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Overview

Johanna Mair is affiliated with the Hertie School in Germany. Their research spans several areas within business, management, and social sciences with a particular focus on organizational and societal change.

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the prominent subfields of study are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Strategy and Management
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Marketing

Their research topics cover diverse areas, notably:

  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Johanna Mair has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Organization Studies
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • Journal of Management Studies

Recent papers include:

  • The future of grand challenges research: Retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles (2022, International Journal of Management Reviews)
  • Persistent Category Ambiguity: The case of social entrepreneurship (2020, Organization Studies)
  • Organizations, Social Problems, and System Change: Invigorating the Third Mandate of Organizational Research (2021, Organization Theory)
  • Steering the transition from informal to formal service provision: labor platforms in emerging-market countries (2021, Socio-Economic Review)
  • Inhabited Actors: Internalizing Institutions through Communication and Actorhood Models (2020, Journal of Management Studies)

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Christian Seelos
  • Nikolas Rathert
  • Thomas Gegenhuber
  • Indre Maurer
  • Laura Thäter

Johanna Mair has authored books published by notable academic presses including Stanford University Press eBooks and Emerald Publishing Limited. Titles include:

  • Innovation and Scaling for Impact (2020)
  • Theorizing the Sharing Economy: Variety and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing (2020)

Best Publications

  • Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight

    Johanna Mair;Ignasi Marti

  • Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight

    Johanna Mair;Ignasi Martí

  • Social entrepreneurship: Creating new business models to serve the poor

    Christian Seelos;Johanna Mair

  • Entrepreneurship in and around institutional voids: A case study from Bangladesh ☆

    Johanna Mair;Ignasi Marti

  • Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids

    Johanna Mair;Ignasi Martí;Marc J. Ventresca

  • The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations

    Alnoor Ebrahim;Julie Battilana;Johanna Mair

  • Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View

    Christian Seelos;Johanna Mair

  • Social Entrepreneurship: How Intentions to Create a Social Venture are Formed

    Johanna Mair;Ernesto Noboa

  • Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models

    Johanna Mair;Julie Battilana;Julian Cardenas

  • Navigating Institutional Plurality: Organizational Governance in Hybrid Organizations

    Johanna Mair;Judith Mayer;Eva Lutz

  • Organizations Driving Positive Social Change A Review and an Integrative Framework of Change Processes

    Ute Stephan;Malcolm Patterson;Ciara Kelly;Johanna Mair;Johanna Mair

  • Social entrepreneurship: Taking stock and looking ahead

    Johanna Mair

  • Social Entrepreneurship Reserach: a Source of Explanation, Prediction and Delight

    Johanna Mair;Ignasi Marti Lanuza

  • Capturing the dynamics of the sharing economy: Institutional research on the plural forms and practices of sharing economy organizations

    Johanna Mair;Georg Reischauer

  • The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

    John Matthew Amis;Johanna Mair;Johanna Mair;Kamal Munir

  • Successful social entrepreneurial business models in the context of developing economies: An explorative study

    Johanna Mair;Oliver Schoen

  • Toward a theory of transformative entrepreneuring: Poverty reduction and conflict resolution in Rwanda's entrepreneurial coffee sector

    Jutta M. Tobias;Johanna Mair;Celestina Barbosa-Leiker

  • Social entrepreneurship: How intentions to create a social enterprise get formed

    Johanna Mair;Ernesto Noboa

  • Social entrepreneurship. The contribution of individual entrepreneurs to sustainable development

    Christian Seelos;Johanna Mair

  • Scaffolding: A Process of Transforming Patterns of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies

    Johanna Mair;Miriam Wolf;Christian Seelos

  • Entrepreneurship as a Platform for Pursuing Multiple Goals: A Special Issue on Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

    Gideon D. Markman;Michael Russo;G. T. Lumpkin;P. Devereaux Dev Jennings

  • The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

    Christian Seelos;Johanna Mair;Julie Battilana;M. Tina Dacin

  • Bringing change into the lives of the poor: entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries

    Ignasi Martí;Johanna Mair

  • Front-Stage and Backstage Convening: The Transition from Opposition to Mutualistic Coexistence in Organizational Philanthropy

    Johanna Mair;Lisa Hehenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Hockerts
Kai Hockerts Copenhagen Business School
Gideon D. Markman
Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Anita M. McGahan
Anita M. McGahan University of Toronto
G. T. Lumpkin
G. T. Lumpkin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gerard George
Gerard George Singapore Management University
Gerald F. Davis
Gerald F. Davis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Royston Greenwood
Royston Greenwood University of Alberta

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