Kevin is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Business School. In his research, he is interested in the role of business and entrepreneurship in a sustainable and equal society. He approaches this question with two research streams: business and culture and organizing to address societies challenges. To date, in the first stream, he has focused on how popularity is important in business and entrepreneurship. Recently, he has developed this stream further by focusing on how national and local cultural attributes influence sustainable entrepreneurship. In the second stream, his focus to date has been on what organizational forms are best suited to address societal issues with commercial activity. His research is published or forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies.
Kevin teaches courses on ethics and entrepreneurship to undergraduate, masters and executive program students. Kevin 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.