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Welcome to the professorship
for service development in SMEs and the skilled trades

by Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina

The professorship introduces itself

The Chair of Service Development in SMEs and Craft Trades, headed by Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina, is part of Faculty III at the University of Siegen. The research work of the chair aims to develop theoretical and practical concepts to promote service innovations and increase service quality in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the skilled trades.

The focus is on four central research areas: the design of a service-oriented corporate culture, the further development of service design methods through co-design approaches and design thinking concepts, systematic service engineering for the structured development andimplementation of services and the development of innovative business models for SMEs. Current research projects of the chair focus on the topics of digitalization, digital transformation, the development of data-driven business models and artificial intelligence in SMEs and craft businesses.

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Research

Award for the dissertation of Dr. Philipp Köhn

Dr. Philipp Köhn was awarded the doctoral prize for the promotion of young academics by the Freie Rohrwerke Siegen Foundation at the University of Siegen 2025 annual reception.

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Research

Advancement Award for Young Scientists 2025 for Dr. Philipp Köhn

Dr. Philipp Köhn received the University of Siegen's 2025 Award for Young Scientists for his scientific publication "From Intention to Behavior: How Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Job Fit Influence Employee Intrapreneurship in SMEs".

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Panel discussion at the "KI.Zukunft.regional" event

On January 16, 2026, Professor Strina was invited by Dr. Sonja Kieffer-Radwan to take part in a panel discussion at the "KI.Zukunft.regional" event(https://denkschmiede-projekt.de/).

Our research profile

Research focuses primarily on the development of methods and approaches for identifying and designing service-oriented and digitally supported business models that are used both in (family-run) SMEs and in the skilled trades (as part of the research area "Business model innovation through smart services").

In addition, the chair is involved in the development of concepts and methods as well as the further development of existing instruments in order to strengthen the impact of research results in practice (as part of research on regional knowledge ecosystems). The research is based on the "design science research" approach, which is based on a solid theoretical foundation.

 

Research focus

 

1. business model innovation through smart services

  • Development of methods and approaches for the identification and design of service-oriented and digitally supported business models

  • Focus on application in SMEs and the skilled trades

2. transfer of research into practice / knowledge ecosystems

  • Development and further development of concepts, methods and tools to increase the practical impact of research results

  • Focus on regional knowledge ecosystems

    3. methodological approach: design science research

  • Application of the design science research approach to develop practical and theoretically sound solutions

Publications

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Journal article
2025

From Intention to Behaviour: How Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Job Fit Influence Employee Intrapreneurship in SMEs

Journal article
2024

Measuring family influence from the non-family employee perspective: The perceived family influence scale (PFIS)

Journal article
2023

Why are non-family employees intrapreneurially active in family firms? A multiple case study

Book
2021

Family Entrepreneurship

Book chapter
2020

The life cycle of academia and its impact on early career researchers’ publishing behaviour 106

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Healthcare and Ageing research
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The interdisciplinary research team from the University of Siegen and TU Dortmund University is working together with two hospitals that have different structures and requirements. This combination allows solutions to be developed for different initial conditions that can later be transferred to many hospitals.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina

Professor
Philipp Köhn

Dr. rer. pol. Philipp Köhn

Research assistant

Dr. Philipp Köhn ist Postdoktorand an der Universität Siegen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen:

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Matthias Vogel M.Sc.

Research assistant

Alumni

Career

We have the following vacancies:

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Opening hours

Monday 08:30-17:00 Tuesday 08:30-17:00 Wednesday 08:30-17:00 Thursday 08:30-17:00 Friday 08:30-17:00

Postal address

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina
University of Siegen
Faculty of Economic Disciplines III,
Business Information Systems and Business Law
Professorship for Service Development in SMEs and Crafts
US-F 007
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
57076 Siegen

Visitor address

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Strina
Professorship for Service Development in SMEs and Crafts
US-F 007
Kohlbettstr. 15
57072 Siegen

Secretariat

Please contact Prof. Dr. Jens O. Brunner.