Nicola Breugst

Nicola Breugst holds the Professorship of Entrepreneurial Behavior at TUM School of Management since March 2012. She has a PhD in entrepreneurship from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena and her dissertation won the prestigious NFIB dissertation award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Nicola worked at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and the National University of Singapore.

Nicola’s research focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship. More specifically, she addresses questions of entrepreneurial affect, motivation, and cognition and integrates the entrepreneurs’ social contexts, such as the founder team, new venture employees, and mentors. Her papers were published in internationally leading entrepreneurship journals. Her fascination for the people side of entrepreneurship also inspires her teaching which aims at developing the students’ entrepreneurial and analytical thinking.

Selected current research projects

“Is entrepreneurial effort contagious?” – In cooperation with Indiana University, we investigate when entrepreneurial team members inspire their teammates to invest effort in their venture.

“Does it take a strong team to identify opportunities?” – Jointly with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, we investigate how founder teams use their human capital to transfer a technology into entrepreneurial opportunities.

Areas of interest

• Founder Teams
• Entrepreneurial Cognition
• Affect in Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Motivation
• Leadership in Young Ventures

Awards

Excellence in Reviewing Award from Journal of Business Venturing for the year 2013

Editorship (2013-2016)

Journal of Business Venturing, Member of the Editorial Review Board

Key Publications

• Breugst, N., Shepherd, D. A.: If you fight with me, I'll get mad! A social model of entrepreneurial affect. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 41 (3), 2017, 379-418
• Breugst, N.;Patzelt, H.;Rathgeber, P.: How should we divide the pie? Equity distribution and its impact on entrepreneurial teams. Journal of Business Venturing 30 (1), 2015, 66-94
• Laspita, Stavroula;Breugst, Nicola;Heblich, Stephan;Patzelt, Holger: Intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Venturing 27 (4), 2012, 414–435