Dr Susanna Khavul

Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor

Managerial Economics & Strategy Faculty Group

Biography

Dr Susanna Khavul is the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE.  She is an associate professor of strategic management, entrepreneurship, and innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington and was previously an assistant professor at the London Business School.

Dr Khavul’s research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer alternative financial instruments as well as fintech innovations, financial inclusion, and mobile financial solutions in emerging and developed economies. 

Dr Khavul has received awards for research and teaching excellence including the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division’s IDEA Award for Thought Leadership, the Heizer Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Research, and the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.  She holds a doctorate (highest honours) in strategy and entrepreneurship from Boston University and a degree in economics (high honours) from U.C. Berkeley with LSE in the mix.

Dr Khavul co-leads Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Age of Change on LSE’s Executive Summer School and on the TRIUM's Technological Disruption and Entrepreneurship module in San Francisco. 

Research interests

• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• International and Development Entrepreneurship

Recent publications

Read research on crowdfunding:

Equity Crowdfunding: a new model for financing entrepreneurship?

• Bruton, G., Khavul, S., Siegel, D., Wright, M. (2015). New financial alternatives in seeding entrepreneurship: Microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer innovations. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 39(1) 9-26. 
• Perez-Nordtvedt, L., Khavul, S., Harrison, D.A., McGee, J. (2014) Adaptation to temporal shocks: Influences of strategic interpretation and spatial distance. Journal of Management Studies 51(6)869-897.
• De Castro, J., Khavul, S., Bruton, G.D. (2014). Shades of grey: How do informal firms navigate between the macro and meso institutional environments Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 8(1): 75-94.
• Yamakawa, Y., Khavul, S.*, Peng, M., Deeds, D. (2013). Venturing from emerging economies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 7: 181-196.
• Khavul, S. Chavez, H, Bruton, G.D. (2013). When institutional change outruns the change agent: The contested terrain of entrepreneurial microfinance for those in poverty. Journal of Business Venturing. 28(1): 30-50.
• Khavul, S., Bruton, G. (2013) Harnessing innovation for change: Sustainability and poverty in developing countries. Journal of Management Studies. 50(2): 285-306.
• Khavul, S., Prater, E., Swafford, P.M. (2012). Responsiveness of entrepreneurial new ventures internationalizing from core emerging markets. International Journal of Operations and Production Management. 32(10): 1147-1177.
• Bruton, G.D., Khavul, S., Chavez, H. (2011). Microfinance in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up. Journal of International Business Studies. 42(5): 718-739.
• Khavul, S., Perez-Nordtvedt, L., Wood, E. (2010). Organizational entrainment and the internationalization of new ventures from emerging markets. Journal of Business Venturing. 25(1): 104-119.
• Khavul, S. (2010). Microfinance: Creating opportunities for the poor? Academy of Management Perspectives. 24(3): 58-72.
• Khavul, S., Peterson, M., Mullens, D., Rasheed, A. (2010). Going global with innovations from emerging economies: Investment in customer support capabilities pays off. Journal of International Marketing. 18(4): 22-42.
• Khavul, S., Benson, G., Datta, D. (2010). Is internationalization associated with investments in HRM? A study of entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets. Human Resource Management. 49(4): 693-713.
• Khavul, S., Bruton, G.D., Wood, E. (2009). Informal family business in Africa. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 33(6): 1219-1238.

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