Dr Oksana Gerwe
Senior Lecturer in International Marketing & International Business
Eastern Gateway 211
- Email: oksana.gerwe@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265799
- Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
- Brunel Business School
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Dr Oksana Gerwe is the MBA Director at Brunel Business School and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Division of Globalization, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy.
Oksana holds a PhD in Business Management with a specialisation in Strategy from IE Business School, Madrid, where she also received an Executive MBA degree and a Master’s degree in Research Methodology in Management Science. She spent part of her PhD at London Business School, at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Oksana’s teaching and research focus on Competitive and Corporate Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her research and intellectual interests range from the sharing economy to peer-to-peer business models to disruptive innovation. One of Oksana’s main goals is that research and teaching are strongly connected and aligned. “Disruptive innovation and the advancement of the Sharing Economy continue to radically change the world around us and the competitive landscape across multiple industries. I like to use my research to inform the students about these relevant and cutting-edge issues.”
Oksana’s research has been presented at multiple conferences and institutions around the world. Her work has been published across a range of academic outlets as well as featured as book chapters and cases studies, receiving several awards and prizes such as the Best Paper Award and the Best Case Award.
Recent general press publications and expert opinion on Covid-19 and the Sharing Economy on the BBC and EIX:
Sharing Apps are Booming but will the Kindness Continue? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57981598
The Pandemic's Impact on Digital Platform Businesses https://eiexchange.com/content/the-pandemics-impact-on-digital-platform?search=gerwe
Is the Sharing Economy Over? https://eiexchange.com/content/is-the-sharing-economy-over?
Qualifications
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Responsibility
Oksana teaches modules on Competitive and Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Strategic Management. She has also delivered several specialised courses on the Sharing Economy, Collaborative Finance and Crowdfunding.
Newest selected publications
Gerwe, O. (2021) 'The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Accommodation Sharing Sector: Effects and Prospects for Recovery'. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 167. pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 0040-1625 Open Access Link
Alansari, H., Gerwe, O. and Razzaque, A. (2021) 'Role of Artificial Intelligence During the Covid-19 Era', inStudies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing. , 974. pp. 157 - 173.
Gerwe, O., Silva, R. and De Castro, J. (2020) 'Entry of Providers onto a Sharing Economy Platform: Macro-level Factors and Social Interaction'. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. pp. 104225872090340 - 104225872090340. ISSN: 1042-2587 Open Access Link
Silva Froján, R. and Gerwe, O. (2019) 'Responses of Traditional Incumbents to the Entry of a Sharing Economy Platform'. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019 (1). pp. 14437 - 14437. ISSN: 0065-0668
Gerwe, O. and Silva, R. (2019) 'GOING FOR A RIDE: ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEYS IN THE ON-DEMAND TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. Case study', in Whittington, R., Régner, P., Angwin, D., Johnson, G. and Scholes, K. (eds.) Johnson Exploring Strategy_T&C_p12. , 12th edition. ISBN 10: 1292282452.