Prof. Dr. Julian Ruf
Profile
Prof. Dr. Julian Ruf Professor Tenure Track
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Contact hours
Wednesday
Thursday -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Abteilung Lehre
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Head of degree programme - Master of Digital Business Administration
Researcher
Focus areas
Organisation
Digital Leadership
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Family Business Research
Teaching
Degree programmes
Master of Digital Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
Subjects
DL1 - Business Engineering: increase Performance
DL3 - Business and AI: Enhance Value Creation
DL4 - International Study Trip
Research
Specialisations
Entrepreneurship
Family Business Research
Digital Leadership
Focus areas
Business Models
Intrapreneurship
Individual Human Values
Digital Competencies
CV
Professional experience
- 2024- Today Tenure Professor & Programme Director Msc Bern University of Applied Science
- 2022-2024 Senior Researcher (PostDoc) University of Siegen
- 2017-2022 Research Assistant University of Siegen
- 2021-2023 Co-Founder Crypto Bergbau GbR
- 2018 - Today Freelance Business Consultant Ruf Consulting
Education
- 2017-2022 Dr. rer. Pol. University of Siegen
- 2015-2017 M.Sc. Business Administration, Entrepreneurship and SME Management University of Siegen
- 2013-2015 Bachelor of Business Administration Fast Track Hotelschool The Hague
Other
- Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule, Gesamtzertifikat an der Universität Siegen
- Scrum Master
Publications
Paper Peer Reviewed
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
Bookchapter & Practitioner Paper
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_8Graffius, 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
Awards
Award for Early-Career Researchers
Why Are Non-Family Employees Intrapreneurially Active in Family Firms? A Multiple Case Study
2023, Association for the Promotion of the Faculties of Business and Economics at the University of Siegen
Dirlmeier Foundation Dissertation Award
How Values and Socioemotional Wealth Influence Behavior and Performance in Family Firms
Dirlmeier Foundation, 2023
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
The Pillars of Family Firm Performance? How Owner-Managers’ Values Impact Socioemotional Wealth and Performance
Academy of Management, 2021
EURAM Best Paper of the Track Award
Back to the Roots: Applying the Concept of Individual Human Values to Understand Family Firm Behavior
EURAM, 2019, Family Business SIG
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Muttersprache oder zweisprachig
- English - Verhandlungssicher
- French - Konversationssicher
Intercultural knowledge
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Netherlands