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'Innovation Cluster' wins ESRC funding for research
Accounting and Finance published papers
Smart Welcome for incoming students
Evaluating co-operation in the Northern Periphery
New role for Professor Bedford
Best paper award at Academy of Marketing conference
Prolific author listing
International Academic Advisory Board appointment
Investing in an Uncertain Future
News from Academy of Management 2009
Gender pay reporting role
News mentions

'Innovation Cluster' wins ESRC funding for research
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Strathclyde Business School's EPRC and Management Science have been awarded ESRC funding for an exploratory project which aims to enhance understanding of innovation in peripheral, sparsely populated areas.
Led by Dr Sara Davies (EPRC) and Dr Jillian MacBryde (Management Science), this collaborative study will focus especially on 'hidden innovation' in sectors where innovation is linked to aspects of 'peripherality', such as alternative energies; wildlife/landscape tourism; food processing and marketing; and ICT usage in policy delivery by public sector bodies.
This is the first external funding won by SBS's emergent Innovation Cluster, which brings together researchers from SBS and other faculties as well as external researchers and stakeholders.
The project will examine the different aspects and spatial levels of connectivity that matter for innovation, how innovation in peripheral areas is shaped, and how the internal logics of innovation policies at EU, national and sub-national levels influence the capacity of policy-makers to support innovation in peripheral areas. In addition, the project aims to develop research approaches and methods that could be used in a more substantial future research programme on innovation in sectors where innovation is linked to aspects of being peripheral.

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Accounting and Finance published papers
The Department of Accounting and Finance's Professor Andrew Marshall and Dr Leilei Tang's paper, with Rubagus Maulana, entitled, "Estimation and Determinants of Emerging Market Country Risk and the Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH Model" has been accepted for publication in International Review of Financial Analysis.
Professor Jonathan Fletcher's paper with Dr Patricia Ntozi-Obwale entitled, "Exploring the conditional performance of UK unit trusts" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Services Research.

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Smart Welcome for incoming students
Strathclyde full time MBA students Enobong Ekanem, Fawad Backer and Obinna Nwosu, with the support of Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network, have founded SmartWelcome.com, a Glasgow-based social networking platform which enables migrants, students and workers new to Glasgow to integrate easily into the city.
The site provides access to live, active, local community networks and forums to facilitate any migrant's or student's transition into the city of Glasgow. Each forum on the site provides an avenue for individuals to share experiences, ask - and answer - questions and generally offer any help possible to people who are new in town. Forum participants will be able to provide - and in turn have access to – such information as city location maps, travel, shops, markets, part time jobs, banks and religious centres.
Current students, employees and migrants in Glasgow can register and login to the site and provide online advice to newcomers to the city.
"From my experience, many newcomers and international students are looking for a platform to ask advice from Glaswegians and international students already familiar in the city, and to give real reviews and information from their own experience and knowledge of the city, be it about neighbourhood restaurants, entertainment, advice on utility connections or searching for part time jobs," said Enobong Ekanem.
There are many Glasgow-based forums on different social networking sites, but this is a forum specifically developed for immigrants, newcomers and international students, said co-founder Obinna Nwosu. The aim is to expand the site to cover the whole of Scotland.
www.smartwelcome.com

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Evaluating co-operation in the Northern Periphery

EPRC has won a competitive tender to evaluate the 2007-13 Northern Periphery Programme, an EU-funded initiative to promote territorial co-operation among the Nordic countries, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Led by Dr Irene McMaster, the study will provide an external perspective on the programme with a view to improving and strengthening its performance, optimising the allocation of programme resources, and assisting the programme authorities to prepare future operations.
The research builds on the long-standing EPRC expertise on regional development in the peripheral regions of north-western Europe, and specifically evaluation and other research on the effectiveness and Dr Irene McMaster efficiency of trans-national co-operation initiatives.

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New role for Professor Bedford
Professor Tim Bedford (Management Science) has been named as Vice Dean of Research, and will take up the three year post as of September 1.

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Best paper award at Academy of Marketing conference
Professor Susan Hart, Dean, SBS and Dr Sena Ozdemir, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Essex Business School, were awarded Best Paper in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Marketing Track at the Academy of Marketing Conference July 2009. The paper was entitled, "Marketing capability, new product survival and new product development success: An exploration of relationships".

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Prolific author listing
Listed in the "Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature 1959-2008" are Accounting and Finance's Professor Jonathan Fletcher (no 421) with 15 publications and Professor Andrew Marshall (no 964) with 10 publications. This listing is a worldwide survey of 17,601 finance academics in 26 core finance journals. The average number of articles per author is 1.6. The paper listing the prolific authors was written by Jean L.Heck and Philip L.Cooley of Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University, and the study was based on published articles by more than 17,000 authors.

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International Academic Advisory Board appointment

Professor Susan Hart has been appointed as a Member of the International Academic Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Management (GSM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The International Academic Advisory Board comprises prominent academicians in their fields of expertise, with representation from Malaysia, USA, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. GSM was established a decade ago to support Malaysia’s national aim to enhance graduate-level management education. Having been nationally accorded the status of Top Business School of Malaysia in 2008, GSM supports UPM's vision of becoming a leading business school in the global stage.

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Investing in an Uncertain Future
SBS is leading an Institute for Advanced Studies programme called "Investing in an Uncertain Future". The first meeting, a methodology exchange, took place on July 30. About 30 people took part in the day in which a number of different SBS speakers – professors Kim Swales, Peter McGregor, Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann – presented methods in cost-benefit analysis, portfolio analysis, mapping and feedback. Alongside them were speakers from Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), St Andrews University, the Scottish Government, Manchester University and London School of Economics, covering other topics including robustness and expert judgement. The programme will continue with meetings from September 21-25 on "Valuations and Future Flexibility", then October 12-16 on "Developing Scenario Planning and Cost-Benefit Analysis." More details are available from Professor Tim Bedford at tim.bedford@strath.ac.uk

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News from Academy of Management 2009

Dr Viktor Dorfler of the Management Science Department attended the Academy of Management Annual Meeting from August 7-11 in Chicago. He presented a poster paper "Knowledge Levels: 3-D Model of the Levels of Expertise"; the paper introduces a conceptual model of knowledge levels and describes the characteristics of knowledge at the various levels. Dr Dorfler chaired the session "Knowledge, Expertise, Creativity and Innovation: Knowledge Related Processes"; the four papers of the session examined various aspects of creativity and how expertise can be successfully utilised in teamwork. He participated in the group "Intuition in Organisations", which is the first step of establishing a formal presence within AoM for people Dr Viktor Dorfler researching intuition. He also received an outstanding reviewer award from the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division.
Dr George Burt and Dr Tom Mullen (Department of Management) also presented a paper at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in the Operations Management Services interest group. It was entitled, "Linking business strategy and operations strategy: Are we looking in the right place?"
Dr Paul Hibbert (Department of Management) ran a professional development workshop at the conference on 'teaching reflexivity in management practice' with colleagues from UK and US universities (Professor Ann Cunliffe, University of New Mexico; Professor Sharon Livesey, Fordham University, New York; Professor Russ Vince, University of Bath). The workshop was a great success, attracting 45 people to a room intended for 25. Dr Hibbert also presented two papers, both of which were selected for the Best Paper Proceedings: "Reflexivity as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Understanding" and (with Professor John Sillince and Dr Thomas Diefenbach also of the Department of Management) "Why new theories of organisation are unlikely – and what to do about it." Both papers appear in "Best paper proceedings of the sixty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management" edited by George T. Solomon.
Dr Hibbert was also given an 'outstanding reviewer' award by the Management and Education Division of the Academy.
Professors Fran Ackermann and Colin Eden did a professional development workshop at the conference "Developing Mid-Range Theory in Strategic Management for Resource Based View and Competence Based Management" and Professor Eden also carried out another, "A research workshop on cognitive causal mapping."

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Gender pay reporting role
Kay Gilbert (Human Resource Management) has been invited to join the Technical Advisory Group of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to help develop the proposals for gender pay reporting by the private sector – including the voluntary or third sector – which will be promoted on a voluntary basis. The first meeting of the small group took place in August 2009.

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News mentions
The Independent carried an article on Marketing degrees on August 5, with Strathclyde mentioned throughout. SBS Dean Professor Susan Hart was name-checked in the "Who are the stars?" section. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/marketing-756198.html Professor Colin Mason (Hunter Centre) was featured in Scotland on Sunday on August 15 in an article entitled, "Why on earth are celebrity entrepreneurs famously successful?"
The Sunday Herald on August 9 mentioned SBS student Daisy Radford who was awarded one of the Saltire internship placements in an article "Budding leaders sharpen skills with summer jobs at the top".
Professor Brian Ashcroft (Economics) commented in an article – "800 jobs but at what cost?" – on the announcement by Tesco of financial service jobs which appeared in the Sunday Herald on August 23.

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	August 2009
	Click on any of the headlines to go to the story: 'Innovation Cluster' wins ESRC funding for research Accounting and Finance published papers Smart Welcome for incoming students Evaluating co-operation in the Northern Periphery New role for Professor Bedford Best paper award at Academy of Marketing conference Prolific author listing International Academic Advisory Board appointment Investing in an Uncertain Future News from Academy of Management 2009 Gender pay reporting role News mentions 'Innovation Cluster' wins ESRC funding for research Strathclyde Business School's EPRC and Management Science have been awarded ESRC funding for an exploratory project which aims to enhance understanding of innovation in peripheral, sparsely populated areas. Led by Dr Sara Davies (EPRC) and Dr Jillian MacBryde (Management Science), this collaborative study will focus especially on 'hidden innovation' in sectors where innovation is linked to aspects of 'peripherality', such as alternative energies; wildlife/landscape tourism; food processing and marketing; and ICT usage in policy delivery by public sector bodies. This is the first external funding won by SBS's emergent Innovation Cluster, which brings together researchers from SBS and other faculties as well as external researchers and stakeholders. The project will examine the different aspects and spatial levels of connectivity that matter for innovation, how innovation in peripheral areas is shaped, and how the internal logics of innovation policies at EU, national and sub-national levels influence the capacity of policy-makers to support innovation in peripheral areas. In addition, the project aims to develop research approaches and methods that could be used in a more substantial future research programme on innovation in sectors where innovation is linked to aspects of being peripheral. Back to top Accounting and Finance published papers The Department of Accounting and Finance's Professor Andrew Marshall and Dr Leilei Tang's paper, with Rubagus Maulana, entitled, "Estimation and Determinants of Emerging Market Country Risk and the Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH Model" has been accepted for publication in International Review of Financial Analysis. Professor Jonathan Fletcher's paper with Dr Patricia Ntozi-Obwale entitled, "Exploring the conditional performance of UK unit trusts" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Services Research. Back to top Smart Welcome for incoming students Strathclyde full time MBA students Enobong Ekanem, Fawad Backer and Obinna Nwosu, with the support of Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network, have founded SmartWelcome.com, a Glasgow-based social networking platform which enables migrants, students and workers new to Glasgow to integrate easily into the city. The site provides access to live, active, local community networks and forums to facilitate any migrant's or student's transition into the city of Glasgow. Each forum on the site provides an avenue for individuals to share experiences, ask - and answer - questions and generally offer any help possible to people who are new in town. Forum participants will be able to provide - and in turn have access to – such information as city location maps, travel, shops, markets, part time jobs, banks and religious centres. Current students, employees and migrants in Glasgow can register and login to the site and provide online advice to newcomers to the city. "From my experience, many newcomers and international students are looking for a platform to ask advice from Glaswegians and international students already familiar in the city, and to give real reviews and information from their own experience and knowledge of the city, be it about neighbourhood restaurants, entertainment, advice on utility connections or searching for part time jobs," said Enobong Ekanem. There are many Glasgow-based forums on different social networking sites, but this is a forum specifically developed for immigrants, newcomers and international students, said co-founder Obinna Nwosu. The aim is to expand the site to cover the whole of Scotland. www.smartwelcome.com Back to top Evaluating co-operation in the Northern Periphery EPRC has won a competitive tender to evaluate the 2007-13 Northern Periphery Programme, an EU-funded initiative to promote territorial co-operation among the Nordic countries, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Led by Dr Irene McMaster, the study will provide an external perspective on the programme with a view to improving and strengthening its performance, optimising the allocation of programme resources, and assisting the programme authorities to prepare future operations. The research builds on the long-standing EPRC expertise on regional development in the peripheral regions of north-western Europe, and specifically evaluation and other research on the effectiveness and Dr Irene McMaster efficiency of trans-national co-operation initiatives. Back to top New role for Professor Bedford Professor Tim Bedford (Management Science) has been named as Vice Dean of Research, and will take up the three year post as of September 1. Back to top Best paper award at Academy of Marketing conference Professor Susan Hart, Dean, SBS and Dr Sena Ozdemir, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Essex Business School, were awarded Best Paper in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Marketing Track at the Academy of Marketing Conference July 2009. The paper was entitled, "Marketing capability, new product survival and new product development success: An exploration of relationships". Back to top Prolific author listing Listed in the "Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature 1959-2008" are Accounting and Finance's Professor Jonathan Fletcher (no 421) with 15 publications and Professor Andrew Marshall (no 964) with 10 publications. This listing is a worldwide survey of 17,601 finance academics in 26 core finance journals. The average number of articles per author is 1.6. The paper listing the prolific authors was written by Jean L.Heck and Philip L.Cooley of Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University, and the study was based on published articles by more than 17,000 authors. Back to top International Academic Advisory Board appointment Professor Susan Hart has been appointed as a Member of the International Academic Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Management (GSM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The International Academic Advisory Board comprises prominent academicians in their fields of expertise, with representation from Malaysia, USA, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. GSM was established a decade ago to support Malaysia’s national aim to enhance graduate-level management education. Having been nationally accorded the status of Top Business School of Malaysia in 2008, GSM supports UPM's vision of becoming a leading business school in the global stage. Back to top Investing in an Uncertain Future SBS is leading an Institute for Advanced Studies programme called "Investing in an Uncertain Future". The first meeting, a methodology exchange, took place on July 30. About 30 people took part in the day in which a number of different SBS speakers – professors Kim Swales, Peter McGregor, Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann – presented methods in cost-benefit analysis, portfolio analysis, mapping and feedback. Alongside them were speakers from Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), St Andrews University, the Scottish Government, Manchester University and London School of Economics, covering other topics including robustness and expert judgement. The programme will continue with meetings from September 21-25 on "Valuations and Future Flexibility", then October 12-16 on "Developing Scenario Planning and Cost-Benefit Analysis." More details are available from Professor Tim Bedford at tim.bedford@strath.ac.uk Back to top News from Academy of Management 2009 Dr Viktor Dorfler of the Management Science Department attended the Academy of Management Annual Meeting from August 7-11 in Chicago. He presented a poster paper "Knowledge Levels: 3-D Model of the Levels of Expertise"; the paper introduces a conceptual model of knowledge levels and describes the characteristics of knowledge at the various levels. Dr Dorfler chaired the session "Knowledge, Expertise, Creativity and Innovation: Knowledge Related Processes"; the four papers of the session examined various aspects of creativity and how expertise can be successfully utilised in teamwork. He participated in the group "Intuition in Organisations", which is the first step of establishing a formal presence within AoM for people Dr Viktor Dorfler researching intuition. He also received an outstanding reviewer award from the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division. Dr George Burt and Dr Tom Mullen (Department of Management) also presented a paper at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in the Operations Management Services interest group. It was entitled, "Linking business strategy and operations strategy: Are we looking in the right place?" Dr Paul Hibbert (Department of Management) ran a professional development workshop at the conference on 'teaching reflexivity in management practice' with colleagues from UK and US universities (Professor Ann Cunliffe, University of New Mexico; Professor Sharon Livesey, Fordham University, New York; Professor Russ Vince, University of Bath). The workshop was a great success, attracting 45 people to a room intended for 25. Dr Hibbert also presented two papers, both of which were selected for the Best Paper Proceedings: "Reflexivity as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Understanding" and (with Professor John Sillince and Dr Thomas Diefenbach also of the Department of Management) "Why new theories of organisation are unlikely – and what to do about it." Both papers appear in "Best paper proceedings of the sixty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management" edited by George T. Solomon. Dr Hibbert was also given an 'outstanding reviewer' award by the Management and Education Division of the Academy. Professors Fran Ackermann and Colin Eden did a professional development workshop at the conference "Developing Mid-Range Theory in Strategic Management for Resource Based View and Competence Based Management" and Professor Eden also carried out another, "A research workshop on cognitive causal mapping." Back to top Gender pay reporting role Kay Gilbert (Human Resource Management) has been invited to join the Technical Advisory Group of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to help develop the proposals for gender pay reporting by the private sector – including the voluntary or third sector – which will be promoted on a voluntary basis. The first meeting of the small group took place in August 2009. Back to top News mentions The Independent carried an article on Marketing degrees on August 5, with Strathclyde mentioned throughout. SBS Dean Professor Susan Hart was name-checked in the "Who are the stars?" section. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/marketing-756198.html Professor Colin Mason (Hunter Centre) was featured in Scotland on Sunday on August 15 in an article entitled, "Why on earth are celebrity entrepreneurs famously successful?" The Sunday Herald on August 9 mentioned SBS student Daisy Radford who was awarded one of the Saltire internship placements in an article "Budding leaders sharpen skills with summer jobs at the top". Professor Brian Ashcroft (Economics) commented in an article – "800 jobs but at what cost?" – on the announcement by Tesco of financial service jobs which appeared in the Sunday Herald on August 23. Back to top
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