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Amba Maria van Erkelens is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam specializing in management and organization. She obtained her PhD from the same university in 2025 and has completed a Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, as well as a Research Master in Business Society at VU UvA. Her research interests include Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and Circular Entrepreneurship, focusing on the resilience of social entrepreneurs in times of crisis and the ways circular entrepreneurs create value networks to establish sustainable business models. She employs ethnographic fieldwork as a primary method in her research. Additionally, Van Erkelens teaches courses on Organization Theory, Academic Skills, and Academic Paper writing, and supervises Bachelor Theses. Her work is recognized for its practical implications, often inspired by real-world entrepreneurship challenges.
Administered under the Department of Clinical Psychology for Master's in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology.