Myrto Chliova

Myrto Chliova

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
E706 Dept. Management Studies
Professor (Associate Professor)
Department of Management Studies

I am currently Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Head of Doctoral Studies for the Entrepreneurship Unit (ENTU) at Aalto University, School of Business.

My research focuses on how entrepreneurship and emergent organising more broadly can help tackle grand social challenges inclusing poverty, inequality, refugee crises, and rising authoritarianism.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Areas of expertise

Emergent organizing, Activism, Diversity, equality and inclusion, Civil society organizations, Social entrepreneurship, Microfinance, Grand challenges, Democratic resistance

Research groups

  • Entrepreneurship Unit (ENTU), Professor (Associate Professor)

Publications

Reacting to criticism : What motivates top leaders to respond substantively to negative social performance feedback?

Myrto Chliova, Gabriella Cacciotti, Teemu Kautonen, Ignacio Pavez 2025 Journal of Business Research

Taking context seriously through a phenomenology of place: an illustration of home-based work

Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Carmelita Ginting-Carlström, Ewald Kibler, Myrto Chliova 2025 Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies : Why, How, and What

Do They Mind the Gap? : The Role of Founders in Organizational Pay Dispersion

Myrto Chliova, Gabriella Cacciotti, Teemu Kautonen 2024 Business & Society

Media Review: Can elite-driven social change save the world?

Myrto Chliova 2023 Organization Studies

A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam

Carmelita Ginting-Carlström, Myrto Chliova 2023 Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Legitimacy Trade-Offs in Hybrid Fields

Guillermo Casasnovas, Myrto Chliova 2020 Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises

Persistent category ambiguity: The case of social entrepreneurship

Myrto Chliova, Johanna Mair, Alfred Vernis 2020 Organization Studies

Supporting refugees in entrepreneurship

Myrto Chliova, Steffen Farny, Virva Salmivaara 2018

Scaling Impact: Template Development and Replication at the Base of the Pyramid

Myrto Chliova, Dimo Ringov 2017 Academy of Management Perspectives

Is microcredit a blessing for the poor?A meta-analysis examining development outcomes and contextual considerations

Myrto Chliova, Jan Brinckmann, Nina Rosenbusch 2015 Journal of Business Venturing