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Department
Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Entrepreneurship
Management
Firm Growth
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Organization Studies
Business Strategy and International Management
Skills
Entrepreneurship
Management
Strategy
PME
Gender
Ethnicity
Social class
Family owned company
Biography
Biographie
Professor Natalia Vershinina has joined Audencia Business School on 1st of September 2019. She previously worked ay Birmingham Business School, University fo Birmingham and prior to this at Leciester Business School, De Montfort University in the UK.
She holds a PhD in Business Relationships, MBA from De Montfort University, and DEng in Foreign Economic Relations from St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. She co-authored a "Management" textbook with Richard Daft and Martyn Kendrick.
Her research cuts across diverse but complementary areas of entrepreneurship, gender, ethnicity, social class and family business. She is an Associate Editor for International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, and a Co-chair for Family and Community Business Track at Institute of Small Business and Enterprise Conference. She has recently been re-elected as a Council Member for British Academy of Management. Her research work won multiple awards. Her main teaching responsibilities are in entrepreneurship and small firms.
Section CV
Formation
PhD in Business Relationships
de Montfort University, Leicester
(2006)
Master of Business Administration with Distinction
de Montfort University, Leicester
(1999)
Diploma of Engineering in Organisation and Management with Distinction
St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, St Petersburg
(1997)
Experience
Deputy Director for Research
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
Since 2024
Head of Research - Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation Department
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
2022 - 2024
Head of Major in Entrepreneurship, Business & Society Department
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
2020 - 2021
Responsable Recherche - Département Entreprise & Société
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
2020 - 2021
Senior Lecturer / Acting Head of Entrepreneurship
Birmingham Business School - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Great Britain
2015 - 2019
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Principal Lecturer
de Montfort University, Leicester, Great Britain
2003 - 2015
Research Fellow
de Montfort University, Leicester, Great Britain
2001 - 2003
Publications
Forthcoming
VERSHININA, N., REDIEN-COLLOT, R., LE LOARNE LEMAIRE, S., HAYA AL-DAJANI, H., VILLARES-VARELA, M., LASSALLE, P. (2024). Inequalities in Entrepreneurship Opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research
BUCKLEY, D., VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2024). Exploring informal work: gaining legitimation through nudging. Work, Employment and Society
Published
DAGOUDO, B., VERSHININA, N., MURITHI, W. (2024). Women, Polygamy and Family Entrepreneuring in Southwest Benin: The role of Endogenous Knowledge. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 30 (9), 2304 - 2331.
SHYMKO, Y., VERSHININA, N., DASKALAKI, M., AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2024). From the cocoon to la chape de plomb: The birth and persistence of silence around sexism in academia. Gender, Work and Organization, 31 (5), 2113-2137.
KANJI, S., VERSHININA, N. (2024). Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: A linked-lives perspective. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36 (7-8), 922-939.
WOOD, B., VERSHININA, N., BASTIAN, B. (2024). Moving Forward with GWO. Gender, Work and Organization, 31 (6), 2305-2308.
SCHIAVONE, F., VERSHININA, N. (2024). Examining the Entrepreneurial Revolution in Healthcare. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 30 (8), 1969-1976.
EVANSLUONG, Q., RAMIREZ-PASILLAS, M., DISCUA CRUZ, A., ELO, M., VERSHININA, N. (2023). Migrant Entrepreneurship and the Roles of Family Beyond Place and Space: Towards a Family Resourcefulness Across Borders Perspective. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 17 (1), 1-15.
GOUEDARD, M., RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., VERSHININA, N. (2023). Innovative postures in a family business: Family priorities driving resource (re)configuration. Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 22 (Special Issue 1), 103-132.
Forthcoming
HUSSAIN, S., VERSHININA, N., CAREY, C. (2023). Defying the Odds? Multiple disadvantage as a Source of Entrepreneurial Action. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research
Published
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2023). Self-regulation, micro-foundations and migrant entrepreneurs’ capacities for resilience. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 35 (7-8), 644-665.
SUDDABY, R., NG, W., VERSHININA, N., MARKMAN, G., CADBURY, M. (2023). Sacralisation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Values in Cadbury. Family Business Review, 36 (3), 296-314.
VERSHININA, N., MARKMAN, G., HAN, L., RODGERS, P., KITCHING, J., HASHIMZADE, N., BARRETT, R. (2022). Gendered Regulations and SMEs’ Performance in Transition Economies. Small Business Economics, 58 (2022), 1113-1130.
HALL, K., PHILLIMORE, J., KAZLOWSKA, A., VERSHININA, N., OGTEM-YOUNG, O., HARRIS, C. (2022). Migration Uncertainty in the Context of Brexit: Resource Conservation Tactics. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48 (1), 173-191.
RODGERS, P., VERSHININA, N., KHAN, Z., STOKES, P. (2022). Small Firms’ Non-Market Strategies in Response to Dysfunctional Institutional Settings of Emerging Markets. International Business Review, 31 (4), Article N°101891.
VERSHININA, N., PHILLIPS, N., MCADAM, M. (2022). Online Communities and Entrepreneuring Mothers: Practices of Building, Being and Belonging. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 34 (7-8), 742-764.
SHAHID, M., RODGERS, P., VERSHININA, N., ZAHRA, M., WILLIAMS, C. (2022). Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalisation intentions amongst street entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 28 (8), 2103-2131.
EL-FAR, M., SABELLA, A., VERSHININA, N. (2021). "Stuck in the middle of what?”: The pursuit of academic careers by mothers and non-mothers in Higher Education Institutions in Occupied Palestine". Higher Education, 81 (2021), 685-705.
VERSHININA, N., DISCUA CRUZ, A. (2021). Researching migrant entrepreneurship communities: a reflection through collaborative (auto)ethnographies. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 17 (2021), 507–526.
ABDELLATIF, A., ALDOSSARI, M., BONCORI, I., CALLAHAN, J., CHATRAKUL NA AYUDHYA, U., CHAUDHRY, S., KIVINEN, N., LIU, S.-J. S., UTOFT, E. H., VERSHININA, N., YARROW, E., PULLEN, A. (2021). Breaking the Mould: Working through our Differences to Vocalize the Sound of Change. Gender, Work and Organization, 28 (5), 1956-1979.
MURITHI, W., VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2020). Where less is more: institutional voids and business families in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 26 (1), 158-174.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P., TARBA, S., KHAN, Z., STOKES, P. (2020). Gaining legitimacy through proactive stakeholder management: The experiences of high-tech women entrepreneurs in Russia. Journal of Business Research, 119 (October 2020), 111-121.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2020). Symbolic capital within the lived experiences of Eastern European migrants: A gendered perspective. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 32 (7-8), 590-605.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2019). Migration, enterprise and society. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 25 (5), 774-779.
AFREH, B., RODGERS, P., VERSHININA, N., WILLIAMS, C. (2019). Varieties of context and informal entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial activities of migrant youths in rural Ghana. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 25 (5), 996-1013.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P., MCADAM, M., CLINTON, E. (2019). Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, gender and family business. Global Networks - A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 19 (2), 238-260.
RODGERS, P., VERSHININA, N., WILLIAMS, C., THEODORAKOPOULOS, N. (2019). Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blatnetworks across transnational spaces. Global Networks - A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 19 (1), 119–136.
VERSHININA, N., WOLDESENBET BETA, K., MURITHI, W. (2018). How does national culture enable or constrain entrepreneurship? Exploring the role of Harambee in Kenya. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 25 (4), 687-704.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P., RAM, M., THEODORAKOPOULOS, N., RODIONOVA, Y. (2018). False self-employment: The case of Ukrainian migrants in London’s construction sector. Industrial Relations Journal, 49 (1), 2-18.
JONES, S., MARTINEZ DY, A., VERSHININA, N. (2018). “We were fighting for our place”: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation. Gender, Work and Organization, 26 (6), 789-804.
BARRETT, R., VERSHININA, N. (2017). Intersectionality of Ethnic and Entrepreneurial Identities: A Study of Post‐War Polish Entrepreneurs in an English City. Journal of Small Business Management, 55 (3), 430-443.
VERSHININA, N., BARRETT, R., MCHARDY, P. (2017). Logics and rationalisations underpinning entrepreneurial decision-making. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24 (1), 158-175.
MCHARDY, P., VERSHININA, N. (2014). The role of autocatalysis in learner's networks. International Journal of Management Education (IJME), 12 (3), 271-282.
VERSHININA, N., RODIONOVA, Y. (2011). Methodological issues in studying hidden populations operating in informal economy. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 31 (11/12), 697-716.
VERSHININA, N., BARRETT, R., MEYER, M. (2011). Forms of capital, intra-ethnic variation and Polish entrepreneurs in Leicester. Work, Employment and Society, 21 (1), 101-117.
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P., XHENETI, M., BRZOZOWSKI, J., LASSALLE, P. (2021) Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society Emerald Group Publishing
DAFT, R., KENDRICK, M., VERSHININA, N. (2010) Management. Cengage Learning Business Press
HEILBRUNN, S., VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2023) Employment, self-employment and precarity: routes to migrant integration?. Verlag, , 79-104
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P., XHENETI, M., BRZOZOWSKI, J., LASSALLE, P. (2021) Chapter 1: Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society: Setting the New Research Agenda Emerald Group Publishing, 13 , 1-10
BORKOWSKI, M., BRZOZOWSKI, J., VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2021) Chapter 10: Networks and Migrant Entrepreneurship: Ukrainian Entrepreneurs in Poland Emerald Group Publishing, 13 , 140-161
VERSHININA, N., RODIONOVA, Y., MARLOW, S. (2015) Does an Entrepreneur’s Gender Matter for Credibility and Financing of SMEs? Routledge, , 87-111
BUCCELLATO, T. B., FAZIO, G., RODIONOVA, Y., VERSHININA, N. (2015) Ownership Structure, Cash Constraints and Investment Behaviour in Russian Family Firms Springer, , 239-264
CHAMPENOIS, C., SHYMKO, Y., VERSHININA, N. (2024). Self-care as the pursuit of eusociality: A Foucauldian perspective of self-care at work in the times of crisis. 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, Milan-Bicocca, Italy, 4-6 July.
VERSHININA, N., DISCUA CRUZ, A. (2024). Under what conditions do sustainability and responsibility become central to family businesses dominant logics?. STEP Global Summit: Pathway to Good.
VERSHININA, N., BELITSKI, M., MOOG, P. (2024). Developing an enduring regional legacy: the role of location, history, and industry in shaping firm competitiveness. STEP Global Summit: Pathway to Good.
SMYTH, I., VERSHININA, N. (2024). Reimagining Family Firm Narratives: The Role of Iconology in Unveiling Layers of History through Visual Imagery and Artefacts. ISBE 2024: Entrepreneurship research, policy and practice for a more equitable world.
VERSHININA, N. (2024). Female Immigrant Integration in Europe: What Specific Policies Have International Institutions Recommended for Reducing Gender Gaps in the Labour Market?. Technical University Berlin: Impact of Gendered Migration Cycles on Labout Market Integration of Femal Migrants in European Wlfare States - Developing Pathways towards Gender-Responsive Policies.
VERSHININA, N., SERBICHENKO, D., SHYMKO, Y. (2024). Volunteering as Political Activism in Extreme Socio-political Contexts: A Case of Ukrainian Volunteers in Nantes. Technical University Berlin: The Impact of Gendered Migration Cycles in the Labour Market Integration of Female Migrants in European welfare States - Developing Pathways towards Gender-responsie Policies.
VERSHININA, N., PHILLIPS, N., KERRIGAN, F., ROMANO, S. (2024). Ode to Joy and Meaning of Craft Work: Narratives accounts of women craft makers in Birmingham. RENT 2024: Multiple Faces of Entrepreneurship: Embracing the Diversity of Ambitions, Processes and Practices Worldwide.
VERSHININA, N., RAUCH, A., SERBICHENKO, D., BELITSKI, M., BRZOZOWSKI, J., RODGERS, P. (2024). What are the effects of a war zone environment on entrepreneurial behavior: lessons from Russian-Ukrainian Conflict. Research Symposium on Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Contexts, De Montfort University, 16 February.
VERSHININA, N. (2024). How inclusive are entrepreneurial ecosystems of marginalised business owners?. Creative Spark Research Workshop (Hybrid) Berlin: “Entrepreneurial ecosystems: Theory, Evidence and Practice”.
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N. (2023). Scaling up for good: the role of actors at the centerof the organizational scaling-up process. European Scale Up Institute Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N., JACK, S. (2023). The micro-foundations of new venture growth at the early development stage: A phenomenological perspective on growing. European Scaleup Conference.
VERSHININA, N., PHILLIPS, N., KERRIGAN, F., ROMANO, S. (2023). Ode to Joy and its Meaning in Craft Entrepreneurial Identity. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference.
VERSHININA, N., BELITSKI, M., JACK, S., MONSEN, E. (2023). Democratisation of family firm business models in post-covid and post-capitalism society. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference.
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., VERSHININA, N., LEFEBVRE, V. (2022). Living up to self-imposed standards: enacting moral leadership and innovation as gendered practice in family business. RENT Conference.
VERSHININA, N., RADU-LEFEBVRE, M. (2021). Deconstructing women's (in)visibility discourse in family business research. Gender, Work and Organization Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N. (2021). The role of learning in organizing and growing processes at a new venture stage. EGOS.
MURITHI, W., VERSHININA, N. (2019). Exploring Strategic Behaviours of Family Businesses in Sub-Saharan African Context: Does Family Involvement and Size of the Firm Matter?., Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference 2019. London: Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
VERSHININA, N. (2019). “From darkness into light”: a systematic review of scholarly contributions investigating (in)visibility of women in family firms.. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2019 (pp. 35). London: Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HASHIMZADE, N., VERSHININA, N. (2017). Symptoms and Causes: Gender Effects and Institutional Failures.
Broadcasts
SUDDABY, R., NG, W., VERSHININA, N., MARKMAN, G., CADBURY, M. (2024). When the Family Leaves the Business, Can Their Values Remain?. Familybusiness.org
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N., DIMOV, D. (2023). STEP conversation #3 : Growth and Family Business Succession. Chaine Youtube Audencia
Professional conferences
VERSHININA, N., RODGERS, P. (2019). Gendering of symbolic capital and lived experiences of Eastern European migrant entrepreneurs in the UK.
Scientific activities
Guest Editor of an academic journal
GWO: Sexism and Gender-Washing in Academia and Beyond,
2024
ERD - Entrepreneuring and poverty at the margins: here, there and everywhere,
2024
IJGE In search of Entrepreneurial Masculinities,
2023
IJEBR -Entrepreneurial Revolution in Healthcare,
2022
IJEBR - Inequalities in Entrepreneurship Opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities,
2022
Guest Editor for Special Issue: Migration, Enterprise and Society,
2017
Editor of an academic journal
Co-Editor in Chief - Gender Work & Organization,
2024
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
ECSB Board Member,
2024
ISBE - Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship,
2021
British Academy of Management
Associate Editor of an academic journal
Journal of Business Research,
2023
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Journal,
2021
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research,
2019
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
Academy of Management Perspectives,
2022
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and innovation,
2021
Journal of Management Studies,
2021
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development,
2020
Member of the scientific board of an academic association
IJEI - The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
2022
Reviewer for an academic journal
Gender, Work and Organization,
2019
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development,
2019
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research,
2019
International Small Business Journal,
2019
Journal of Management Studies,
2019
Journal of Family Business Management,
2019
Journal of International Entrepreneurship,
2019
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
2019
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,
2019
Organization,
2019
Journal of Business Research,
2019
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship,
2019
Long Range Planning,
2019
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal,
2019
Applied Psychology: An International Review,
2019
Journal of Small Business Management,
2019
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
2019
Human Relations,
2019
Small Business Economics,
2019
Awards and honors
Top Peer Reviewer for Economics and Management, 2019
Best Reviewer Award 2019- IJEBR, 2019
Best Qualitative Paper Award at Diana Conference, 2019
Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended paper, 2018
Best Knowledge and Research Exchange Paper, 2016
Best paper in “Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups” Track, 2016
Best paper in “Family and Community Business” Track, 2015
Doctoral supervision
Since 2011, P. SAVONI : Intra-Family Succession Goals: Perceptions of the Dominant Coalition of Small Private Family Firms, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2014, B. WASIK : The role of Social Capital in business creation and development of Chinese ethnic entrepreneurship in Indonesia, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2004, D. COCONETE : Technology strategy of small and medium sized semiconductor enterprises in the UK, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2011, H. MUMBI : Public Sector Leadership, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2014, M. JEREMIAH : Accountability Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2014, P. MCHARDY : Identifying Boundary Spanning Behaviour across Members of Heterogeneous Groups within a Project Environment, de Montfort University, Great Britain
Since 2017, K. STOEWE : Refugee Entrepreneurship Intergration: Comparative study of Birmingham and Cologne, University of Birmingham, Great Britain