Dr. Felix Wemmer

Professional career  

Felix Wemmer graduated in Economics (B.Sc.) at LMU Munich. He completed his master´s degree (M.Sc.) in Economics at the University of Regensburg and finished an IST education program in Sport Management. Felix Wemmer is active hiker, runner and cross country skier. He did internships at several sports clubs and is PhD Student at the Chair of Sport and Health Management since the beginning of 2013. In 2014, he was visiting researcher at the North Carolina State University. In 2015, he won the New Researcher Award of the European Association for Sport Management. In April 2017 Felix Wemmer completed successfully his dissertation entitled "Essays on Open Innovation in Non-Profit Sports Clubs".

Research interests

Building on the underlying ideas of open innovation, Felix’s research examines service and process innovations in non- and for-profit sport organizations. The aim of his research activities is (1) to give management boards implications on what to consider when implementing new services, and (2) to find out what characteristics the environment and what capabilities managing bodies themselves have to fulfill, in order to be able to successfully introduce new services in their organization.
 

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Koenigstorfer, Joerg and Felix Wemmer (2022): What Makes Sports Clubs Successful at Recruiting and Retaining Members from the Perspective of Managers? Results from a Random Forest Analysis, in: Journal of Global Sport Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, 644-663.

Wemmer, Felix, Eike Emrich, and Joerg Koenigstorfer (2016): The Impact of Coopetition-Based Open Innovation on Performance in Non-Profit Sports Clubs, in: European Sport Management Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3, 341-363.

Wemmer, Felix and Joerg Koenigstorfer (2016): Open Innovation in Nonprofit Sports Clubs, in: VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1923-1949.

Publications in conference proceedings

Wemmer, Felix, Eike Emrich, and Joerg Koenigstorfer (2015): Performance Impact of Coopetition-based Open Innovation in Nonprofit Sports Clubs, in: Proceedings of the 23rd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Dublin 2015.

Wemmer, Felix and Joerg Koenigstorfer (2014): Open Innovation in Nonprofit Sports Clubs, in: Proceedings of the 22nd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Coventry 2014.