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50
Citations
12781
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984
National Ranking
34

Overview

Holger Patzelt is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on the subfields of Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Business and International Management.

Their scholarly work covers multiple topics, notably Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Management and Organizational Studies.

Among recent publications by Holger Patzelt, notable papers include:

  • Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees? (2021) published in Journal of Business Venturing

Other significant papers within the broader research circle, though not authored by Patzelt, indicate research themes and venues relevant to their work:

  • A Call for Research on the Scaling of Organizations and the Scaling of Social Impact (2020) - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • A social model of opportunity development: Building and engaging communities of inquiry (2020) - Journal of Business Venturing
  • Organizational Ambidexterity in Family-Managed Firms: The Role of Family Involvement in Top Management (2020) - Family Business Review
  • Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany (2021) - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Frequent publication venues for Patzelt include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (14 publications)
  • Journal of Business Venturing (5 publications)
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (4 publications)
  • Small Business Economics (3 publications)
  • Applied Psychology (2 publications)

Holger Patzelt has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with the most frequent including:

  • Nicola Breugst (17 joint publications)
  • Dean A. Shepherd (12 joint publications)
  • Aishwarya Kakatkar (5 joint publications)
  • Alexandra Mittermaier (4 joint publications)
  • Friedrich Tacke (3 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • RI-MP2: optimized auxiliary basis sets and demonstration of efficiency

    Florian Weigend;Marco Häser;Holger Patzelt;Reinhart Ahlrichs

  • The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What is to be Sustained” with “What is to be Developed”:

    Dean A. Shepherd;Holger Patzelt

  • Building an integrative model of small business growth

    Johan Wiklund;Holger Patzelt;Dean A. Shepherd

  • Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Review and Research Agenda

    Dean A. Shepherd;Trenton A. Williams;Holger Patzelt

  • Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development

    Holger Patzelt;Dean A. Shepherd

  • Intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial intentions

    Stavroula Laspita;Nicola Breugst;Stephan Heblich;Holger Patzelt

  • Moving Forward from Project Failure: Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from the Experience

    Dean A. Shepherd;Holger Patzelt;Marcus Wolfe

  • Trigger factor in complex with the ribosome forms a molecular cradle for nascent proteins

    Lars Ferbitz;Timm Maier;Holger Patzelt;Bernd Bukau

  • Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality

    Simone Chlosta;Holger Patzelt;Sabine B. Klein;Christian Dormann

  • L23 protein functions as a chaperone docking site on the ribosome

    Günter Kramer;Thomas Rauch;Wolfgang Rist;Sonja Vorderwülbecke

  • Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Passion and Employees' Commitment to Entrepreneurial Ventures

    Nicola Breugst;Anne Domurath;Holger Patzelt;Anja Klaukien

  • The Decision to Persist with Underperforming Alliances: The Role of Trust and Control

    Holger Patzelt;Dean A. Shepherd

  • "I care about nature, but ...": Disengaging values in assessing opportunities that cause harm

    Dean A. Shepherd;Holger Patzelt;Robert A. Baron

  • Negative emotions of an entrepreneurial career: Self-employment and regulatory coping behaviors

    Holger Patzelt;Dean A. Shepherd

  • Managers' emotional displays and employees' willingness to act entrepreneurially

    Ethel Brundin;Holger Patzelt;Dean A. Shepherd

  • Substrate recognition by the AAA+ chaperone ClpB.

    Christian Schlieker;Jimena Weibezahn;Holger Patzelt;Peter Tessarz

  • Strategic alliances and product development in high technology new firms: The moderating effect of technological capabilities

    Carolin Haeussler;Holger Patzelt;Shaker A. Zahra

  • Cognitive Adaptability and an Entrepreneurial Task: The Role of Metacognitive Ability and Feedback

    J. Michael Haynie;Dean A. Shepherd;Holger Patzelt

  • Trigger Factor and DnaK possess overlapping substrate pools and binding specificities

    Elke Deuerling;Holger Patzelt;Sonja Vorderwülbecke;Thomas Rauch

  • Binding specificity of Escherichia coli trigger factor.

    Holger Patzelt;Stefan Rüdiger;Dirk Brehmer;Günter Kramer

  • Top Management Teams, Business Models, and Performance of Biotechnology Ventures: An Upper Echelon Perspective*

    Holger Patzelt;Dodo Zu Knyphausen-Aufseß;Petra Nikol

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean A. Shepherd
Dean A. Shepherd University of Notre Dame
Bernd Bukau
Bernd Bukau Heidelberg University
Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University
Jens Schneider-Mergener
Jens Schneider-Mergener Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nenad Ban
Nenad Ban ETH Zurich
Dimo Dimov
Dimo Dimov University of Bath
Axel Mogk
Axel Mogk Heidelberg University
Stefan G.D. Rüdiger
Stefan G.D. Rüdiger Utrecht University
Hanno Langen
Hanno Langen Roche (Switzerland)
Herman Aguinis
Herman Aguinis George Washington University

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