Krlev Gorgi | ESCP Business School

Gorgi Krlev

Full Professor of Sustainability and Impact

Department : Sustainability
Campus : Paris

Gorgi Krlev is the Associate Dean and Full Professor of Sustainability at ESCP Business School as well as the director of ESCP’s Research Centre on Environmental and Societal Transitions (RESET). He also holds a Visiting Professorship at Politecnico di Milano and is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

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. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, and a habilitation (HDR) from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

Journal Article

2026

KRLEV, G.

Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING, 2026, vol. 41 (2)

Journal Article

2026

KRLEV, G., M. HIRSCHMANN, J. BLOCK

Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises

RESEARCH POLICY, 2026, vol. 55 (1)

Journal Article

2025

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

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

ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 2025, vol. 46 (5), pp. 667–692

Other contribution

2025

ROMME, G., C. SECKLER, A. BAIYERE, T. BANSAL, J. VOM BROCKE, E. VAN BURG, L. CHANDRA KRUSE, M. HANISCH, A. HEVNER, S. JARVENPAA , G. KRLEV, S. MISSONIER, N. WORREN

Open Letter: Empowering the Future of Management Research through Design Science

2025

Academic Articles

2025

KRLEV, G., M. HIRSCHMANN, J. BLOCK

Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises

RESEARCH POLICY

Journal Article

2025

KRLEV, G., T. R. HANNIGAN, A. SPICER

What makes a good review article? Empirical evidence from management and organization research

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS, 2025

Habilitation Dissertation

2023

KRLEV, G.

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

Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2023

Journal Article

2023

KRLEV, G.

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

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 2023, vol. 60 (4), pp. 963-990

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2023

KRLEV, G.

How and why stakeholders join forces to address moral crises

2023, World Economic Forum

Journal Article

2023

KRLEV, G.

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

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 2023, vol. 186 (3), pp. 571 - 592

Top 40-Under-40 in Germany

2024

Recognition as a leading personality in Science & Society

Capital Magazin

Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize

2024

Received for Social Economy Science: Transforming the Economy and Making Society More Resilient (Oxford University Press)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)

Runner-up Best Paper (AOM)

2024

Best paper on "Environmental and Social Practices"

Academy of Management (AOM), Organization and Management Theory Division

Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors

2023

Recognition as one of the top MBA Professors internationally

Poets&Quants (Times Higher Education)

Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award

2023

Received for TRANSFORM—Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability (https://transform-sustainability.org/)

Financial Times

ISTR Civil Society Research Impact Award

2022

Best "Business for Society" paper

European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Best Paper Award (EURAM)

2022

Recognition of research with practical and policy impacts

Roman Herzog Institute

First Research Prize "Social Market Economy"

2021

Recognition for bringing social entrepreneurship and social innovation onto the German policy agenda

International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)

Social Entrepreneurship Award for Impact on Stakeholders

2020

Recognition of the relevance and impact of the Accelerating Investment Readiness (AIR) MOOC targeting impact investors and social entrepreneurs

Search faculty publications

Journal Article

2026

Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach

Journal Article

2026

Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises

Journal Article

2025

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

Other contribution

2025

Open Letter: Empowering the Future of Management Research through Design Science

Academic Articles

2025

Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises

Journal Article

2025

What makes a good review article? Empirical evidence from management and organization research

Habilitation Dissertation

2023

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

Journal Article

2023

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

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2023

How and why stakeholders join forces to address moral crises

Journal Article

2023

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

Research and expertise

News

AI and sustainability: how ESCP is approaching responsible innovation

From Crisis Response to Continuous Transformation: New Research by Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund on Resilient Business Models

Top 40-Under-40 in Germany

2024

Capital Magazin

Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize

2024

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)

Runner-up Best Paper (AOM)

2024

Academy of Management (AOM), Organization and Management Theory Division

Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors

2023

Poets&Quants (Times Higher Education)

Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award

2023

Financial Times

ISTR Civil Society Research Impact Award

2022

European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Best Paper Award (EURAM)

2022

Roman Herzog Institute

First Research Prize "Social Market Economy"

2021

International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)

Social Entrepreneurship Award for Impact on Stakeholders

2020

U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)

Best Book Award - Academy of Management (AOM)

2019

Academy of Management (AOM), Public and Nonprofit Division

Research and expertise

News

AI and sustainability: how ESCP is approaching responsible innovation

From Crisis Response to Continuous Transformation: New Research by Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund on Resilient Business Models