Kyung eun Park, M.Sc.

Kyung Eun (Trixie) Park is a GESS Ph.D. candidate and has been a research assistant at the Entrepreneurship and SME Research Chair since September 2023. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (B.Sc.) from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, and an M.Sc. in Management from the University of Mannheim. Prior to joining the institute, Trixie gained professional experience as an IT consultant and account manager at a professional services firm. Her research interests span diversity and sustainability, with a focus on topics such as the sustainability performance of firms with diverse top management teams (TMTs) and the impact of gender quotas on entrepreneurship. She specializes in big data and AI-driven research methods.

Teaching:

• MAN 632: Advanced Entrepreneurship
• MAN 630: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Master seminar: Future of Work, Human Resource Management, & Organization at University Duisburg-Essen

Publications & Work-in-Progress:

• Park, K., Istipliler, B,. (title hidden) focus on regulation and gendered entrepreneurship – under review at Organization Science
• Minh Duc Bui, Kyung Eun Park, Goran Glavaš, Fabian David Schmidt, and Katharina Von Der Wense. 2025. On Generalization across Measurement Systems: LLMs Entail More Test-Time Compute for Underrepresented Cultures. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 21262–21276, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Beck, F., Park, K. E., Merco do Nascimento e Silva, J., Meurer, T., Bubeck, S. K., Riefolo, M., ... & Ahrens, J. P. (2025). Brazilian large family firms & non-Family firms: bridging regional context and top management team gender diversity. Review of Regional Research, 1–36.