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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Head of the Chair

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus

Professor of Family Business & Entrepreneurial Orientation

Sascha Kraus researches strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation and family business. He has led the FBEO Chair at the University of Siegen since 2025.

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International Research with Roots in Siegen.

Sascha Kraus is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Siegen and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation at the University of Johannesburg.

He completed his doctorate at the University of Klagenfurt, earned a PhD in Industrial Engineering & Management from Helsinki University of Technology and completed his habilitation at Lappeenranta University of Technology. His professorial appointments have included Utrecht, Liechtenstein, Paris, Durham and Bolzano. He has also held visiting professorships in Copenhagen, St Gallen and Hasselt and served as an EECPCL Participating Professor at Harvard University.

Research

His research examines strategic and entrepreneurial decisions, innovation processes and the development of Family Business. His work has appeared in journals including 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.

  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Family Business
  • Digital Transformation

Selected Publications

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
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