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Rainer Harms is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands, focusing research primarily within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, where they have contributed to 42 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, Business and International Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research addresses diverse topics such as Innovation and Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, and Firm Innovation and Growth.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Rainer Harms include:

  • Effectuation and causation configurations for business model innovation: Addressing COVID-19 in the gastronomy industry (2021) published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management

While not a sole author, they are frequently associated with research in venues that include the International Journal of Hospitality Management, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rainer Harms include:

  • Holger Schiele
  • Juliano Afonso Tessaro
  • Isabella Hatak
  • Arend J. Groen
  • Matthias Fink

Publications involving Rainer Harms appear regularly in journal outlets such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Small Business Economics
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • International Journal of Innovation Management
  • International Journal of Hospitality Management

Best Publications

  • The impact of entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial intention of students in science and engineering versus business studies university programs

    Daniela Maresch;Rainer Harms;Norbert Kailer;Birgit Wimmer-Wurm

  • Entrepreneurial marketing: moving beyond marketing in new ventures

    Sascha Kraus;Rainer Harms;Matthias Fink

  • Antecedents and consequences of effectuation and causation in the international new venture creation process

    Rainer Harms;Holger Schiele

  • The Relationship between Transformational Leadership, Product Innovation and Performancein SMEs

    Kurt Matzler;Erich Schwarz;Natasa Deutinger;Rainer Harms

  • Strategic planning in smaller enterprises – new empirical findings

    Sascha Kraus;Rainer Harms;Erich J. Schwarz

  • Age, job identification, and entrepreneurial intention

    Isabella Hatak;Rainer Harms;Matthias Fink

  • Self-regulated learning, team learning and project performance in entrepreneurship education: Learning in a lean startup environment

    Rainer Harms

  • Does e-HRM lead to better HRM service?

    Tanya Bondarouk;Rainer Harms;David Lepak

  • Family firm research: sketching a research field

    Sascha Kraus;Rainer Harms;Matthias Fink

  • The suitability of the configuration approach in entrepreneurship research

    Rainer Harms;Sascha Kraus;Erich Schwarz

  • Willingness to pay for eco-certified refurbished products: the effects of environmental attitudes and knowledge

    Rainer Harms;Jonathan D. Linton

  • Knowledge management and coopetition: How do cooperating competitors balance the needs to share and protect their knowledge?

    Johanna Gast;Katherine Gundolf;Rainer Harms;Elvin Matos Collado

  • Effective entrepreneurial marketing on Facebook – A longitudinal study

    Matthias Fink;Matthias Fink;Monika Koller;Johannes Gartner;Arne Floh;Arne Floh

  • Cooperative internationalization of SMEs: Self-commitment as a success factor for International Entrepreneurship

    Matthias Fink;Rainer Harms;Sascha Kraus

  • On the motivational drivers of gray entrepreneurship: an exploratory study

    Rainer Harms;Florian Luck;Sascha Kraus;Steven Thomas Walsh;Steven Thomas Walsh

  • Structuring the Technology Entrepreneurship publication landscape: Making sense out of chaos

    Tiago Ratinho;Rainer Harms;Steven Thomas Walsh;Steven Thomas Walsh

  • Antecedents of innovation and growth: analysing the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and goal-oriented management

    Rainer Harms;Carl Henning Reschke;Sascha Kraus;Matthias Fink

  • Strategic business planning and success in small firms

    Sascha Kraus;Rainer Harms;Erich Schwarz

  • Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity

    Mathew Hughes;Matthias Filser;Rainer Harms;Sascha Kraus

  • Effectuation and causation configurations for business model innovation: Addressing COVID-19 in the gastronomy industry

    Rainer Harms;Carina Alfert;Cheng Feng Cheng;Sascha Kraus

  • Configurations of new ventures in entrepreneurship research: contributions and research gaps

    Rainer Harms;Sascha Kraus;Carl H. Reschke

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Fink
Matthias Fink Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Sascha Kraus
Sascha Kraus University of Siegen
Holger Schiele
Holger Schiele University of Twente
Jonathan D. Linton
Jonathan D. Linton University of Sheffield
Mathew Hughes
Mathew Hughes University of Leicester
David P. Lepak
David P. Lepak University of Massachusetts Amherst
Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University
Kurt Matzler
Kurt Matzler University of Innsbruck
Bruce T. Milne
Bruce T. Milne University of New Mexico
Karen I. van der Zee
Karen I. van der Zee Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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