Dr Elisa Alt

Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Planning

Location: 3rd Floor, Lord Ashcroft Building, Cambridge
Room: LAB 322

UK: 0845 196 5039
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 5039
Email: elisa.alt@anglia.ac.uk

Elisa Alt is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Strategy and Planning at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, and a Visiting Researcher at Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil). At Anglia Ruskin, she teaches Strategic Management at both undergraduate and MBA levels.

Elisa received a PhD and a Postgraduate Diploma (DEA) in Management from the University of Seville (Spain), and was a Visiting PhD student at the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University (UK). During her doctoral studies, Elisa was the recipient of a PhD grant from the AlBan Programme - the European Union High Level Scholarship Programme for Latin America. She is a member of the Academy of Management, ONE (Organisations and the Natural Environment) and SIM (Social Issues in Management) divisions since 2009.

Prior to starting her academic career, Elisa completed a BA (Hons) in Social Communication at UNIVALI (Brazil), and worked as copywriter and creativity department director in small advertising agencies in Brazil. She managed multiple projects and contributed to the creative development of communication concepts, advertising campaigns, as well as marketing planning.

Research interests:

Business sustainability
Social intrapreneurship
Strategic management

Selected conferences and presentations

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Alt, E., & Spitzeck, H. 2013. Organizational citizenship behaviors and environmental performance. Paper accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, USA.
Alt, E., & Spitzeck, H. 2012. How can organizations leverage the potential of social intrapreneurs? Paper presented at the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy, Filzbach, Switzerland.
Alt, E., & Spitzeck, H. 2011. Perceived organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the environment: The relationship with environmental performance. Paper presented at the PhD Sustainability Academy (Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability), Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Spitzeck, H., & Alt, E. 2011. Explaining social intrapreneurship: The impact of the organisational environment. Paper presented at the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Annual Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.
Alt, E., Díez de Castro, E. P., & Lloréns-Montes, F. J. 2011. The impact of stakeholders' influence strategies on environmental performance: A moderated mediation model. Paper presented at the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, Leeds, UK.
Alt, E., Díez de Castro, E. P., & Lloréns-Montes, F. J. 2009. Environmental practices and environmental and financial performance: Exploring the moderating effects of internal and external forces. Paper presented at the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) PhD Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Case study

Alt, E., & Spitzeck, H. 2013. Social Intrapreneurship at Natura. Cranfield School of Management.

Practitioner publication

Grayson, D., Spitzeck, H., Alt, E., & McLaren, M. 2013. Creating sustainable businesses through social intrapreneurism. Cranfield School of Management.
Spitzeck, H., Hansen, E. G., & Alt, E. 2011. Impactos do engajamento das empresas com seus stakeholders [Impacts of companies' engagement with stakeholders]. Dom, 15: 28-33 [FDC Executive Education magazine].