Victor Martin-Sanchez is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Business and Management at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and a Part-time Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (CBS).


Before joining SDU, Victor was an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at King's Business School - King's College London (UK). He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA).


Victor’s research focuses on understanding entrepreneurial behavior and performance in international and institutionally diverse contexts. His work integrates insights from entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy to examine how entrepreneurs’ human capital, cognitive attributes, and strategic orientations influence growth aspirations, innovation, and internationalization decisions.

A key objective of his research is to explain how individual-level entrepreneurial characteristics interact with heterogeneous institutional configurations to shape venture trajectories. By adopting a comparative and multi-level perspective, his work sheds light on why entrepreneurial outcomes vary across countries and contexts, and how entrepreneurs adapt their strategies in response to institutional constraints and opportunities.


Victor's research has been published in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, and Journal of Banking & Finance.


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