Esther Leibel

Esther Leibel is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Her research employs ethnographic and linguistic methods to study the dynamics of fields formation, with a focus on vocabulary, meanings, and practices development in the contexts of entrepreneurship and local investing. Her forthcoming Academy of Management Annals piece with Tim Hallett and Beth Bechky brings attention to the role of interactions as a source of meaning making in fields. Consistent with this view, her analysis of micro-level interactions within the Slow Money movement, which supports the development of sustainable local food systems by connecting sustainable food entrepreneurs with local investors, offers insights into meaning making and practice development as tethering of local understandings to extra local rationales.

Education

• New York University Stern School of Business, New York, NY 2017
  Ph.D., Management
• New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, NY 2009
  M.S., with Distinction, in Public Relations and Corporate Communications
• Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy 2003
  Post-Graduate Diploma, Cum Laude, in Economics and Management
• University of Pisa, Italy 2002
  Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, in Business Administration

Selected Publications

• Leibel, E., Vinokurova, N. (2022). "How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money",
• Leibel, E., Falchetti, D. (2022). "Second Acts: Giving Back through Social and Serial Entrepreneurship H Lee, E Leibel, B Vissa, M Wang -",
• Leibel, E. (2021). "Template Variation within a Common Frame: Supporting Mission Cohesion in Dispersed Organizations",
• Leibel, E., Falchetti, D. (2021). "When money isn’t everything—Exploring different patterns of entrepreneur resource acquisition",
• Leibel, E., Shah, S., Wrzesniewski, A., Lee, H., Leibel, E., Roach, M., Shin, J., Agarwal, R., Cho, Y., Huang, L., Sauermann, H., Shah, S. (2020). "Why Become an Entrepreneur and Why It Matters? Effects of Motives on Entrepreneurial Outcomes", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1), 18402-18402
• Leibel, E. (2019). "Institutional Customization: Geography, Meanings, and Investing Practices in the Slow Money Field", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019 (1), 15362-15362
• Gross, T., Zilber, T., Gross, T., Harvey, C., Heinze, K., Leibel, E., Soderstrom, S., Yang, R. (2019). "Unpacking the Role of Interactions as a Site of Meaning", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019 (1), 18513-18513
• Leibel, E., Hallett, T., Bechky, B. (2018). "Meaning at the Source: The Dynamics of Field Formation in Institutional Research", Academy of Management Annals, 12 (1), 154-177

Selected Research Presentations

• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations., Israel Strategy Conference, Reichman University, 2022
• Leibel, E. , Vinokurova, N. How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money, Israel Strategy Conference, Reichman University, 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations., Bentley University, 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations, University of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business, 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations, University of Rhode Island, College of Business, 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations., 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations, University of Massachusetts Boston, Organizations and Social Change (OSC) Research Seminar, 2022
• Leibel, E. When Money isn’t Everything: Exploring Different Patterns of Entrepreneur Resource Acquisition., Fourth INSEAD Doriot Entrepreneurship Conference (IDEC), Fontainebleau, France, 2022
• Leibel, E. , Vinokurova, N. How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money, Annual conference of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, Milan, Italy, 2022
• Leibel, E. Curating 1,000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging Pluralistic Efforts to Diffuse Social Innovations, ? Warwick Business School, distinguished scholar series at the Practice Process and Institutions (PPI) research network at WBS., 2022
• Leibel, E. Template variation within a common frame: Supporting mission cohesion in dispersed organizations, WU Wien, Department of Management Research Seminar Series, 2021
• Leibel, E. , Vinokurova, N. How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money, Strategic Management Society - Annual conference, 2021
• Falchetti, D. , Leibel, E. When Money isn’t Everything: Exploring Different Patterns of Entrepreneur Resource Acquisition, Strategic Management Society - Annual conference, 2021
• Falchetti, D. , Leibel, E. When Money isn’t Everything: Exploring Different Patterns of Entrepreneur Resource Acquisition., 13th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Milan, Italy, 2021
• Leibel, E. , Vinokurova, N. How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money, 18th Annual West Coast Research Symposium, 2021
• Leibel, E. Template variation within a common frame: Supporting mission cohesion in dispersed organizations, Academy of Management - Annual meeting, 2021
• Leibel, E. , Vinokurova, N. How Organizations Choose Templates: Evidence from Slow Money, UC Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, 2021

Awards And Honors

• 2022, Best Paper Award at the 19th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, USC Marshall
• 2018, Academy of Management ONE Dissertation Award Finalist, Organization and Natural Environment (ONE) Division, Academy of Management