All Outputs (43)

Preparing the successor through familial support and legitimacy: A multilevel framework (2024)
Journal Article
Saeed, S., Giminez-Jiminez, D., Calabrò, A., & Kraus, S. (online). Preparing the successor through familial support and legitimacy: A multilevel framework. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2380418

This study investigates the interplay among parental support, familial legitimacy, and next-generation succession intentions in family businesses in different societal context. Building on attachment theory and insights from family business literatur... Read More about Preparing the successor through familial support and legitimacy: A multilevel framework.

Converting sporting capacity to entrepreneurial capacity: A process perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Hindle, K., Hammerschmidt, J., Viala, C., Kraus, S., Jones, P., & Calabuig-Moreno, F. (2021). Converting sporting capacity to entrepreneurial capacity: A process perspective. European Journal of International Management, 15(2/3), https://doi.org/10.1504/ejim.2021.10029617

Managing a personal sporting career and conducting an entrepreneurial initiative are two vitally connected processes. Most athletes require a second career and many engage in entrepreneurship. Research on the similarities and differences of the sport... Read More about Converting sporting capacity to entrepreneurial capacity: A process perspective.

Business Model Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review (2020)
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Kraus, S., Filser, M., Kailer, N., Thurner, S., & Puumalainen, K. (2020). Business Model Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 17(6), Article 2050043. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219877020500431

Researching business models (BM) and in specific business model innovation recently received growing attention by academics and practitioners due to increasing global competition and the constant need for adjustment to changing environments among oth... Read More about Business Model Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review.

Technological Innovation, Firm Performance, and Institutional Context: A Meta-Analysis (2020)
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Mahto, R., Singhal, C., & Kraus, S. (2022). Technological Innovation, Firm Performance, and Institutional Context: A Meta-Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 2976-2986. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2020.3021378

Technological innovation, a complex and multidimensional construct, refers to innovations associated with an organization's operations, such as the introduction of new/improved products or processes. Scholars and practitioners recognize the importanc... Read More about Technological Innovation, Firm Performance, and Institutional Context: A Meta-Analysis.

Exploring the Future of Startup Leadership Development (2020)
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Prommer, L., Tiberius, V., & Kraus, S. (2020). Exploring the Future of Startup Leadership Development. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 14, Article e00200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00200

Leadership development (LD) is a crucial success factor for startups to increase their human capital, survival rate, and overall performance. However, only a minority of young ventures actively engage in LD, and research rather focuses on large corpo... Read More about Exploring the Future of Startup Leadership Development.

Opportunity Recognition: Conversational Foundations and Pathways Ahead (2020)
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Filser, M., Tiberius, V., Kraus, S., Zeitlhofer, T., Kailer, N., & Müller, A. (2023). Opportunity Recognition: Conversational Foundations and Pathways Ahead. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 13(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2020-0124

This paper provides an overview of the ever-increasing literature on opportunity recognition, with a focus on its antecedents and determinants. With a two-step research approach, a bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review, we structur... Read More about Opportunity Recognition: Conversational Foundations and Pathways Ahead.

Entrepreneurial failure: A synthesis and conceptual framework of its effects (2020)
Journal Article
Klimas, P., Czakon, W., Kraus, S., Kailer, N., & Maalaoui, A. (2021). Entrepreneurial failure: A synthesis and conceptual framework of its effects. European Management Review, 18(1), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12426

Failure is not the outcome which entrepreneurs strive for when they start their businesses. However, thousands of entrepreneurs fail each year, experiencing painful and damaging consequences in their professional and private lives. Current knowledge... Read More about Entrepreneurial failure: A synthesis and conceptual framework of its effects.

Corporate social responsibility and environmental performance: The mediating role of environmental strategy and green innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Kraus, S., Rehman, S. U., & Sendra García, F. J. (2020). Corporate social responsibility and environmental performance: The mediating role of environmental strategy and green innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 160, Article 120262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120262

This study investigates the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on environmental performance, using data from 297 large manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Our results show that CSR has no direct significant influence on environmental per... Read More about Corporate social responsibility and environmental performance: The mediating role of environmental strategy and green innovation.

The Sharing Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis of the State-of-the-Art (2020)
Journal Article
Kraus, S., Li, H., Kang, Q., Westhead, P., & Tiberius, V. (2020). The Sharing Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis of the State-of-the-Art. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(8), 1769-1786. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-06-2020-0438

Purpose: Quantitative bibliometric approaches were used to statistically and objectively explore patterns in the sharing economy literature. Design/methodology/approach: Journal (co-)citation analysis, author (co-)citation analysis, institution citat... Read More about The Sharing Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis of the State-of-the-Art.

Social entrepreneurship orientation and company success: The mediating role of social performance (2020)
Journal Article
Gali, N., Niemand, T., Shaw, E., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., & Brem, A. (2020). Social entrepreneurship orientation and company success: The mediating role of social performance. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 160, Article 120230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120230

We examine the impact of social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO), a behavioral measure of the social entrepreneurship of the organization, on the social and financial performance of a sample of Austrian firms. Despite growing research interests in... Read More about Social entrepreneurship orientation and company success: The mediating role of social performance.

Advances in management research: a bibliometric overview of the Review of Managerial Science (2020)
Journal Article
Mas-Tur, A., Kraus, S., Brandtner, M., Ewert, R., & Kürsten, W. (2020). Advances in management research: a bibliometric overview of the Review of Managerial Science. Review of Managerial Science, 14(5), 933-958. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-020-00406-z

The Review of Managerial Science (RMS) is a leading international journal that publishes major advances related to business administration and management. The journal was launched in April 2007 and publishes eight issues per year (from 2021 onwards).... Read More about Advances in management research: a bibliometric overview of the Review of Managerial Science.

Hybrid Entrepreneurship: a Systematic Literature Review (2020)
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Demir, C., Werner, A., Kraus, S., & Jones, P. (2022). Hybrid Entrepreneurship: a Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 34(1), 29-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1764738

Hybrid entrepreneurship describes the engagement in self-employment activity while simultaneously holding a primary job in waged work. Because this phenomenon has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years, this study offers a first syst... Read More about Hybrid Entrepreneurship: a Systematic Literature Review.

Entrepreneurship of an institutional field: the emergence of coworking spaces for digital business models (2020)
Journal Article
Bouncken, R. B., Kraus, S., & Martínez-Pérez, J. F. (2020). Entrepreneurship of an institutional field: the emergence of coworking spaces for digital business models. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16(4), 1465-1481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00689-4

Coworking spaces have been proliferating world-wide in urban and rural areas while facilitating entrepreneurship and new, especially digital business models. Our research analyzes the worldwide expansion by drawing upon mechanisms from institutional... Read More about Entrepreneurship of an institutional field: the emergence of coworking spaces for digital business models.

Social entrepreneurship orientation: Drivers of success for start-ups and established industrial firms (2020)
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Halberstadt, J., Niemand, T., Kraus, S., Rexhepi, G., Jones, P., & Kailer, N. (2021). Social entrepreneurship orientation: Drivers of success for start-ups and established industrial firms. Industrial Marketing Management, 94, 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.06.012

Academic research into social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO) remains nascent, despite social entrepreneurship receiving increasing attention in both research and practice. This study of 308 industrial industry firms from Austria and Northern Mace... Read More about Social entrepreneurship orientation: Drivers of success for start-ups and established industrial firms.

Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation (2020)
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Clark, C., Davila, A., Regis, M., & Kraus, S. (2020). Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation. Global transitions, 2, 76-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.06.003

With a large international sample (n = 8,317), the present study examined which beliefs and attitudes about COVID-19 predict 1) following government recommendations, 2) taking health precautions (including mask wearing, social distancing, handwashing... Read More about Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation.

Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead (2020)
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Ferasso, M., Beliaeva, T., Kraus, S., Clauss, T., & Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (2020). Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8), 3006-3024. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2554

This study investigates how the circular economy and business models are related in the current business and management literature. Based on bibliometric analytical procedures, 253 articles were retrieved from the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceD... Read More about Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead.

Joint (Ad)Ventures – Family firms’ entry mode choices for emerging markets (2020)
Journal Article
Löhde, A., Calabro, A., Torchia, M., & Kraus, S. (2020). Joint (Ad)Ventures – Family firms’ entry mode choices for emerging markets. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(6), 1235-1258. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-10-2019-0573

Purpose – The aim of this study is to advance knowledge on family firms’ entry mode choices by examining the linkage between target market context, especially in the emerging economies of China and India, and the dominant family firm logic of keeping... Read More about Joint (Ad)Ventures – Family firms’ entry mode choices for emerging markets.

The economics of COVID-19: Initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis (2020)
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Kraus, S., Clauss, T., Breier, M., Gast, J., Zardini, A., & Tiberius, V. (2020). The economics of COVID-19: Initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(5), 1067-1092. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-04-2020-0214

Purpose – Within a very short period of time, the worldwide pandemic triggered by the novel coronavirus has not only claimed numerous lives but also caused severe limitations to daily private as well as business life. Just about every company has bee... Read More about The economics of COVID-19: Initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis.

Multilevel marketing: Optimizing marketing effectiveness for high-involvement goods in the automotive industry (2020)
Journal Article
Niemand, T., Kraus, S., Mather, S., & Cuenca-Ballester, A. (2020). Multilevel marketing: Optimizing marketing effectiveness for high-involvement goods in the automotive industry. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16(4), 1367-1392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00669-8

With a surge in communication channels increasing the complexity of today’s media landscape, companies face new challenges concerning the allocation of their advertising budget. As consumers become increasingly more autonomous in gathering informatio... Read More about Multilevel marketing: Optimizing marketing effectiveness for high-involvement goods in the automotive industry.

Digitalization in the financial industry: A contingency approach of entrepreneurial orientation and strategic vision on digitalization (2020)
Journal Article
Niemand, T., Rigtering, J. C., Kallmünzer, A., Kraus, S., & Maalaoui, A. (2021). Digitalization in the financial industry: A contingency approach of entrepreneurial orientation and strategic vision on digitalization. European Management Journal, 39(3), 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2020.04.008

Technology is rapidly changing the financial industry. Banks, in particular, are faced with a shift from traditional, interpersonal forms of service to digital financial services. These digital technologies are more and more becoming today's standard... Read More about Digitalization in the financial industry: A contingency approach of entrepreneurial orientation and strategic vision on digitalization.