Leonhard Gebhardt

Leonhard Gebhardt

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Leonhard Gebhardt is a researcher and educator at ICN Business School, working on sustainability, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. His research and teaching explore how ecosystems, social values, and digital tools — including generative AI — shape innovative and sustainable business models.

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Entrepreneurial contributions to sustainability transitions—A longitudinal study of their representation and enactment through topic modeling and thematic analysis

Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023

Mixed-methods study on how entrepreneurial contributions to sustainability transitions are represented and enacted.

Recommended citation: Gebhardt, L., & Bachmann, N. (2023). Entrepreneurial contributions to sustainability transitions—A longitudinal study of their representation and enactment through topic modeling and thematic analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 420, 138255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138255

For the Good of the People: Establishing Public Value Creation as an Objective for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Policy

Published in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 2024

Argues for re-orienting entrepreneurship policy toward public value creation in the face of grand sustainability challenges.

Recommended citation: Jimenez, J. C., Norris, S., & Gebhardt, L. (2024). For the good of the people: establishing public value creation as an objective for sustainable entrepreneurship policy. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 16(2), 242-261. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEV.2024.140395

Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness

Published in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2025

Qualitative study of how sustainability-driven ventures handle liabilities of newness and otherness using Capacitating, Conforming, and Cutting.

Recommended citation: Gebhardt, L., Kaus, J., & Hölzle, K. (2025). Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2025.2483936

Greening the Nexus Between Managerial Innovativeness and Innovation Performance of Manufacturing SMEs: The Mediating Role of Green Ambidexterity

Published in Business Strategy and the Environment, 2025

Examines how green managerial innovativeness and green ambidexterity jointly influence sustainable innovation performance in SMEs.

Recommended citation: Adusei, E., Halaszovich, T., & Gebhardt, L. (2025). Greening the Nexus Between Managerial Innovativeness and Innovation Performance of Manufacturing SMEs: The Mediating Role of Green Ambidexterity. Business Strategy and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4335

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Strategy

Course, ICN Business School, Campus Berlin (Master in Management), 2023