Contact Dr Oksana Koryak
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754805
- Email: Oksana.Koryak@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Dr. Oksana Koryak is the Programme Director for the MSc in Management and Entrepreneurship and has over 25 years of combined academic and industry experience. Oksana is a Chartered Financial Analyst with a PhD in Management from IE Business School in Madrid and a MSc in Finance from the University of Amsterdam Business School.
Prior to entering academia, Oksana held various client-facing roles in corporate and investment banking for nearly a decade. During that time, she originated and executed complex leveraged buyout and project finance transactions, and her last industry role was as a Vice President in Leveraged Finance. In this position, she closely interacted with senior management of her client firms and with financial investors.
Before joining the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Oksana conducted research into entrepreneurial leadership, capability development, and growth in the SME sector at the Enterprise Research Centre at Warwick Business School, as part of a research project part-funded by ESRC. Prior to that, Oksana was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Programme Management at Cranfield, where she conducted research into the managerial decision-making process underlying the design and execution of strategic change initiatives.
Current activities
Oksana's research interests centre on decision making and cognition in the field of entrepreneurship as well as on growth, leadership and capability development in SMEs. Her work has been published in the Research Policy, the International Small Business Journal, the Journal of Private Equity and the Journal of Enterprise Information Management. Oksana has presented her research at the leading academic conferences including the Academy of Management and the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Lorenzo Ochoa O, Claes B, Koryak O & Diaz A. (2017). Integration through orchestration. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 30(4)
- Koryak O, Lockett A, Hayton JC, Nicolaou N & Mole KF. (2016). Disentangling the Antecedents of Ambidexterity: Exploration and Exploitation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1)
- Koryak O, Mole KF, Lockett A, Hayton JC, Ucbasaran D, .... (2015). Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 33(1)
- Koryak O & Smolarski J. (2008). Perception of Risk by Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms. The Journal of Private Equity, 11(2)
Conference Papers
- Yaqzan S, Hussels S & Koryak O. (2022). Leveraging social media for accrual of entrepreneurs' social capital
- Portyanko S, Koryak O, Reinmoeller P & Hussels S. (2020). A qualitative inquiry of the effect of interactions with entrepreneurial peers on individuals’ entrepreneurial intentions
- Koryak O, Lockett A, Hayton J, Nicolaou N & Mole K. (2018). Disentangling the antecedents of ambidexterity: Exploration and exploitation
- Lorenzo O, Koryak O & Claes B. (2015). Resource Orchestration at Banesco: Riding the Volatility Wave
- Hussels S, Koryak O, Reinmoeller P & Tobias J. (2014). Weathering the storms: Unpacking Entrepreneurs' Resilience Using Repertory Grid Technique
- Hussels S, Koryak O & Reinmoeller P. (2014). Weathering the storms: identifying attributes of entrepreneurs’ resilience using repertory grid technique
- Diaz A, Lorenzo O, Claes B & Koryak O. (2013). Inventory Practices and Enterprise Systems as Complementary Capabilities in Supply Chain Integration
- Koryak O, Hussels S & Kutsch E. (2012). Resource Orchestration: Internal Governance as a Mechanism of Synchronization
- Claes BP, Koryak O, Diaz A & Lorenzo O. (2012). The role of trust and control in co-exploration and co-exploitation buyer-supplier relationships
- Koryak O & de Castro J. (2010). The Role of Centrality in Investment Decisions of Venture Capital Firms
- Koryak O & de Castro J. (2010). The Role of Fundraising in Investment Decisions of Venture Capital Firms
- Koryak O. (2008). The Role of Agency in VC Decision Making
- Koryak O & de Castro J. (2008). A behavioral model of risk taking by VC firms
- Koryak O, de Castro J & Nuñez L. (2007). Risk taking by venture capital firms: a behavioral perspective
- Koryak O & Nuñez L. (2006). Risk taking by venture capital firms: a behavioral perspective
- Koryak O & Smolarski J. (2006). Perception of risk by venture capital and private equity firms: a European perspective