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Research News
Gill Bentley has been awarded a grant of £11,000 from the ISBE/RAKE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Research and Knowledge Exchange) Fund 2015 for a project entitled 'The Institutional Anchoring of Devolution Deals: Implications for Small Firms and Local Economies'. PI - Professor John Shutt (Leeds Beckett University); CoI Gill Bentley; CoI Professor Lee Pugalis (University of Technology Sydney). Sponsors of the RAKE fund are ISBE, ESRC, Lloyds Banking Group, Federation of Small Businesses and the British Academy of Management. Given that Devolution Deals offer the scope to develop tailored enterprise programmes with enhanced flexibilities to address the needs of small firms specific to institutional environments, the principal aim of this 18 month research project is to examine the institutional anchoring of Devolution Deals and analyse the roles performed by small firms to help realise greater entrepreneurial synergies in places.
Andy Hodder has won research funding (£10,000) from the Trades Union Congress to examine the attitudes of young workers to work, trade unions and activism. The project builds upon Andy’s earlier work in this area and adds to both academic and practitioner understanding of the complex relationship between unions and young workers.
Paulina Ramirez, Rachel Mulhall, Simon Adderley and Max Nathan in collaboration with the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and Spacio Dati (an Italian company that works with Big Data and the Semantic Web) have won research funding from the Department of Business innovation and Skills (BIS) to map 'Industrial Clusters in England' using multiple research methodologies. A total of £24,748 of the total funds have been allocated to the Birmingham team.
Mark Saunders has been talking about the benefits of business engagement for his research, and how you can go about it (https://www.cossstrategicframework.bham.ac.uk/index.php/resources/business-engagement-be/sme-success-winning-new-business/) If you’d like to discuss how your research could benefit from business collaboration or funding, please speak to Andy Newnham, Business Engagement Partner, a.newnham@bham.ac.uk
Reviewer news
Congratulations to Inci Toral, who received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the ABS 3* journal Information Technology & People.
Paul Lewis has joined the ESRC Peer Review College, beginning a four year term in late 2015.
Conferences
In November 2015, Mark Saunders gave a keynote address on "Trust and distrust: symmetrical or distinct and independent?" at the Trust and Distrust in a Digitised World Autumn Doctoral School, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster and also ran two workshops on "Qualitative methods for researching trust and distrust".
Publications
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Agnieszka Chidlow's paper titled " Translation in cross-language international business research:Beyond equivalence" had been listed as one of the most influential research outputs concerning language in the Journal of International Business Studies, a world elite journal in the international business field. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/collections/language/index.html
Agnieszka Chidlow and Pervez Ghauri's paper titled: "What Incentives are being used by International Business researchers in their surveys? A review". was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: ERN: Collection of Data in Microeconometrics (Topic): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2561534.
Pervez Ghauri has co-edited the Handbook of Research on International Entrepreneurship Strategy with V.H. Manek Kirpalani, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada and Honorary Professor, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. This impressive Handbook provides a dynamic perspective on the international entrepreneurial strategies of SMEs, including the role and experience of their founders, as well as the collaboration of these SMEs in networks with larger firms. The expert contributors from all over the world and the editors explore the origin and evolution of internationalizing SMEs, the changing history and the future outlook of this sector. They study the effects of different cultures on the origin and growth of entrepreneurship and SMEs. The Handbook also outlines the various types of Born Globals that emerge from different parts of the world.
Andy Hodder and David Houghton have published an article examining trade union use of social media in New Technology, Work and Employment:
- Hodder, A. and Houghton, D. (2015) ‘Union use of social media: a study of the University and College Union on Twitter’, New Technology, Work and Employment, 30 (3): 173-189.
Sheena Leek and David Houghton have published an article in Industrial Marketing Management:
- Leek, S., Canning, L. and Houghton, D. (2016) ‘Revisiting the Task Media Fit Model in the era of Web 2.0: Twitter use and interaction in the healthcare sector’, Industrial Marketing Management, doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.12.007
Yipeng Liu has published a book and journal article:
- Wang, H. & Liu, Y. (eds) (2016) Entrepreneurship and Talent Management from a Global Perspective: Global Returnees. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/entrepreneurship-and-talent-management-from-a-global-perspective
- Xing, Y., & Liu, Y. (2015). Poetry and Leadership in Light of Ambiguity and Logic of Appropriateness. Management and Organization Review, 11 (4), 763 – 793.
Andy Lymer writes a quarterly article for the Chartered Institute of Taxation members magazine (imaginatively titled ‘Tax Adviser’) which aims to provide something of a bridge between academic interests in tax (research and education) and those of the professional tax practitioner. His latest article has just been published on the work he led last year with the team in the CHASM Research Centre on current public attitudes to the UK tax system (more on this work can be found here). The article asks the question do we have a suitably informed public debate about how the tax system operates in the UK? See the article online at: Public attitudes to tax – who cares? | Tax Adviser
Mark Saunders has published the following book chapter:
- Saunders MNK, Gray D, Tosey P and Sadler-Smith E (2015) ‘Concepts and theory building’ In L Anderson, J Stewart, R Thorpe and J Gold (eds) The handbook of professional doctorates in Business and Management London: Sage 35-56