Leona Achtenhagen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leona Achtenhagen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leona |
| FAMILY NAME | Achtenhagen |
| SIGNATURE | ACHTENHAGEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jönköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7415-7519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When climate change undermines poverty alleviation measures
Purpose Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide an important poverty-alleviation measure in countries of the Global South. They help rural communities develop small-scale entrepreneurial activities, often within agriculture. Countries of the Global South suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, with unpredictable weather conditions potentially challenging the success of rural entrepreneurial activities. Drawing …
Corporate governance for digital transformation
Drawing on board-member surveys and stage-specific text analyses of annual reports from 150 Stockholm-listed firms, this study distinguishes three stages of digital transformation (DT)—digitization, digitalization, and digital maturity—to examine how board roles and ownership structures shape firms' DT ambitions. Cross-sectional and two-year lag regressions show that boards emphasizing strategic resource provision consistently promote broader DT,…
Knowledge-sharing across supply chain actors in adopting Industry 4.0 technologies
This study investigates the role of knowledge-sharing between supply chain actors in facilitating their adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, identifying factors that hinder or promote such knowledge-sharing. Drawing on an in-depth single case study, including 19 interviews with a manufacturing firm in the German automotive industry and five of the suppliers and customers in the focal firm’s supply chain, the study identifies the following knowl…
Career resilience of female professionals in the male‐dominated IT industry in Sweden
Sweden is known to be one of the most gender‐equal societies in the world. Thus, it remains as an enigma why a large discrepancy continues to exist regarding the gender balance in career choice and progression in many professions. Drawing on Hirdman's (1988) theory of gendered systems, in this paper, we explore the role of career resilience in the career progression of women who choose to work in the male‐dominated IT sector. We draw attention to…
Introduction—Management Challenges in Africa
Media Entrepreneurship—Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Management Challenges in Different Types of African Firms
Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa
Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa
Invisible struggles
How entrepreneurship is portrayed in media can play an important role for how attractive it is perceived as a career and/or investment option. Communities need people of all ethnicities to be interested in starting businesses because economic development is tied so closely to community development. To date, little to no community development literature has been published about how newspapers frame ethnic minority entrepreneurs and how that might …
Studies on women's entrepreneurship from Nordic countries and beyond
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women's entrepreneurship, focusing on Nordic countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper encourages research that investigates how context, at the micro, meso and macro level, is related to women's entrepreneurship, and acknowledges that gender is socially constructed. Findings This paper finds evidence that recent calls for new directions in women's entrepreneurs…
Women business ventures in Swedish university incubators
Purpose – Despite a growing interest in both women and university academic entrepreneurship, there are very few studies addressing women's academic entrepreneurship. The authors address this gap by focusing on university incubators for women's academic entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the significance of university incubators for the promotion and development of women's academic business start-ups. Design/meth…
Theorizing about gender and entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to approach women's entrepreneurship from a social psychological perspective, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomena and to its development as a field of research. Design/methodology/approach The gender aspect of entrepreneurship is essentially socio‐psychological in nature. First, the authors define the social psychology research scope and present a selection o…
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
Managing Media Companies
(2005). Managing Media Companies: Harnessing Creative Value. Journal of Media Business Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 73-75.
Career resilience of female professionals in the male‐dominated IT industry in Sweden
Sweden is known to be one of the most gender‐equal societies in the world. Thus, it remains as an enigma why a large discrepancy continues to exist regarding the gender balance in career choice and progression in many professions. Drawing on Hirdman's (1988) theory of gendered systems, in this paper, we explore the role of career resilience in the career progression of women who choose to work in the male‐dominated IT sector. We draw attention to…
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
Invisible struggles
How entrepreneurship is portrayed in media can play an important role for how attractive it is perceived as a career and/or investment option. Communities need people of all ethnicities to be interested in starting businesses because economic development is tied so closely to community development. To date, little to no community development literature has been published about how newspapers frame ethnic minority entrepreneurs and how that might …
Women business ventures in Swedish university incubators
Purpose – Despite a growing interest in both women and university academic entrepreneurship, there are very few studies addressing women's academic entrepreneurship. The authors address this gap by focusing on university incubators for women's academic entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the significance of university incubators for the promotion and development of women's academic business start-ups. Design/meth…
Theorizing about gender and entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to approach women's entrepreneurship from a social psychological perspective, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomena and to its development as a field of research. Design/methodology/approach The gender aspect of entrepreneurship is essentially socio‐psychological in nature. First, the authors define the social psychology research scope and present a selection o…
Studies on women's entrepreneurship from Nordic countries and beyond
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women's entrepreneurship, focusing on Nordic countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper encourages research that investigates how context, at the micro, meso and macro level, is related to women's entrepreneurship, and acknowledges that gender is socially constructed. Findings This paper finds evidence that recent calls for new directions in women's entrepreneurs…
Managing Media Companies
(2005). Managing Media Companies: Harnessing Creative Value. Journal of Media Business Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 73-75.
Studies on women's entrepreneurship from Nordic countries and beyond
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women's entrepreneurship, focusing on Nordic countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper encourages research that investigates how context, at the micro, meso and macro level, is related to women's entrepreneurship, and acknowledges that gender is socially constructed. Findings This paper finds evidence that recent calls for new directions in women's entrepreneurs…
Women business ventures in Swedish university incubators
Purpose – Despite a growing interest in both women and university academic entrepreneurship, there are very few studies addressing women's academic entrepreneurship. The authors address this gap by focusing on university incubators for women's academic entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the significance of university incubators for the promotion and development of women's academic business start-ups. Design/meth…
Theorizing about gender and entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to approach women's entrepreneurship from a social psychological perspective, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomena and to its development as a field of research. Design/methodology/approach The gender aspect of entrepreneurship is essentially socio‐psychological in nature. First, the authors define the social psychology research scope and present a selection o…
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
Invisible struggles
How entrepreneurship is portrayed in media can play an important role for how attractive it is perceived as a career and/or investment option. Communities need people of all ethnicities to be interested in starting businesses because economic development is tied so closely to community development. To date, little to no community development literature has been published about how newspapers frame ethnic minority entrepreneurs and how that might …
Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa
Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa
Introduction—Management Challenges in Africa
Media Entrepreneurship—Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Management Challenges in Different Types of African Firms
Career resilience of female professionals in the male‐dominated IT industry in Sweden
Sweden is known to be one of the most gender‐equal societies in the world. Thus, it remains as an enigma why a large discrepancy continues to exist regarding the gender balance in career choice and progression in many professions. Drawing on Hirdman's (1988) theory of gendered systems, in this paper, we explore the role of career resilience in the career progression of women who choose to work in the male‐dominated IT sector. We draw attention to…
Knowledge-sharing across supply chain actors in adopting Industry 4.0 technologies
This study investigates the role of knowledge-sharing between supply chain actors in facilitating their adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, identifying factors that hinder or promote such knowledge-sharing. Drawing on an in-depth single case study, including 19 interviews with a manufacturing firm in the German automotive industry and five of the suppliers and customers in the focal firm’s supply chain, the study identifies the following knowl…
When climate change undermines poverty alleviation measures
Purpose Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide an important poverty-alleviation measure in countries of the Global South. They help rural communities develop small-scale entrepreneurial activities, often within agriculture. Countries of the Global South suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, with unpredictable weather conditions potentially challenging the success of rural entrepreneurial activities. Drawing …
Corporate governance for digital transformation
Drawing on board-member surveys and stage-specific text analyses of annual reports from 150 Stockholm-listed firms, this study distinguishes three stages of digital transformation (DT)—digitization, digitalization, and digital maturity—to examine how board roles and ownership structures shape firms' DT ambitions. Cross-sectional and two-year lag regressions show that boards emphasizing strategic resource provision consistently promote broader DT,…
Political science (9 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (7 works) · Entrepreneurship (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)