Sascha Kraus is Full Professor Entrepreneurship & Family Business at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He holds a doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences from Klagenfurt University (AT), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Helsinki University of Technology and a Habilitation (Venia Docendi) from Lappeenranta University of Technology (FIN). Before, he held Full Professor positions at Utrecht University (NL), the University of Liechtenstein, École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur Paris (FR), and at Durham University (UK). He also held Visiting Professor positions at Copenhagen Business School (DK) and at the University of St. Gallen (CH), and was EECPCL Participating Professor at Harvard University.
 

In its current ranking of all German-speaking Business & Management scholars from 2024, the leading German financial magazine “Wirtschaftswoche” puts Professor Kraus in 3rd place in the “Current Research Performance” category and 9th place in the “Lifetime Achievement” category.

In 2022 and 2023, Clarivate has ranked him among the world’s 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business by the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports.