Summary
Christian Hampel is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining Imperial he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and was a Research Fellow (postdoctoral researcher) at the University of Oxford.
Christian’s research interests lie at the intersection of entrepreneurship and organisation theory. In particular, he focuses on how new ventures manage social evaluations (e.g., stigma, legitimacy, identification). Christian studies these dynamics with a focus on mission-driven ventures, especially in the social innovation and fintech spaces.
Christian's research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review, among other outlets. His dissertation was one of three finalists for the 2017 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Since 2020 Christian is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, University of Cambridge. He was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University's Kellogg School in 2015. Before academia, he worked in strategy consulting.
Christian currently teaches entrepreneurship and social innovation at master's and MBA level. He received the "Excellence Award for Innovation in Teaching" from Imperial College Business School in 2023.
You can download his publications here: https://www.christianhampel.com/research
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Hampel C, Dalpiaz E, 2023, Confronting the contested past: sensemaking and rhetorical history in the reconstruction of organizational identity, Academy of Management Journal, Vol:66, ISSN:0001-4273
Hampel CE, Tracey P, Weber K, 2020, The art of the pivot: How new ventures manage identification relationships with stakeholders as they change direction, Academy of Management Journal, Vol:63, ISSN:0001-4273, Pages:440-471
Cornwell TB, Howard-Grenville J, Hampel C, 2018, The company you keep: How an organization's horizontal partnerships affect employee organizational identification, Academy of Management Review, Vol:43, ISSN:0363-7425, Pages:772-791
Hampel CE, Tracey P, 2017, How organizations move from stigma to legitimacy: the case of Cook's travel agency in Victorian Britain, Academy of Management Journal, Vol:60, ISSN:0001-4273, Pages:2175-2207
Chapters
Hampel C, Lawrence TE, Tracey P, 2017, Institutional Work: Taking Stock and Making it Matter, SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2nd ed.)., Editor(s): Greenwood, Oliver, Lawrence, Meyer, SAGE Publications Ltd, Pages:558-590, ISBN:9781529712117