Silviya Svejenova Velikova

Education

• Doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. IESE Universidad de Navarra Areas of interest

• Fields of Work: Organization Theory, Strategy and Entrepreneurship

• Areas: Business model innovation, Creativity models, Managing and growing ventures in creative industries, Inter-personal and inter-organizational networks, Co-leadership Biography

Silviya Svejenova is Professor of the Business Policy Department at ESADE Business School, where she teaches Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Management from IESE Business School. She has graduated from the International Faculty Development Program (IFDP) of IESE-HEC-SDA Bocconi and has been through post-graduate training in Entrepreneurship (EECPCL) at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining ESADE Silviya was a Lecturer in Strategy at the Cranfield School of Management (UK). She has also taught at ESCI-UPF (Spain) and Varna University of Economics (Bulgaria), and worked as a Research Associate of the General Management Department at IESE Business School.

She has taught on executive education programs for companies in Spain, Germany, France, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Portugal, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom. Her course "International Entrepreneurship" has been recognized by CEMS (The Global Alliance in Management Education) as Course of the Year for 2008, among 120 courses across 17 business schools and universities.

Her current research centers on innovation in business models and strategies based on creativity. Her research has also addressed issues of relationship management (from social networks to inter-organizational arrangements), the career and work of top managers, and the role they play in the transformation and internationalization of their companies. She has published in academic journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, and has been discussed in the press (Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine). She is the co-author of two books one of which - Sharing Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2005) ¿ has been selected by the Academy of Management among the top3 finalists for the prestigious Terry Book Award to the best book in management for 2007.

Silviya is a member of the Board of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) since 2004 and since 2002 a co-convenor of the track on Creative Industries at the EGOS Colloquia.