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

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2023

KRLEV, G.

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

2023, The Conversation

Journal Article

2023

KRLEV, G., A. SPICER

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

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 2023, vol. 60 (6), pp. 1624-1632

Edited Book / Textbook

2023

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

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

Oxford University Press, 2023

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2022

KRLEV, G., K. SCHEIDGEN, F. GUENZEL-JENSEN, M. WOLF, A. GUEMUESAY

Did COVID lockdowns harm entrepreneurship? Not exactly

2022, LSE Business Review

Journal Article

2022

KRLEV, G., J. TERSTRIEP

Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions

ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS, 2022

Chapter

2022

KRLEV, G., F. ANGELI

Social Impact Evaluation: Moving From Method to Realist Strategy

in Organizing for Sustainable Development., Federica Angeli, Ashley Metz, Jörg Raab Eds, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2022

Chapter

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 Eds, Springer, 2022

Journal Article

2021

GUENZEL-JENSEN, F., K. SCHEIDGEN, A. GUEMUESAY, G. KRLEV, M. WOLF

Crises and entrepreneurial opportunities: Digital social innovation in response to physical distancing

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING INSIGHTS, 2021

Chapter

2021

KRLEV, G., J. TERSTRIEP, G. MILDENBERGER, S. STRAMBACH, J. -F. THURMANN, L. WLOKA

Measuring Social Innovation

in A Research Agenda for Social Innovation., Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka, Antonius Schröder Eds, Edward Elgar, 2021

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2021

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

Reconceptualizing the Social Economy

2021, Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2023

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

Journal Article

2023

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

Edited Book / Textbook

2023

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

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2022

Did COVID lockdowns harm entrepreneurship? Not exactly

Journal Article

2022

Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions

Chapter

2022

Social Impact Evaluation: Moving From Method to Realist Strategy

Chapter

2022

The Hiding Hand, Persistent Fragile Action, and Sustainable Development

Journal Article

2021

Crises and entrepreneurial opportunities: Digital social innovation in response to physical distancing

Chapter

2021

Measuring Social Innovation

Contribution on blogs and Social Networks

2021

Reconceptualizing the Social Economy

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