Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Sascha Kraus is University Professor of Business Administration and Chair at the University of Siegen. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).

He holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Helsinki University of Technology and a Habilitation from the Lappeenranta University of Technology (both Finland). Before accepting the call to the University of Siegen, he was already a professor at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), the University of Liechtenstein, the École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur in Paris (France), the University of Durham (UK) and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). He has also held visiting professorships at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and the University of Hasselt (Belgium), and was EECPCL-Participating Professor at Harvard University (USA).

His research focuses on strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation and family businesses. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, Leadership Quarterly or Long Range Planning.

The leading German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche lists Professor Kraus in 3rd place in the category "Current Research Achievement" and 9th place in the category "Lifetime Achievement" in its current ranking of German-speaking business administration researchers (2024).

Selected publications (ABS 4):

1. Hughes, M., Chang, Y.Y., Hu, Q., De Massis, A. & Kraus, S. (2025): Transformational Family Leaders in Multi-Unit Complex Family Firms: A Multilevel Analysis. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (in press).

2. Chang, Y.Y.; Durst, S., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., Clauss, T., & Chang, C.Y. (2025): From organizational resilience capability to firm performance: A time-lagged investigation. Journal of Product Innovation Management (in press).

3. Aguinis, H., Kraus, S., Poček, J., Meyer, N., & Jensen, S. H. (2023). The why, how, and what of public policy implications of tourism and hospitality research. Tourism Management, 97.

4. Baker, H. K., Kumar, S., Pandey, N., & Kraus, S. (2023). Contemporary Accounting Research: A Retrospective between 1984 and 2021 using Bibliometric Analysis. Contemporary Accounting Research, 40(1), 196-230.

5. Aguinis, H., Jensen, S. H., & Kraus, S. (2022). Policy Implications of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Research. Academy of Management Perspectives, 36(3), 857-878.

6. Ambos, T. C., Cesinger, B., Eggers, F., & Kraus, S. (2020). How does de-globalization affect location decisions? A study of managerial perceptions of risk and return. Global Strategy Journal, 10(1), 210-236.

7. 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. Leadership Quarterly, 30(6).

8. 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.

9. Filser, M., De Massis, A., Gast, J., Kraus, S., & Niemand, T. (2018). 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.

10. 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.

11. Hughes, M., Rigtering, J. P. C., Covin, J. G., Bouncken, R. B., & Kraus, S. (2018). Innovative Behavior, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance. British Journal of Management, 29(4), 750-768.

12. Bouncken, R. B., Fredrich, V., Ritala, P., & Kraus, S. (2018). Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation. British Journal of Management, 29(3), 391-410.

13. Cesinger, B., Hughes, M., Mensching, H., Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., & Kraus, S. (2016). A socioemotional wealth perspective on how collaboration intensity, trust, and international market knowledge affect family firms' multinationality. Journal of World Business, 51(4), 586-599.

14. Eggers, F., O'Dwyer, M., Kraus, S., Vallaster, C., & Güldenberg, S. (2013). The impact of brand authenticity on brand trust and SME growth: A CEO perspective. Journal of World Business, 48(3), 340-348.

You can find a complete overview of my publications in my Google Scholar profile.