Senior Lecturer Elisa Alt
Universities & Institutions
- King’s College London
Areas of Interest
- Social Intrapreneurship,
- Social Entrepreneurship,
- Business Sustainability
Elisa Alt is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School. In her research, Elisa looks at how individuals can enable value creation that meets social and environmental needs, from both new ventures and established organizations.
She is particularly interested in understanding how the actions of social intrapreneurs may contribute to solving social and environmental problems from the confines of existing organizations.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Environmental Management.
Previously Elisa was at Anglia Ruskin University, where she led the MBA course for 3 years. She has a PhD in Management from the University of Seville (Spain), and held visiting researcher positions at Cranfield University (UK), Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil), and Northeastern University (USA). Before joining academia, Elisa worked as a creative in the advertising industry in Brazil.
See a selection of work by this Author
Feeling Capable and Valued: A Prosocial Perspective on the Link between Empathy and Social Entrepreneurial Intentions
Details Year: 2018 Published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 333-350. Cited as: Bacq, S., & Alt, E. 2018. Feeling capable and valued: A prosocial perspective on the link between empathy and social entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 333-350. Abstract Empathy is a key trait distinguishing social entrepreneurs from traditional entrepreneurs, and an [...]