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Professor Erkko Autio FBA

Technology-based and technology-enabled entrepreneurship and innovation; entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems; new venture internationalisation; impact of digitalisation on these dynamics; comparative entrepreneurship in developed and emerging economies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Business and management
Sections
Management and Business Studies
Website
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/erkko.autio

Current post

Professor in Technology Venturing and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School; Research Director, Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute

Past appointments

Imperial College Business School QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair

2006 - 2011

HEC Lausanne Professor

2003 - 2006

Helsinki University of Technology Institute of Strategy and International Business Professor

1982 - 2003

Publications

Maneuvering in Poor Visibility: How Firms Play the Ecosystem Game when Uncertainty is High

Brice Dattée, Oliver Alexy and Erkko Autio - Published in 2018 by Academy of Management Journal

Digital Affordances, Spatial Affordances, and the Genesis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Erkko Autio, Satish Nambisan, Llewellyn D. W. Thomas and Mike Wright - Published in 2018 by Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Strategic Entrepreneurial Internationalisation: A Normative Framework

Erkko Autio - Published in 2017 by Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Architectural Leverage: Putting Platforms in Context

Erkko Autio - Published in 2014 by Academy of Management Perspectives

National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement Issues and Policy Implications

Acs ZJ, Autio E and Szerb L - Published in 2014 by Research Policy

Information Exposure, Opportunity Evaluation and Entrepreneurial Action: An Empirical Investigation of an Online User Community

Erkko Autio, Linus Dahlander and Lars Frederiksen - Published in 2013 by Academy of Management Journal

Consequences of Cultural Practices for Entrepreneurial Behaviors

Erkko Autio, Saurav Pathak and Karl Wennberg - Published in 2013 by Journal of International Business Studies,

A Capabilities Perspective on the Effect of Early Internationalization on Firm Survival and Growth

Harry J. Sapienza, Erkko Autio, Gerard George and Shaker A. Zahra - Published in 2006 by Academy of Management Review

Social Capital, Knowledge Acquisition, and Competitive Advantage in Technology-Based New Firms

Helena Yli‐Renko, Erkko Autio and Harry J. Sapienza - Published in 2001 by Strategic Management Journal

Effects of Age at Entry, Knowledge Intensity, and Imitability on International Growth

Erkko Autio, Harry J. Sapienza and James G. Almeida - Published in 2000 by Academy of Management Journal

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Miller FBA

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Professor Charles Baden-Fuller FBA

Strategy (what firms and other organisations do, should do and why): business models as models and the implications for the digital economy; managing strategy change in the face of uncertainty; cognitive challenges of executives; knowledge management in the context of networked enterprise; governance of organisations

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Professor Walter Powell FBA

The emergence and persistence of institutions; the transfer of ideas and practices across organisations; the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation; and the contributions of civil society to democracy

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