Internationalisation in management: GIKA Best Paper Award for Professor Sascha Kraus

Professor Sascha Kraus, Associate Professor at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Competence Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses, has been chosen to receive the Best Paper Award of the Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) at its 2014 Annual Conference.
This year’s topic at the conference, which was held in Valencia, Spain from 7 to 10 July 2014, was ‘Spirit of Strategy (S.O.S): the New S.O.S for Competitive Business’. Among the works submitted was an essay by Professor Sascha Kraus and his co-authors on ‘Distance and Perceptions of Risk in Internationalization Decisions: A Conjoint Choice Experiment’, which together with the associated lecture won the prize.  

International team of authors
Professor Kraus wrote the work in partnership with three other research colleagues: Professor Tina Ambos of the University of Sussex, Assistant Professor Felix Eggers of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (a former post-doctoral student at the Institute for Entrepreneurship in Liechtenstein) and Assistant Professor Beate Cesinger of the Montpellier Business School, France (also a lecturer at the Institute for Entrepreneurship). The essay was based on the ‘ent-e-12’ research project, which received support from the Liechtensteinischer Forschungsförderungsfonds (FFF) [Liechtenstein Research Promotion Fund). The project casts light on the first-time internationalisation decisions of managers, making use of an experimental research approach relying on choice-based conjoint analysis. 



Professor Sascha Kraus at the GIKA Conference in Valencia


Between Switzerland, Finland and Liechtenstein
Alongside his professorship and his responsibilities as Director the Competence Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses at the University of  Liechtenstein, Sascha Kraus is also a Visiting Professor of International Small Business Management at the University of St. Gallen and a Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. From 2008 to 2013 he was a university professor and holder of the Chair for Entrepreneurship at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

 
Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy
The GIKA annual conference serves as a discussion platform for current challenges in the areas of innovation and knowledge. It is organised by the University of Valencia and the Catholic University of Valencia. Every year more than 200 research students and lecturers from 40 different countries have an opportunity of presenting their findings derived from research and teaching. The best contributions from each conference are then published in a special edition of the highly regarded Journal of Business Research. 

Further information may be found at www.uv.es/gika.