Research and publications 

Research philosophy

• My research includes both conceptual and empirical work. 

• I mainly work with qualitative, or mixed-methodological approaches. 

• Research topics and projects are typically interdisciplinary. 

Recent publications (2020-present)

2026

• Duc, A.N., Leick, B., Laur, I. (2026). Caught in the fast lane: How AI start-ups manage tensions regarding speed, regulation, and talent gaps. In: Deshmukh, V. et al. (Eds.). Sustainable Development and Business Transformation. Springer Nature (in press).  

• Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Makkonen, T. (2026). Sustainability and The Rural Enterprise Economy: Economic, Environmental and Social Transformation. Routledge (in press, due September 2025).

• Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Makkonen, T. (2026). Sustainability and The Rural Enterprise Economy: Introduction. In: Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Makkonen, T. (Eds.). Sustainability and The Rural Enterprise Economy: Economic, Environmental and Social Transformation. Part 1. Routledge (in press, due September 2025).

• Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Makkonen, T. (2026). Sustainability and The Rural Enterprise Economy: Conclusions and Implications. In: Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Makkonen, T. (Eds.). Sustainability and The Rural Enterprise Economy: Economic, Environmental and Social Transformation. Part 6. Routledge (in press, due September 2025).

2025

• Weidenstedt, L.; Palmtag, E.L.; Leick, B.; Cropley, M. (2025). Stressed or happy – or both? Nuancing gig workers' experiences with platform work. Economic and Industrial Democracy (accepted).

• Leick, B.; Tuitjer, G. (2025). Relevance and rigour with qualitative entrepreneurship research: A literature-review based discussion. In: Entrepreneurship Research Journal. Online first. DOI: 10.1515/erj-2024-0089.

• Leick, B.; Köstner, E. (2025). Imposter syndrome and genuine imposterism in academic leadership: A conceptual perspective. In: Rahman, M.; Koolmon, G.; Shaikh, S. I.; Munna, A. S. (Eds.). Optimizing Leadership and Governance in Higher Education. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 137-171.

• Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Jebsen, S. (2025). Engagement and participation of stakeholders in regional development projects and the emergence of bridging and bonding social capital. In: Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 36(2), 42871. DOI: 10.31083/MRev42871.

2024

• Gretzinger, S.; Royer, S.; Leick, B. (2024). Value capture in IoT-driven business models: Considerations about smart resources and isolating mechanisms in networked environments. In: Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 39, 10, pp. 2155-2170. DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-07-2023-0382. 

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Zhang, J.; Yeasmin, F.; Vilhjálmsdóttir, V.; Gunnardsdóttir, G. Th. (2024), Airbnb hosts and their contribution to sustainability through entrepreneurship and consumption: Research gaps and an exploratory study in Nordic tourist destinations. In: García-Almeida, D. J., Gunnarsdóttir, G. Th., Jóhannesson, G. Th. (eds.). Tourism Entrepreneurship: Knowledge and Challenges for a Sustainable Future. Palgrave McMillan, pp. 87-108.

• Cederholm, E.A.; Helgadottir, G.; Leick, B.; Sigurðardóttir, I. (2024), Relational work in rural tourism enterprising: navigating in-between the formal and the informal. In: García-Almeida, D. J., Gunnarsdóttir, G. Th., Jóhannesson, G. Th. (eds.). Tourism Entrepreneurship: Knowledge and Challenges for a Sustainable Future. Palgrave McMillan, pp. 109-126.

• Leick, B.; Mitchell, S. B.; Borowiecki, K. J.; Vinogradov, E.; Gunnarsdottir, G. R.; Zhang, J.; Gretzinger, S.; Vilhjalmsdottir, V. (2024). Professionalisation and performance of Airbnb hosts in rural regions. In: International Journal of Hospitality Management, 118, 103680. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103680. 

• Leick, B.; Leßmann, G.; Ströhl, A.; Pargent, T. (2024). Place-based entrepreneurs and their competitiveness: A relational perspective on small regional banks. In: Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 36, 1, pp. 75-107. DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1836463. 

• Gretzinger, S.; Leick, B.; Dyhr Ulrich, A.M. (2024), Social-exchange versus economic exchange driven processes: The emergence of peer-to-peer start-up business models in Denmark. In: Baumann, S. (ed.). Handbook on Digital Platforms and Ecosystems in Manufacturing, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 55-70. 

• Leick, B.; Kivedal, B.K.; Eklund, M.A. (2024), Complement or competition? Airbnb-based tourism and local housing markets in four Norwegian cities. In: Kock, F., Lindgreen, A., & Markovic, S. (eds.). Research Handbook on Tourism, Complexity and Uncertainty, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 190-207.

• Weidenstedt, L.; Geissinger, A.; Leick, B.; Nabeel, N. (2024), Betwixt and between: Triple liminality and 'liminal agency' in migrant gig work. Environment and Planning A, 56, 4, pp.1280-1297. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X231172984.

2023

• Leick, B.; Duc, A. N. (2023). Translating mission-driven sustainability values into a value-creating business model: The Norwegian start-up Ducky AS. In: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. DOI: 10.1177/14657503231213304.

• Leick, B., Gunnarsdottir, G. T., Vilhjalmsdottir, V., Gretzinger, S., Borowiecki, K. J., Mitchell, S. B., Vinogradov, E., Fabritius, M. K., Zhang, J. (2023b). The impact of Airbnb hosts on Arctic local economies: Consumption patterns, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Project report for the Nordic Council of Ministers (Arctic Cooperation Programme, Grant number A81201). University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø.

• Duc, A. N.; Leick, B. (2023), Digital technologies and sustainability paradoxes – an empirical study of a Norwegian media group. In: Gupta, V. et al. (eds.). Sustainability in Software Engineering and Business Information Management: Proceedings of the Conference SSEBIM 2021. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, volume 62, pp.53-62. Springer Nature, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32436-9_5.

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Roddvik, I.N. (2023), Creative entrepreneurs and embeddedness in non-urban places: A resource exchange and network embeddedness logic. In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 29, 5, pp. 1133-1157. DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-07-2022-0606. 

• Roddvik, I.N.; Leick, B. (2023), Illusion and deprivation of control: Entrepreneurial practices of SMEs during their internationalisation in Russia. In: Jafari-Sadeghi, V., & Dana, L-P. (eds.). International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Contexts, Behaviours, and Successful Entry. Routledge, London, pp. 297-315.

• Roddvik, I.N.; Leick, B.; Gundersen, R. (2023), Entrepreneurial decision-making and the hunt for the "right" internationalisation strategy with a state-owned enterprise. In: Jafari-Sadeghi, V., & Mahdiraji, H. A. (eds.). Decision-Making in International Entrepreneurship: Unveiling Cognitive Implications Towards Entrepreneurial Internationalisation. Emerald, Bingley, pp. 119-135.  

2022

• Gundersen, R.; Leick, B.  (2022). The Case of USN Business School Campus Bø – The Small Rural Player in Applied Entrepreneurship Education and Academic Entrepreneurship in Norway, In: Eklund, M.A.; Wanzenried, G. (eds), Educational and Academic Entrepreneurship: Foundations in Theory and Lessons from Practice, Springer Cham, pp. 121-136. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10952-2_10.

• Eklund, M.A.; Leick, B. (2022), Theories related to academic and educational entrepreneurship, In: Eklund, M.A.; Wanzenried, G. (eds), Educational and Academic Entrepreneurship: Foundations in Theory and Lessons from Practice, Springer Cham, pp. 9-14. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10952-2_2.

• Cropley, M.; Weidenstedt, L.; Leick, B.; Sütterlin, S. (2022). Working from home during lockdown: The association between rest breaks and wellbeing. In: Ergonomics, 66, 4, pp. 443-453. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2022.2095038.

• Roddvik, I.N.; Leick, B.; Roddvik, V. (2022). Norwegian entrepreneurs (1880-1930s) and their “New America”: A historical perspective on transnational entrepreneurship and ecosystem development in the Russian Arctic. In: Journal of Management History, 28, 4, pp.530-552. DOI: 10.1108/JMH-11-2021-0067.

• Leick, B.; Falk, M.T.; Eklund, M.A.; Vinogradov, E. (2022). Individual and contextual determinants of service provision through the platform-based collaborative economy. In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 38, 4, pp.853-877. DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-09-2020-0585.

• Leick, B.; Leßmann, G.; Ströhl, A.; Pargent, T. (2022), Competitive strategies of incumbent small regional banks in rural locations, In: Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (eds.), The Rural Enterprise Economy, Routledge, London. pp. 72-87.

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (2022), Introduction to The Rural Enterprise Economy, In: Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (eds),  The Rural Enterprise Economy, Routledge, London. pp. 3-16.

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (2022), The Rural Enterprise Economy: Conclusions and Implications, In: Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (eds),  The Rural Enterprise Economy, Routledge, London. pp. 237-244.

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S.; Makkonen, T. (2022), The Rural Enterprise Economy, Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry, Routledge, London. ISBN: 9780367471873.

• Leick, B.; Kivedal, B.K.; Eklund, M.A.; Vinogradov, E. (2022). Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets. In: Tourism Economics, 28, 5, pp. 1258-1279. DOI: 10.1177/1354816621990173. 

2021

• Eklund, M.A.; Eklund, A.; Leick, B. (2021). An essay on the effect of web-based platforms and supplemental instruction in accounting education. In: Strømmen-Bakhtiar, A.;  Suzen, E.;  Helde, R. (eds.), Supplemental Instruction. Volume 2: Student Learning Processes. Waxmann Publishers, Muenster. pp. 103-122.

• Leick, B.; Schewe, T.; Kivedal, B.K. (2021). Tourism development and border asymmetries: An exploratory analysis of market-driven cross-border shopping tourism. In: Tourism Planning & Development, 18, 6, pp. 673-698. DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2020.1837230.

• Vinogradov, E.; Leick, B.; Assadi, D. (2021). Digital Entrepreneurship and The Sharing Economy. Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship, Routledge, New York. ISBN: 9780367472405.

• Rataj, M.; Leick, B. (2021). Book review on 'Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Aging (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)', by Mikaela Backman (Author, Editor), Charlie Karlsson (Editor), Orsa Kekezi (Editor), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 448 pp. In: Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 34, 1, pp. 235-239. DOI: 10.3917/jie.034.0235.

• Dyhr Ulrich, A.M.; Gretzinger, S.; Hollensen, S.; Leick, B. (2021). Understanding incubation during foreign market entry: Lessons learnt from an illustrative Danish case study. In: Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 36, 11, pp. 2074-2085. DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-05-2019-0198.

• Leick, B.; Eklund, M.A.; Gretzinger, S. , Dyhr Ulrich, A.M. (2021). Regional sharing-economy entrepreneurs and the diversity of their business models. In: Vinogradov, E., Leick, B., Assadi, D. (eds.), Digital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy, Routledge, New York, pp. 15-33.

• Vinogradov, E.; Leick, B.; Assadi, D. (2021). Introduction. In: Vinogradov, E., Leick, B., Assadi, D. (eds.), Digital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-12.

• Leick, B., Eklund, M.A. (2021). Digital entrepreneurship as innovative entrepreneurship. In: Uzunidis, D.; Kasmi, F.; Adatto, L. (eds.), Handbook on Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management 2: Special Themes, Wiley ISTE, London, pp. 121-128.  

2020

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S. (2020). Knowledge-sharing for business cluster and business network contexts. In: Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 33, 3, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.3917/jie.033.0001.

• Leick, B.; Gretzinger, S. (2020). Business Networking in Organisationally thin Regions: A Case Study on Network Brokers, SMEs and Knowledge-Sharing. In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 27, 5, pp. 839-861. DOI: 10.1108/JSBED-12-2019-0393. 

• Makkonen, T.; Leick, B. (2020). Locational Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in Border Regions. In: European Planning Studies, 28, 10, pp. 2078-2098. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1705765. 

• Leick, B. (2020). Institutional entrepreneurs as change agents in rural-peripheral regions? In: Döringer, S.; Eder, J. (eds.), Schlüsselakteure der Regionalentwicklung. Welche Perspektiven bietet Entrepreneurship für ländliche Räume? ISR Forschungsbericht. Band 51. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, pp. 23-35.

• Vinogradov, E.; Kivedal, B.K.; Leick, B. (2020). An agent-based modelling approach to housing market regulation and Airbnb-induced tourism. In: Tourism Management, 77, 104004. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104004.

• Leick, B.; Eklund, M.A.; Kivedal, B.K. (2020). Digital entrepreneurs in the sharing economy: a case study on Airbnb and regional economic development in Norway. In: Strømmen-Bakhtiar, A.; Vinogradov, E. (eds.). The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Business and Society: From Gig Economy to Financial Services,  Routledge, pp. 69-88.