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dr. I. Hatak (Isabella)

Associate Professor

About Me

Isabella R. Hatak is Associate Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship at NIKOS, University of Twente. Prior to this position, Isabella was Deputy Head of the Institute for Innovation Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) and Associate Professor at the Institute for Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). She holds a postdoctoral qualification (venia legendi) and a Ph.D. from the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business as well as a MSc in coaching and organizational development and a MA in international business studies.

Isabella has published several contributions to peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Family Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, International Small Business Journal, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Economic Psychology). For her research, she received several awards such as the JSBM Editor’s Choice Award, ICSB Best Paper Award, COMS Best Paper Award, WU Top-Journal Awards, and the Dr. Maria-Schaumayer-Prize. A great number of her research projects obtained funding and were honored with scholarships (e.g. for the European Forum Alpbach).

(SELECTED) JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Hatak, I. & Snellman, K. (2017). The Influence of Anticipated Regret on Business Start-Up Behavior. International Small Business Journal, 35 (3): 349-360.

Eggers, F., Hatak, I., Kraus, S. & Niemand, T. (2017). Technologies That Support Marketing and Market Development in SMEs—Evidence from Social Networks. Journal of Small Business Management, 55 (2): 270-302.

Rauch, A. & Hatak, I. (2016). Human Resource Management in Small and Medium Sized Firms: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationships between Different HRM Practices and Firm Performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 31 (5): 485-504.

Hatak, I., Lang, R. & Rößl, D. (2016). Trust, Social Capital, and the Coordination of Relationships between the Members of Cooperatives. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27 (3): 1218-1241.

Weismeier-Sammer, D. & Hatak, I. (2014). Succession in the Family Business: Challenges for Successors from an Entrepreneurial Perspective. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 15 (4): 279-284.

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Education

Isabella has taught courses on business administration in general, and entrepreneurship and SME management in particular. She taught at bachelor-, master-, and PhD level at WU Vienna, JKU Linz and further Austrian universities. At the UT, she acts as coordinator of the (I)BA MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Strategy (EIS) track and teaches, for example, the MSc course ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership & Responsible Organizational Design’.