Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  carst.alexandra.6jkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Sep. 2024, To Present

  Academic Association for Organizational Studies (AAOS)
• From Jul. 2023, To Present

  Strategic Management Society (SMS)
• From Jan. 2022, To Present

  Academy of Management (AOM)
• From Oct. 2021, To Present

  Nordic Research School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NORSI)
• From Dec. 2020, To Present

  International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)

Academic Degree

• 21 Aug. 2023

  PhD in Business and Management, Aalborg University
• 29 Jun. 2018

  Master's in International Business and Chinese, University of Southern Denmark

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• University of Southern Denmark, Master's in International Business and Chinese, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• University of Southern Denmark, Bachelor's in Business, Language, and Culture (Chinese), 卒業

Research History

• From May 2024, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Management, Senior Lecturer

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0003-0623-4572

• J-Global ID

  202401009798247606

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/AlexandraECarst

Research

Research Topics, Overview of the research

• Research Topics

  innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial ecosystems, sustainability, green tech, interaction dynamics, competition, complementarity

Research Interests

• innovation ecosystems
• entrepreneurial ecosystems
• sustainability
• green tech
• interaction dynamics
• coopetition
• complementarity

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Business administration

Papers

• How Complementors Deal with Complement Challenges: A Comparative Study of Ports in the Wind Energy Ecosystem

  Alexandra Elena Carst; Ping Lv

  International Journal of Technology Management, 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  Industry and Innovation, 10 Jun. 2024

  
• Complementors as ecosystem actors: a systematic review

  Alexandra Elena Carst; Yimei Hu

  Management Review Quarterly, Aug. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  

Misc.

• Advancing CCUS: Insights from Academic Research

  Alexandra Elena Cars; Louise Brøns Kringelum; Yariv Taran

  22 Apr. 2024, Lead author

  

Presentations

• Exploring Green Entrepreneurship: Clarifying Conceptual Overlaps and Distinctions with Sustainability-Related Entrepreneurship

  Alexandra Elena Carst, Jin-ichiro Yamada

  ACERE Conference 2025

  
• The influence of Japanese cultural values on green entrepreneurship

  Alexandra Elena Carst, Jin-ichiro Yamada

  ISPIM Connects Osaka, 03 Dec. 2024

  
• Green Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review

  Alexandra Elena Carst; Jin-ichiro Yamada

  Academic Association of Organizational Science (AAOS) Annual Meeting 2025 （Special International Research Session）, 28 Sep. 2024

  
• Green Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  IIR Innovation Research Workshop 2024 (Hitotsubashi University), 29 Aug. 2024

  
• Dealing with interaction challenges in innovation ecosystems: unfolding complementors’ capabilities

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, 12 Aug. 2024

  
• Complementors’ capabilities in innovation ecosystems: dealing with interaction challenges in the wind energy ecosystem

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  DRUID23, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, 10 Jun. 2023

  
• Complementors’ capabilities in innovation ecosystem: dealing with complex interactions in the wind energy ecosystem

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  DRUID Academy Conference, Aalborg University, Aalborg, 12 Jan. 2023

  
• Complementors’ dynamic interactions in wind energy ecosystem

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) Research Forum, Orlando, 12 Nov. 2022

  
• Complementors’ dynamic interactions in wind energy ecosystem: evolution and trends

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  NORSI Research School Conference 2022, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, 21 Apr. 2022

  
• Complementors’ dynamic interactions in innovation ecosystem: a wind energy study

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  ISPIM 2021 (International Society of Professional Innovation Management), Valencia, 30 Nov. 2021

  
• Complementors as ecosystem actors: a systematic review and research agenda

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  ISPIM 2020, Digital, 07 Dec. 2020

  
• The interplay between cooperation and competition in innovation ecosystems

  Alexandra Elena Carst

  CICALICS 2020, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 27 Aug. 2020

  

Media Coverage

• COOPERATION | The tough existence of complementors (SAMARBETE | Komplementärernas tuffa tillvaro)

  Interview with Maria Gustafsson, esbri (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute), https://esbri.se/samarbete-komplementarernas-tuffa-tillvaro/, Oct. 2023, Internet

  

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Critical Issues in Entrepreneurship

  A688, Spring, Graduate School of Economics, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Critical Issues in Entrepreneurship

  6742, Spring, Graduate School of Management, 2