international journals. Erasmus Mundus Master Organ. Programm (organized by INPERE). Valencia, Spain, October 27, 2006.
• Chair of workshop: The psychology of entrepreneurship. Erasmus Mundus Master Organ. Programme (organized by INPERE). Valencia, Spain, October 26, 2006.
• Publishing without perishing. Chair and organization (with Gigerenzer) of workshop at 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie (DGPs). Nuernberg, September 17-21, 2006.
• Workshop: Publishing in international journals. Ph.D.-Seminar of Makerere University Business School. Kampala, Uganda, September 13, 2006.
• As President of IAAP I helped in the organization of the International Congress of Psychology in Athens 2006
• Training research. Workshop at the Asian Applied Psychology International-Regional Conference. Bangkok/Thailand. November 14-16, 2005.
• Chair and organization of 1st Workshop of the International Network for Psychology of Entrepreneurship Research and Education (INPERE) /  Publishing in Entrepreneurship Workshop Marburg & Giessen, September 24-26, 2005.
• Meta-analysis and evidence-based entrepreneurship: Towards an accumulated knowledge in entrepreneurship. Chair and presenter at Professional Development Workshop. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu/Hawaii. August 5-10, 2005.
• Chair and organization of Symposium/Panel: Policy implications of applied psychology. 9th European Congress of Psychology, Granada, Spain. July 3-8, 2005
• Organization of Workshop “Publishing in International Journals”. XII. European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey. May 12-15, 2005.
• Chair and organization of Symposium (with John Berry): Applications of psychology to public policy. 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China. August 8-13, 2004.
• Chair and organization of Symposium: Cross-cultural issues of entrepreneurship. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, USA. August 1-6, 2003.
• Organization of Workshop “Action training: Practical implications and examples”. 5th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference. Melbourne, Australia, June 26-29, 2003
• Organization of Workshop (together with G. Gigerenzer) “Publishing without perishing”. 43. Congress of the DGPs (German association of psychologists). Berlin, September 22-26, 2002.
• Organization of Workshop “Psychology of Entrepreneurship”.  Thai Symposium of the Psychological Association of Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand, July 13-14, 2002.
• Organization of Workshop “Learning to publish in international journals”. Congress for Work Psychology. Nürnberg, September 19-21, 2001.
• Chair and organization of Symposium “The Underresearched I-O Psychology of Entrepreneurship”. 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Diego, USA, April 27-29, 2001.o
• Organization of Workshop “Change Management” (with Doris Fay). Giessen, September 23, 2000.
• Organization of Thematic Session (with Zhong-Ming Wang) “Making errors and organizational error culture in different national cultures”. XXVII. Int. Congress of Psychology. Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-28, 2000.
• Organization (together with Christian Friedrich) of the international conference “Success factors of micro- and small-scale enterprises in Africa: Psychological, cultural, and economic factors”. Giessen, February 24-25, 2000.
• Organization of symposium: Theory and research: European and American approaches as part of the Joint American-European Symposia on Work and Organizational and I/O Psychology. 106th APA Convention – American Psychological Congress, San Francisco, August 14-18, 1998.
• Chair of symposium: Furthering research in cross cultural psychology in IAAP. 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August 9-14, 1998.
• Organizer of invited symposium “New problems and prospects for work and Organisational Psychology in the 21st century. 5th European Congress of Psychology: A touch of Ireland. Dublin, July 7-9, 1997.
• Organizer of workshop on “Groupwork” for Kurt Lewin Institute. Amsterdam, April 7-8, 1997.
• Organizer of invited symposium with participation of Bandura, Wall, Hacker, Wang & Ilgen on “Cross-fertilization between basic and applied psychology”. XXVI. International Congress of Psychology, Montréal, Canada, August 16-21, 1996.
• Chairman and convener of workshop on “Contextual performance” for Kurt Lewin Institute (with Steven Motowidlo, Robert Roe among others). Amsterdam, April 17-18, 1996.
• Organizer and chairman (with Veronique de Keyser) of HCM Network meeting. Topic: Error management and learning from errors. Amsterdam, March 4-5, 1996.
• Convener and chairman of workshop on “Action theory”. Kurt Lewin Institute, Amsterdam, November 24-25, 1995.
• Organization of workshop “Integrating cognitive and organizational approaches to the study of computer- based systems” ECCE 7 (Seventh European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics), Bonn, September 1994 (with C. Clegg).
• Organizer and discussant in workshop (with Nigel Nicholson) “Work and Personality”. 23rd International Congress of Applied Psychology. Madrid, July 1994.
• Chair and organization of Int. Academic  Exchange in I/O-psychology with participants from Germany, England, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Rauischholzhausen, February 1994.
• Chair and organization of workshop of Fachgruppe  Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie „Zur Europäisierung der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie“. Giessen, November 1993.
• President of Work and Health Line. Conference on Work and Health, Copenhagen, January 1993.
• Chair and organization of symposium “Errors in Human-Computer Interaction” at the congress Work with Display Units, September 1992, Berlin.
• Chair and organization (with B. Zang-Scheucher) of conference „Software für die Arbeit von morgen für das Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie“, January 1991.
• Organization of workshop: Software-Entwicklung, January 1991.
• Organization of conference on „Mensch-Maschine Kommunikation“ (MMK 87) in Peiting,  November 1987.
• Chair and Organization (with Graf C. Hoyos & von Benda) of workshop „Psychologische Aspekte der Mensch-Computer Interaktion“ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (Sektion Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie) in Munich, 1986.
• Chair and organization (with H. Weiss) of the symposium “Work and Personality” at the 21st International Congress of Applied Psychology in Jerusalem, 1986.
• Chair and organization (with W. Hacker) of the symposium “action theory” at the International Congress of Psychology in Mexico, 1984.
• Chair and organization (with J. Kuhl) of symposium “Developmental Approaches to Theories of Action” at the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Toronto, August 1981.
• Chair and organization (with N. Semmer) of workshop „Beziehungen zwischen Arbeitspsychologie und Klinischer Psychologie“at the symposium „Arbeitspsychologie“of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Zürich, October 1978.

Talks at Conferences and Colloquia

• Kaur & Frese Teaching AoM Workshop Pedagogy Based on “Deliberate Learning from Failure” and “Culture Setting” Approach. Academy of Management Conference Chicago, Aug 9-13
• Glosenberg (Frese) et al. Actions and Behaviors What actions are helpful for marginalized entrepreneurs? Developing Questions inductively. Academy of Management Conference Chicago, Aug 9-13,
• Bridging Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship Research Panelist, Academy of Management Conference Chicago, Aug 9-13,
• Wilmot, M. P., Rauch, A., Saeed, S., & Frese, M. (2024). Person-Level Antecedents of Entrepreneurship: A Synthesis of Meta-Analytic Findings. Academy of Management Conference Chicago, Aug 9-13,
• Kuria, Elisabeth, Hafner, M. & Frese, M.Entreprneurial connections: Unfraveling how attachment anxiety shapes feedback in the context of entrepreneurship training. 2024 Babson College Entreprneurship Research Conference, Munich, Germany, June 5-8.
• Frese, M.: Rudimentary theory of entrepreneurship. Royal Institeu of Technology, Stockholm May 30th, 2024.
• Frese, M. African entrepeneurship: General lessons for entrepreneurship. Colloquium Universität Paderborn, May 8th, 2024.
• Wilmot, Rauch, Saeed, Frese Entrepreneurial Personality: A quantitative review and synthesis of meta-analyses. SIOP April 18-21, 2024
• Personal Initiative Training and its impact on women’s economic empowerment. Talk at East African Girls’ empowerment and Resilience (EAGER) Workshop, March, 4, 2024 Action theory as a theory of work crafting. Work Design for Success: Innovative Research and Leading Edge Practice. Curtin University, Feb 13-14 2024.
• Creative entrepreneurship in the digital economy. International Conference of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Jilin University China, Aug 12 -14, 2023
• Janina Peschmann et al. The impact of action-oriented entrepreneurship training on employment, income and business performance among younger adults. Babson Entrepreneurship Conference, June 2023
• Hafner, Frese, Kuria Examining initial transfer attempts after entrepreneurship training, Babson Entrepreneurship Conference, June 2023
• Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Behaviour, EURAM, June Dublin, 2023 (with Hubner-Benz et al.).
• Talk at UNESCO Ivory Coast on STEP training for high school students, UNESCO Commission in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Feb 1, 2023
• Invited talk: What works in entrepreneurship trainings: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Webinar Feb 1, 2023
• Bridging Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship Research. Introduction to PDW on Bridging Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship Research. 82nd Academy of Management Conference August 5, 2022 in Seattle.
• Discussant of Symposium on Advancing Asia-centric perspective of innovation. 82nd Academy of Management Conference August 8, 2022 in Seattle
• Discussant of Symposium on “Invisible Inequalities: Socioeconomic Disadvantages Affect Perception, Personality, and Motivation 82nd Academy of Management Conference August 8, 2022 in Seattle
• Seminar July 1, 2022: Universidade Nova de Lisboa Invited colloquium: Error management for indioviduals, teams, companies, and societies: Importance for safety, performance, and innovation.
• ICRIOS Seminar at Bocconi University, Milano, Italy, July 7, 2022: Towards a Psychology of Entrepreneurship.
• UN Behavior Science Week UN; talk on success factors of entrepreneurship – a toolkit sharing methods and lessons learned from the regional project that can benefit other entrepreneurship development practitioners.
• RMI-Debate on evidence base in medicine and management; Reihard Mohn Institute of Management May 28th, 2022. ‘Evidence-based management – what else’ a debate with Prof. Kieser
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, Poster April 28, 2022 Learning from Failure and from Success: Boundary Conditions of the Tune-out Effect (with D. Horvath, N. Keith, and A.Klamar)
• Lilly: Diabetes Colloquium; Fehler- und Risikomanagement April 26, 2022, Fehlerkultur in Deutschland, invited talk
• Worldbank Group Live Webinar Series Solutions for Women’s Empowerment: Women’s Entrepreneurship – Minding the Skills Gap- Does Access to Training help to improve business performance among female-owned enterprises? Moderator and Discussant, Nov 4, 2021 – Online
• Development of a cultural inventory on Asian countries and syploratory approach to predict innovation (with Jomel Wei Xuan Ng et al.) talk at 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – July 30 to August 3, 2021 – Online
• Understanding Shared Leadership for Team Creative Output: A Qualitative Study Using Whats-App Study on Creativity (with Ameek Kaur) talk at 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – July 30 to August 3, 2021 – Online
• Invited talk: Training and learning for entrepreneurship from a psychological perspective. Protestant Academy Loccum: Workshop: The innovation model of doing, using, and interacting: Learning within regions. Feb 22 – 23, 2021.
• Invited Inaugural Talk at Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship and Innovation Seminar Series – Inaugural Session. Evidence-Based Management and Entrepreneurship, Dec 9, 2020
• Glosenberg, A., Frese, M., Foster, L., Steffens, P., & Meyer, I. (2020). Personal Initiative Training for Entrepreneurs-Exploring Research and Impact Possibilities with a focus on Africa. Paper presented at the 5TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE-Nigeria 2020.
• Introduction to the SSRC project to three universities in Indonesia on the first pilotstudy on cross-cultural instrument: Binus University; University of Indonesia, and UPH (Universitas Pelita Harapan) Nov 2020
• Teow, Lee, Wang, Tripathi, Frese The Effects of Culture on Innovation Adoption: An Exploratory Study; 2019 Frontiers in Service, Singapore July 18-21.
• PDW workshop talk Mentoring graduate students. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 8-13, 2019 – Boston, USA
• Participation in two PDWs as Facilitator  HR Research Roundtable Forum and Successful Publishing for Early Career Scholars of Management in Africa. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 8-13, 2019 – Boston, USA
• Uy, Jacob, Gielnik, Frese et al. When passions collide: Emergence and consequence of passion convergence in entrepreneurial teams. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 8-13, 2019 – Boston, USA
• Panelist in Symposium Strategy and leadership in managing errors in organizations: What we know, what we should know. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 8-13, 2019 – Boston, USA
• Fehler und Recht (errors and law) Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium anlaesslich der Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwuerde der Famultaet Wirtschaftssissenschaften an Prof. Vosskuhle. July 3, 2019
• How to make use of evidence based management in entrepreneurship: The example of Personal Initiative Training, Kuala Lumpur, Asia School of Business, April 2019.
• How to make use of evidence based management in entrepreneurship: The example of Personal Initiative Training, Vancouver march 2019
• Personal Initiative Training: theory, empirical Evidence and where to go from here, HEC, Paris, November 2018
• Towards an action theory of innovation: Emotions, planning, dialectice, and sorts of confusion. Warwick Business School, 19 oct, 2018.
• Psychology at work: when research meets practice: Evidence based approaches in Management and HRM , talk for the PhD students XVI. National Congress of the Work and Organizational Psychology group in the Associazone Italiana di Psicologia, Rome 27-29 Sept 2018
• Talk with Mona Mensmann “Closing the gender gap: Personal Initiative Training and female business performance”; 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 10-14, 2018 – Chicago, USA.
• Discussant Symposium Errors in Organizations: Bridging Research Streams to Explore New Grounds; 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 10-14, 2018 – Chicago, USA.
• Personal Initiative Training for Entrepnreurs –  Talk at PDW Entrepreneurship Doctoral consortium 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 10-14, 2018 – Chicago, USA.
• Entrepreneurship in Global Settings-  Talk at PDW on Global Healthcare Management Innovation  & Entrepreneurship 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 10-14, 2018 – Chicago, USA.
• Meet Keynote Speakers and Award Winners Panel PDW Sunday, June 17 Economics and Management School of Wuhan University
• Reciprocal Relationships between Dispositional Optimism and Career Outcomes 33rd Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Chicago April 2018.
• Colloquium: Eigeninitiative-Training als erfolgreiches Training und Handlungstheorie – gibt es Verbindungen zur Kognitionspsychologie? Giessener Abendgespräche Kognition und Gehirn. April 24, University of Giessen.
• Colloquium: Personal Initiative Training: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Where to Go, UNSW Sydney, May 31, 2018.
• Errors as a Positive Resource: Error Management and Innovation. Talk at the 3M Innovation Roundtable, London, May 26, 2018.
• The centre-piece of entrepreneurship: Agency- based and action regulation. In Symposium: Rigorous Evidence on Training Interventions to Improve Entrepreneurial Success of Micro and Small Businesses in Africa: 4th Biennial Africa Academy of Management, Jan 3 – 6, 2018, Addis Ababa.
• With F. Campos, M. Goldstein, L. Iacovone, Hl. Johnson, D. McKenzie, M. Mensmann: Training personal initiative beats business Training: The Togo Study. In Symposium Rigorous Evidence on Training Interventions to Improve Entrepreneurial Success of Micro and Small Businesses in Africa: 4th Biennial Africa Academy of Management, Jan 3 – 6, 2018, Addis Ababa.
• With Kathrin Wolf: Women entrepreneurs taking action: The key role of personal initiative for spousal support and business growth after training. Presented at Diana International Research Conference, October 2017, Kansas (received best paper award)
• Podium-discussion on entrepreneurship NUS Business School 3 Nov 2017 Psychological Driver of Entrepreneurial Scucess and How to Change Key Behaviors
• India Institute of Technology, Bombay, Entrepreneurship Cell for Students, Sept 2017
• How a Scientifically Developed Entrepreneurship Training Can Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries (and How You Can Learn from This Example) – Scholarship Award Ceremony NUS Business School 11 Oct 2017
• Error Orientation Across Cultures: Evidence from the GLOBE-Study, (talk at the conference of German Work and Organizational Psychologists in Dresden 13/09 to- 15/09/2017)
• with Alexander Klamar, Dorothee Horvath, Rebecca Funken, Nina Keith
• Ungenutztes Potenzial von Fehlern: Wovon hängt ab, wie viel wir aus ihnen lernen? (talk at the conference of German Work and Organizational Psychologists in Dresden 13/09 to- 15/09/2017) ,
• with Dorothee Horvath, Nina Keith, Alexander Klamar Self-efficacy as specific confidence? Knowledge as the moderator between self-efficacy and small business success: Two-country studies. Talk at 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 6-8, 2017 – Atlanta Georgia, USA.
• Myths of Entrepreneurship, Round Table Discussion, Entrepreneurship Center, University of Lueneburg, July 2017
• Psychological Driver of Entrepreneurial Scucess and How to Change Key Behaviors
• Nairobi, Kenya, Strathmore Business School, June 2017
• Psychological Interventions of Increasing Personal Initiative to Improve Entrepreneurial Performance in Developing Countries 23rd of May, 2017: invited colloquim, ITAM, Mexico City
• 100 Years of I/O Research: Contributions from Around the Globe; 32nd Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Orlando (invited talk), April 27 to 30, 2017
• Psychological Interventions of Increasing Personal Initiative to Improve Entrepreneurial Performance in Developing Countries  27th of April 2017: Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – invited colloquium
• High-impact entrepreneurial training – using psychology to foster proactive haviour;  24th of April, 2017: Invited colloquium at Worldbank Group, Gender Innovation Lab
• Error management: Important for safety, performance, and innovation. Invited Keynote Speech at the Alumni Forum of NUS Business School, 10th of April 2017, Shenzhen, China
• Error management: Important for safety, performance, and innovation. Invited Lecture at the Academy of Huawei, Head quarter of Huawei, 10th of April 2017, Shenzhen, China
• Dynamic Performance; 9th of April 2017; invited talk at Workshop on Performance Issues, Sun Ya Tsen University, Guangzhou, China
• Psychological Interventions of Increasing Personal Initiative to Improve Entrepreneurs’ Performance in Developing Countries 7th of April 2017: The Hongkong University of Science and Technology – invited colloquium
• An Action Regulation Theory Perspective of the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Colloquium Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Nov 2016.
• What Happens After an Error Has Occurred? The Concept of Error Management
• Talk in a symposium on Errors in organizations: History, Renaissance, and Future of a Multi-dimensional construct(76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 5-9, 2016 – Anaheim, California)
•  In a nutshell: The action regulation training approach for personal initiative.  Talk at the Professional Development Workshop on active training approaches for employees and entrepreneurs. (76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 5-9, 2016 – Anaheim, California)
• Enhancing entrepreneurship under adverse conditions with psychological training. Talk a Symposium on Enhancing Entrepreneurship und Adverse Conditions (76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – August 5-9, 2016 – Anaheim, California)
•  Enhancing Entrepreneurship with Psychological Training: Theory, Applications, and Results; Talk at Invited Symposium 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, July, 2016
• Invited Colloqium: What happens after an error has occurred. The concept of error management and its effects on profitability, accidents, and learning from errors. University of Manchester, Dept. of Psychology, May 5, 2016.
• VHB Tagung, Munich, Germany: Evidenzbasierte Unternehmensführung und –politik May, 2016.
• Using I-O Psychology to make and impact on the larger society. Symposium talk, 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, April 14 – 16, Anaheim, USA.
• Causal inference in empirical research: Necessary, sufficient or neither? Talk for Opening Plenary Asian Management Research Consortium. 1st and 2nd of April 2016
• How We Can Learn from Errors and How We Can Develop a Good Error Management Culture in Hospitals Changi General Hospital AHP Lunch & Learn Series Feb 2016
• Symposium: Discussant in“Dealing with Competing Paradoxical Demands in Search of Co-existance Paradoxical Demands”, 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting,, Vancouver, Canada, 6-11 August 2015.
• Talk at Symposium“Effectuation Research: Taking Stock and Moving forward”. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 6-11 August 2015.
• Panelist in PDW Workshop: “Capacity Building in the Face of Extreme Proverty”, AoM 2015 Annual Meeting, 6-11 August, 2015, Vancouver, Canada
• Colloquium Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade de Lisbao, Portugal, June 2015, Towards a Psychology of Entrepreneurship — An Action Regulation Theory Perspective
• Talk: Job Design and Entrepreneurship, Symposium“The Future of Job Design”, 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1-5 August, 2014
• Discussant in “National Culture and Leadership: Implications from the GLOBE CEO Leadership Study”Symposium Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1-5 August, 2014
• PDW on entrepreneurial individual and Teams: Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneuirship Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1-5 August, 2014
• Implications of a Person-Centric Work Psychology
• Authors: Howard M. Weiss, Daniel R. Ilgen (Symposium Organizer), Michael Frese, Sabine Sonnentag – Sessions organized under the auspices of the Alliance for Organizational Psychology – ICAP 2014 Paris 8-13 July 2014
• Adaptivity/Adjustment and Proactivity: On the Dialectic Differences between These Concepts – Employee Adjustment: Perspectives From Different Applied Psychological Domains – Symposium,  ICAP2014,  Paris, France, 8-13 July 2014
• Round Table: IAAP United Nations Representatives and Division Presidents and Representatives discussion at ICAP 2014 Paris, 8-13 July, 2014
• Where is Work Psychology in IO Psychology? Thoughts About the Psychology of Working – Society for Organizational behavior, 2013 S.O.B. Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1-3 November 2013
• (with Kim Bischoff, Thorsten Dlugosch, Michael Gielnik) Limited Access to Capital, Start-Ups, and the Moderating Effect of an Entrepreneurship Training: Integrating Economic and Psychological Theories in the Context of New Venture Creation, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 5-8 June 2013, Lyon, France
• (with Kim Bischoff, Michael Gielnik) The Effect of An Entrepreneurship Training on The Relationship of Limited Access to Capital and Start-Ups: Complementing Economic Theories with Psychological Theories, 6th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22-25 May 2013, Münster, Germany
• (with Tom Sommerlatte) Practitioner-Scientist Debate “Innovation in Organizations”, 6th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22-25 May 2013, Münster, Germany
• (with Kathrin Rosing) Where are We With? A Dialectic Theory of Innovation , 6th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22-25 May 2013, Münster, Germany
• Position Paper Working at the cross-road between micro-economics and organizational psychology I: Towards Evidence Based Management, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie, Bielefeld, Germany, Sept. 2012
• (with Thorsten Dlugosch, Michael Marcus Gielnik) Personal Initiative and Its Role in the Entrepreneurial Process, contribution to Symposium on Leading to Proactive        Behavior: The Role of Leadership from a Multi-level Perspective, AoM 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Discussant in “Business Creation in Developing Countries: Assessing the Informal Sector”, AoM 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Talk in “Research Incubator for Exploring Tensions and Paradoxes in Creativity and Innovaion Management – Innovation Management Paradox”, AoM 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Discussant in Professional Development Workshop “JBV as a Multidisciplinary Forum for Entrepreneurship Research on the Informal Economy”, AoM 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Presenter Organizational Behavior Doctoral Cosortium Professional Development Workshop, AoM 2012, Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012,  Boston, Massachusetts.
• Discussant in Professional Development Workshop “Reconsidering the Front End of Innovation. Integrating Internal and External Idea Management”, AoM 2012  Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Discussant in Symposium “DOING GLOBAL GOOD: Psychologists at the United Nations Impact on International Issued and Invitation for Involvement”, 30th International Congress of Psychology, July 22-27, 2012, Cape Town.
• Talk in Symposium “What Do We Know About Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Africa? A Summary of Research”, 30th International Congress of Psychology, July 22-27, 2012, Cape Town.
• Discussant in Symposium/Forum “Important factors in the initiation and evaluation of proactive behaviour”, SIOP 27th Annual Conference, April 26 – 28, 2012, San Diego, California.
• (with Ronald Bledow, Kathrin Rosing) A Dynamic Perspective on Affect and Creativity, talk at SIOP 27th Annual Conference, April 26-28, 2012, San Diego, California.
• (With R. Bledow) Cross-cultural Issues of Innovation, contribution to Symposium on International Advances in Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace, SIOP 27th Annual Conference, April 26-28, 2012, San Diego, California.
• Colloquim Talk (Research Talk). Entrepreneurship; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 25th October 2011.
•  (with Kathrin Rosing and Ron Bledow) Talk Momentum: Motivational and cognitive antecedents of momentum: The force behind exploitation and exploration. Academy of Management 2011 Congress, San Antonia, Texas, 12-16th August 2011
• (with Kathrin Rosing and Ron Bledow) Talk: Organizational and Individual Process that Affect Creativity and  Innovation – A Linear Chaos Model of the Innovation Process. Academy of  Management 2011 Congress, San Antonia, Texas, 12-16th August 2011
•  (with Michael Gielnik and others) Entrepreneurial Education – Towards Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship: Evaluation of an Action-Oriented Entrepreneurship Training. Academy of Management 2011 Meeting, San Antonia, Texas, 12-16th August 2011
• Presenter at Pre-Conference Workshop (PDW): Recent Advances and Future Directions in Research on Self-Regulation – A Longitudinal Analysis of  Self-Regulated Deliberate Practice and Entrepreneurial Success. At the Academy of Management 2011 Meeting, San Antonia, Texas, 12-16th August 2011
• Presenter at Pre-Conference Workshop: Researching Entrepreneur’s Behavior: Importance and Methods. At the Academy of Management 2011 Meeting, San Antonia, Texas, 12-16th August 2011
• Invited Talk: A dialectic approach to innovation, Hamburger KolloqiumArbeit, Beruf, Organisation, Hamburg June 2011
• Publishing without perishing: How to publish in English- speaking journals with high impact rates. Workshop with Gerd Gigerenzer at the 47th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie. Bremen, 26-30th September 2010
• Training from an Action theory perspective: What we know, where we have to go and future research necessities. Talk at the 47th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie. Bremen, 26-30th September 2010
• Happy and proactive? The role of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in personal initiative. Talk with V.C. Hahn and A. Schmitt in the Symposium Passion and Proactivity: When and How does Affect at Work Fuel Self-initiated Behaviors? At the Academy of Management Annual Congress, Montreal, August 2010
• Discussant for the Symposium The Challenge to Explore and Exploit: Bridging Perspectives of Different Disciplines. At the Academy of Management Annual Congress, Montreal, August 2010
• Personal Initiative Training for Small Business Owners. Talk with M. Glaub, S. Fischer, M.Klemm, G. Solomon, K. Gramberg, C.Friedrich and L. Hass in the Symposium Advances in Understanding Change-Oriented Behaviors At the Academy of Management Annual Congress, Montreal, August 2010.
• Mind Matters: The Future of Research on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. PDW At the Academy of Management Annual Congress, Montreal, August 2010
• How Culture Interacts with Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Studies  in China, Germany, and Other Countries. Talk at 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Further steps towards a theory of the psychology of economic development of nations; Symposium on Poverty and Organizational Psychology; 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• National Cultural Values, Firm’s Cultural Orientation, Innovation and Performance: Testing Cultural Universals and Specific Contingencies Across Five Countries. Talk with Andreas Rauch at the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference in Lauzanne, June 9-12th 2010.
• How Culture Interacts with Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Studies in China, Germany, and Other Countries. Talk Brownbag Meeting China, NUS Business School, Feb 26, 2010
• Panelist in panel discussion: Psychologie in der Wirtschaftskrise (Psychology in the financial crisis). Funkkolleg Psychologie HR2, Giessen, July 9, 2009.
• Panelist in panel discussion (org. by Wayne Cascio): The limits of employee engagement. 24th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), New Orleans, USA, April 2-5, 2009.
• Leadership and innovation: What we know and need to know. Participant in Symposium/Forum (org. by Ronald Bledow). 24th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), New Orleans, USA, April 2-5, 2009.
• Changing error prevention, changing culture: From pure error prevention to error management (with N. Keith). Presentation in symposium: Transforming organizational culture in complex, dynamic environments for safety (org. Sallie Weaver). 24th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), New Orleans, USA, April 2-5, 2009.
• Wege zum Erfolg von Unternehmern: Psychologie des Unternehmertums. Science4Life Initiative, Hessische Landesvertretung Berlin, March 5, 2009.
• Evidence-based management and entrepreneurship (EBME): A systematic approach to cumulative science. 6. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung (AKEMPOR). Rauischholzhausen, Germany, November 14-15, 2008.
• Fuehren und Motivieren im 21. Jahrhundert. 9. Schmalenbach-Unternehmerforum in Halver, Germany. October 24, 2008.
• with Oliver Schlösser: Humane orientation and agreeableness as cultural  dimensions: Individual-level measures vs. culture-level measures. 19th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Bremen, Germany, July 27-31, 2008.
• Personal initiative at work and work-related well-being: Why is there no relationship? Presentation in Symposium (org. Beate Muschalla): Workplace and anxiety. XXIX. International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany, July 20-25, 2008.
• Psychologie des Unternehmertums. 7. Kongress für Wirtschaftspsychologie (BdP). Stuttgart/Fellbach, April 28, 2008.
• Personal initiative and health – relationships and question marks (talk and workshop). International Seminar on Positive Occupational Health Psychology (org. Marisa Salanova & Wilmar Schaufeli), Castellón/Spain, April 24-26, 2008.
• Poverty reduction through psychological research on business owners in Africa. Presentation in Symposium (org. Walter Reichman): Organizational psychologists and world poverty. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Francisco, USA, April 10-12, 2008.
• Panelist in panel (submitted by Denise Rousseau) on: How I/O psychology can contribute to evidence-based management. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Francisco, USA, April 10-12, 2008.
• Enabling innovation in organizations. Presentation at SIOP Leading Edge Consortium. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Francisco, USA, April 10-12, 2008.
• Panelist in panel (submitted by James Farr): Creative and innovative processes in teams: Dealing with inherent messiness. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Francisco, USA, April 10-12, 2008.
• Panelist at Special Event: SIOP’s new journal: Continuing the dialog on employee engagement. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), San Francisco, USA, April 10-12, 2008.
• Unternehmer in Entwicklungslaendern aus psychologischer Sicht: Was macht Unternehmer erfolgreich? Talk at 133. Plenarsitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats BMZ, February 28, 2008.
• Personal initiative and entrepreneurship: Individual contributions to organizational growth and development. Talk at Singapore Management University, January 2008.
• Learning from errors. Talk at National University of Singapore, January 2008.
• Ein aktives Konzept der Performanz in der Arbeits- und Organisationpsychologie: Entwicklungen und neue Forschungsfragen. 5. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Trier, September 19-21, 2007.
• Humane orientation construct and its ties to change adaptation (with Schloesser). Presentation at the Academy of Management Meeting. Philadelphia, August 3-8, 2007.
• Action theory and its value for entrepreneurship (with Unger). Panel discussion symposium “The value of applying psychological perspectives to entrepreneurship”. 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 16-21, 2007.
• Cross-cultural perspectives in strategic entrepreneurship among small and medium-sized enterprises. Discussant at symposium (org. by Zhong-Ming Wang). 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 16-21, 2007.
• The role of applied psychology in the development and implementation of public policy. Symposium (chaired together with John Berry): Psychology and policy orientation. 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 16-21, 2007.
• Cross-cultural issues of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Conference (org. by MPI/Werner Bönte). Berlin, July 12, 2007.
• The Psychology of Entrepreneurship. State-of-the-Art presentation. 11th European Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-6, 2007.
• EMBA Snap Shot. Third Advisory Board Meeting European Utility Management. Oslo, Norway, May 11, 2007.
• Training psychological skills for entrepreneurial success. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education. 4th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange. Brisbane Graduate School of Business. Brisbane, Australia, February 6, 2007.
• How culture interacts with entrepreneurship. Presentation for Research Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Brisbane Graduate School of Business. Brisbane, Australia, February 5, 2007.
• Evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic approach to cumulative science (with Bausch, Schmidt, Rauch, & Kabst). 10. Interdisziplinaere Jahreskonferenz fuer die Gruendungsforschung (G-Forum 2006). Berlin, November 9-10, 2006.
• Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse der Psychologie. Der Transfer von Kreation zu Akzeptanz und Anwendung in der Gesellschaft. Panel discussion with Spiel, Silbereisen, Hasselhorn, Wottawa. 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft  fuer Psychologie (DGPs). Nuernberg, September 17-21, 2006.
• How to use applied psychology in Africa. Talk at Uganda Society of Applied Psychology (USAP). Kampala, Uganda, September 13, 2006.
• Antecedents of proactive  ehaviour: The role of person-related variables. Discussant at symposium (org. by Mike Crant). 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Dallas/Texas, USA, May 5-7, 2006.
• Psychologische Faktoren in der Entrepreneurship-Forschung. 4. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie. Bonn. September 19-21, 2005.
• Building a safer health system: Managing and learning from errors in hospitals. Discussant at symposium chaired by David Hofmann. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu/Hawaii. August 5-10, 2005.
• Configurations of small and micro businesses and success. Author at symposium New venture performance: Effects of financing, governance and alliances chaired by Scott Newbert. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu/Hawaii. August 5-10, 2005.
• Who the entrepreneur is vs. what the entrepreneur does: Comparing two dominant approaches. Author at symposium Entrepreneurship and new ventures chaired by Rory O’Shea. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu/Hawaii. August 5-10, 2005.
• Learning entrepreneurship. Presenter at workshop organized by Barbara Bird. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu/Hawaii. August 5-10, 2005.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual contributions to organizational growth and development. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. April 18, 2005
• Towards a concept of planning: A facet success in entrepreneurship. Symposium (org. Robert Baron) New ventures : A fertile ground for testing and refining I-O’s theories. 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Los Angeles, USA. April 15-17, 2005.
• With Nina Keith: Performance effects of error management training: A meta-analysis. Symposium (org. David Hofmann) Managing errors in organizations. 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Los Angeles, USA. April 15-17, 2005.
• Personal initiative training for small business owners: Evaluation studies in South Africa and Germany. Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER). University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. February 2-4, 2005.
• Eigeninitiative und Unternehmertum: Konzepte und Implikationen. Universität Bielefeld. November 29, 2004.
• Action theory as a theory of performance. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. October 25, 2004.
• Intolerance, terrorism and community policing (Moderator for symposium). 57th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO conference “Millennium Development Goals: Civil society takes action”. United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA. September 8-10, 2004.
• Cross-cultural issues of entrepreneurship: Data speculations. Contribution in symposium (org. by Zhong-Ming Wang): Culture and strategies in entrepreneurship and innovation. 28th International Congress of Psychology, Bejing, China. August 8-13, 2004.
• Lecture (with Robert Baum): SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: Entrepreneurship. 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Chicago, USA. April 2, 2004.
• Individual differences in self-regulatory effectiveness. Discussant at symposium org. by Phillip Mangos. 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Chicago, USA. April 2, 2004.
• The psychology of entrepreneurship. University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Business Administration, Chicago, USA. April 1, 2004.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. University of California at Irvine, Graduate School of Management, Irvine, USA. March 17, 2004.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. March 15, 2004.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. Instituto Mexicano de Investigacion de Familia y Poblacion. Mexico. March 11, 2004.
• Personal initiative in achievement situations: Theory and empirical evidence. University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Psychology, Philadelphia, USA. March 9, 2004.
• Psychological factors for entrepreneurial success: A new look at an old problem Babson College, Babson Park, USA. February 12, 2004.
• Learning from errors: Results and speculations from training research and research on organizational culture. Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.  February 11, 2004
• Personal initiative: The concept and its ramifications. University of Michigan, Business School. January 21, 2004.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. University of North Carolina, The Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, USA. October 31, 2003.
• Entrepreneurship and personal initiative: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. University of Maryland Business School, College Park, USA. October 3, 2003.
• Personal initiative and entrepreneurship: Individual level contributions to organizational growth and development. New York University. September 29, 2003.
• Learning from errors. University of Maryland, Department of Psychology. College Park, USA. September 15, 2003.
• Unternehmertum und Eigeninitiative: Neue Performanzkonzepte der Organisationspsychologie. Technische Universität Braunschweig. July 9, 2003.
• With Andreas Bausch: Pre-planning and success in entrepreneurship: Towards developing evidence-based best practice. 2003 Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference. Babson Park, USA. June 5-7, 2003.
• Occupational health and safety: Encompassing personality, emotion, teams, and  Automation. Discussant at symposium org. by Craig Wallace. 18th Annual  Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Orlando, USA. April 11-13, 2003.
• Going global? Link with counterparts around the world through the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP). Participant at Roundtable symposium  org.by Virginia Schein (Div. 1 President IAAP). 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Orlando, USA.  April 11-13, 2003.
• With Nina Keith & Leonore Schulze: Processes in error training: Metacognition, Achievement motivation, and learning strategies. Symposium: Active Learning,  Critical elements, instructional supports, and learning processes. 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Orlando, USA. April 11-13, 2003.
• Action errors, learning from errors, and error training. University of Cape Town,  Department of Psychology, South Africa. March 2003.
• Action training. University of the Western Cape, Department of Management, South Africa. March 2003.
• Leadership and culture. University of the Western Cape, Department of  Management, South Africa. March 2003.
• Learning from errors. London Business School. November 29, 2002.
• with Andreas Bausch & Peter Schmidt: Evidence-based best practice: A new approach for entrepreneurship. 29th International Small Business Congress (ISBC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 27-30, 2002.
• with Peter Schmidt: Evidence based best practice: Ein neuer brauchbarer Ansatz in der angewandten Psychologie. Positionsreferat. 43. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Berlin, Germany. September 22-26, 2002.
• with S. Krauss: Micro-business owners action strategies and new venture success: Longitudinal evidence from Africa. In symposium org. by J. Robert Baum  “Entrepreneurial behavior: OB and new venture creation.” 62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver, Col., USA. August 9-14, 2002.
• Psychological factors for entrepreneurial success in developing countries. IFC/Worldbank, Washington, USA. April 15, 2002.
• with D. van der Linden: Fatigue, strategies, and performance. Symposium “Performance: The forgotten criterion variable in occupational stress research”. 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational  Psychology (SIOP). Toronto, Canada. April 12-14, 2002.
• Error prevention and error management in the medical setting. Presentation and panel discussion “Applying I-O psychology to research on medical error/patient safety”. 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Toronto, Canada, April 12-14, 2002.
• A psychological model of entrepreneurial success. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, August 7, 2001.
• Taking charge and initiative: An active approach to work, organizations, and Entrepreneurship. Faculdade Ruy Barbosa,Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, August 6, 2001
• with A. Giardini: Affective complementarity in service interactions. Presentation in symposium “Soft factors in a soft area”. 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). San Diego, USA, April 27-29, 2001.
• with A. Granados: The impact of training on goal orientation. Presentation in symposium “New directions in goal orientation: Exploring the construct and its measurement”. 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). San Diego, USA, April 27-29, 2001.
• Soft Skills / Vereinbarkeit Gründung und soziales Umfeld. Gründe 2000. Marburger Infoparty für Existenzgründer und Jungunternehmer. Marburg, November 18, 2000.
• Risiko- und Fehlermanagement. Seminar. Haus der Technik e.V. Essen, October 26-27, 2000.
• Welche Massnahmen greifen bei psychomentalen Belastungen. Arbeitsmedizinische Herbsttagung des Verbandes Deutscher Betriebs- und Werksärzte e.V.. Aachen, October 17-20, 2000.
• Theorien von Change Management. Workshop Economics of Cultural Change. Kassel, September 21-22, 2000.
• Ein psychologisches Modell unternehmerischen Erfolgs und empirische Ergebnisse. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Jena, September 24-28, 2000.
• Innovation and initiative. Invited symposium (directed by U. Staudinger) “Human strengths: Facets of positive psychology”. XXVII. Int. Congress of Psychology. Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-28, 2000.
• with S. Krauss & C. Friedrich: Psychological action strategy characteristics in African business owners and success: Results from three studies in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Babson College, Babson Park, MA, June 7-11, 2000.
• with A. Rauch:  Employees in entrepreneurial companies: A longitudinal study on strategies related to employees and small scale business success. Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Babson College, Babson Park, MA, June 7-11, 2000.
• Action strategies of small-scale entrepreneurs and success. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel, March 14, 2000.
• Action strategies of small-scale entrepreneurs and success. Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa, Israel, March 12, 2000.
• with J. Zempel: Erwerbslosigkeit in den Neuen Bundesländern – Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittstudie. Kongress fuer Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Berlin, February 25-29, 2000.
• Micro-approaches to micro-business: How useful are psychological models for business growth in developing countries? International conference on “Success factors of micro- and small-scale enterprises in Africa: Psychological, cultural and economic factors”. Giessen, February 24-25, 2000.
• with Dimitri van der Linden: Action errors and strategies. Hull, February 17, 2000.
• Personal initiative as a new concept for organizational ehaviour. Aston Business School. University of Aston. Birmingham, December 1, 1999.
• What kind of performance concept do we need in work and organizational psychology? University of Sheffield. Sheffield, November 30, 1999.
• Innovation, Strategien und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg bei klein- und mittelständischen Unternehmen. NEWWORK – Technologiekonferenz Mittelhessen. Wetzlar, November 23, 1999.
• Towards a concept of performance.  London Business School. London, November 10, 1999.
• An action theory approach to cross-cultural issues in entrepreneurship research. International conference on Human Resource Management from a cross-cultural perspective. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, October 27-29, 1999.
• Psychological strategies of small business owners. London Business School. London, October 21, 1999.
• Personal initiative and active strategies in entrepreneurship. Goldsmith College, University of London. London, October 11, 1999.
• Ein psychologisches Modell von Gründungserfolg. G-Forum – 3. Inter- disziplinäres Gründungsforschungs-Forum für die deutschsprachige Gründungsforschung. Köln, October 8, 1999.
• Action errors: The work and organizational psychology perspective. Kolloquium. Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition). Berlin, October 7, 1999.
• with D. Heimbeck: Fehlertraining und motivationale Orientierung. 1. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der DGPs. Marburg, September 15-17, 1999.
• with S. Krauss: Innovation und Eigeninitiative: Psychologische Erfolgsfaktoren von Kleinunternehmern in Zimbabwe. 1. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der DGPs. Marburg, September 15-17, 1999.
• Strategien bei Unternehmern im kulturellen Kontext: Was laesst sich generalisieren und was nicht? FORAREA-Konferenz: Unternehmertum im regional-kulturellen Kontext. Schloss Thurnau, November 27-28, 1998.
• Videokonferenz/Synchrone Telekooperation. POLIKOM-Konferenz, Bonn, Germany, November 24, 1998.
• Active behaviour, psychological strategies and high performance. London Business School, November 20, 1998.
• with D. Fay: Eigeninitiative und Arbeitsplatzwechsel in einer Umbruchsituation. 41st Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Dresden, Germany, September 27-October 1, 1998.
• Handlungstheorie angewandt: Strategien und Erfolg bei Kleinunternehmern. 41st Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Dresden, Germany, September 27-October 1, 1998.
• Erfolgsfaktoren für KMU am Standort Jena – Ergebnisse einer Analyse. Technologie- und Gründerforum Jena, Jena, September 23-24, 1998.
• How to plan as a business owner: Psychological process characteristics of action strategies and success. Colloquium at College of Williams and Mary, Williamsburg, September 4, 1998.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. University of Maryland, Washington, September 3, 1998.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. Pennsylvania State University, August 31, 1998.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 28, 1998.
• Personal initiative: A concept for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, August 25, 1998.
• Panel with P. Chen, L. Cames, D. Zapf & S. Jex: The role of negative affectivity in reports of job stressors and astrains: Measures and mechanisms. 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August 9-14, 1998.
• with C. van Dyck: Error climate: The opportunities for organizational learning, innovation, and long term success. Presentation as part of symposium: Mental ability, complex problem solving and practical intelligence as predictors of management success. 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August 9-14, 1998.
• with M. van Gelderen: Strategy process as a characteristic of small-scale business owners. Relationship with success. International Congress of Entrepreneurship, Babson College/Kauffman Foundation, Gent, Belgium, May 20-24, 1998.
• with A. Rauch: Planning environmental hostility and small business I: A contingency approach on the relationship between planning of small business owners and their success. International Congress of Entrepreneurship, Babson College/Kauffman Foundation, Gent, Belgium, May 20-24, 1998.
• Eigeninitiative: Ein Modell der beruflichen Sozialisation eines motivationspsychologischen Konzepts. Kongress „Motivationspsychologie der Ontogenese“, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin. Berlin, May 8-10, 1998.
• Work and organizational psychology in the future. Managementdag: De confrontatie in the top: Psychologie of economie (organized by the A & O Studentenfractie in Amsterdam). Amsterdam, January 21, 1998.
• Persönlichkeit, Strategien und Erfolg bei Kleinunternehmern. Symposium „Determinanten unternehmerisch erfolgreichen Verhaltens“. Giessen/Rauischholzhausen, September 18-19, 1997.
• New problems and prospects for work and organizational psychology in the 21st century. Lecture as part of the symposium (organized by M. Frese) with the same title. 5th European Congress of Psychology: A touch of Ireland, Dublin, July 9, 1997.
• Error training. Workshop of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, Melbourne University Business School, Australia, June 30-July 1, 1997.
• Error training: A new form of training. 2nd Biennial Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, Australia, June 27-29, 1997.
• with A.Rauch: Does planning matter: Relations between planning and success in small enterprises in Ireland and Germany. 42nd ICSB World Conference, San Franciso, California, US, June 21-24, 1997.
• Cross-cultural issues of entrepreneurship and personal initiative. University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, June 18, 1997.
• Communication through scientific journals in work and organizational psychology:    Future trends and challenges. Gatekeepers’ views. ENOP Annual Symposium 1997, Paris, March 20-22, 1997.
• Management errors and error management. London Business School, London, February 6, 1997.
• The future of work. 1e Amsterdamse Psychologie-Bedrijvendag, University of Amsterdam. October 31, 1996.
• Zur Funktion von Reintellektualisierung im Handlungsprozess. Symposium Wissen und Handeln (Org. H. Mandl). 40. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Munich, September 22-26, 1996.
• with C. van Dyck: Error management: Concept to error prevention in technical  system design. Symposium on “Human error and ergonomics” (Dir. De Keyser). XXVI. International Congress of Psychology. Montréal, Canada. August 18, 1996.
• with C. van Dyck: Error management: Leaning from errors and organizational design. Academy of Management Congress “Learning from unusual events”. Cincinnati, Ohio.  August 9-14, 1996.
• with S. Sonnentag: Superworkers work differently: An action theory approach. Academy of Management Congress “Learning from unusual events”. Cincinnati, Ohio.  August 9-14, 1996.
• Error management and recovery in technical system design. ICESA ’96 Multiconference. Symposium on Robotics and Cybernetics. Lille, France, July 1996.
• Preparing work and organizational psychology for the 21st Century: Self-reliance at work. Inauguration, University of Amsterdam, June 5, 1996.
• Das Konzept der Eigeninitiative: Eine Längsschnittuntersuchung in Ostdeutschland. University of Konstanz, May 6, 1996.
• Initiative in East-Germany: A longitudinal study. Seminaire du Midi, University of Montréal, April 25, 1996.
• Human factors. The Third Annual Aircraft Quality Conference. Amsterdam, March 6-7, 1996.
• Personal initiative at the work place: The concept and research findings. Conference on Work Motivation in the Context of a Globalizing Economy. Ein-Gedi, Israel, February 23-24, 1996.
• Action errors and error management. Invited colloquium, University of Hull, February 8, 1996.
• Management training. International cross-disciplinary workshop on leadership development. Sydney, January 2-5, 1996.
• Psychosocial health and initiative. Presented at the First Dutch Conference on Psychology and Health. Kerkrade, November 5-8, 1995.
• Personal initiative. Results from a longitudinal study in East Germany. Presented at the Kurt Levin-Institute. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, November 1, 1995.
• The Error Orientation Questionnaire: Reliability and validity data. Presented to the Human Capital and Mobility Network on Human Error Prevention. Liége, October 31, 1995.
• with S.Remdisch: The role of the “Meister” (supervisor) for the success of group work. Quantitative data and qualitative long-term observations. Presentation in workshop Participative Management of Work Groups. Participation, work motivation, and performance in groups. University of Dortmund, Dortmund, October 19-20, 1995.
• with D. Fay: Entscheidungsspielraum und Eigeninitiative: Herausforderung für das Management. Arbeitskonferenz Herausforderung des Managements. Wandel industrieller Organisationen in Ostdeutschland. Konferenz der Kommission für die Erforschung des sozialen und politischen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern, Universität Jena, Jena,  September 28-29, 1995.
• Error management: An alternative concept to error prevention in organizations and in technical system design. 6th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 27-29, 1995.
• Fluidity and intellectualisation of work: Implications for future work and organizational psychology. Saville & Holdsworth, London, June 1, 1995.
• The review in process from the perspective of a European editor. Contribution to panel discussion: Trained to be a competent reviewer: A neglected but critical issue. Tenth Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, Florida. May 21, 1995.
• Action errors. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Business Administration. Jerusalem, April 4, 1995.
• Wie man ein Unternehmen gründet. Ein Dialog mit Spezialisten der Branche. 6.    Deutscher Absolventen-Kongress. Cologne,  1994.
• with S. Sonnentag: Planning processes in software designers. Workshop “Integrating cognitive and organizational approaches to the study of computer-based system” at ECCE 7 (Seventh European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics). Bonn, September 5-8, 1994.
• Control at work, self-efficacy and control rejection, and personal initiative in East and West Germany: A longitudinal study. Academy of Management, August 1994.
• Inertia in the midst of change: On the problem of humans dealing with revolutionary societal change. Symposium at the 23rd International Congress of Applied Psychology. Madrid, July 20, 1994.
• Error management: An alternative concept to error prevention in organizations and in technical design. Symposium at the 23rd International Congress of Applied Psychology. Madrid, July 18, 1994.
• with S. Heinz: Psychological success factors of small scale entrepreneurs in East Germany. INSEAD Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Fountainebleau, June 30, 1994.
• Fehlermanagement: Ein Überblick. Second workshop on Errors (organized by Daimler-Benz). Berlin, April 28, 1994.
• Initiative in East Germany: A longitudinal study. Michigan State University, East Lansing, April 14, 1994.
• Action errors, error prevention and error management. University of Akron, Ohio, April 12, 1994.
• Control, stress, and performance. University of Massachusetts at Lowell, April 11, 1994.
• Initiative in East Germany: A longitudinal study. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 6, 1994.
• Initiative in East Germany: A longitudinal study.  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 5, 1994.
• Initiative in East Germany: A longitudinal study. Birkbeck College, University of London. London, March 10, 1994.
• Richtlinien zu Stress am Arbeitsplatz. Lecture held at Workshop „Zur Europäisierung der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie“, Giessen, November 11-12, 1993.
• Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit. Konferenz der ADIA-Stiftung „Ungerechtigkeiten der Arbeitslosigkeit“. Berlin, October 27-29, 1993.
• Entwicklungen der Arbeitspsychologie in Deutschland.  8. Zürcher Symposium Arbeitspsychologie. Zürich, September 27-29, 1993.
• Eigeninitiative und Gesundheit im Osten Deutschlands: Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittstudie. Lecture held at Technische Universität Dresden, July 5, 1993.
• Training für die Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie, University of Dortmund. Dortmund, April 29, 1993.
• Psychologische Aspekte der Softwareentwicklung. DVG Hannover. Hannover, April 26, 1993.
• Fehlermanagement bei Softwareentwicklung, -beratung und –schulung. Lecture held at Technologie- und Innovationsforum, DATEV I, March 4, 1993.
• Eigeninitiative in den neuen Bundesländern. Colloquium I/O-Psychology, University of Munich, February 3, 1993.
• Handlungsfehler in der Arbeit: Felduntersuchungen in der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Max-Planck-Institut für Psychologische Forschung, Munich, November 26, 1992.
• From socialism to capitalism: Psychological problems in East Germany. Colloquium, London Business School, Center for Organizational Research. London, October 16, 1992.
• Initiative taking in East Germany. Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, October 12, 1992.
• Aktives Handeln im Betrieb und Eigeninitiative. Vortrag auf dem Symposium „Rekonstruktion des Wirtschaftsstandortes Thüringen. Probleme und Strategien für Arbeit und Umwelt“. Jena,  October 28-29, 1992.
• Arbeitsstrukturen in ihrer Wirkung auf Krankheiten, Fehlzeiten und Arbeitsproduktivität. Evang. Akademie, Munich 15.10.1992.
• Softwareergonomische Überlegungen zu graphischen Oberflächen: Aufgaben für Gegenwart und Zukunft. PC- Windows Konferenz, Frankfurt, October 14-17, 1992.
• with K. Gail: Emotionen in der Arbeit: Das Beispiel Software-Entwickler. 38. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Trier, 28.9. – 1.10.1992.
• Eigeninitiative in den fünf  Neuen Bundesländern: Das Konstrukt und die Einflussfaktoren. 38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Trier, 28.9. – 1.10.1992.
• The role of errors in learning. NATO workshop “Organizational Learning and Technological Change”, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), September 22-26, 1992.
• Conceptual and methodological issues in studies on stress and VDT use. Work with Display Units, Berlin, September 1-4, 1992.
• Psychological issues of software-development. Work with Display Units, Berlin, September 1-4, 1992.
• An introduction to the concept of error management. Work with Display Units, Berlin, September 1-4, 1992.
• Changes in the work situation and attitudes in East Germany after the introduction of capitalism. XXV. International Congress of Psychology in Brussels, July 19-24, 1992.
• Designing Interfaces. Workshop as part of the Summer School in Tilburg, The Netherlands, July 16, 1992.
• Software design with a special emphasis on error management. Society for Industrial and Organization Psychology, Congress, Montreal, May 1, 1992.
• Taking an active initiative. A lost skill in East Germany? XIIth Annual ENOP Symposium, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, April 2-3, 1992.
• Fehler bei der Arbeit mit dem Computer: Empirische Ergebnisse und  niziative lisatio für Software-Entwicklung, -beratung und –schulung. Conference on Software-Marketing in Nürnberg, March 30-31, 1992.
• Probleme der Mensch-Computer Interaktion: Ein Blick auf die Arbeit der Softwareentwickler. Lecture, Dept. of Psychology, University of Dortmund. Jan. 23, 1992.
• Verbesserung von Projektgruppenarbeit. Einführungsvortrag des Meetings der SOBA Unternehmensberatung. Siegen, Dec. 12, 1991.
• Workshop: Software Ergonomie, SOBA Unternehmensberatung. Berlin, Dec. 5, 1991.
• with D. Zapf: Human errors and the design of computer systems. Paper presented at the MODEM workshop on Cognitive problems in working life: The design of computer systems and interfaces. Uppsala, Sweden, December 2-4, 1991.
• Psychological aspects of interface design. Workshop, Tilburg, Holland, Oct. 11, 1991.
• Errors in human-computer interaction. Lecture, Utrecht, Holland, Oct. 4, 1991.
• with S. Hilligloh: Die Gewinner und Verlierer der Einheit Deutschlands: Arbeitsplatzbezogene Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittuntersuchung in Ostdeutschland. 1. Deutscher Psychologentag, Dresden, September 19-22, 1991.
• Software-Entwicklung als Tätigkeitsentwurf. 1. Deutscher Psychologentag, Dresden, Sept. 19-22, 1991.
• Einführung durch den Organisator (als Sprecher der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie in der DGfPs). 7. Zürcher Symposium Arbeitspsychologie, Sept. 9-11, 1991.
• Error management and error prevention: two strategies to deal with errors in software design. Ivth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Stuttgart, Sept. 2-6, 1991.
• Psychologische Aspekte der Schichtarbeit. Arbeitsmedizinische Fort- und Weiterbildung. München, 15. July, 1991.
• Wie geht man mit menschlichen Fehlern um? Vorschläge für die Bereiche Training, Systemanalyse und Management. ABO-Workshop Rhein-Main des BdP, Giessen, June 22, 1991.
• Psychologische Aspekte im Umgang mit Computern in der Arbeitswelt, Workshop, München, June 7-8, 1991.
• Changing working conditions in the former German Democratic Republic: Preliminary results from research studies on stress factors. Lecture, 6th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. St. Louis, April 24 – 28, 1991.
• Action Errors. Lecture Cognitive Science Group,University of Pennsylvania. April 19, 1991.
• with W. Stolte: Software design and the use of tools: Who controls whom? Lecture at the 5th European Congress, The psychology of Work and Organization. Rouen, 24- 27 March, 1991.
• The concept of error management. Lecture at the 5th European Congress, The psychology of Work and Organization. Rouen, 24- 27 March 1991.
• with C. Irmer & H. Prümper: Das Konzept Fehlermanagement: Eine Strategie des Umgangs mit Handlungsfehlern in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Software für die Arbeit von Morgen. Symposium, Munich, Germany, January 28 – 29, 1991.
• Einführung durch den Organisator. Software für die Arbeit von Morgen. Symposium, Munich, Germany, January 28 – 29, 1991.
• Handlungsfehler. Institut für Psychologie. Bern, Nov. 22, 1990.
• with D. Zapf: Fehler in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion: Empirische Beobachtungen am Arbeitsplatz und praktische Konsequenzen. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Kiel, Sept. 23-27, 1990.
• Issues in training. Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of the Philipines, Manila, August 7, 1990.
• Action errors. Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of the Philipines, Manila, July 30, 1990.
• Stress at work: Comparing two longitudinal studies of 1 ½ years and 6 years. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Kyoto, July 22 – 27, 1990.
• Action errors and mental load. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Kyoto, July 22 – 27, 1990.
• Die Entwicklung von Eigeninitiative: Fortbildungsveranstaltung der Hypo Bank für DDR- Manager, July 19, 1990.
• Psychische und psychosomatische Auswirkungen von Schichtarbeit. Bayerische Akademie für Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin München, July 9, 1990
• Handlungsfehler in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Institut für Psychologie, Wuppertal, June 1990.
• Die Aufgaben eines Software-Entwicklers. Arbeitsverfahren in der Software-Entwicklung. Workshop, May 16-18, 1990.
• Training in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. New York, UNICEF, Internal study group. April 17, 1990.
• Errors in Human-Computer Interaction: Results of observations at the work place. Utrecht, March 14, 1990.
• Stress am Arbeitsplatz und psychische Gesundheit: Ein Überblick. Lecture, Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie in Berlin, February 19-23, 1990.
• Action theory: An introduction. Lecture at the University of Zimbabwe, Work Psychology Area. Harare January 8, 1990.
• Moderators in stress at work. Lecture Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale Appliquée. Université René Descartes. Paris, December 11, 1989.
• Moderatoren des Zusammenhangs von Stress am Arbeitsplatz und Befinden. Symposium Psychosoziale Faktoren im Arbeitsprozess und Gesundheit. Dresden, October 24 – 27, 1989.
• Arbeit und Emotion. Workshop: Technologie – Wirkung Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologen, 15th Congress for Angewandte Psychologie München, October 5 – 8, 1989.
• Arbeitswelt und Informationstechnologie: Organisations- und arbeitspsychologische Fragen.Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, October 4, 1989.
• Health impact of working with computers. First European Summer School. Berlin. Sept. 15, 1989.
• Project FAUST. Lecture in the Workshop, Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Zürich, Sept. 12, 1989.
• Coping with work stress and job loss. First International Conference on “Crises and loss experiences in the adult years.” University of Trier, July 17- 21, 1989.
• A taxonomy for action errors. Lecture, Risö Institute. Risö, Denmark. July, 14, 1989.
• Psychische und psychosomatische Auswirkungen von Schichtarbeit. Bayerische Akademie für Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin München, July 10, 1989.
• Nutzungs- und Funktionsprobleme bei der Arbeit mit Software. Workshop of the project FAUST, München, July 7, 1989.
• Action styles and performance. The role of planfulness and goal-orientation. Talk at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences Meeting in Heidelberg, June 22- 25, 1989.
• German research on stress at work. Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of APA), Boston. April 28, 1989.
• Training for human computer interaction. Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania. April 27, 1989.
• Stress at work.  Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania. April 12, 1989.
• Comparison of industrial and organizational psychology in Germany and in the USA. Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania. April 12, 1989.
• Stress at work. University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology. April 11, 1989.
• German action theory. University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology. April, 11, 1989.
• Training in Human-Computer Interaction. University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology. April 10, 1989.
• Occupational socialization. University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology. April 10, 1989.
• Issues in occupational health: The role of psychological stress at work. Cincinnati, Ohio, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. April 7, 1989.
• Errors in human computer interaction. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. April 5, 1989.
• Moderators of stress at work: Control and social support. Dept. of Sociology, John Hopkins University. April 3, 1989,.
• Stress at work and its moderators. Dept. of Psychology. University of Minnesota. March 28, 1989.
• Errors in human actions. Institute for Learning, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. March 27, 1989.
• Errors in action. Institute for Learning, Palo Alto, Calif. March 17, 1989.
• Stress at work and its moderators. Dept. of Psychology, University of Berkeley. March 15, 1989.
• Stress at work and prevention of stress. Flowerree Symposium at Tulane University in New Orleans. March, 10, 1989.
• Errors and new technology. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 7, 1989.
• Errors in human computer interaction. March, 2, 1989, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Graduate School of Business Administration.
• Moderators of stress at work: Control and social support. Febr. 28, 89, East Lansing, Michigan State University, Dept. of Psychology.
• Objective characteristics of work stress. Conference of the American Public Health Association, Boston, November 1988.
• Stress at work, social support and control. Colloqium Dept. of Psychology of New York University, New York, November 1, 1988.
• Errors in human actions. Lecture in the Software Ergonomics group of the IBM Watson Research Center, Yorkstown, N.Y., October 27, 1988.
• Action errors in the work with computers. Lecture for the Cognitive Science Colloqium of Pennsylvania State Univ., October 20, 1988.
• Training zur Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. 36. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Berlin, October 1988.
• Errors in human computer interaction. Lecture on the Workshop of Projektträgers Humanisierung des Arbeitslebens with Swedish and German participation. Stuttgart, 1988.
• Training der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Colloqium at the University of Braunschweig, Dept. of Psychology. June 21, 1988.
• Stress am Arbeitsplatz. Lecture Volkswagenwerk, Braunschweig, June 20, 1988.
• Kontrollierbarkeit und Fehlerbehandlung in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. Lecture, University of Aachen, June 1, 1988.
• Papstein, P. von & Frese, M.: Organizational issues on effective use of interfaces. 17. Mai 1988. Chi’88. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Washington, May 15 – 19, 1988.
• Stress und neue Techniken. Berlin, Dept. of Sociology, April 1988.
• Zur Fehlersystematik in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. 34. Arbeitswissenschaftlicher Kongreß March 17 – 18, 1988 RWTH Aachen.
• Stress Management– An introduction. Berlin, Gesellschaft für Organisations- entwicklung, October 1987.
• Some person specific ways of dealing with problems: The concept of action styles. Berlin, Wolfgang Köhler Symposium, October 1987.
• Training und Transfer von Fertigkeiten im Mensch-Computer Bereich. 3. Hohenheimer Gesprächstage zur Organisationspsychologie. September 1987.
• with Wendel, R.: Developing exploratory strategies in training: The general approach and specific example of manual use. Stuttgart, INTERACT, September 1987.
• The effects of an active development of the mental model in the training process: Experimental results on a word processing system. Poster, Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York, August 1987.
• A concept of control: Implications for stress and performance in human-computer interaction. Second International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Haiwai (U.S.A.), August 1987.
• Research in training/error taxonomy. L’ergonomie et la psychologie face a l’information du travail. French-German workshop, Arc et Senans, June 1987.
• Psychologische Forschungen zum Training von Fertigkeiten im Mensch-Computer Bereich. Arbeits- und organisationspsychologisches Colloquium, München, May 1987.
• With Schulte-Göcking, H. & Altmann, A. Lernprozesse in Abhängigkeit von der Trainingsmethode von Personenmerkmalen und von der Benutzeroberfläche (direkte Manipulation vs. Konventionelle Interaktion). Software Ergonomie ‚87, Berlin, April 1987.
• The treatment of errors in training. Workshop “What and how to teach in information technology”. Bad Homburg, April 1987.
• Eine Theorie der Eigenkontrolle: Implikationen für Stress und Leistung in der Mensch-Computer Interaktion. 33. Arbeitswissenschaftlicher Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft in Berlin, March, 1987.
• Die Bewältigung von Akzeptanzproblemen bei der Einführung neuer Technologien am Arbeitsplatz. IBM Frankfurt, September, 1986.
• Mensch-Computer Interaktion als arbeitspsychologisches Problem. Lecture 35th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Heidelberg, September 1986.
• Training programs for human-computer interaction. 21st International Congress of Applied Psychology. Jerusalem, July, 13-18, 1986.
• The impact of work on personality: The case of industrial psychopathology. 21st International Congress of Applied Psychology. Jerusalem, July, 13-18, 1986.
• Soziale Unterstützung und Stress am Arbeitsplatz: Längsschnittuntersuchungen in der Industrie. 3. Rundgespräch „Stress und Stressbewältigung“. Berlin, June 12 – 14, 1986.
• Neue Technologien und Stress. Kontaktstudium Management Universität Augsburg, April 8 – 10, 1986.
• Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz und die Moderatoren sozialer Unterstützung und Handlungsspielraum: Ergebnisse der empirischen Forschung. 32. Arbeitswissenschaftlicher Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, March, 12 – 14, 1986.
• Kontrolle und Komplexität in der Computertechnologie. V. Dresdner Symposium zur Arbeits- und Ingenieurpsychologie. February 11 – 13, 1986.
• Psychologische Aspekte bei der Einführung von neuen Technologien am Arbeitsplatz. CIM-Seminar der IBM, Mainz, Nov. 7, 1985.
• Social support as a moderator of the relationship between stress at work and psychological dysfunctioning. Conference by the Nordisk Institute on occupational health, Helsinki, Sept. 9 – 13, 1985.
• Psychosocial factors and work and health effects. Conference by the Nordisk Institute on occupational health, Helsinki, September 9-13, 1985.
• Einführung ins Thema. Symposium: Stress und neue Technologien. Verhaltensmanagement in Organisationen. München, August 27, 1985.
• Psychische und psychosomatische Auswirkungenn von Schichtarbeit. Fragen der Schichtplangestaltung. Colloquium des Instituts und der Poliklinik für Arbeitsmedizin der Univ. München und des Verbands Deutscher Betriebs- und Werksärzte, Landesverband Südbayern, München, June 27, 1985.
• Coping as a moderator of the relationship between stress at work and psychosomatic complaints. Conference on Epidemiology and Rheumatic Diseases. Hamburg, June 24-28, 1985.
• Handlungs- und Kontrolltheorie: Implikationen für Software Design und Training. Science Center IBM, Heidelberg, June 16, 1985.
• Control and action theory. Implications for software design and training. Lecture in the Cognitive Science Center, Univ. of California, San Diego, March 4, 1985.
• Social support as mediator and moderator of the relationship between stress at work and psychological dysfunctioning. West European Conference on the Psychology and Work and Organization. Aachen, March 1985.
• Stress am Arbeitsplatz und psychosomatische Beschwerden. Colloquium des Psychologischen Instituts der Technical University of Aachen, October 25, 1984.
• Zur Verlaufsstruktur der psychischen Auswirkungen von Arbeitslosigkeit. Symposium „Arbeitslosigkeit, psychologische Theorie und Praxis“. University of Bremen, October 11-13, 1984.
• Stress am Arbeitsplatz und psychosomatische Beschwerden: Zur Kausalanalyse des Zusammenhangs. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Vienna, Austria, September 24-28, 1984.
• Action strategies and action styles: Concepts in personality research. Lecture at XXIII International Congress of Psychology, Acapulco, Mexico, September 2-7, 1984.
• Objective and subjective stress at work and their relationship with psychosomatic complaints. Lecture at XXIII International Congress of Psychology, Acapulco, Mexiko, September 2 – 7, 1984.
• Einschätzung von Computern. Lecture 26th Fachtagung zur arbeits- und betriebspsychologischen Fortbildung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Lübeck, May, 21- 23, 1984.
• Probleme bei der Verwendung von Fragebögen zur Erfassung von intrapsychischen Prozessen beim Coping mit Stress am Arbeitsplatz. Lecture Workshop Arbeit und Persönlichkeit des Max-Planck-Instituts für Bildungsfsorschung, Berlin, May, 10 – 12, 1984.
• Coping as a moderator and mediator between stress at work and psychosomatic complaints. Clark Luxemburg Conference on Psychological Stress Theory, Institut Pedagogique, Walferdange, Luxemburg, April 2- 6, 1984 (organized by Appley and Trumbull).
• Stress at work, Dept. of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, State University City, Jan. 31, 1984.
• Stress at work, Dept. of Psychology, Purdue University,  January 27, 1984.
• Becoming depressed while unemployed – hope and financial problems as intervening variables. Symposium: Unemployment and Health – New approaches in research and social action (sponsored by World Health Organization and Swedish Government, organized by L. Levi). Stockholm, December 5-7, 1983.
• with B. Hannover & T. Wehner: Ansätze zu einer experimentellen Erfassung von Handlungsstilen. Lecture 25th Congress of Experimental Psychology. Hamburg 1983.
• Stress at work and psychological dyfunctioning. Yale University, Dept. of Psychology, New Haven, March 1983.
• Stress und Kontrolle am Arbeitsplatz. University of Göttingen, January 1983.
• Stress und Kontrolle am Arbeitsplatz.Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, January 1983.
• Stress at work and psychological dysfunctioning. Colloquium, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, December 7, 1982.
• with B. Hannover: Handlungsstile: Ein handlungstheoretisches Konzept im Rahmen der interaktionistischen Persönlichkeitsforschung. Lecture 33rd Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Sept. 27 – 30, 1982.
• Job transitions, occupational socialization, and  strain. NATO Symposium on role transitions. Madison, WI, August 29 – September 3, 1982.
• Control as moderator of relationships between stressors and well-being. 90th Annual Convention of  APA, Washington, August 23-27, 1982.
• Kontrolle als Moderator für Stress am Arbeitsplatz. Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology. University of Bochum, July 1982.
• Soziale Unterstützung als Moderator für Stress am Arbeitsplatz. Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland, July 1982.
• Handlungsstile. Lecture, Lehrstuhl für Arbeits- und Betriebspsychologie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland, June 1982.
• Skill learning as a concept of life-span developmental psychology. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. Sixth Bi-annual Meeting Toronto, Canada, August 17 – 21, 1981.
• Stressforschung in der Arbeitspsychologie. Lehrstuhl für Arbeits- und Betriebspsychologie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich, July 2, 1981.
• with R. Saupe: Stress im Büro. Lecture Informationstagung`81 der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Unfallforschung „Streß am Arbeitsplatz“, Dortmund, June 2 –3, 1981.
• Schichtarbeit: Der Zusammenhang zum psychischen Befinden. Lecture, Congress of the Sektion Arbeits- und Betriebspsychologie im Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologen, Dortmund, May 25 –27, 1981.
• Bericht über den aktuellen Stand des Forschungsprojekts „Psychischer Stress am Arbeitsplatz“ und die Defizite der Stressforschung. Fachgespräch „Psycho-mentale Belastungen“ der Projektträgerschaft Fertigungstechnik, Kernforschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, May 13 – 15, 1981.
• Coping and control in stress research. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 1981.
• Handlungstheorie in der Klinischen Psychologie? Dept. of Psychology of the University of Hamburg, November 1980.
• Prävention seelischer Störungen und Arbeitswelt. Klausurtagung der Bundesvereinigung für Seelische Gesundheit e.V. in München, October 1980.
• Introductory lecture on „Komplexe Modelle zum Zusammenhang von Arbeitssituation und Befinden“. 32th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Zürich, September 1980.
• with Schmidt-Hieber & K. Leitner: Arbeitsbedingungen, kognitive Kontrolle und psychisches und psychophysiologisches Befinden: Welcher Erkenntnisfortschritt  nizi sich aus einer quantitativen Querschnittsuntersuchung ziehen? 32th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Zürich, September 1980.
• with N. Semmer, H. Dunckel, S. Greif & I. Udris: Blue collar stress, out-of-work  behaviour, and wellbeing. XXIInd International Congress of Psychology, Leipzig, July 1980.
• with E. Schmidt-Hieber: Arbeitsbedingungen außerhalb der Arbeit liegende Faktoren und psychosomatisches Befinden. Toennies Symposium, Kiel, July 1980.
• with S. Greif & N. Semmer: Stress at work.  Medical Research Council, Social and Applied Psychology Unit, Sheffield, England, April 1980.
• A concept for the study of stress at work and the effects of unemployment. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), March 1980.
• Action theory: A theoretical model for cognitive therapy. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania (Philadephia), March 1980.
• Strain and defense in unemployment and the work situation. Department of Management Sciences der University of Manchester. Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, (England), March 1980.
• Stress in Industry. Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde (England), March 1980.
• Handlungstheorie und Emotion. Congress for Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Berlin, February 1980.
• Streß und Kontrolle am Arbeitsplatz. Dept. Of Psychologie, University of Braunschweig, January 1980.
• „Arbeitsbedingte Belastungen und Beanspruchungen: Zu Ansätzen, Befunden, Problemen und Präventionsmöglichkeiten“. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, February 1979.
• Beanspruchung und Belastung in der Arbeitspsychologie. Dept. of Psychology. University of Oldenburg, February 1979.
• Coping mit Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit. Studiengang Psychologie, University of Bremen, January 1979.
• Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitssituation und Krankheitsverhalten von Herzkranken in einer Rehabilitationsanstalt: Präventive und therapeutische Implikationen. X. Congress of Verhaltenstherapie und Gesundheitspolitik, Hamburg, Oct. 1-7, 1978.
• with N. Semmer: Workshop „Beziehungen zwischen Arbeitspsychologie und Klinischer Psychologie“. Symposium „Arbeitspsychologie“ of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Zürich, October 1978.
• Industrielle Arbeitsbedingungen – ein lange vernachlässigter Faktor in Aetiologie und Prävention von psychischen Störungen. IX. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie, Berlin 1977.
• Arbeitslosigkeit, Kontrolle und Depression, 19th Congress of Experimental Psychology, Konstanz, March 1977.
• with N. Semmer: Das Lehrgangskonzept der Projektgruppe Psychologie für die gewerkschaftliche Praxis. Gewerkschaft NGG in Berlin , 1976.
• Learning theory and materialism. Department of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Sweden, October 1976.
• On the term control in the psychology of work. Univ. of Stockholm, Dept. of Psychology, October 1976.