Professor Robert Wright (Economics) recently organised a one-day workshop on the topic: “OLG-CGE Models and Demographic Research”. The workshop was held in Grassau, Bavaria on October 5 (2012). It was funded by the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy through the Munich Centre for the Economics of Aging (MEA). Over-lapping Generations Computable General Equilibriums models are mathematical representations of economies that explicitly take into consideration age structure effects and consequently can be used to study the economic effects of a wide range of demographic shocks and policies.
The workshop brought together researchers from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and USA. A selection of the papers are being revised and refereed and will be published in the Journal of Economic Modelling with Professor Wright serving as the Guest Editor.
Professor Tom Baum was invited as keynote speaker to the XVII AECIT International Congress, in the town of Carballiño in Galicia, Spain. AECIT is the Spanish Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism.The theme for the Congress was "Creation and development of tourism products: innovation and the experiential approach.” Professor Baum presented thoughts on Changing times, changing people: the impact of economic and technological change on human resource management in tourism, a theme that generated considerable interest and debate at a time when Spain grapples with unprecedented levels of unemployment across all sectors of the economy.
Mik Wisniewski (Management Science) was keynote speaker at a workshop at the Scottish Police College on Effective Performance Management.
The workshop focused on the issues facing the new National Scottish Police Force (which comes into being in April 2013) in relation to organisational performance management. The theme of Mik's presentation was on the challenges and opportunities in establishing an effective performance management approach for the new national force as opposed to the eight regional forces at present which, through the new National Police Authority, will report directly to the Scottish Parliament. Mik related the issues facing the new Force to his experience and expertise in performance management across much of the Scottish and UK public sector.
Professor John Quigley was successful in securing funding from the London Mathematical Society (LMS) to run a series of joint workshops with the Universities of Durham, Brunel and Salford on the theme of Mathematical Methods in Reliability. The money was awarded following the success of LMS funded workshops offered by this group last year. The department of Management Science hosted a workshop on the theme of expert judgement, which drew a wide range of participants across SBS and the wider university as well as industrialists and academics from the UK and Europe.
Dr. Aliakbar Jafari of the Department of Marketing has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Iranian Journal of Management Studies.
Dr Juliette Wilson (Marketing) and Fiona Bradley (Architecture) were successful in a bid for Bridging the Gap funding of £12,441 to investigate how to incentivise post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in the building industry through supportive legislative changes and the potential introduction of a unique POE Government Bond Scheme, November 2012. This project will develop work initiated in the Engage with Strathclyde week in May 2012.
The European AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) conference hosted by ESADE Business School took place in Barcelona in October. The focus of the conference was on quality assurance in international relationships. Elaine Collinson, Director of Undergraduate International Programmes, delivered a workshop at the AACSB European Affinity Group Meeting on “Incorporating AACSB into Branding Strategies.” The workshop discussed ways in which European Business Schools can enhance their brand through AACSB accreditation and benchmark best practice.
Professor Susan Hart, Dean of Strathclyde Business School, also attended the AACSB conference in her capacity as Board Member of the European Advisory Council.
A paper, co-authored by a Strathclyde Business School doctoral student, about the computer games sector in Scotland was shortlisted for a best paper award in the “Networks and Innovation” stream at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference in Dublin in November.
The paper, “The Origins and Dynamics of Industrial Clusters: the case of the Scottish games industry”, was co-authored by PhD student Helen Mullen from the Department of Management Science and Professor Colin Mason (previously of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and now at the Adam Smith Business School at Glasgow University).
The ESRC Festival of Social Science event organised by Professor Eleanor Shaw in her capacity as investigator in the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy and held at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship on November 5 was very successful, with a diverse audience including researchers, policy informers, practitioners, social entrepreneurs, social enterprisers and investment organisations.
Entitled 'Social investment for the 21st century', participants discussed new and emerging forms of social investment and focused on questions such as: How can we improve the environment and support for social investment, entrepreneurial philanthropy, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship? How can the sustainability and impact of third sector organisations be improved through social investment?
Helen Mullen, a PhD student in Management Science, has been selected as one of 70 PhD students invited to present at the DRUID Academy Conference for Doctoral Students in Aalborg, Denmark in January 2013.
The conference, “Economics and Management of Innovation, Technology and Organizations” brings together PhD students working internationally within economics and management of innovation, entrepreneurship and organisations. This year 70 candidates were selected from 155 applications.
Dr Juliette Wilson (Marketing) and Professor Eleanor Shaw (Hunter Centre) have won the best creative industries paper award for the paper on Entrepreneurial Embedding, case study evidence from the creative industries which they presented at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in Dublin.
In the ongoing re-development of the successful Management Development Programme, which all undergraduate business school students must undertake, the third year is an ‘engagement’ year: one component of that engagement is the involvement of students in Vertically Integrated Projects.
Many of these projects are in other faculties but are looking for business input. A handful of students have been shortlisted for involvement in two specific projects: the Gambia lighting project and the Malawi toilet challenge. The pilot projects in this academic year will enable a wider test roll-out in 2013-2014 and enable the second year choice and planning elements for the new third year to be implemented.