All Outputs (43)

The Role of Human Capital on Family Firm Innovativeness : The Strategic Leadership Role of Family Board Members (2020)
Journal Article
Calabrò, A., Torchia, M., Jimenez, D., & Kraus, S. (2021). The Role of Human Capital on Family Firm Innovativeness : The Strategic Leadership Role of Family Board Members. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 17(1), 261-287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00657-y

Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, this study investigates the relationship between human capital (employees’ experience, knowledge and technical skills, managerial talent) and innovativeness (propensity to innovate) in a sample of 478 f... Read More about The Role of Human Capital on Family Firm Innovativeness : The Strategic Leadership Role of Family Board Members.

Coworking Spaces: Empowerment for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital and Sharing Economy (2020)
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Bouncken, R., Ratzmann, M., Barwinski, R., & Kraus, S. (2020). Coworking Spaces: Empowerment for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital and Sharing Economy. Journal of Business Research, 114, 102-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.03.033

Freelancers, entrepreneurs, new ventures, but also incumbent firms increasingly use coworking spaces (CWS). The alignment of work-space and social space can facilitate organizational empowerment supporting individual work satisfaction. Our mixed-meth... Read More about Coworking Spaces: Empowerment for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital and Sharing Economy.

Value-creation-capture-equilibrium in new product development alliances: A matter of coopetition, expert power, and alliance importance (2020)
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Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., Ritala, P., & Kraus, S. (2020). Value-creation-capture-equilibrium in new product development alliances: A matter of coopetition, expert power, and alliance importance. Industrial Marketing Management, 90, 648-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.03.019

Alliances are often thought to be longer lasting and lead to better results when they are perceived as equal and fair in terms of how efforts and rewards are distributed. This study conceptualizes the value-creation-capture-equilibrium (VCCE) as the... Read More about Value-creation-capture-equilibrium in new product development alliances: A matter of coopetition, expert power, and alliance importance.

Designing coopetition for radical innovation: An experimental study of managers' preferences for developing self-driving electric cars (2020)
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Czakon, W., Niemand, T., Gast, J., Kraus, S., & Frühstück, L. (2020). Designing coopetition for radical innovation: An experimental study of managers' preferences for developing self-driving electric cars. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 155, Article 119992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119992

The major premise of this study is that managers purposefully shape the business context for radical innovation. Particularly, the strategic option of developing radical innovation in collaboration with direct competitors offers opportunities otherwi... Read More about Designing coopetition for radical innovation: An experimental study of managers' preferences for developing self-driving electric cars.

Individual and Team Entrepreneurial Orientation: Scale Development and Configurations for Success (2020)
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Covin, J., Rigtering, C., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., Cheng, C., & Bouncken, R. (2020). Individual and Team Entrepreneurial Orientation: Scale Development and Configurations for Success. Journal of Business Research, 112, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.02.023

While entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has traditionally been defined and operationalized as a firm-level phenomenon, recent studies extended the construct to the individual-level (IEO). We theorize how teams might draw on the EO of their individual... Read More about Individual and Team Entrepreneurial Orientation: Scale Development and Configurations for Success.

Exploring dark creativity: the role of power in an unethical marketing task (2020)
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Palmer, C., Kraus, S., & Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (2020). Exploring dark creativity: the role of power in an unethical marketing task. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 33(1), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677x.2019.1660907

Creativity is seen as a significant driver for successful marketing activities. However, little attention is paid to its shady side and little research on the prerequisites for unethical behaviour of marketing experts and executives is on hand. In ou... Read More about Exploring dark creativity: the role of power in an unethical marketing task.

The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research (2020)
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Kraus, S., Breier, M., & Dasí-Rodríguez, S. (2020). The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16(3), 1023-1042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00635-4

Systematic literature reviews are an increasingly used review methodology to synthesize the existing body of literature in a field. However, editors complain about a high number of desk rejections because of a lack in quality. Poorly developed review... Read More about The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research.

Knowledge Management Capabilities and Organizational Risk-Taking for Business Model Innovation in SMEs (2020)
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Hock-Doepgen, M., Clauss, T., Kraus, S., & Cheng, C. (2021). Knowledge Management Capabilities and Organizational Risk-Taking for Business Model Innovation in SMEs. Journal of Business Research, 130, 683-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.001

In today’s business environment with fast growing communication and information technologies, knowledge management (KM) capabilities are a valuable source for innovation. However, little is known about the particular KM capabilities that lead to busi... Read More about Knowledge Management Capabilities and Organizational Risk-Taking for Business Model Innovation in SMEs.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems: analysing the status quo (2019)
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Kang, Q., Li, H., Cheng, Y., & Kraus, S. (2021). Entrepreneurial ecosystems: analysing the status quo. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 19(1), 8-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2019.1701964

Entrepreneurial ecosystem is an emerging field that prioritises in-depth discussions of the sustainable development of entrepreneurship. Scientometric analysis of the results of entrepreneurial ecosystem research helps understand the dynamics and dev... Read More about Entrepreneurial ecosystems: analysing the status quo.

Content is King: How SMEs Create Content for Social Media Marketing under Limited Resources (2019)
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Kraus, S., Gast, J., Schleich, M., Jones, P., & Ritter, M. (2019). Content is King: How SMEs Create Content for Social Media Marketing under Limited Resources. Journal of Macromarketing, 39(4), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146719882746

Despite the growing literature dealing with social media marketing (SMM) in small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs), one area that has not been fully explored is the creation of the content itself. SMEs typically do not have the same resources ava... Read More about Content is King: How SMEs Create Content for Social Media Marketing under Limited Resources.

Knowledge- and innovation-based business models for future growth: digitalized business models and portfolio considerations (2019)
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Bouncken, R., Kraus, S., & Roig-Tierno, N. (2021). Knowledge- and innovation-based business models for future growth: digitalized business models and portfolio considerations. Review of Managerial Science, 15(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-019-00366-z

Today’s key challenge for firm growth relies in the integration of digital technologies and their use in new business models. Thus, firms increasingly engage in a digital transformation and in digitalizing their business model. Firms can apply digita... Read More about Knowledge- and innovation-based business models for future growth: digitalized business models and portfolio considerations.

Innovation alliances: Balancing value creation dynamics, competitive intensity and market overlap (2019)
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Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., Kraus, S., & Ritala, P. (2020). Innovation alliances: Balancing value creation dynamics, competitive intensity and market overlap. Journal of Business Research, 112, 240-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.10.004

When created and captured value is unbalanced in innovation alliances, instabilities may emerge. Competitive tensions between the partners may further destabilize the value creation process. How these dynamics affect the outcomes of innovation allian... Read More about Innovation alliances: Balancing value creation dynamics, competitive intensity and market overlap.

In the eye of a leader: eye-directed gazing shapes perceptions of leaders’ charisma (2019)
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Maran, T., Furtner, M., Liegl, S., Kraus, S., & Sachse, P. (2019). In the eye of a leader: eye-directed gazing shapes perceptions of leaders’ charisma. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(6), Article 101337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101337

Charismatic leadership improves organizational performance. Charisma itself can be defined as a repertoire of behaviors designed to communicate, however its constituents remain elusive. We hypothesized leaders' eye-directed gaze to be one such behavi... Read More about In the eye of a leader: eye-directed gazing shapes perceptions of leaders’ charisma.

Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market (2019)
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Scott, S., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I., & Kraus, S. (2019). Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 148, Article 119717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119717

This study explores the psychological factors that influence market diffusion of popular culture digital services. Digital service websites have been diffusing through global markets with relative ease, but the factors influencing this are not well u... Read More about Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market.

Entrepreneurship in tourism firms: A mixed-methods analysis of performance driver configurations (2019)
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Kallmuenzer, A., Kraus, S., Peters, M., Steiner, J., & Cheng, C.-F. (2019). Entrepreneurship in tourism firms: A mixed-methods analysis of performance driver configurations. Tourism Management, 74, 319-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.04.002

Tourism firms’ financial performance is determined by a complex interplay of factors, both internal and external to the firm. Predominant internal factors are their entrepreneurial behavior and financial resources. External factors refer to the netwo... Read More about Entrepreneurship in tourism firms: A mixed-methods analysis of performance driver configurations.

Developing relationships in innovation clusters (2018)
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Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Kraus, S. (2019). Developing relationships in innovation clusters. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 31(1-2), 22-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2018.1537145

This study assesses the composition of micro-level behaviours embedded within innovation clusters. Drawing on network theory of innovation, we examine the relational complexities of a specific university-business form of clustered exchange to charact... Read More about Developing relationships in innovation clusters.

Innovative Behaviour, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance (2018)
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Hughes, M., Rigtering, J., Covin, J., Bouncken, R., & Kraus, S. (2018). Innovative Behaviour, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance. British Journal of Management, 29(4), 750-768. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12305

Building on theories of social exchange, enactment and trust, we provide a theorization of innovative work behaviour at the individual (IB) and team (IBT) levels and explain how desirable performance returns occur for individuals and teams. We furthe... Read More about Innovative Behaviour, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance.

Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity (2017)
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Hughes, M., Filser, M., Harms, R., Kraus, S., Chang, M.-L., & Cheng, C.-F. (2018). Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity. British Journal of Management, 29(4), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12263

The performance drivers of family firms have spawned considerable research interest. Almost exclusively this research has relied on independent sets of explanatory variables in linear analyses. These analyses mask the complex interdependencies that a... Read More about Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity.

Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth (2017)
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Filser, M., De Massis, A., Gast, J., Kraus, S., & Niemand, T. (2017). Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12433

By integrating literature on family functionality, family firms, and socioemotional wealth (SEW), we develop a theoretical model explaining how family functionality and SEW dimensions influence firm innovativeness. Our multigroup structural equation... Read More about Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth.

Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation (2017)
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Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., Ritala, P., & Kraus, S. (2017). Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation. British Journal of Management, 29(3), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12213

Coopetition (collaboration between competitors) can facilitate product innovation, but there is still debate about how it is suited to radical or incremental innovation. This paper argues that the early and later phases of coopetitive new product dev... Read More about Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation.