Profil
Internationale Forschung mit Wurzeln in Siegen.
Sascha Kraus ist Universitätsprofessor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Siegen und Distinguished Visiting Professor für Entrepreneurship und Digitale Transformation an der University of Johannesburg.
Er promovierte an der Universität Klagenfurt, erwarb einen Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Management an der Technischen Universität Helsinki und habilitierte sich an der Technischen Universität Lappeenranta. Professuren führten ihn unter anderem nach Utrecht, Liechtenstein, Paris, Durham und Bozen. Hinzu kamen Gastprofessuren in Kopenhagen, St. Gallen und Hasselt sowie eine Tätigkeit als EECPCL-Participating Professor an der Harvard University.
Forschung
Seine Arbeiten untersuchen strategische und unternehmerische Entscheidungen, Innovationsprozesse und die Entwicklung von Familienunternehmen. Er veröffentlicht unter anderem in Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, Leadership Quarterly und Long Range Planning.
- Strategie
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- Familienunternehmen
- Digitale Transformation
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- Chang, Y.Y., Hu, Q., Clauss, T., Kraus, S., & Chiang, F.Y. (2026). Leveraging Alliance Management Capability for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Business Model Innovation. British Journal of Management (in press).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hughes, M., Rigtering, J.P.C., Covin, J.G., Bouncken, R.B., & Kraus, S. (2018). Innovative Behaviour, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance. British Journal of Management, 29(4), 750-768.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.