Prof. Dr. Julian Ruf

Head of degree programme - Master of Digital Business Administration

Researcher

Organisation

Digital Leadership

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Family Business Research

Master of Digital Business Administration

Master of Business Administration

DL1 - Business Engineering: increase Performance

DL3 - Business and AI: Enhance Value Creation

DL4 - International Study Trip

Entrepreneurship

Family Business Research

Digital Leadership

Business Models

Intrapreneurship

Individual Human Values

Digital Competencies

Köhn, P., S.Wolff, P.Ruf, P.Moog, and G.Strina. 2025. “From Intention to Behaviour: How Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Job Fit Influence Employee Intrapreneurship in SMEs.” Creativity and Innovation Management34, no. 3: 740–759. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12665.

Wolff, S., Köhn, P., Ruf, P. J., Moog, P., Strina, G. (2024) Measuring family influence from the non-family employee perspective: The perceived family influence scale (PFIS), Journal of Family Business Strategy. (VHB: B, IF: 7.2) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2024.100635

Grözinger, A.-C., Wolff, S., Ruf, P. J.,Audretsch, D., & Moog, P. (2023) The impact of SME leader’s psychological capital on strategic responses during crisis. Business Research Quarterly. (IF: 2.9) https://doi.org/10.1177/23409444231184481

Köhn, P., Ruf, P.J., Moog, P. (2022) Why are non-family employees intrapreneurially active in family firms? A multiple case study. Journal of Family Business Strategy. (VHB: B, IF: 7.2) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100532

Grözinger, A.-C., Wolff, S., Ruf, P. J., & Moog, P. (2021). The power of shared positivity: Organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises. Small Business Economics. (VHB: B, IF: 6.4) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00506-4

Ruf, P. J., Graffius M., Wolff, S., Moog, P.M., & Felden, B. (2020). Back to the Roots: Applying the Concept of Individual Human Values to Understand Family Firm Behavior. Family Business Review. (VHB: B, IF: 8.8) https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520944282

Ruf, P. J., Moog, P. M., & Rius, I. B. (2020). Values as antecedents of socioemotional wealth behaviour in family firms. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. (VHB: C, IF: 1.7) https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2020.106944

Ruf, P. J., & Köhn, P. (2020). The life cycle of academia and its impact on early career researchers publishing behaviour. In F. Welter & D. Urbano, How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant (pp. 106– 118). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977616.00023

Ruf, P. J., Meisner, K., & Moog, P. M. (2020). Ordnung muss sein: Unternehmensnachfolge in dysfunktionalen Familien.
In B. Felden, A. Hack, & C. Hoon (Eds.), Fallstudien zum Management von Familienunternehmen: Teaching Cases für Lehre und praktische Anwendung (pp. 83–94). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27721-5_8

Graffius, M.A., Ruf, P. J., Wolff, S. (2021). Zurück in die neue Normalität - Wahrnehmungen und Anforderungen der Auswirkungen durch die COVID-19 Pandemie von und an Unternehmen durch junge und ältere Beschäftigte. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9998