Ewald Kibler

Associate Professor

E706 Dept. Management Studies

Ewald Kibler is Associate Professor at Aalto School of Business (BIZ) and serves as Academy of Finland Researcher. He received his M.A. in Sociology from the University of Graz, Austria, and his Ph.D. in Economic Geography from the University of Turku, Finland.

Ewald’s research focus lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship, organization and regional development studies. He published over 20 articles in top-tier journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Research Policy, Human Relations and Journal of Economic Geography. Ewald was awarded the Researcher of the Year (2019) at Aalto BIZ and his work was featured at the Financial Times’ Top-100 list of Research with Social Impact and at several Best Papers proceedings of leading academic conferences.

Ewald is Editorial Review Board Member of the leading entrepreneurship journals Journal of Business Venturing, International Small Business Journal, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice for which he also received an Outstanding Reviewer Award. Further, he serves as peer-reviewer for the highest-ranked management journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review, and regularly collaborates with policy-makers, including advising ILO, the OECD, and the European Commission.

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

[email protected]

Postal address

Ekonominaukio 1 02150 Espoo Finland

Phone number

+358403538442

Honors and awards

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice

Awarded as Outstanding Reviewer of the year 2017 for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ET&P), ranked as one of the leading FT50 Journal in the Field of Entrepreneurship Research.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Management Studies Jan 2017

Awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis at the Turku School of Economics and as one of the Best Five Doctoral Theses at the University of Turku in 2012

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Management Studies Sep 2013

Research groups

Sustainability in Business

Publications

Navigating Place : Extending Perspectives on Place in Organization Studies

Tina M. Dacin, Tammar Zilber, Mélodie Cartel, Ewald Kibler 2024

Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being

Teemu Kautonen, Aracely Soto-Simeone, Ewald Kibler 2024

Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context

Jonathan Kimmitt, Ewald Kibler, Henri Schildt, Päivi Oinas 2024

Unfolding dispositifs : Attempts at digital business education in North Korea

Thomas Wainwright, Ewald Kibler, Will Scott, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä 2024

The role of passion diversity, compassion, and self-compassion for team entrepreneurial passion

Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Ewald Kibler, Melissa S. Cardon, Teemu Kautonen, Henri Hakala 2023

Transitions to entrepreneurship, self-realization, and prolonged working careers: Insights from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Teemu Kautonen, Cal Halvorsen, Maria Minniti, Ewald Kibler 2023

Counternarrating entrepreneurship

Ewald Kibler, Lauri Laine 2023

All about that place: stories of entrepreneurship in Ghana

Jonathan Kimmitt, Ewald Kibler, Henri Schildt, Päivi Oinas 2023

Scaling the right answers – Creating and maintaining hope through social entrepreneurship in light of humanitarian crises

Andreas Kuckertz, Alexander Bernhard, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, Ondřej Dvouletý, Rainer Harms, Sarah Jack, Ewald Kibler 2023

Towards an Object-Oriented Organization Theory: The Role of Entrepreneurial Objects in Organizational Emergence

Lauri Laine, Ewald Kibler 2023

How does late-career entrepreneurship relate to innovation?

Martin Murmann, Virva Salmivaara, Ewald Kibler 2023

Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement

Martin Obschonka, Ignacio Pavez, Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Joakim Wincent 2023

Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

Mélodie Cartel, Ewald Kibler, M. Tina Dacin 2022

Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice

Steffen Farny, Ewald Kibler 2022 Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice

Envisioning Entrepreneurial Engagement in North Korea

Ewald Kibler, Bernadetta Ginting-Szczesny, Eero Vaara, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä 2022

The Social Imaginary of Emancipation in Entrepreneurship

Lauri Laine, Ewald Kibler 2022

Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes

Pablo Muñoz, Ewald Kibler, Vesna Mandakovic, José Ernesto Amorós 2022

Do bankruptcy laws matter for entrepreneurship? A Synthetic Control Method analysis of a bankruptcy reform in Finland

Ali Sadeghi, Ewald Kibler 2022

Social enterprise crowdfunding in an acute crisis

Mohamed Farhoud, Sheeza Shah, Pekka Stenholm, Ewald Kibler, Maija Renko, Siri Terjesen 2021

North Korean Entrepreneurial Dreamers

Ewald Kibler, Bernadetta Ginting-Szczesny, Eero Vaara, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä 2021

Post-failure impression management: A typology of entrepreneurs’ public narratives after business closure

Ewald Kibler, Christoph Mandl, Steffen Farny, Virva Salmivaara 2021

Social entrepreneurship in context and as practice

Ewald Kibler, Pablo Muñoz 2020

What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Community?

Ewald Kibler, Pablo Munoz 2020

“Rhetoric Mix” of Argumentations

Virva Salmivaara, Ewald Kibler 2020

Situated Institutions: The Role of Place, Space and Embeddedness in Institutional Dynamics

Tina Dacin, Tammar Zilber, Paul Tracey, Peter Dacin, Steffen Farny, Ewald Kibler, Eva Boxenbaum, Dean Shepherd, Barbara Grey, Linda Putnam, Silviya Svejenova, Robin Canniford 2019