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2030
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Overview

Alex Nicholls is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies at the intersection of business, management, and social sciences, focusing on organizational dynamics and social impact.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, Nicholls has contributed to several specialized subfields:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Finance
  • Strategy and Management
  • Urban Studies

The key topics covered in Nicholls's work span a range of management and social impact dimensions:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Social Sciences and Governance
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Family Business Performance and Succession

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Nicholls include:

  • Turning rebellion into money? Social entrepreneurship as the strategic performance of systems change, 2022, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Arenas of Contestation: A Senian Social Justice Perspective on the Nature of Materiality in Impact Measurement, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Beyond pink-collar jobs for women and the social economy, 2023, OECD local economic and employment development (LEED) working papers
  • Le rôle de la certification dans le développement de collaborations entre acteurs aux logiques partiellement distinctes: le cas du commerce équitable, 2021, Management international
  • Collective Identity in Social Enterprise Ecosystems: A Cross-Country Comparison, 2023, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Nicholls has published articles in several academic venues, reflecting a diverse research output:

  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • OECD local economic and employment development (LEED) working papers
  • Management international
  • Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Collaboration is a notable element of Nicholls's work, with frequent co-authorship alongside researchers such as:

  • Johanna Mair
  • Roberto Randazzo
  • Nadia von Jacobi
  • Simon Teasdale
  • Michael J. Roy

Best Publications

  • The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field:

    Alex Nicholls

  • Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change

    Alex Nicholls

  • Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption

    Alex Nicholls;Charlotte Opal

  • 'We do good things, don't we?': 'Blended Value Accounting' in social entrepreneurship

    Alex Nicholls

  • The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities

    Alex Nicholls

  • Strategic Options in Fair Trade Retailing

    Alexander James Nicholls

  • Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

    Alex Nicholls;Alexander Murdock

  • The Nature of Social Innovation

    Alex Nicholls;Alex Murdock

  • Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in regulatory space: Reporting and disclosure by community interest companies

    Alex Nicholls

  • Social finance and crowdfunding for social enterprises: a public–private case study providing legitimacy and leverage

    Othmar M. Lehner;Alex Nicholls

  • Social Entrepreneurship: Definitions, Drivers, and Challenges

    Benjamin Huybrechts;Alex Nicholls

  • Purchase decision-making in fair trade and the ethical 'gap':'is there a fair trade twix?'

    Alex Nicholls;Nick J. Lee

  • Social Entrepreneurship: The Structuration of a Field

    Alex Nicholls;Albert Hyunbae Cho

  • The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus 1

    Michele-Lee Moore;Frances R. Westley;Alex Nicholls

  • New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

    Alex Nicholls;Julie Simon;Madeleine Gabriel

  • Social Impact Bonds: The Role of Private Capital in Outcome-Based Commissioning

    Daniel Edmiston;Alex Nicholls

  • Neoliberalism by stealth? Exploring continuity and change within the UK social enterprise policy paradigm

    Alex Nicholls;Simon Teasdale

  • Fair Trade: Towards an Economics of Virtue

    Alexander Nicholls

  • The role of legitimacy in social enterprise‐corporate collaboration

    Benjamin Huybrechts;Alex Nicholls

  • Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade

    Alex Nicholls;Benjamin Huybrechts

  • The Child-Parent Purchase Relationship: Pester Power, Human Rights and Retail Ethics

    Alexander James Nicholls;Peter Cullen

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Lee
Nick Lee University of Warwick
Simon Teasdale
Simon Teasdale Queen's University Belfast
Jonathan Michie
Jonathan Michie University of Oxford
Frances Westley
Frances Westley University of Waterloo
Andrew Carr
Andrew Carr University of Oxford
Nigel K. Arden
Nigel K. Arden University of Oxford

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