Core organizers
Anne-Laure Fayard
Anne-Laure Fayard is the ERA Chair in Social Innovation at Nova School of Business and Economics. She is also Visiting Research Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. Anne-Laure is an ethnographer of work, whose interests involve collaboration, innovation, design and technology. Her recent research has focused on open social innovation, future of work (hybrid work, AI) and cross-sector collaboration for social innovation.
Her work has been published in several leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Information System Research and Harvard Business Review. Her research has been frequently highlighted in major newspapers such as New York Times, Financial Times and The Economist. Prior to joining NOVA, Anne-Laure was a faculty member at New York University. She had also been faculty at INSEAD in Singapore and France. She has held visiting positions at the Center of Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines in Paris, at Design London and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School and at London School of Economics in London.
Paolo Leone
Paolo V. Leone is an Assistant Professor of Social Innovation at Nova SBE. His research focuses on the organizational dynamics that drive social innovation processes. Particularly, he explores how open forms of organizing can generate system-changing innovations in scientific and knowledge-intensive collaborations. His research is situated at the nexus of organization theory and innovation studies, and has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review and Research Policy. Paolo teaches innovation courses at the master level and philosophy of science at the PhD level. He received a PhD in Management from McGill University, an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization from the University of Cambridge, and a JD from Università Roma Tre.
Johanna Mair
Johanna Mair is a Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research focuses on the nexus of organizations, institutions, and societal challenges. Her recent work centers on mechanisms that enable organizations to transform social systems and make progress on social problems. She is the academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review and co-directs the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She has co-directed the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, has served on the faculty at IESE Business School, and has held a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Her book Innovation and Scaling – How effective Social Entrepreneurs create Impact (Stanford University Press, 2017) co-authored with Christian Seelos has won the 2017 Terry McAdam Award at ARNOVA and the 2018 ONE Outstanding Book Award at the Academy of Management Meeting. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, Research in Organizational Behavior, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Nature Human Behavior, and Stanford Social Innovation. In addition, her work has been featured in the Financial Times and Forbes Magazine.
Philipp Tuertscher
Philipp Tuertscher is Professor of Collaborative Innovation at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He studies how digital infrastructures enable collaboration across boundaries and over time—spanning large-scale science at CERN, online communities such as Linux and Wikipedia, and multi-stakeholder initiatives that tackle societal challenges. His work examines how diverse contributions are integrated and how open, collaborative efforts are organized to move from invention to implementation.
His research has appeared in journals including Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Organization Studies, and Information Systems Research. Philipp is a Distinguished Winner of the Responsible Research in Management Award and a recipient of the Journal of Management Studies Best Paper Award and an Academy of Management Best Paper Award. Recent projects include work on crowdsourcing and robust action (“Saving Our Oceans”) and sustaining complement quality in the Philips Hue ecosystem. He teaches on digital and sustainable innovation and contributes to initiatives at KIN that connect scholarship and practice.
Coordinator
Hannah Fults
Hannah is a third year PhD Candidate at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research explores collaborative innovation processes, with a particular focus on the role of open innovation spaces in developing and scaling sustainability innovations. Hannah’s work uncovers underlying mechanisms that drive these processes, examining how space, time and nature shape the development of innovations. She teaches courses on strategy and innovation and qualitative research methods.
Past Organizers and Coordinators
Thomas Gegenhuber - Organizer
Thomas Gegenhuber is professor for socio-technical transitions at JKU Linz at the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab and visiting researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Thomas’ work appears in international journals such as Human Relations, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, Government Information Quarterly and Information & Organization.
Rita Nascimento - Coordinator
Rita Nascimento is a PhD student in Management and Project Manager at Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center. In her research, she focuses on hybrid organizations in different contexts. Rita is also interested in education, sustainability (circular economy), cross-sectoral collaboration, (open) social innovation and action-research philosophy. Previously, she worked with NGOs and startups in business Development, project management and digital marketing. In 2020, she launched treethis, a family-run social business.
Members
Shaz Ansari
Professor of Strategy & Innovation
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Hans Berends
Professor of Innovation & Organization
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alberto Bertello
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
University of Turin
Ricardo Coelho da Silva
Postdoc Fellow
Stockholm School of Economics
Damla Diriker
Assistant Professor
KIN Center for Digital Innovation
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Laura Dobusch
LIT Sustainable Transformation Management Lab –
Linz Institute of Technology
Johannes Kepler University
© Antje Wolm
Vivianna Fang He
Associate Professor
Director of the Institute of Responsible Innovation
School of Management
University of St. Gallen
Frederico Bartolomucci
Junior Assistant Professor
Politecnico di Milano
Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
LMU Munich School of Management
Susan Hilbolling
Associate Professor
Aarhus University
© Aarhus University
Olivia Jung
Assistant Professor
University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA)
Martin Kornberger
Professor of Ethics in Management
Vienna University of Economics
and
Visiting Professor
Stockholm School of Economics
© Oskar Kronberger
Rene Lührsen
PhD Candidate
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Amanda Porter
Associate Professor
Vrije Universiteit
Karthik Rapaka
PhD Candidate
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Madeleine Rauch
Assistant Professor
Copenhagen Business School
and
Visiting Fellow
Stanford University
© Denrit Tejanat
Laura Thäter
PhD Candidate
LIT Sustainable Transformation Management Lab –
Linz Institute of Technology
Johannes Kepler University
Eric von Hippel
Professor
MIT Sloan School of Management
Elena Baggio
PhD Candidate
Herti School
Berlin, Germany
Karl-Emanuel Dionne
Assistant Professor
HEC Montreal
Cynthia Rayner
Visiting Fellow
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship –
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Milena Leybold
Postdoc
Linz Institute for Transformative Change – Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Nicolas Pacheco
PhD Candidate
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona