BIO
Ute Stephan is Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School at King’s College London (UK). Ute is recognized as a leading expert on the psychology of entrepreneurship, as a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow. She researches how individuals and societies can thrive through entrepreneurship, and how social entrepreneurship can help to build more inclusive societies. Current research considers the health and well-being of entrepreneurs and their employees, social entrepreneurship and comparative entrepreneurship. Ute regularly publishes in leading international journals in management, entrepreneurship and applied psychology. She is listed in top 2% of scientists worldwide in Business & Management (Stanford study) based on citations to her work. Ute has won multiple international awards for her research and attracted over EUR 3.7 million in funding from the European Commission, UK government institutions, research councils, and charities. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Times, Forbes, WIRED, BBC, and others. She currently serves as Associate editor at the Journal of Management and at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Business Venturing. www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ute-stephan
Preliminary title
Entrepreneurship and the Future of Work: Pathways to Misery or Happiness?
Annotation
Unlike managers, entrepreneurs create and own the organizations they lead. They shape their own work and that of others within their organizations influencing their own and their employee’s well-being. The scale of this influence is significant, as small and medium-sized firms typically led by entrepreneurs provide 70 percent of private-sector employment worldwide.
This talk explores the ‘Future of Work’ as manifested through transforming work environments. It explores, via research and illustrative cases, how entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship shape tomorrow’s workplace and its implications for individual and societal well-being and ill-being. It considers how the unique and often extreme nature of entrepreneurial work can serve as a laboratory for understanding both the ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ sides of the future of work.
Through the lens of entrepreneurship, this presentation addresses work- and organizational psychology topics including proactivity and agency (central to entrepreneurial action), job design (how entrepreneurs structure work for themselves and others), work-related stress and recovery, and the pursuit of fulfilment and well-being. Drawing on meta-analyses, reviews and primary studies, the talk will address questions such as ‘Would you be happier working for yourself or someone else?’, ‘Would you be happy working in an entrepreneurial firm?’ and whether it matters where you live.