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Ricky Celenta

Postdoc

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Departments
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Room: DH.Ø.2.108
Subjects
Business development Innovation Entrepreneurship Digitalisation Sustainability

Primary research areas

So­cial Entrepreneur­ship
In the field of so­cial entrepreneur­ship, I am primar­ily in­ter­ested in scal­ing prac­tices and strategies.
Cor­por­ate Entrepreneur­ship
My re­search fo­cuses on the role of cor­por­ate entrepreneur­ship in fos­ter­ing sus­tain­able in­nov­a­tion with­in firms

Mak­ing new en­tre­pren­eur­i­al ap­proaches scal­able for a bet­ter so­ci­ety

Ricky Celenta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on social entrepreneurship, with particular attention to scaling practices, and on corporate entrepreneurship, especially in relation to sustainable innovation within firms.  
His academic work investigates how entrepreneurial approaches can be scaled to address urgent societal challenges.  
By linking sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and corporate innovation, his aim is to demonstrate that entrepreneurship can be a solution for building more antifragile and inclusive society. 

He is particularly interested in: 

- Scaling practices in social entrepreneurship 

- Collaboration between large firms, startups, and communities 

- Corporate entrepreneurship as a strategic approach to sustainable innovation 

Ricky Celenta is also Project Manager of the seizmic Doctoral Network, an MSCA-funded program involving nine universities and fifteen PhD fellows. The seizmic Doctoral Network advances research, training, and innovation at the intersection of social impact and entrepreneurship, building bridges between academia, business, and society. 

2026

Identifying the Catalysts of Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

The Role of Creativity and Digital Innovation

Rosangela Feola

Ri­cky Ce­len­ta, Postdoc

Vesci Massimiliano

Botti Antonio

Chiara Crudele

Roberto Parente

Go to publication

January 2025

Navigating Corporate Governance in Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corps

A Systematic Literature Review

Chiara Crudele

Ri­cky Ce­len­ta, Postdoc

Giovanni Baldi

Go to publication

2025

Ripple Effects

A Conceptual Model for External Replication in Social Entrepreneurship

Kai Ho­ck­erts, Professor

Ri­cky Ce­len­ta, Postdoc

Svenja Damberg

Johann Fueller

Felipe Koch

Xiaoni Li

Vincenzo Luise

Florian Lüdeke-Freund

Auður Pálsdóttir

Es­ben Ra­h­bek Gjer­d­rum Pe­der­sen, Professor

Li­a­na Ra­z­me­ri­ta, Associate Professor

Ramon Rispoli

Volodymyr Rodchenko

Kri­sti­an Roed Ni­el­sen, Associate Professor

Magnus Thor Torfason

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Recent research projects

The seizm­ic Doc­tor­al Net­work

MSCA-fun­ded net­work with 9 uni­ver­sit­ies and 15 PhD fel­lows, ad­van­cing re­search on scal­ing so­cial entrepreneur­ship through im­pact in­vest­ing, busi­ness mod­els, edu­ca­tion, and AI.
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RE­CON­CIL­ING ENTREPRENEUR­SHIP WITH IM­MIN­ENT SUSTAIN­ABILITY CHAL­LENGES

Fun­ded by UUni­CORN – Uppsala Uni­ver­sity, this pro­ject ex­plores how early-stage ven­tures bal­ance growth am­bi­tions with en­vir­on­ment­al and so­cial sustain­ability with­in plan­et­ary bound­ar­ies.

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