Petya Koleva
Petya Koleva
- Job title
- Assistant Professor - Edinburgh Business School
- k.petya@hw.ac.uk
- Role
- Assistant Professor - Edinburgh Business School
- Section
- School of Social Sciences
- k.petya@hw.ac.uk
About
Dr. Petya Koleva is an Assistant Professor in Strategy & Enterprise at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. She teaches courses related to strategic change, innovation and entrepreneurship, and research methods. Dr. Koleva offers dissertation supervision to undergraduate and postgraduate students, including PhD and DBA supervision.
Biography
Academic Leadership and Affiliations:
Global Course Leader for C11SH Strategic Change
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
- Chair of the Best Book Award Committee of the Academy of Management
Qualifications:
- 2016 - PhD (Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility)
University of Bedfordshire Business School, (UK)
- 2012 - MSc in International Business and Management (Commendations)
University of Bedfordshire Business School (UK)
- 2010 - BSc in International Relations (Distinction)
Free University of Varna Chernorizets Hrabar (Bulgaria)
- 2005 - College Degree in Accounting and Finance (Distinction)
John Atanasoff School of Economics, (Bulgaria)
Research
CSR in the Middle East, institutional theory, stakeholder theory, religion, grounded theory.
Publications
Koleva, P., (forthcoming). Conceptualization of Modern Slavery in a Non-Western Context. In Sidani Y. Routledge Handbook on Business and Management in the Middle
Koleva, P., Meadows, M., Elmasry, A. (2023). The Influence of Islam in Shaping Organisational Socially Responsible Behaviour. Business Ethics: The Environment and Responsibility, 32(3), pp.1001-1019. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12529
Quinn, K. and Koleva, P. (2023). Book review: Jason Wicks, the price of profit: Rethinking corporate social responsibility. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 12(2), 259–
Koleva, P. (2023) Critical Analysis of Grounded Theory Strategy in Organisational and Management Studies. Qualitative Research Journal, 23(3), pp.258-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-08-2022-0118
Koleva, P. and Meadows, M. (2021). Inherited Scepticism and Neo-Communist CSR-Washing: Evidence from a Post-Communist Society. For the Special Issue in Ethics and Management in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Business Ethics DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04929-7.
Koleva, P. (2021). Towards the Development of an Empirical Model for Islamic Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from the Middle East. Journal of Business Ethics, 171 (4), pp. 789–813 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04465-w
Koleva, P. (2018) A Systematic Review on Corporate Social Responsibility Literature in the Middle East: Conceptual Gaps and Challenges. In Idowu, S.O., Sitnikov, C., Simion, D., Bocean, C.G. (Eds.) Current Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility: An International Consideration, Springer
Koleva, P., Ocler, R. (2018) Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Construct a Substantive Theory for Corporate Social Responsibility. In Idowu, S.O., Sitnikov, C., Simion, D., Bocean, C.G. (Eds.) Current Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility: An International Consideration, Springer
Koleva, P. and Roomi, M. A. (2015). Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz: How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World. Society and Business Review, 10(2), pp. 194 – 199 https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-02-2015-0003
Koleva, P. and Chukov, V. (2011) West European Islam. Sofia: East-West
Koleva, P. (2010). Europe, the promised land of the Muslim Brotherhood. Journal for Geopolicy, Geostrategy and Analyses, 2010 (4), pp. 60-81.
Research Funds
Negri, M., Kauffman, M. and Ossei, C. Omar, M., Koleva, P., (2019). “Research Links: Workshop”, Coventry University and Centro Universitário de Maringá, Brazil (accepted), £125,000.