Biography
Xena Welch Guerra is Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research interest lies in the area of Corporate and Behavioral Strategy, with particular emphasis on Mergers and Acquisitions.
She completed her PhD at the University of St.Gallen, where it was awarded with the Peter-Werhahn-Preis for the best dissertation of the year. She received several grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, was a visiting scholar at INSEAD Singapore and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Teaching Associate at the University of Warwick Business School. She is member of the Editoral Review Board of the Journal of Management and served as Rep-at-Large for the Corporate Strategy IG of the Strategic Management Society.
At RSM, Xena teaches courses on Corporate Strategy, coordinates the Research Clinic of the MSc programs in Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneursip, and has served as Co-chair of the Faculty Council.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- welch@rsm.nl
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Work
- Mirko Benischke, Grigorij Ljubownikow & Xena Welch (2026) - - Strategic Organization - doi: -
- Xena Welch & Mario Schijven (2026) - - Academy of Management Discoveries, 12 (2), 346-350 - doi: -
- Xena Welch Guerra, Stevo Pavićević, Thomas Keil & Tomi Laamanen (2020) - - Journal of Management, 46 (6), 843-878 - doi: -
- Tomi Laamanen, Xena Welch Guerra, Andreas Girisch, Michael van der Boom & Kristina Faddoul (2017) -
- Xena Welch Guerra, Tomi Laamanen, Anna Samanta & Stefan Koller (2015) - -
- Anna Nadolska & Xena Welch (2024) - -
- Xena Welch Guerra (1 februari 2026) - Financial Times Professor's Pick
- Xena Welch Guerra (31 augustus 2023) - Finanz und Wirtschaft Forum "Mergers & Acquisitions"
- Xena Welch Guerra (2025) - Journal of Management (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Xena Welch Guerra (2017) - Long Range Planning (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic
University of St.Gallen
- Start date approval
- november 2025
- End date approval
- oktober 2028
- Place
- ST.GALLEN
- Description
- Dissertation Coaching
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BM-IM-CEMSTHESIS
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BM-IM-RC
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSE
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSE-LOT
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSESM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSE1
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSM-LOT
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMMTSM1
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- B3EL111
