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Michael  Etter

Dr Michael Etter

Reader in Entrepreneurship and Digitalization

Research interests

  • Strategy, International Management and Entrepreneurship

Biography

Michael Etter is a Reader in Entrepreneurship and Digitalization at King's Business School. Michael Etter has a PhD in organization studies and cultural theories from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has worked as assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and as Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Cass Business School, City, University of London.

His work has appeared in academic journals, such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Business and Society. Michael Etter has received multiple awards for his research and teaching excellence, as well as several research grants from prestigious funding institutions, such as the British Academy.

Michael Etter is interested in the construction of social evaluation of new and established firms, such as organizational reputation and legitimacy, in the new media landscape, which is shaped by new information and communication technologies (ICT). He looks at strategies, which new and established firms use to establish favourable social judgments in the digital economy. The role corporate social responsibility is thereby prevalent in his work.

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    Research

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    Centre for Sustainable Business

    Business, society and environment in the pursuit of a sustainable future

    241121 4CAT
    KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

    KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    Empowering sustainability research: Meet the winners of the 2024 CSB Seed Fund

    The Centre for Sustainable Business (CSB) is delighted to announce the winners of its inaugural Seed Fund, designed to nurture early-stage research.

    sustainability-eco-lightbulb-promo

    Crisis communication: How to navigate an increasingly polarized environment?

    Understanding how debates play out can be the difference between success and reputational damage

    A picture of a fire exploding through the screen of a mobile phone

    Events

    21Nov

    Entrepreneurship Courses - Information Session

    Join our information session on our Entrepreneurship courses available at King's Business School

    Please note: this event has passed.

    10Mar

    Crisis Communication and Management in the Digital Age

    A 60-minute webinar discussing crisis communication and management in the digital age with Senior Lecturer, Dr Michael Etter.

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      The csb website thumbnail
      Centre for Sustainable Business

      Business, society and environment in the pursuit of a sustainable future

      241121 4CAT
      KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

      KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      Empowering sustainability research: Meet the winners of the 2024 CSB Seed Fund

      The Centre for Sustainable Business (CSB) is delighted to announce the winners of its inaugural Seed Fund, designed to nurture early-stage research.

      sustainability-eco-lightbulb-promo

      Crisis communication: How to navigate an increasingly polarized environment?

      Understanding how debates play out can be the difference between success and reputational damage

      A picture of a fire exploding through the screen of a mobile phone

      Events

      21Nov

      Entrepreneurship Courses - Information Session

      Join our information session on our Entrepreneurship courses available at King's Business School

      Please note: this event has passed.

      10Mar

      Crisis Communication and Management in the Digital Age

      A 60-minute webinar discussing crisis communication and management in the digital age with Senior Lecturer, Dr Michael Etter.

      Please note: this event has passed.