Biography
Kata Isenring is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship research unit at the Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics. She completed her PhD in Management at the University of St.Gallen. With an academic background in political science and international relations, her research takes a systemic view of institutions as embedded in broader societal and market structures. Her work has evolved from studying macro-level phenomena such as market evolution and industry development to exploring meso- and micro-level dynamics, including between- and within-group heterogeneity in social evaluations. Her current research agenda focuses on three interconnected themes: audiences as drivers of market dynamics, organizational adaptiveness in evolving markets, and the intersection of organization theory and grand societal challenges. Following her PhD, Kata worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, obtained the JYU 2025 Visiting Fellow Grant and spent three months at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and continued her contributions to the University of St.Gallen’s long-running study of the Swiss private banking industry.