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Dr. Johanna Kuske

Johanna Kuske

IBW-Building
Herbert-Lewin-Str. 2
50931 Cologne

Building: 211, Floor: 3, Room: 3.07

Phone: +49 (0)221-470 89879
E-Mail: kuske(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Johanna Kuske has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Cologne since July 2025. After her undergraduate studies in Psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), including a semester abroad at Uppsala University, she obtained her Master’s degree in Organisational Psychology (M.Sc.) at the Alliance Manchester Business School (UK). During her studies, she gained practical experience in a business consultancy and the HR department of a multinational company. From August 2016 to December 2018, Johanna Kuske worked as an organisational psychologist for the intercultural consultancy icunet, where she specialised in psychometric assessment and learning mobility. Johanna Kuske has been a doctoral candidate representative on the advisory board of UniWiND (German University Association of Advanced Graduate Training) since May 2023. From January 2019 to June 2025, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Management, where she earned her doctorate with summa cum laude honors on the topic of well-being in entrepreneurship.

Research Interests

  • Entrepreneurship and psychological well-being
  • Hybrid entrepreneurship
  • Health promotion and stress prevention in small businesses
  • Activation of small business owners

Publications

  • Gänser-Stickler, G., Burmeister-Lamp, K., Kuske, J. & Schwens, C. (forthcoming). Fostering Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation among Employees: The Role of Leaders Communicating Entrepreneurial Visions and Goals. Journal of Business Research. 
  • Kuske, J., Schulz, M., & Schwens, C. (Forthcoming). Hybrid Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs’ Well-Being: The Moderating Effect of Role Demands Outside Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (ETP).
  • Scheepers, L., Engels, M., Boß, L., Kuhlmann, R., Kuske, J., Lesener, L., Pavlista, V., Schmidt-Stiedenroth, K., Diebig, M., Ruhle, S. A., Zapkau, F. B., Angerer, P., Hoewner, J., Lehr, D., Schwens, C., Süß, S., Wulf, I. C. & Dragano, N. (2024). Web-based occupational stress prevention in German micro- and small-sized enterprises – Process evaluation results of an implementation study. BMC Public Health.
  • Kuske, J., Schwens, C., Schulz, M., Zapkau, Florian B. (2022): Wie Stressprävention in Kleinst- und Kleinunternehmen unterstützt werden kann. Personal Quarterly, 04, 10-15.
  • Pavlista, V., Angerer, P., Kuske, J., Schwens C., Diebig, M. (2022): Exploring the barriers of psychosocial risk assessment implementation in micro and small sized firms: Evidence from a non-responder survey and a case study. German Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (ZAO), 6(4), 170-183.
  • Engels, M., Boß, L., Engels, J., Kuhlmann, R., Kuske, J., Lepper, S., Lesener, L., Pavlista, V., Diebig, M., Lunar, T., Ruhle, S. A., Zapkau, F.B., Angerer, P., Hoewner, J., Lehr, D., Schwens, C. Süß, S., Wulf, I.C., Dragano, N. (2022): Facilitating stress prevention in micro- and small-sized enterprises: protocol for a mixed method study to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation process of targeted webbased-interventions. BMC Public Health, 22(1).