Expertise
Dr. Constanze Eib is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics. Her research centers on organizational justice, occupational health, and the well-being of entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals, managers and employees. With a PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, Dr. Eib offers valuable insights for students interested in Organizational Behavior, workplace well-being, and entrepreneurship.
Research Areas:
- Fairness at Work / Organizational Justice: Looking at managers and employees
- Psychology of Entrepreneurs, Solo Self-Employed, Well-Being and Fairness of Entrepreneurs
- Organizational Behavior, Work and Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health and Well-Being
Current Projects:
Project Lead "Psychological Testing and Labor Market Outcomes" (IFAU)
Project Member "Gig project" (Forte)
Project Member "NOWSTARS" (Forte)
Brief CV:
2010 Psychology Degree, Heidelberg University
2011 Research Assistant, Surrey University
2015 PhD in Psychology, Stockholm University
2015 Assistant Professor, Norwich Business School
2018 Associate Senior Professor (biträdande uni.lektor), Uppsala University
2022 Docent in Psychology
2022 Associate Professor, Uppsala University
2022 Researcher, Stockholm University
Selected Publications:
Eib, C., & Bernhard-Oettel, C. (2025). Does Fairness Matter? How Perceived Stakeholder Treatment Shapes Solo Entrepreneurs’ Well-Being and Performance. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.
Eib, C. & Weidenstedt, L. (2025). Tech-entrepreneurs' psychological contracts with their institutional environment: Insights from Sweden. Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Eib, C., Hellgren, J., Falkenberg, H., & Sverke, M. (2025). What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice? Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context. Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Müller, F., Weidenstedt, L., Bernhard-Oettel, C., & Eib, C. (2025). Under ‘My’ Umbrella? Gig-Workers’ Perspectives on Crafting Career Sustainability as Employees in Swedish Umbrella Companies. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Eib, C., & Bernhard-Oettel, C. (2023). Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Perez-Luno, A., Wach, D., Barki, E., Benzari, A., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Boekhorst, J., Cabañas, M., Dash, A., Efendic, A., Eib, C., Hanard, P.-J., Iakovleva, T., Jun, L., Khalid, S., Kawakatsu, S., Leatherbee, M., Parker, S., Qu, J., Rosati, F., Sahasranamam, S., Sekiguchi, T., Thomas, N., Torrès, O., Ward, M. K., Williamson, A., Zahid, M. (2022). Agility or Wait-and-See? How the Covid-19 Crisis Impacts Entrepreneurs’ Businesses and Subjective Well-being across Countries. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Eib, C., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Leineweber, C., & Näswall, K. (2021). You can’t always get what you want: mechanisms and consequences of intra-organizational job change. International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Leineweber, C., Paraskevi, P., Bernhard-Oettel, C., & Eib, C. (2020). Is interpersonal justice related to group and organizational turnover? Results from a longitudinal cohort study. Social Science and Medicine.
Eib, C., Falkenberg, H., Hellgren, J., Malmrud, S., & Sverke, M. (2020). What helps managers being fair? Predicting managers’ self-reported justice enactment during pay setting using the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework. International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Soenen, G., Eib, C., & Torres, O. (2018). The cost of injustice: overall justice, emotional exhaustion, and performance among entrepreneurs: do founders fare better? Small Business Economics.
Eib, C., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Magnusson-Hanson, L., & Leineweber, C. (2018). Organizational justice and health: Studying mental preoccupation with work and social support as mediators for lagged and reversed relationships. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Eib, C., Blom, V., & von Thiele Schwarz, U. (2015). Don’t Let it Get to You!: A Moderated Mediated Approach to the (In)justice–Health Relationship. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Recent Book Chapters:
Gevaert, J., Almroth, M., Eib, C., & van der Zwan, P. (2025). From Margins to Mainstream? OHS Challenges in the solo self-employed workforce. In: Springer Handbook Series on Occupational Health Sciences – Volume 5: Occupational Health and Job Quality at the Margins of the Labour Market. Editors: Christophe Vanroelen, Lisa Seubert, Theo Bodin. Springer
Eib, C. (2024). Fairness at Work. In: Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology. Editor: Matthijs Bal. Edward Elgar.
Eib, C., & Cropanzano, R. S. (2024). Organizational justice and mental health. In: Mental Health at Work: How are we doing and where are we headed? Editors: Cary Cooper, Arla Day. Routledge.