Professor Frese holds appointments at Asia Business School (Malaysia) and Leuphana University of Lueneburg (Germany). Prior appointments were at NUS (former Head of Dept. and Provost chair), at University of Giessen (chair for work and organizational psychology) and visitng professor at London Business School; professorial appointments also at University of Bremen, at University of Pennsylvania, at LMU (Munich) and at UvA (Amsterdam). He lectured internationally – as visiting professor in the USA (e.g., Maryland, Michigan State), Sweden, Zimbabwe, Brazil, China (Zheijang Univ), Uganda (continuous visiting professor at Markerere University Business School), and elsewhere. Professor Frese was a student at Univ of Regensburg (BA=Vorplom), Free University of Berlin (Diploma = MSc) and Technical University Berlin (PhD).

Professor Frese’s research spans a wide range of basic and applied topics within organizational behavior and work psychology. Most important are his longitudinal studies on psychological effects of unemployment, impact of stress at work, predictors of personal initiative, as well as psychological success factors of entrepreneurs. His field studies on errors, error management, and error management culture have received wide attention. In the area of training are concepts of error management training, leadership training and training to improve entrepreneurial success and personal initiative. He studied cultural factors in organizations and across nations, as well as success factors in entrepreneurs in developing countries (Africa, Latin America, and Asia). He is known for his (cross-national) research on innovation, most recently innovation processes in Asia.