Publications

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Working Papers

Kaminski, J. & Wachs, J. (2025). Creative Complexity. Preparing for Submission.

Schmitt, C., Kaminski, J., & Hünermund, P. (2025). Mapping theories of value: How causal diagrams can improve strategic decision-making. Submitted.

J. Kaminski, C. Hopp, and M. Stanko (2025). Learning to Frame: Narrative Adaptation in Serial Crowdfunding Campaigns. Under Review.

Juhász, S., Wachs, J., Kaminski, J., & Hidalgo, C. A. (2024). The software complexity of nations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13880. Under Review. Hünermund, P., Kaminski, J., & Schmitt, C. (2022). Causal machine learning and business decision making. Available at SSRN 3867326. Resubmit.

C. Santos, E. Pöhlmann, and J. Kaminski (2025). Close your eyes: Simulating the entrepreneurial self. Preparing for Submission.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Hopp, C., Ooms, W., Kaminski, J., & Prats-Lopez, M. (2025). Attuning Signals in Scientific Crowdfunding: What Works and What Doesn't?. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Horck, S., Steens, S., & Kaminski, J. (2024). Synergizing human insight and machine learning: A dual-lens approach to uncovering healthcare research and innovation outcomes. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 4(2), 100284.

Barczak, G., Hopp, C., Kaminski, J., Piller, F., & Pruschak, G. (2022). How open is innovation research?–An empirical analysis of data sharing among innovation scholars. Industry and Innovation, 29(2), 186-218.

Rose, S., Wentzel, D., Hopp, C., & Kaminski, J. (2021). Launching for success: The effects of psychological distance and mental simulation on funding decisions and crowdfunding performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(6), 106021.

Kaminski, J. C., & Hopp, C. (2020). Predicting outcomes in crowdfunding campaigns with textual, visual, and linguistic signals. Small Business Economics, 55(3), 627-649.

Hopp, C., Kaminski, J., & Piller, F. (2019). Accentuating lead user entrepreneur characteristics in crowdfunding campaigns–The role of personal affection and the capitalization of positive events. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11, e00106.

Kaminski, J., Hopp, C., & Tykvova, T. (2019). New technology assessment in entrepreneurial financing–Does crowdfunding predict venture capital investments?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 139, 287-302.

Kaminski, J., Hopp, C., & Lukas, C. (2018). Who benefits from the wisdom of the crowd in crowdfunding? Assessing the benefits of user-generated and mass personal electronic word of mouth in computer-mediated financing. Journal of Business Economics, 88(9), 1133-1162.

Kaminski, J., Schober, M.; Albaladejo, Raymond; Zastupailo, Oleksandr; Hidalgo, César, 2018, "Moviegalaxies - Social Networks in Movies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T4HBA3, Harvard Dataverse, V3. [With wonderful applications , for instance in Klimm, F., & Maier, B. F. (2020). Commentary: A network science summer course for high-school students. Network Science, 8(4), 596-608.]

Hopp, C., Antons, D., Kaminski, J., & Salge, T. O. (2018). What 40 years of research reveals about the difference between disruptive and radical innovation. Harvard Business Review.

Hopp, C., Antons, D., Kaminski, J., & Oliver Salge, T. (2018). Disruptive innovation: Conceptual foundations, empirical evidence, and research opportunities in the digital age. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(3).

Hopp, C., Antons, D., Kaminski, J., & Salge, T. O. (2018). The topic landscape of disruption research—a call for consolidation, reconciliation, and generalization. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(3), 458-487.

Kaminski, J., Jiang, Y., Piller, F., & Hopp, C. (2017, May). Do user entrepreneurs speak different? Applying natural language processing to crowdfunding videos. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems (pp. 2683-2689).

Kaminski, J. (2014). Nowcasting the bitcoin market with twitter signals. arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7577.

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

Pöhlmann, E., Santos, C. M., & Kaminski, J. C. (2025). Simulating the Entrepreneurial Self: A Cognitive Tool for Fostering Resilience and Confidence. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2025, No. 1, p. 23867). Valhalla, NY 10595: Academy of Management.

Hünermund, P., Bammens, Y., & Kaminski, J. C. (2023). Causal Discovery in Strategic Management Research. In DRUID23 Conference.

Schmitt, C., Kaminski, J. C., & Huenermund, P. (2023). Structural Causal Models in Strategy: Opportunities and Boundaries. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2023, No. 1, p. 12543). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Book Chapters

Kaminski, J. (2016). From community analysis to prototype: Creating an online matchmaker for inflammatory bowel disease patients. In Boundaryless Hospital: Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management (pp. 295-320). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Tutorials

Hünermund, P. & Kaminski, J. C. (2023). Intro to Causal AI Using the DoWhy Library in Python. DataCamp.

Press Mentions

Maastricht University Press (2021, October 21). SBE academics react to 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Moviegalaxies (Selection): Gizmodo (2013, June 28). The Beautiful Visualization of Relationships in Your Favorite Movies; Awwards Web Design Awards (2013, July 19). Honorable Mention; Good Morning Silicon Valley (2013, August 22). Movie Relationships; FlowingData (2012, August 17). Character Social Networks in Movies; VisualNews - Moviegalaxies: Tracing the Social Networks in Movies; ABC (ES) - Las conexiones «sociales» de los personajes de películas; Rush.nl (2012, August 19). Movie Galaxies: de social graph van Hollywood klassiekers. Information is Beautiful Awards. (2013)