Prof. Dr. Franz Willi Kellermanns
Franz Willi Kellermanns
Prof. Dr.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Aktuelle Publikationen

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Atılgan, Ö., Kellermanns, F., Memili, E., Caza, B. (accepted pre-print), The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: an organizational positivity perspective, Journal of Small Business Management, pp. 1-31.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Riar, F. J., Qian, S., Miao, C., Debicki, B. J., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research, European Management Journal, Vol. 43 (1), pp. 42-58.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Wei, L., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F., Zhang, Y. (2025), Strategic consensus at founding and product innovation performance in high-tech ventures, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 188, 115082.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Atılgan, Ö., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Family firm leader’s socioemotional wealth importance perceptions: the influence of negative forms of conflict, Family Business Review, Vol. 38 (1), pp. 34-57.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Rieg, T., Simarasl, N., Rau, S., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Measuring family dynamics in business-owning families: development and validation of the business owning family adaptability and cohesion scale, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 16 (3), 100674.

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Marketing and Sales Group

Schröder, A., Schlereth, C., Hienerth, C., Kellermanns, F. (2025), A perfect match? How entrepreneurs evaluate and decide on venture capital firms, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 200, 115621.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Gao, X., Haynes, L., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Requirements risk and project performance: the moderating role of proposal overlap, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, Vol. 10 (6), 100837.

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Economics Group

Gottschalck, N., Branner, K., Rolan, L., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 62 (1), pp. 103-139.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Chirico, F., Kellermanns, F. (2024), When does time enhance family firm performance? Examining family generation in control and family control dispersion through a mixed-gamble logic, Long Range Planning, Vol. 57 (1 (#102272)).

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Wilhelm, B., Simarasl, N., Riar, F. J., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Organizational citizenship behavior: understanding interaction effects of psychological ownership and agency systems, Review of Managerial Science, Vol. 18 (1), pp. 1-27.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Yu, X., Meng, X., Stanley, L., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Self-employment and life satisfaction: the contingent role of formal institutions, Small Business Economics, Vol. 63 (1), pp. 135–163.

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Economics Group

Stommel, E., Gottschalck, N., Hack, A., Eddleston, K., Kellermanns, F., Kraiczy, N. (2024), What’s your reference point? How price volatility and organizational context affect the reference points of family and nonfamily managers, Small Business Economics, Vol. 63 (2), pp. 805–829.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Phillips, D., Madison, K., Wolf, S., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials: the role of category-based cognitive processing on applicant attraction, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 183, 114818.

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Economics Group

Gottschalck, N., Rolan, L., Kellermanns, F. (2023), The continuance commitment of family firm CEOs, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 14 (4), 100568.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Jiao, K., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 61 (6), pp. 2938-2985.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Schell, S., De Groote, J., Richard, S., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2023), The role of affect in the selection of nonfamily top management team members in family businesses, Long Range Planning, Vol. 56 (5), 102288.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Guffler, M., Bertschi-Michel, A., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Family firm ambidexterity: the influence of paradoxical tensions and the entrepreneurial family’s cohesion, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 48 (6), pp. 1945–1977.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Cai, L., Gao, X., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Governments’ new policy frequency and firms’ performance in an emerging industry: the difference between family and non-family firms, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 19 (4), pp. 1707–1737.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Riar, F., Wiedeler, C., Kammerlander, N., Kellermanns, F. (2022), Venturing motives and venturing types in entrepreneurial families: a corporate entrepreneurship perspective, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 (1), pp. 44-81.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Chen, V. Z., Hobdari, B., Kellermanns, F., Sluhan, A. (2022), For love or money? Family versus financial blockholders in international acquisitions, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 30 (2), pp. 140-160.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Lohwasser, T. S., Hoch, F., Kellermanns, F. (2022), Strength in stability: a meta-analysis of family firm performance moderated by institutional stability and regime type, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 (1), pp. 117-158.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Xu, F., Kellermanns, F., Jin, L. (2022), Between- and within-person consequences of daily entrepreneurial stressors on discrete emotions in entrepreneurs: the moderating role of personality, Stress & Health, Vol. 38 (3), pp. 568-580.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Darden, B. B., Kellermanns, F., Best, E. L. (2022), Entrepreneurial fear of failure: transgender versus cis-gender entrepreneurs, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Vol. 18, e00332.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Brinkerink, J., De Massis, A., Kellermanns, F. (2022), One finding is no finding: toward a replication culture in family business research, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 13 (4), 100521.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Madison, K., Eddleston, K., Kellermanns, F., Powell, G. (2021), Kinship and gender in family firms: new insights into employees’ organizational citizenship behavior, Family Business Review, Vol. 34 (3), pp. 270-295.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Hernández-Linares, R., Kellermanns, F., Lopez-Fernandez, M. (2021), Dynamic capabilities and SME performance: the moderating effect of market orientation, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 59 (1), pp. 162-195.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Atılgan, Ö., Kellermanns, F., Memili, E., Caza, B. (accepted pre-print), The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: an organizational positivity perspective, Journal of Small Business Management, pp. 1-31.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Riar, F. J., Qian, S., Miao, C., Debicki, B. J., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research, European Management Journal, Vol. 43 (1), pp. 42-58.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Wei, L., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F., Zhang, Y. (2025), Strategic consensus at founding and product innovation performance in high-tech ventures, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 188, 115082.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Atılgan, Ö., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Family firm leader’s socioemotional wealth importance perceptions: the influence of negative forms of conflict, Family Business Review, Vol. 38 (1), pp. 34-57.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Rieg, T., Simarasl, N., Rau, S., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Measuring family dynamics in business-owning families: development and validation of the business owning family adaptability and cohesion scale, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 16 (3), 100674.

Download
Marketing and Sales Group

Schröder, A., Schlereth, C., Hienerth, C., Kellermanns, F. (2025), A perfect match? How entrepreneurs evaluate and decide on venture capital firms, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 200, 115621.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Gao, X., Haynes, L., Kellermanns, F. (2025), Requirements risk and project performance: the moderating role of proposal overlap, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, Vol. 10 (6), 100837.

Download
Economics Group

Gottschalck, N., Branner, K., Rolan, L., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 62 (1), pp. 103-139.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Chirico, F., Kellermanns, F. (2024), When does time enhance family firm performance? Examining family generation in control and family control dispersion through a mixed-gamble logic, Long Range Planning, Vol. 57 (1 (#102272)).

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Wilhelm, B., Simarasl, N., Riar, F. J., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Organizational citizenship behavior: understanding interaction effects of psychological ownership and agency systems, Review of Managerial Science, Vol. 18 (1), pp. 1-27.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Yu, X., Meng, X., Stanley, L., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Self-employment and life satisfaction: the contingent role of formal institutions, Small Business Economics, Vol. 63 (1), pp. 135–163.

Download
Economics Group

Stommel, E., Gottschalck, N., Hack, A., Eddleston, K., Kellermanns, F., Kraiczy, N. (2024), What’s your reference point? How price volatility and organizational context affect the reference points of family and nonfamily managers, Small Business Economics, Vol. 63 (2), pp. 805–829.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Phillips, D., Madison, K., Wolf, S., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2024), Signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials: the role of category-based cognitive processing on applicant attraction, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 183, 114818.

Download
Economics Group

Gottschalck, N., Rolan, L., Kellermanns, F. (2023), The continuance commitment of family firm CEOs, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 14 (4), 100568.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Jiao, K., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 61 (6), pp. 2938-2985.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Schell, S., De Groote, J., Richard, S., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2023), The role of affect in the selection of nonfamily top management team members in family businesses, Long Range Planning, Vol. 56 (5), 102288.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Guffler, M., Bertschi-Michel, A., Hack, A., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Family firm ambidexterity: the influence of paradoxical tensions and the entrepreneurial family’s cohesion, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 48 (6), pp. 1945–1977.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Cai, L., Gao, X., Ling, Y., Kellermanns, F. (2023), Governments’ new policy frequency and firms’ performance in an emerging industry: the difference between family and non-family firms, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 19 (4), pp. 1707–1737.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Riar, F., Wiedeler, C., Kammerlander, N., Kellermanns, F. (2022), Venturing motives and venturing types in entrepreneurial families: a corporate entrepreneurship perspective, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 (1), pp. 44-81.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Chen, V. Z., Hobdari, B., Kellermanns, F., Sluhan, A. (2022), For love or money? Family versus financial blockholders in international acquisitions, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 30 (2), pp. 140-160.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Lohwasser, T. S., Hoch, F., Kellermanns, F. (2022), Strength in stability: a meta-analysis of family firm performance moderated by institutional stability and regime type, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 (1), pp. 117-158.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Xu, F., Kellermanns, F., Jin, L. (2022), Between- and within-person consequences of daily entrepreneurial stressors on discrete emotions in entrepreneurs: the moderating role of personality, Stress & Health, Vol. 38 (3), pp. 568-580.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Darden, B. B., Kellermanns, F., Best, E. L. (2022), Entrepreneurial fear of failure: transgender versus cis-gender entrepreneurs, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Vol. 18, e00332.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Brinkerink, J., De Massis, A., Kellermanns, F. (2022), One finding is no finding: toward a replication culture in family business research, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 13 (4), 100521.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Madison, K., Eddleston, K., Kellermanns, F., Powell, G. (2021), Kinship and gender in family firms: new insights into employees’ organizational citizenship behavior, Family Business Review, Vol. 34 (3), pp. 270-295.

Download
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Hernández-Linares, R., Kellermanns, F., Lopez-Fernandez, M. (2021), Dynamic capabilities and SME performance: the moderating effect of market orientation, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 59 (1), pp. 162-195.

Download