This year's premier international entrepreneurship research conference, Babcock College Research conference (BCERC) organised by Babson College, took place in Fort Worth, Texas, at Texas Christian University. Among the 350 entrepreneurship scholars attending were three staff and students from the Hunter Centre.
Dominic Chalmers shared his work on entrepreneurial orientation in the social context and Sergio Costa presented a paper written with professors Jonathan Levie (Hunter Centre) and Mark Hart (Aston University) and fellow PhD student Ekaterina (Kate) Murzacheva. A third paper was co-authored by Dr Nina Rosenbusch (Hunter Centre). Kate Murzacheva also presented her sole-authored paper on investments in new businesses by family and friends of start-up entrepreneurs in England, using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK project, coordinated by her supervisor Professor Levie.
Kate said of her experience, "It was really fascinating. I put a lot of effort into preparing the paper: refining of the idea, data analysis, writing, and presentation rehearsals. But the presentation itself passed so quickly, that I can hardly remember what happened! I found that the most beneficial things only start after you get out of the session room. Talking, questioning, sometimes arguing over ideas, meeting new people, meeting the greatest scholars that you cite in your own research – that makes you grow and see the standards you need to reach."
The International Accounting and Finance Doctoral Symposium (IAFDS) took place from June 19-21 at the business school. There were 22 doctoral students attending, with six of those being Strathclyde students.
The Symposium was hosted by David Hillier and Krishna Paudyal who, along with 18 academics from several of the sponsoring universities (Monash, Bologna, Leeds, Plymouth, Queensland and Salamanca), facilitated the event. This is the fifth Symposium and focused on developing the research strengths and skills of doctoral students. The Symposium offers an excellent opportunity for students to present their work to an international audience outside their usual University environment.
Each student received a full briefing and discussion of their paper by an experienced academic.
Following his column in the Financial Times last month on the limitations of tax incentives in stimulating investment activity by business angels, Professor Colin Mason of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship was invited by the Access to Finance team at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to a meeting in order to discuss his thoughts in more detail.
Professor Phil Taylor of the Department of Human Resource Management and Professor Debra Howcroft of Manchester Business School have assumed the editorship of the 3* journal, New Technology, Work and Employment, taking over from Professor Chris Baldy of the University of Stirling who previously had been based at Strathclyde. The journal will be officially housed at the Department of Human Resource Management.
Professor Phil Taylor delivered a keynote address to the European Consultation Forum of the Royal and Sun alliance at its annual meeting in Malahide, Dublin, on May 8. The subject of Professor Taylor's contribution was 'Lean and its Consequences for Workers – intensification, stress and ill-health?' Attended by 40 delegates, the talk was simultaneously translated into ten European languages.
Professor Tom Baum (HRM) was Keynote speaker at the "Tourism and Political Change: Response and Responsibility" seminar at SOAS (University of London) on June 26. His presentation at the event was entitled "Public-Private Partnerships in Tourism HRD: a South-East Asian Perspective" and he focused on challenges faced in developing education and training systems for the tourism industry in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Strathclyde Business School undergraduates managed to raise £565 for the Yorkhill Children's Foundation at their graduation ball which was held on Tuesday, June 5, at Oran Mor and was attended by staff and students from the Management, Enterprise, Hospitality, International Business and International Business and Modern Languages courses.
There was a raffle which a number of local businesses kindly donated prizes for and the photographer (Andrew Johnstone Photography) generously offered 10% of the takings for the night which amounted to a £50 donation.
The ball was organised by a committee of nine honours year students: Catherine Galvin, Simon Hamilton, Lisa McLaughlin, Katerina Misuta, Sebastianne Nugent, Jamie Oliver, Elizabeth Page, Kristina Stonkute and Sheila Luke. Leanne Brown and Lynsey Wilson in the Department of Management Undergraduate Office gave the students a great deal of support which was much appreciated.
Dr Aliakbar Jafari (Department of Marketing) has been appointed to the editorial board of Tourism Planning and Development, a new journal by The University of Mazandaran, Iran. The journal is a fully peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic outlet for the development and dissemination of research on multiple issues of tourism in Iran.
He has also been elected as an executive member of the International Islamic Marketing Association (IIMA). IIMA's main mission is to create more humane world markets and achieve this through teaching and promoting the theory and practice of Islamic Marketing to consumers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
Professor Alan Wilson, Marketing has had the second edition of his services book published. The title is Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm, 2nd European Edition.
Following his presentation at European Customer Experience World 2012 in London, Professor Wilson was interviewed on customer experience metrics by the online magazine Mycustomer.com. The video of the interview appears online at: www.mycustomer.com/player
Marketing: An Introduction is being published in July. Dr Michael Harker co-wrote the book with Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong and Ross Brennan. This is the second edition, published by Pearson.