Judith Behrens

Judith Behrens is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She is a research fellow of CEBRIG (Centre Emile Bernheim de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Gestion) and iCite (The International Centre for Innovation, Technology and Education Studies).

​In her research, Judith Behrens conducts studies in the areas of entrepreneurship, decision making and innovation outcomes. For example, she looks at entrepreneurial thinking and cognition within organizations, project and portfolio management and digital entrepreneurship. The aim of her work is to conduct management research that explains how organizations and start-ups can strategically shape change in an increasingly digitalized world. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in leading international academic journals. She is in the editorial review board of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Journal of Product Innovation Management. To realize her projects, she was involved in funding activities (e.g., Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Fonds d’Encouragement à la Recherche, Stiftung Industrieforschung).

Judith Behrens was a Habilitand at Technische Universität München and a visiting scholar at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She did her Ph.D. at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. She studied economics at Universität Witten Herdecke and general management at Stockholm University - School of Business. Before starting in academia, she worked several years in the banking sector at Deutsche Bank AG and American Mortgage Express, USA.

KEYWORDS

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

MOST REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Patzelt, H., Behrens, J., Wolfe, M., & Shepherd, D. (2020): "Perceived project transition support and employees´ assessments of entrepreneurial project performance", Journal of Business Venturing, 35 (1), 1-25.

Behrens, J., & Patzelt, H. (2016): "Corporate entrepreneurship managers’ project terminations: Integrating portfolio-level, individual-level, and firm-level effects", Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 40 (4), 815-842.

Behrens, J., Ernst, H., & Shepherd, D. A. (2014): "The decision to exploit an R&D project: Divergent thinking across middle and senior managers", Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31 (1), 144-158.