[1] Beyond, Lehmann is a visiting professor at University of Bergamo, an adjunct professor at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, co-director of the Augsburg Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE),[2] and a board member of the Bavarian America Academy (BAA) in Munich.
[4][5] Erik E. Lehmann started his academic career as a student research assistant at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1990–1994).
From June to December 2002, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Development Strategies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, United States.
He became an associate director for Research Department on Entrepreneurship, Growth & Public Policy at Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany (May 2004 – September 2005), before accepting the call for the chair of Management and Organization at Augsburg University in September 2005.
In particular, he is interested in how firms can access necessary resources such as financial capital, human capital and knowledge spillovers from their location (Spatial Resource Management), how these resources are transformed into marketable products to exploit strategic advantages in a globalized world (Organizational Capital Management) and how these processes are governed to ensure that all investors with relationship specific investments could be protected within this process (Corporate Governance).