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Business and Management

D-Index
44
Citations
10455
World Ranking
1340
National Ranking
44

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Psychology
  • Social science
  • Marketing

His primary areas of investigation include Marketing, Business model, Equity crowdfunding, Entrepreneurial finance and Investment decisions. He interconnects Self-employment and Demographic economics in the investigation of issues within Marketing. His work carried out in the field of Business model brings together such families of science as Product and Investment.

His most cited work include:

  • Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data (211 citations)
  • Family Management, Family Ownership, and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms: (153 citations)
  • Economic and Technological Importance of Innovations in Large Family and Founder Firms An Analysis of Patent Data (136 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Labour economics, Demographic economics, Marketing, German and Sample. When carried out as part of a general Labour economics research project, his work on Wage is frequently linked to work in Start up, Patent citation and Degree, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study. Jorn H. Block has researched Marketing in several fields, including Entrepreneurial finance and Investment.

His Investment research integrates issues from Web syndication and Industrial organization. His Product research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Information disclosure and Investment decisions. He integrates Investment decisions and Empirical research in his research.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Labour economics (36.59%)
  • Demographic economics (34.15%)
  • Marketing (31.71%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2020)?

  • Empirical research (21.95%)
  • Labour economics (36.59%)
  • Start up (15.85%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Empirical research, Labour economics, Start up, Wage and Business model. His Empirical research research encompasses a variety of disciplines, including Replication, Credibility, Discipline, Engineering ethics and Psychology. His Labour economics research includes themes of New Ventures and Small firm.

His Wage research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Intrapreneurship and Preference. The Business model study combines topics in areas such as Entrepreneurial finance, Product and Investment. Along with Equity crowdfunding, other disciplines of study including Investment decisions, Seed money and Information disclosure are integrated into his research.

Between 2016 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Which Updates During an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Increase Crowd Participation (117 citations)
  • Which Updates During an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Increase Crowd Participation (117 citations)
  • Which Updates During an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Increase Crowd Participation (117 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Psychology
  • Social science
  • Marketing

Jorn H. Block mainly focuses on Empirical research, Product, Marketing, Investment and Investment decisions. His Empirical research investigation overlaps with other areas such as Novelty, Sine qua non, International business, Originality and Psychology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Business model and Entrepreneurial finance in addition to Product.

Best Publications

  • R&D investments in family and founder firms: An agency perspective

    Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block

  • Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

    Jörn H. Block;Philipp G. Sandner

  • Outcomes of entrepreneurship education: An institutional perspective

    Sascha G. Walter;Jörn H. Block;Jörn H. Block

  • The Market Value of R&D, Patents, and Trademarks

    Philipp G. Sandner;Joern Block;Joern Block

  • I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

    Joern Block;Philipp Koellinger

  • Family Management, Family Ownership, and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms:

    Jörn Hendrich Block

  • Which Updates During an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Increase Crowd Participation

    Jörn Hendrich Block;Jörn Hendrich Block;Jörn Hendrich Block;Lars Hornuf;Lars Hornuf;Alexandra Moritz

  • Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy

    Jörn Hendrich Block;Jörn Hendrich Block;Karsten Kohn;Karsten Kohn;Danny Miller;Danny Miller;Katrin Ullrich

  • The Effect of Family Ownership on Different Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Large US Firms

    Joern H. Block;Marcus Wagner

  • Economic and Technological Importance of Innovations in Large Family and Founder Firms An Analysis of Patent Data

    Joern Block;Danny Miller;Peter Jaskiewicz;Frank Spiegel

  • How Do Risk Attitudes Differ within the Group of Entrepreneurs? The Role of Motivation and Procedural Utility

    Joern Block;Philipp Sandner;Frank Spiegel

  • A meta-analysis of the financial performance of family firms: Another attempt

    Dominik Wagner;Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block;Danny Miller;Danny Miller;Christian Schwens

  • What is the effect of the financial crisis on venture capital financing? Empirical evidence from US Internet start-ups

    Joern Block;Philipp Sandner

  • The Best of Both Worlds

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  • Social capital of venture capitalists and start-up funding

    Oliver T. Alexy;Joern H. Block;Philipp Sandner;Anne L. J. Ter Wal

  • Education and entrepreneurial choice: An instrumental variables analysis

    Joern H. Block;Lennart Hoogerheide;Roy Thurik

  • Eight tips and questions for your bibliographic study in business and management research

    Jörn H. Block;Jörn H. Block;Jörn H. Block;Christian Fisch;Christian Fisch

  • Why do SMEs file trademarks? Insights from firms in innovative industries

    Jörn H. Block;Jörn H. Block;Christian O. Fisch;Alexander Hahn;Philipp G. Sandner

  • Crowdfunding: A Literature Review and Research Directions

    Alexandra Moritz;Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block

  • The entrepreneurial finance markets of the future: a comparison of crowdfunding and initial coin offerings

    Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block;Alexander Peter Groh;Lars Hornuf;Lars Hornuf;Tom Roger Vanacker;Tom Roger Vanacker

  • Patents, trademarks, and their complementarity in venture capital funding

    Haibo Zhou;Philipp G. Sandner;Simon Luca Martinelli;Joern H. Block

  • Trademarks and Venture Capital Valuation

    Jorn H. Block;Jorn H. Block;Geertjan de Vries;Geertjan de Vries;Philipp G. Sandner;Jan Hendrik Schumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Fisch
Christian Fisch University of Luxembourg
Roy Thurik
Roy Thurik Montpellier Business School
Joachim Henkel
Joachim Henkel Technical University of Munich
Marcus Wagner
Marcus Wagner University of Augsburg
Martin Obschonka
Martin Obschonka Queensland University of Technology
Philipp D. Koellinger
Philipp D. Koellinger Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Silvio Vismara
Silvio Vismara University of Bergamo
Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
K. Praveen Parboteeah
K. Praveen Parboteeah University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
Mirjam van Praag
Mirjam van Praag Copenhagen Business School

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