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Dr. K. (Kevin) Curran

Faculty of Economics and Business
Section Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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  • Plantage Muidergracht 12
Postal address
  • Postbus 15953
    1001 NL Amsterdam
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    Kevin is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Business School. His research explores the role of business and entrepreneurship in building a sustainable and equitable society. He approaches this question through two streams: (1) business and culture, where he examines how popularity and cultural contexts shape financial performance and social outcomes, and (2) organizing for societal challenges, where he studies which organizational forms are best suited to address pressing social issues through commercial activity.

    His research is published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies and he serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Management. His work has been recognized with several distinctions, including being a finalist for the Academy of Management OMT Division Best Paper Award (2025) and being shortlisted for the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) Dissertation of the Year Award (2019).

    Kevin teaches courses on social entrepreneurship to undergraduate, masters and executive program students and has consulted with organizations including the United Nations, Social Impact Hub (UK), Centre for Charity Effectiveness (UK) in relation to entrepreneurship and social impact.

    Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, Kevin obtained his PhD from Cass Business School (now Bayes) and was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.  Prior to his PhD, he worked as a facilitator for start-up digital entrepreneurs and as a freelance journalist in Ireland.

  • Publications

    2025

    • Curran, K., & Ozcan, P. (2025). Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities. Journal of Management Studies, 62(6), 2169-2206. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13136
    • Curran, K., Lee, E., Pfarrer, M., & Graffin, S. (2025). Sharing the Spotlight: The Benefits of Having a Celebrity Competitor. Journal of Management, 51(5), 1868 - 1896. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241236767
    • Curran, K., Plesa, M., & Hubbard, T. (2025). Ghosts of Forms Past: Foundational Organizational Forms and Social Enterprise Performance. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2025 ed., pp. 21551). Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.98bp

    2024

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