معرفی
Ewald Kibler is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Aalto University. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, institutional dynamics, place-based studies, and social entrepreneurship. He has been recognized with the Outstanding Reviewer Award (2017) and Best Doctoral Thesis accolades (2012/2013). His work explores topics such as entrepreneurial passion, aging entrepreneurs, and the interplay between place and organizational behavior. He collaborates widely, publishing in journals like Journal of Business Venturing and Organization Studies. His recent studies address emotional exhaustion in aging entrepreneurs, narrative strategies in deprived contexts, and institutional creation in North Korea.
Research Interests
- Place and entrepreneurship
- Institutional and spatial dynamics
- Social and late-career entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial well-being and burnout
Key Awards
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (2017)
- Best Doctoral Thesis, Turku School of Economics (2012); Best Five Theses, University of Turku (2013)
Grants & Labs
He leads projects on North Korean entrepreneurship education and sustainable development through the Sustainability in Business research group. Collaborations include studies on aging entrepreneurs with the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
