Olenka Kacperczyk
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
BA (Mount Holyoke College) PhD (Michigan)
Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk’s research covers entrepreneurship, innovation, social responsibility and mobility and labour markets. She has written papers on entrepreneurship versus intrapreneurship, the impact of stakeholder orientation on innovation and how trade secrets affect a firm’s value.
Away from her research, Aleksandra is Associate Editor of Management Science and Organization Science, and an editorial board member of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal.
Olenka's research is featured in the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development brochure.
- Personal website
- okacperczyk@london.edu
- +44 (0)20 7000 8751
- Olenka Kacperczyk CV
Awards and Honours
2019 AOM Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award Winner (OMT)
2018 AOM Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award Winner (OMT)
2018 AOM Best Papers Proceedings, OMT Division
2016 AOM Best Papers Proceedings, BPS Division
2016 OMT, ENT, BPS Showcase Symposium of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship
2015 OMT Division Best Paper in Entrepreneurship Nominee, Academy of Management Annual Meetings
2014 Winner of the BPS Division Best Paper Award (1/+600 submissions), AOM
2013 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (7 recipients)
2013 Administrative Science Quarterly Editor’s Choice Collection: one of 8 key articles on Mobility and Entrepreneurship
2013 Academy of Management Pondy Best Paper Based on a Dissertation Finalist (4 finalists)
2013 DRUID Best Paper Finalist (4 finalists)
2013 AOM Best Papers Proceedings, OMT Division
2012 Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference Best Conference Paper Nominee
2012 Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference Best Practice Implications Nominee
Teaching
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Strategic Management (EMBA Core),
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Strategic Management (Masters of Management Core),
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Achieving Strategic Agility (MBA, Elective)
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Research Design, PhD course
2024
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy
Hietaniemi L; Santamaria S; Kacperczyk A; Peltonen J
Strategic Management Journal 2024 Vol 45:2 p 272-300
The Motherhood Wage Penalty and Female Entrepreneurship
Yang T; Kacperczyk A; Naldi L
Organization Science 2024 Vol 35:1 p 27-51
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms
Yang T; Kacperczyk O
Strategic Management Journal 2024 Vol 45:4 p 745-774
2023
Do employees work less for female leaders? A multi-method study of entrepreneurial firms
Kacperczyk O; Younkin P; Rocha V
Organization Science 2023 Vol 34:3 p 1111-1133
Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship (Encyclopedia Entry)
Kacperczyk A
Kacperczyk, A. (2023). Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship. Cumming D & Hammer B (Eds.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38738-9_152-1
Network referrals and self-presentation in the high-tech labor market
Campero S; Kacperczyk A
Organization Science 2023 In Press
Primer for experimental methods in organization theory
Levine S S; Shilke O; Kacperczyk O; Zucker L G
Organization Science 2023 Vol 34:6 p 1997-2025
2022
A founding penalty: evidence from an audit study on gender, entrepreneurship, and future employment
Kacperczyk A; Younkin P
Organization Science 2022 Vol 33:2 p 716-745
Experience as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: performance outcome delays in the private equity context
Castellaneta F; Gottschalg O; Kacperczyk A; Wright M
Journal of Management Studies 2022 Vol 59:6 p 1359-1385
Institutional Protection of Minority Employees and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non-Discrimination Acts
Conti R; Kacperczyk A; Valentini G
Strategic Management Journal 2022 Vol 43:4 p 758-791
Surplus Division between Labor and Capital: A Review and Research Agenda
Sevcenko V; Wu L; Kacperczyk A; Ethiraj S
Academy of Management Annals 2022 Vol 16:1
2021
A Silver Lining for Female Founders
Kacperczyk A; Younkin P
Harvard Business Review 2021 Vol 99:2 p 22-24 (Ideawatch)
2020
Asymmetric Gender Homophily in the Startup Labor Market
Campero S; Kacperczyk A
Tzabbar, D. and Cirillo, B. (Ed.) Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility, Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 41, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 329-359.
The (un)intended consequences of lowering entry barriers: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Castellaneta F; Conti R; Kacperczyk A
Strategic Management Journal 2020 Vol 41:7 p 1274-1302
2019
Corporate social responsibility as a defense against knowledge spillovers: evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine
Flammer C; Kacperczyk A
Strategic Management Journal 2019 Vol 40:8 p 1243-1267
Experience and entrepreneurship: a career transition perspective
Rider C I; Thompson P; Kacperczyk A; Tag J
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2019 Vol 72:5 p 1149-1181
Occupational licensure and entrepreneurs: the case of tax preparers in the U.S.
Albert K; Galperin R; Kacperczyk A
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2019 Vol 72:5 p 1065-1093
2018
Discrimination and entrepreneurship: Evidence from LGBT rights laws
Conti R; Kacperczyk O; Valentini G
Academy of Management Proceedings 2018 Vol 2018:1
Vertical and horizontal wage dispersion and mobility outcomes: evidence from the Swedish microdata
Kacperczyk A; Bachalandran C
Organization Science 2018 Vol 29:1 p 17-38
2017
Paradox of breadth: the tension between experience and legitimacy in the transition to entrepreneurship
Kacperczyk A; Younkin P
Administrative Science Quarterly 2017 Vol 62:4 p 731-764
2016
Impact of stakeholder orientation on innovation: evidence from the natural experiment
Flammer C; Kacperczyk A
Management Science 2016 Vol 62:7 p 1982-2001
Knowledge asymmetry and brokerage: linking network perception to position in structural holes
Hahl O; Kacperczyk A; Davis J P
Strategic Organization 2016 Vol 14:2 p 118-143
Money secrets: how does trade secret legal protection affect firm market value? Evidence from the uniform trade secret act
Castellaneta F; Conti R; Kacperczyk A
Strategic Management Journal 2016 Vol 38:4 p 834-853
Revisiting the small-firm effect on entrepreneurship: evidence from firm dissolutions
Kacperczyk A; Marx M
Organization Science 2016 Vol 27:4 p 893-910
2015
Disentangling risk and change: internal and external social comparison in the mutual fund industry
Kacperczyk A; Beckman C; Moliterno T
Administrative Science Quarterly 2015 Vol 60:2 p 228-262
2013
Social influence and entrepreneurship: the effect of university peers on entrepreneurial entry
Kacperczyk A
Organization Science 2013 Vol 24:3 p 664-683
2012
Opportunity structures in established firms: entrepreneurship versus intrapreneurship in mutual funds
Kacperczyk A
Administrative Science Quarterly 2012 Vol 57:3 p 484-521
2009
With greater power comes greater responsibility: takeover protections and corporate attention to stakeholders
Kacperczyk A
Strategic Management Journal 2009 Vol 30:3 p 261-285
2021
A founding penalty: evidence from an audit study on gender, entrepreneurship, and future employment
Kacperczyk A; Younkin P
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Teaching portfolio
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Building a Scalable Business
Examine a range of entrepreneurial businesses and gain the ability to recognise the patterns in business models and management processes. Learn how to manage the risks and convert opportunities on this integrative course that concentrates on the general management challenges facing founders or managers in entrepreneurial businesses
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Building a Scalable Business
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Research Design
Research Design
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Research Design