Dr Gloria Kutscher is a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Southampton Business School.
She conducts research on how organisations and individual actors make sense of and respond to different forms of hardship in ways that lead to personal growth and positive social change.
Gloria's research addresses hardship in two ways. First, it examines how organisations working to alleviate societal challenges like refugee crises and poverty create and uphold shared values. Second, it examines how individuals’ own setback experiences inform their career and entrepreneurial growth. By focussing how these actors notice, make meaning of, and respond to hardship, her research contributes to organisational theories of sensemaking, values and emotions, and institutional change.
Before joining Southampton Business School, Gloria was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business.
Prior to coming to Aalto, Gloria completed her PhD in Management at WU Vienna in 2018, and was a Faculty member at WU’s Department of Management.