Selected Publications:
Kammerlander, N., Patzelt, H., Behrens, J., & Röhm, C. (2021): Organizational ambidexterity in family-managed firms: The role of family involvement in top management, Family Business Review, 33 (4), 393-423.
Patzelt, H., Behrens, J., Wolfe, M., & Shepherd, D. (2020): Perceived project transition support and employees´ assessments of entrepreneurial project performance, Journal of Business Venturing, 35 (1), 1-25.
Baierl, R., Behrens, J., & Brem, A. (2019): Digital Entrepreneurship: Interfaces Between Digital Technologies and Entrepreneurship, FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship, ISBN: 978-3- 030-20137-1.
Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2017): Incentives, resources, and combinations of innovation radicalness and innovation speed, British Journal of Management, 29 (4), 691-842.
Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2016): Corporate entrepreneurship managers’ project terminations: Integrating portfolio-level, individual-level, and firm-level effects, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 40 (4), 815-842.
Behrens, J.: A Lack of Insight (2016): An experimental analysis of R&D managers’ decision making in innovation portfolio management, Creativity and Innovation Management, 25 (2), 239-250.
Domurath, A., Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2015): Scientists´ commitment to underperforming research projects: Linking past success and social environment, R&D Management, 45 (5), 569-588.
Behrens, J., Ernst, H., & Shepherd, D. A. (2014): The decision to exploit an R&D project: Divergent thinking across middle and senior managers, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31 (1), 144-158.
Behrens, J., & Ernst, H. (2014): What keeps managers away from a losing course of action? Go/Stop decisions in new product development. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31 (2), 361-374.
Behrens, J., Patzelt, H., Schweizer, L., & Bürger, R. (2012): Specific managerial human capital, firm age, and venture capital financing of biopharmaceutical ventures: A contingency approach, Journal of High Technology Management Research, 23 (2), 112-121.
Patzelt, H., Schweizer, L., & Behrens, J. (2012): Biotechnology entrepreneurship, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 8 (2), 63-140.
Conference Best Paper Proceedings:
Behrens, J.; L Tseitlin, L. (2019): Perceptions of transgenerational intentions and nonfamily employees´ commitment in family firms, Academy of Management Proceedings.
Behrens, J.; Röhm, C. (2019): How does family involvement in top management teams impact exploration and exploitation? The role of faultlines and non-economic goals, IPDMC, England.
Behrens, J., Kammerlander, N., & Röhm, C. (2017): How does family involvement in top management teams impact exploration and exploitation? The role of faultlines and non-economic goals, G-Forum.
Behrens, J., & Hummel, C. (2016): Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Project Failures and Project Teams: How Do They Impact Employee Engagement at Work?, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.
Behrens, J., & Hummel, C. (2016): Employee work engagement in “high-failure” entrepreneurial organizations, Academy of Management Proceedings.
Behrens, J. (2014): Moving to the next project? Capturing transition performance in a corporate entrepreneurship setting, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.
Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2014): Corporate entrepreneurship managers´ project terminations: Integrating portfolio-level, individual-level, and firm-level effects, G-Forum.
Patzelt, H., Domurath, A. & Behrens, J. (2013): Past success and the persistence of underperforming R&D projects – the role of scientific networks, Academy of Management Proceedings.
Behrens, J. (2013): Motivated toward novelty or speed to market or both? Building a theory of passionate innovation, Academy of Management Proceedings.
Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2012): Withdrawing a project from the corporate innovation portfolio: Person, portfolio, and firm level effects, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research