Leif Brändle

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Leif Brändle is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Business and International Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Leif Brändle has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 8 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 5 papers in Business and International Management. Recurrent topics in Leif Brändle's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (14 papers), Family Business Performance and Succession (6 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (5 papers). Leif Brändle is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (14 papers), Family Business Performance and Succession (6 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (5 papers). Leif Brändle collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Leif Brändle's co-authors include Andreas Kuckertz, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, Sebastian Hinderer, Alicia Prochotta, Arturo J. Morales, Çağrı Bulut, Joern Block, Eric Yanfei Zhao and Michael D. Howard and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Business Venturing.

In The Last Decade

Leif Brändle

16 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Startups in times of crisis – A rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 716 citations Andreas Kuckertz, Leif Brändle et al. Journal of Business Venturing Insights profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leif Brändle Germany	9	478	434	306	205	203	18	1.1k
Elisabeth S.C. Berger Germany	17	555 1.2×	679 1.6×	448 1.5×	282 1.4×	286 1.4×	36	1.6k
Alicia Prochotta Germany	5	431 0.9×	285 0.7×	245 0.8×	121 0.6×	151 0.7×	5	830
Eli Gimmon Israel	18	265 0.6×	514 1.2×	406 1.3×	250 1.2×	140 0.7×	47	1.2k
Rachel Doern United Kingdom	10	331 0.7×	368 0.8×	257 0.8×	224 1.1×	164 0.8×	17	874
Sebastian Hinderer Germany	7	428 0.9×	266 0.6×	253 0.8×	112 0.5×	155 0.8×	11	881
Javed Hussain United Kingdom	16	448 0.9×	368 0.8×	114 0.4×	213 1.0×	132 0.7×	57	1.0k
Elisabet Ljunggren Norway	12	251 0.5×	846 1.9×	131 0.4×	560 2.7×	157 0.8×	29	1.2k
Anderson Galvão Portugal	15	140 0.3×	574 1.3×	192 0.6×	196 1.0×	198 1.0×	38	905
David Rodeiro Pazos Spain	16	395 0.8×	410 0.9×	298 1.0×	93 0.5×	54 0.3×	122	987
Teresa E. Dana New Zealand	9	113 0.2×	415 1.0×	144 0.5×	257 1.3×	197 1.0×	26	836

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18 of 18 papers shown

Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2025). Social class origin and entrepreneurship: An integrative review and research agenda. Journal of Business Venturing. 40(4). 106503–106503. 4 indexed citations

Block, Joern, et al.. (2025). Half dead or more alive than ever? New, old, and (increasingly) redundant literature review formats. Management Review Quarterly. 75(2). 993–1008. 5 indexed citations

Kuckertz, Andreas, Çağrı Bulut, & Leif Brändle. (2024). Unobserved heterogeneity in firm performance: The alignment of entrepreneurial orientation and organizational error management culture. Journal of Business Research. 179. 114701–114701. 8 indexed citations

Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2024). Foreign Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Constraints: Explaining Sub-Ecosystem Emergence and Decline. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2024(1).

Brändle, Leif, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, & Michael D. Howard. (2024). Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks. Academy of Management Journal. 68(3). 620–647. 1 indexed citations

Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2023). Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity. Small Business Economics. 63(3). 1041–1064. 1 indexed citations

Brändle, Leif & Andreas Kuckertz. (2023). Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Business & Society. 62(8). 1586–1636. 16 indexed citations

Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2022). Socioeconomic status and entrepreneurial networking responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Journal of Business Economics. 93(1-2). 111–147. 6 indexed citations

Block, Joern & Leif Brändle. (2022). Looking back to look ahead: MRQ's past five years of evidence-based management research in numbers. Management Review Quarterly. 72(4). 917–926. 1 indexed citations

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Kuckertz, Andreas & Leif Brändle. (2021). Creative reconstruction: a structured literature review of the early empirical research on the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship. Management Review Quarterly. 72(2). 281–307. 75 indexed citations

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Hinderer, Sebastian, Leif Brändle, & Andreas Kuckertz. (2021). Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy. Sustainability. 13(15). 8232–8232. 26 indexed citations

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Brändle, Leif & Andreas Kuckertz. (2021). Staged entrepreneurship: the formation of hybrid and spawning entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Economics. 92(6). 955–996. 11 indexed citations

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Kuckertz, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Startups in times of crisis – A rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 13. e00169–e00169. 716 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kuckertz, Andreas, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, & Leif Brändle. (2020). Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Bioeconomy Transformation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Kuckertz, Andreas, Leif Brändle, Sebastian Hinderer, et al.. (2020). Startups in Times of Crisis – A Rapid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. SSRN Electronic Journal. 59 indexed citations

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Kuckertz, Andreas, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, & Leif Brändle. (2020). Entrepreneurship and the sustainable bioeconomy transformation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 37. 332–344. 63 indexed citations

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Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2019). How entrepreneurial orientation translates social identities into performance. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 25(7). 1433–1451. 24 indexed citations

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Brändle, Leif, et al.. (2017). I am what I am - How nascent entrepreneurs’ social identity affects their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 9. 17–23. 89 indexed citations

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