Gorgi Krlev is the Associate Dean and Professor of Sustainability at ESCP Business School in Paris. He also holds a Visiting Professorship at Politecnico di Milano and is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Gorgi holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, and a habilitation (HDR) from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In his research, he deals with social entrepreneurship, social innovations and impact, with a particular focus on how cross-sector collaborations and new field emergence promote societal transformations and contribute to addressing environmental and social sustainability challenges.

His open access book Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives received a best book award from the Academy of Management (AOM). His new book Social Economy Science: Transforming the Economy & Making Society More Resilient won the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Prize by ARNOVA.

Gorgi has won numerous other awards for his research, teaching and "impact work". Most prominently: A First Prize by the Roman Herzog Institute (RHI) for research (on social impact) that matters to society. A Responsible Business Education Award from the Financial Times for TRANSFORM, a collaborative, open-source platform on innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainability. The Civil Society Research Impact Award of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) for putting social innovation and social entrepreneurship on the German policy agenda. An award by Poets & Quants as Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor.

Gorgi serves on the Board of Directors of Euclid Network, the international network of impact-driven leaders supported by the European Commission.

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Academic Articles

2024

KAUFMANN, L., G. KRLEV, M. (. BROWN

In plain sight: Mechanisms of means-ends decoupling in impact investing

ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Academic Articles

2023

KRLEV, G.

Calibrating for progress: What are the instrumental functions of theory in management research?

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 60 (4), 963-990

Academic Articles

2023

KRLEV, G., A. SPICER

Reining in reviewer two: How to uphold epistemic respect in academia

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 60 (6), 1624-1632

Academic Articles

2023

KRLEV, G.

Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 186 (3), 571 - 592

Books

2023

KRLEV, G., D. WRUK, G. PASI, M. BERNHARD

Social Economy Science: Transforming the Economy and Making Society More Resilient

Oxford University Press

Media

2023

KRLEV, G

Loi plein-emploi: en matière d'insertion professionnelle, l'union fait la force

The Conversation

Media

2023

KRLEV, G

How and why stakeholders join forces to address moral crises

World Economic Forum

PhD / HDR Dissertation

2023

KRLEV, G.

Amplifying “the social” in entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational impact

Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

Academic Articles

2022

KRLEV, G., J. TERSTRIEP

Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions

ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS

Chapters

2022

KRLEV, G.

The Hiding Hand, Persistent Fragile Action, and Sustainable Development

In: Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts, Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser, Stefan Toepler Springer