Dr. Baris Istipliler
Short Portrait
During his MSc studies at University of Mannheim, Baris has worked at multiple MNCs and gained experience in the fields of treasury & investor relations, controlling, entrepreneurial finance, financial accounting as well as operations. His research interests lie in the fields of entrepreneurial cognition and behavior, SME innovation as well as transgenerational entrepreneurship and family business research. His research has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Small Business Management.
Baris spent the last 4 months of 2021 at Stanford University as a visiting scholar at SCANCOR. His stay was funded by a DAAD Grant. He is also a recipient of the Joachim Herz Stiftung Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics for the period 2025–2026.
Baris also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Small Business Management and is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Family Business Strategy.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journals
- Isaak, A., Istipliler B., Bort., S., Woywode, M. (in Press) – Regulation, corruption and decentralized autonomous organizations: Insights from Bitcoin trading and platform founding between 2011 and 2023. Organization Science
- Istipliler, B., Ahsan, M., Mole, K., Adomako, S., Tang, J., Gyensare, M. A. (2025) – Entrepreneurial alertness in dynamic environments: Mediating pathways to entrepreneurial orientation and performance. British Journal of Management
- Adomako, S., Hsu, D., Zhu, F., Istipliler, B., Wiklund, J. (2024). Navigating environmental threats to new ventures: A regulatory fit approach to bricolage. Journal of Management Studies
- Istipliler, B., Hauser, C., Calabró, A., Ahrens, J.-P. (2024). Sovereignty matters! Revisiting the family influence – stakeholder orientation relationship. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- Zybura, J., Ahrens, J.-P-., Istipliler, B., Woywode, M., Kowalzick, M. (2024). It takes two to tango – Conceptualizing the “succession dance” in family firms through social exchange theory. Journal of General Management
- Stamm, I., Bernhard, F., Ahrens, J.-P., Istipliler, B. (2023). Marriage: an institution you can't disparage? Evidence on the marriage norms of entrepreneurs. Small Business Economics
- Istipliler, B., Hauer, A., Keese, D., Woywode, M., Ahrens, J.-P-. (2023). Childhood exposure to family firm and transgenerational orientation: Moderated mediation of affective commitment. Journal of Small Business Management
- Istipliler, B., Ahrens, J.-P., Bort, S., Isaak, A. (2023). How successor pre-succession firm experience affects post-succession performance in family firms. Journal of Business Research, 167, 114179
- Lanivich, S., Adomako, S., Ahsan, M., Istipliler, B., Cox, K. (2023). Multidimensional cognitive style: Linking founders to venture performance through decision logics and resource orchestration strategies. Journal of Business Research, 166, 114081
- Istipliler, B., Ahrens, J.-P., Hauer, A., Steininger, D., Woywode, M. (2023). Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms. Journal of Small Business Management, 1–48
- Istipliler, B., Bort, S., Woywode, M. (2023). Flowers of adversity: Institutional constraints and innovative SMEs in transition economies. Journal of Business Research, 154, 113306.
- Karami, M., Tang, J., Istipliler, B., Adomako, S. (2023). Resource induced coping heuristics transform psychological capital into opportunity recognition. Journal of General Management, 48(3), 241–252.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
- Istipliler, B. (2024). Know-what or know-how to venture? ll-definedness of entrepreneurship and role of experiences. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
- Boukhabza, S., Istipliler, B., Müller, B., Ouhadi, S. (2024). How Moroccan female entrepreneurs adapt to lead their family firms: Identity work in the face of role complexity. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
- Ahrens, J.-P., Isaak, A. J., Istipliler, B., and Steininger, D. M. (2019). The Star Citizen Phenomenon & the ‘Ultimate Dream Management’ technique in crowdfunding. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Munich, Germany, p. 1–9
- Istipliler, B. and Ahrens, J.-P. (2019). Role of sovereignty goals in explaining stakeholder orientation in family firms. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Vol. 2019, No. 1, p. 14418
Other
- Ebert, S., Onneken, F., Istipliler, B., Kowalzick, M., et al. (2022). Benchmark Familienunternehmen 2022 : eine vergleichende Analyse der 11 Metropolregionen in Deutschland
- Ahrens, J. P., Istipliler, B., Keese, D., Kowalzick, M., Patzer, C., & Tänzler, J. K. (2019). Benchmark Familienunternehmen: eine vergleichende Analyse der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar und der Region Stuttgart 2019.
Work in Progress
Papers under revision
Papers under review
Istipliler, B., (title hidden) focus on entrepreneurial cognition – under review at Journal of Business Venturing