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30
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2981
National Ranking
25

Overview

Kate Kearins is affiliated with Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of business, management, and accounting, with particular attention to the subfields of management of technology and innovation, strategy and management, business and international management, experimental and cognitive psychology, and demography.

Kearins' main research topics encompass entrepreneurship studies and influences, innovation and socioeconomic development, creativity in education and neuroscience, international business and foreign direct investment, innovation and knowledge management, as well as workplace spirituality and leadership.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • How Social Entrepreneurs' Inner Realities Shape Value Creation (2020) in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
  • A Theory of Strategic Entrepreneurship (2024) published by Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Social Change (2021) in the Academy of Management Proceedings

Kearins frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Katrin Schaefer, Patricia Doyle Corner, Gideon D. Markman, Kathryn Pavlovich, and Sashika Abeydeera, each with whom they have coauthored multiple publications.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues including:

  • Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Best Publications

  • Creating Adventures in Wonderland: The Journey Metaphor and Environmental Sustainability

    Markus J. Milne;Kate Kearins;Sara Walton

  • Transparent and Caring Corporations? A Study of Sustainability Reports by the Body Shop and Royal Dutch/Shell

    Sharon M. Livesey;Kate Kearins

  • (Re)presenting ‘sustainable organizations’

    Helen Tregidga;Markus Milne;Kate Kearins

  • Educating For Sustainability: Developing Critical Skills :

    Kate Kearins;Delyse Springett

  • Sustainable “what”? A cognitive approach to understanding sustainable development

    Christine Byrch;Kate Kearins;Markus Milne;Richard Morgan

  • Social, Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research What Is Needed for Sustainability-as-Flourishing?

    Katrin Schaefer;Patricia Doyle Corner;Kate Kearins

  • Interorganizational Collaboration for Regional Sustainability What Happens When Organizational Representatives Come Together

    Aarti Sharma;Kate Kearins

  • The political bottom line: the emerging dimension to corporate responsibility for sustainable development

    Jem Bendell;Jem Bendell;Kate Kearins

  • Knowing “the price of everything and the value of nothing”: accounting for heritage assets

    Keith Hooper;Kate Kearins;Ruth Green

  • Genealogical method and analysis

    Kate Kearins;Keith Hooper

  • Innovative and entrepreneurial activity in the public sector: The changing face of public sector institutions

    Belinda Luke;Martie-Louise Verreynne;Kate Kearins

  • Developing a conceptual framework of strategic entrepreneurship

    Belinda Luke;Kate Kearins;Martie‐Louise Verreynne

  • Beyond Corporate Environmental Management to a Consideration of Nature in Visionary Small Enterprise

    Kate Kearins;Eva Marie Collins;Helen Tregidga

  • Ramping up Resistance: Corporate Sustainable Development and Academic Research

    Helen Tregidga;Markus J. Milne;Kate Kearins

  • Measuring the benefits of entrepreneurship at different levels of analysis

    Belinda Luke;Martie-Louise Verreynne;Kate Kearins

  • Gaining legitimacy? Sustainable development in business school curricula

    Delyse Springett;Kate Kearins

  • The Politics of Knowing “Organizational Sustainable Development”

    Helen Tregidga;Kate Kearins;Markus Milne

  • The role of stakeholders in Sydney's green games

    Kate Kearins;Kathryn Pavlovich

  • Making sense of ecopreneurs' decisions to sell up

    Kate Kearins;Eva Marie Collins

  • Seeds of hope? Exploring business actors’ diverse understandings of sustainable development

    Christine Byrch;Markus J. Milne;Richard Morgan;Kate Kearins

  • Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability

    Katrin Herdering;Kate Kearins

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus J. Milne
Markus J. Milne University of Canterbury
Gideon D. Markman
Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University

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