Rate My Professor Jonatan Pinkse

Jonatan Pinkse is Professor of Sustainable Business and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King's Business School, King's College London, a position he assumed in 2024. Previously, he was Professor of Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research within Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. Earlier in his career, he held positions at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained his PhD in Economics from 1996 to 2001, and Grenoble Ecole de Management. Pinkse's research examines sustainability, strategy, and innovation, focusing on how firms make strategic decisions to foster a sustainable economy, manage tensions between sustainability issues and actors, and address opportunities and barriers to adopting disruptive sustainable technologies from cognitive, organizational, and institutional viewpoints. His work covers corporate sustainability, business responses to climate change, sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation, green energy and mobility, cross-sector partnerships, and the digital economy.

Pinkse has published more than 60 scholarly articles in prominent journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, and California Management Review. Among his most cited works are 'Tensions in corporate sustainability: Towards an integrative framework' (Journal of Business Ethics, 2015), 'Cognitive Frames in Corporate Sustainability: Managerial Sensemaking with Paradoxical and Business Case Frames' (Academy of Management Review, 2014), 'Promises and paradoxes of the sharing economy: An organizing framework' (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017), and 'Business models for sustainable technologies: Exploring business model evolution in the case of electric vehicles' (Research Policy, 2014). He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in 2020 and 2025 and listed among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University in 2023. Pinkse serves as Deputy Editor of Organization & Environment since 2017, past chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management, and theme lead for Social, Environmental & Technological Transitions at The Productivity Institute.