Ekaterina Shepeleva Bjørnåli

About

Current research interests:

- high-tech entrepreneurship, venture governance, top management teams, academic entrepreneurship,

- the role of the board of directors and top management teams in high-tech start-ups, including academic spin-offs and venture capital backed firms,

- strategies, management, internationalization, financing, business models, innovation and policies related to new venture development and growth.

Competences:

- quantitative and qualitative methods,

- commercialization of research, technology transfer.

Publications (selected):

Ekaterina has published her research in top ranking peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Technology Transfer, Long Range Planning, Technovation and in international books.

Bjørnåli, E., Asad, S., & Terjesen, S. (2024). Determinants of intra-board behavioral integration in high-tech start-ups. Journal of Management and Governance, 28(1), 215-236.

Erikson, T., Coleridge, C., & Bjornali, E. (2022). Venture governance and its dynamics: Intraboard relationships and CEO duality. Technovation, 115, 102540.

Article at glance https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/tech-startups-ceos-and-board-chairs/

Bjornali, E. S., Knockaert, M., Foss, N., Leunbach, D., & Erikson, T. (2017). Unraveling the black box of new venture team processes. The Wiley handbook of entrepreneurship, 313-348.

Knockaert, M., Bjornali, E. S., & Erikson, T. (2015). Joining forces: Top management team and board chair characteristics as antecedents of board service involvement. Journal of Business Venturing, 30(3), 420-435.

Bjørnåli, E. S., Sørheim, R., & Erikson, T. (2010). Design characteristics associated with venture capital acquisitions in academic spin-offs. In The Life Cycle of New Ventures. Ed. Brush, C.G., Kolvereid, L., Widding, L.Ø., Sørheim. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Rewards:

2011 - Her conference paper has been recognized as the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings in San-Antonio, Texas.

2017 - Her conference paper has been nominated for the 2017 Carolyn B. Dexter Award. This prestigious award is given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management. Each of the Academy's Divisions and Interest Groups nominates one annual meeting submission for this award each year.

Prior working experience:

- Post Doc, Dept. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, NTNU

- Senior Researcher, NIFU Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo.

- Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Faculty of Economics and management, NTNU

Links:

Publications ‪Ekaterina S Bjornali‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Doctoral dissertation https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/265668

www.linkedin.com/in/ekaterinabjornali

Publications

2024

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Aspelund, Arild. (2024) The role of board leadership in deliberating international entry. Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Academic article
Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Coleridge, Chris. (2024) The moderating role of efficacious board leadership in high tech startups. Journal of High Technology Management Research
Academic article

2023

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Coleridge, Chris. (2023) Competitive moves in new high-tech firms: The role of board heterogeneity and family ties. Journal of High Technology Management Research
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Asad, Sarosh; Terjesen, Siri. (2023) Determinants of intra-board behavioral integration in high-tech start-ups. Journal of Management and Governance
Academic article

2022

Erikson, Truls; Coleridge, Chris; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2022) Venture governance and its dynamics: Intraboard relationships and CEO duality. Technovation
Academic article

2020

Leunbach, Daniel; Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2020) A subjectivist approach to team entrepreneurship. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Academic article

2018

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Farstad, Ingvild; Brovold, Benedicte Kimo; Terjesen, Siri. (2018) Kvinne og toppleder: Hvilke faktorer fremmer en lederkarriere?. Magma forskning og viten
Academic article

2017

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Giones, Ferran; Billström, Lars Anders. (2017) Reveal or Conceal? Signaling Strategies for Building Legitimacy in Cleantech Firms. Sustainability
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2017) Research on the board of directors in high-tech start-ups: an assessment and suggestions for future research.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Aadland, Torgeir; Fedorova, Ekaterina; Mohammadi, Ali; Aune, Tina Bjørnevik. (2017) Nettverkskapabiliteter og integrerende adferd hos lederteam og styrer.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Knockaert, Mirjam; Foss, Nicolai; Leunbach, Daniel; Erikson, Truls. (2017) Unraveling the Black Box of New Venture Team Processes.
Academic chapter

2013

Knockaert, Mirjam; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Erikson, Truls. (2013) Board Strategic Involvement in Early Stage High Tech Firms: An Attention Based Perspective. Academy of Management Proceedings
Academic article

2012

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Støren, Liv Anne. (2012) Examining competence factors that encourage innovative behaviour by European higher education graduate professionals. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Aspelund, Arild. (2012) The role of the entrepreneurial team and the board of directors in the internationalization of academic spin-offs. Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Academic article

2011

Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina. (2011) Styret som ressurs og ressursene i styret. Magma forskning og viten
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina; Erikson, Truls; Knockaert, Mirjam. (2011) The Impact of Top Management Team Characteristics and Board Strategic Involvement on Team Effectiveness in High-Tech Start-Ups. Academy of Management Proceedings
Professional article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Støren, Liv Anne; Henaug, Inger. (2011) Entreprenørskap i høyere utdanning – en kartlegging av omfang og innhold. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Spilling, Olav R.; Lauritzen, Tonje; Hagen, Svein Erik; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina. (2011) Evaluering av handlingsplanen for mer entreprenørskap blant kvinner. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Spilling, Olav R.; Moen, Øystein; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina; Finne, Håkon; Sørheim, Roger. (2011) Høyvekstforetak - utfordringer, behov og virkemidler: En analyse gjennomført for Innovasjon Norge. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report

2010

Spilling, Olav R.; Hansen, Bjørn Harald; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2010) Evaluering av nyvekst. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Sørheim, Roger; Erikson, Truls. (2010) Design characteristics associated with venture capital acquisitions in academic spin-offs.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls. (2010) Board features associated with new team member addition in academic spin-offs.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Gulbrandsen, Magnus. (2010) Exploring board formation and evolution of board composition in academic spin-offs. Journal of Technology Transfer
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2010) The role of the top management team and board in academic spin-offs. Høgskolen i Sør-trøndelag, Avdeling for teknologi
Research report

2009

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Gulbrandsen, Magnus. (2009) Board of Directors, Top Management Team and the Developmentof Academic Spin-Off Companies. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis

Journal publications

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Coleridge, Chris. (2023) Competitive moves in new high-tech firms: The role of board heterogeneity and family ties. Journal of High Technology Management Research
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Giones, Ferran; Billström, Lars Anders. (2017) Reveal or Conceal? Signaling Strategies for Building Legitimacy in Cleantech Firms. Sustainability
Academic article
Knockaert, Mirjam; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Erikson, Truls. (2013) Board Strategic Involvement in Early Stage High Tech Firms: An Attention Based Perspective. Academy of Management Proceedings
Academic article
Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina. (2011) Styret som ressurs og ressursene i styret. Magma forskning og viten
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina; Erikson, Truls; Knockaert, Mirjam. (2011) The Impact of Top Management Team Characteristics and Board Strategic Involvement on Team Effectiveness in High-Tech Start-Ups. Academy of Management Proceedings
Professional article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Knockaert, Mirjam; Erikson, Truls. (2016) The Impact of Top Management Team Characteristics and Board Service Involvement on Team Effectiveness in High-Tech Start-Ups. Long Range Planning
Academic article
Leunbach, Daniel; Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2020) A subjectivist approach to team entrepreneurship. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Gulbrandsen, Magnus. (2010) Exploring board formation and evolution of board composition in academic spin-offs. Journal of Technology Transfer
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Støren, Liv Anne. (2012) Examining competence factors that encourage innovative behaviour by European higher education graduate professionals. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Academic article
Erikson, Truls; Coleridge, Chris; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2022) Venture governance and its dynamics: Intraboard relationships and CEO duality. Technovation
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Ellingsen, Andreas. (2014) Factors Affecting the Development of Clean-tech Start-Ups: A Literature Review. Energy Procedia
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Aspelund, Arild. (2024) The role of board leadership in deliberating international entry. Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Aspelund, Arild. (2012) The role of the entrepreneurial team and the board of directors in the internationalization of academic spin-offs. Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Farstad, Ingvild; Brovold, Benedicte Kimo; Terjesen, Siri. (2018) Kvinne og toppleder: Hvilke faktorer fremmer en lederkarriere?. Magma forskning og viten
Academic article
Erikson, Truls; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Coleridge, Chris. (2024) The moderating role of efficacious board leadership in high tech startups. Journal of High Technology Management Research
Academic article
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Asad, Sarosh; Terjesen, Siri. (2023) Determinants of intra-board behavioral integration in high-tech start-ups. Journal of Management and Governance
Academic article
Knockaert, Mirjam; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Erikson, Truls. (2014) Joining forces: Top Management Team and Board Chair Characteristics as Antecedents of Board Service Involvement. Journal of Business Venturing
Academic article

Part of book/report

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2017) Research on the board of directors in high-tech start-ups: an assessment and suggestions for future research.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Sørheim, Roger; Erikson, Truls. (2010) Design characteristics associated with venture capital acquisitions in academic spin-offs.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls. (2010) Board features associated with new team member addition in academic spin-offs.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Støren, Liv Anne. (2014) Én av fire eller én av femti? Utbredelse av entreprenørskapstilbud i høyere utdanning.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Aadland, Torgeir; Fedorova, Ekaterina; Mohammadi, Ali; Aune, Tina Bjørnevik. (2017) Nettverkskapabiliteter og integrerende adferd hos lederteam og styrer.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Ellingsen, Andreas. (2015) Exploring Antecedents and Impact of Board Effectiveness in Clean-Tech Enterprises.
Academic chapter
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.; Knockaert, Mirjam; Foss, Nicolai; Leunbach, Daniel; Erikson, Truls. (2017) Unraveling the Black Box of New Venture Team Processes.
Academic chapter

Report

Spilling, Olav R.; Hansen, Bjørn Harald; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2010) Evaluering av nyvekst. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Støren, Liv Anne; Henaug, Inger. (2011) Entreprenørskap i høyere utdanning – en kartlegging av omfang og innhold. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Spilling, Olav R.; Lauritzen, Tonje; Hagen, Svein Erik; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina. (2011) Evaluering av handlingsplanen for mer entreprenørskap blant kvinner. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Spilling, Olav R.; Moen, Øystein; Bjørnåli, Ekaterina; Finne, Håkon; Sørheim, Roger. (2011) Høyvekstforetak - utfordringer, behov og virkemidler: En analyse gjennomført for Innovasjon Norge. NIFU Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
Research report
Bjørnåli, Ekaterina S.. (2010) The role of the top management team and board in academic spin-offs. Høgskolen i Sør-trøndelag, Avdeling for teknologi
Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

Bjørnåli, Ekaterina Shepeleva; Erikson, Truls; Gulbrandsen, Magnus. (2009) Board of Directors, Top Management Team and the Developmentof Academic Spin-Off Companies. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis

Teaching

Courses

Earlier courses:

BSOL4005 Advanced Organization Theory, NTNU Business School

TIØ4170 Technology based business development (2015), IØT and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship.

Organizational Theory and Project Administration , Department of Technology, Sør-Trøndelag University College (AFT, HiST)

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