Rebecca Stirzaker

Rebecca Stirzaker

Associate professor
USN School of Business
Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences
Campus Kongsberg (5364)
+47 31 00 85 61
Rebecca Stirzaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway. She completed her PhD in 2017 at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Her research interests include entrepreneurship and innovation in context, entrepreneurship in peripheral contexts and social entrepreneurship. Rebecca has conducted research on these topics internationally. Current research projects include collaborative innovation within a rural context, self employment motivations within the context of poverty in the UK, and drivers of social entrepreneurship in Scotland.

Responsibilities

Rebecca is responsible for two courses at bachelor level in Kongsberg and Drammen:

  • INE1001 Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Analysis 
  • INE1002 Entrepreneurship in Practice

Rebecca is committed to informing her teaching with research and has previous experience in the development of both bachelor and masters level courses in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Competences

Supervision:

  • Supervision experience at bachelor, postgraduate and PhD level

Research Group:

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

Course Development:

  • Current- development of bachelor level courses in entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Previous experience- development of both bachelor and Master of Science courses 

CV

2013-2017 Ph.D in Management, Heriot Watt University, Scotland. 

2012-2013 Master of International Business with Distinction, Heriot Watt University, Scotland. 

2006-2011 Undergraduate degree in Management and Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-stirzaker-07708475/ 

Publications

Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R., Galloway, L., Jackman, L. and Mihut, A. (2021), “The (mixed) motivations of those engaged in enterprise and experiencing poverty”, in Battisti, M., Dann, Z., Ekinsmyth, C. and Pickernell, D. (Eds), Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Emerald, UK. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620220000014002

Jackman, L., Galloway, L., Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R. and Mihut, A. (2021). Good option or only option? Poverty, disability, health and enterprise. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research,Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-10-2020-0681

Stirzaker, R.J., Galloway, L., Muhonen, J. & Christopoulos, D. (2021). The drivers of social entrepreneurship: agency, context, compassion and opportunism. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 1381-1402. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2020-0461

Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R., Galloway, L., Jackman, L., & Mihut, A. (Accepted/In press). The (mixed) motivations of those engaged in enterprise and experiencing poverty. In Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emerald Publishing Limited. 

Stirzaker, R.J., Galloway, L., & Potter, L. (2019) Business, Ageing, and Socioemotional Selectivity: a Qualitative Study of Grey Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business Management, 57(sup2), 616-636. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12516

Stirzaker. R.J & Sitko, R (2018). The Older Entrepreneurial Self: Intersecting Identities of Older Women Entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 25(8), 1748-1765.

Dobbie, F., MacKintosh, A.M., Clegg, G., Stirzaker, R., & Bauld, L. (2018) Attitudes towards bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation: results from a cross sectional general population survey. PLOS ONE, 13 (3), e0193391.

Stirzaker, R. J., & Galloway, L. (2017). Ageing and Redundancy and the Silver Lining of Entrepreneurship. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 18(2), 105-114.

Conference papers: 

Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R., Galloway, L., Jackman, L., & Mihut, A. (2021). Motivations or context? Factors influencing low-income entrepreneurship in a developed economy. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2021, No. 1, p. 11342). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Jackman, L., Stirzaker, R. Galloway, L., Kapasi, I., and Mihut, A. (2019) “Entrepreneurship and Disability: An exploration of the drivers of self-employment in this context”, RENT conference, Berlin, Germany. November 27-29, 2019. 

Stirzaker, R., Galloway, L., Jackman, L., Kapasi, I., and Mihut, A. (2019) “The intersection of poverty with disability, incapacity and the self-employment experience in the UK”, ISBE conference, Newcastle, UK. November 14-15, 2019.

Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R. Galloway, L., Jackman, L., and Mihut, A. (2019) “Entrepreneurship and poverty: an exploration of what’s driving business creation in this context”, ISBE conference, Newcastle, UK. November 14-15, 2019. 

Mihut, A., Jackman, L., Galloway, L., Kapasi, I., Stirzaker, R. (2019) “Socio-economic trajectory and entrepreneurship: a UK study of the experiences of using self-employment as a way out of poverty”, RENT conference, Berlin, Germany. November 27-29, 2019

Stirzaker, R. (2014) “Entrepreneurial Intentions in the Third Age: a Review of the UK situation”, ISBE conference, Manchester, UK. November 5-6, 2014.

Rebecca's google scholar profile can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=no&user=Ap3aZlcAAAAJ