Professor Jonatan Pinkse

Career

Jonatan’s research interests focus on corporate sustainability, business and climate change, business model innovation, social entrepreneurship, cross-sector partnerships, and the sharing economy. In his research, Jonatan analyses how firms make strategic decisions to adapt to a more sustainable economy and deal with the ensuing tensions between issues and actors. He also investigates barriers to firm adoption of disruptive technologies from cognitive, organisational, and institutional perspectives. In 2024, he moved from Alliance Manchester Business School to King’s College London to become Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business.

Research project

• Comparative analysis of green recovery packages in the UK, Germany and France
• Addressing the Net-Zero and productivity challenges: How could the housing sector play a key role?

Research output

• Charging Towards Productivity: Moving Past the Bump in the Road?
• The Productivity Agenda
• Driving change in UK housing construction: a Sisyphean task?
• Productivity opportunities and risks in a transformative, low-carbon and digital age
• Public investments in COVID-19 green recovery packages