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60
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14195
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548
National Ranking
17

Overview

Malte Brettel is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant emphasis on several subfields including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Social Psychology.

The main topics explored in Malte Brettel's work comprise Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, Business Strategy and Innovation, Environmental Sustainability in Business, as well as Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation.

Malte Brettel has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, notably:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • European Management Journal
  • International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
  • Industrial Marketing Management
  • Journal of Small Business Management

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Digital orientation: Conceptualization and operationalization of a new strategic orientation" (2020, European Management Journal)
  • "The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital" (2020, Journal of Product Innovation Management)
  • "The Role of Share Repurchases for Firms' Social and Environmental Sustainability" (2022, Journal of Business Ethics)
  • "Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification" (2021, Journal of Business Ethics)
  • "The interplay of eco-labels and price cues: Empirical evidence from a large-scale field experiment in an online fashion store" (2022, Journal of Cleaner Production)

Frequent co-authors in Malte Brettel's research include:

  • Andrea Greven
  • Denise Fischer
  • Sebastian Kruse
  • Steffen Strese
  • David Bendig

Best Publications

  • How Virtualization, Decentralization and Network Building Change the Manufacturing Landscape: An Industry 4.0 Perspective

    Malte Brettel;Niklas Friederichsen;Michael Keller;Marius Rosenberg

  • A measure of absorptive capacity: Scale development and validation.

    Tessa C. Flatten;Andreas Engelen;Shaker A. Zahra;Malte Brettel

  • Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of Transformational Leadership Behaviors

    Andreas Engelen;Vishal Gupta;Lis Strenger;Malte Brettel

  • Corporate effectuation: Entrepreneurial action and its impact on R&D project performance

    Malte Brettel;René Mauer;Andreas Engelen;Daniel Küpper

  • Understanding the influence of corporate social responsibility on corporate identity, image, and firm performance

    Sebastian Arendt;Malte Brettel

  • Configurations of resources and capabilities and their performance implications: an exploratory study on technology ventures

    Marc Gruber;Florian Heinemann;Malte Brettel;Stephan Hungeling

  • Absorptive Capacity and Firm Performance in SMEs: The Mediating Influence of Strategic Alliances

    Tessa Christina Flatten;Greta Isabell Greve;Malte Brettel

  • Cross-Functional Integration of R&D, Marketing, and Manufacturing in Radical and Incremental Product Innovations and Its Effects on Project Effectiveness and Efficiency

    Malte Brettel;Florian Heinemann;Andreas Engelen;Steven Neubauer

  • Innovation Culture, Collaboration with External Partners and NPD Performance

    Malte Brettel;Nina J. Cleven

  • How Organizational Culture Influences Innovativeness, Proactiveness, and Risk-Taking: Fostering Entrepreneurial Orientation in SMEs

    Malte Brettel;Christoph Chomik;Tessa Christina Flatten

  • The Influence of Internal Social Capital on Serial Creators’ Success in Crowdfunding

    Vitaly Skirnevskiy;David Bendig;Malte Brettel

  • Boosting corporate entrepreneurship through HRM practices: Evidence from German SMEs

    Ralf Schmelter;René Mauer;Christiane Börsch;Malte Brettel

  • Improving the performance of business models with relationship marketing efforts - an entrepreneurial perspective

    Malte Brettel;Steffen Strese;Tessa Christina Flatten

  • Competition-motivated corporate social responsibility

    Jan Kemper;Oliver Schilke;Martin Reimann;Xuyi Wang

  • Assessing cross-cultural marketing theory and research

    Andreas Engelen;Malte Brettel

  • Content Strategies for Digital Consumer Engagement in Social Networks: Why Advertising Is an Antecedent of Engagement

    José Manuel Gavilanes;Tessa Christina Flatten;Malte Brettel

  • The Effect of Organizational Culture on Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Comparison between Germany and Thailand

    Andreas Engelen;Tessa Christina Flatten;Julia Thalmann;Malte Brettel

  • Digital orientation: Conceptualization and operationalization of a new strategic orientation

    Bastian Kindermann;Sebastian Beutel;Gonzalo Garcia de Lomana;Steffen Strese

  • Fostering absorptive capacity through leadership: A cross-cultural analysis

    Tessa Flatten;Daniel Adams;Malte Brettel

  • What Drives Advertising Success on Facebook? An Advertising-Effectiveness Model: Measuring the Effects on Sales Of “Likes”and Other Social-Network Stimuli

    Malte Brettel;Jens-Christian Reich;Jose M. Gavilanes;Tessa C. Flatten

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank T. Piller
Frank T. Piller RWTH Aachen University
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Lynne G. Zucker
Lynne G. Zucker University of California, Los Angeles
Matthias Jarke
Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta University of Southern California

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