Professor Christine Cooper in Warsaw
Management Science PhD student Stuart MacKinven attended and presented at the 20th EurOMA Conference in Dublin which ran from June 9-12. The conference theme was 'Operations Management at the Heart of Recovery' and was chosen to reinforce the message that operations management has a central role to play in the recovery of our linked economies and society.
Stuart presented: "A Framework for Measuring Open Innovation Maturity Levels" by MacKinven, S., J. MacBryde, and B. Wagner.
Lucrezia Casulli, PhD Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Entrepreneurship, had a paper accepted for a 4* journal in Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice). The paper should be online later in the summer.
She explained, "This paper is a conceptual piece on how international entrepreneurs are likely to reason on potential new foreign market entry opportunities based on their idiosyncratic experience. It stems from my doctoral thesis, in which I argued that rational economic approaches are inadequate to explaining how individuals in small firms make decisions. Instead, based on my data, I suggested that a better explanation is provided by theories of judgement under uncertainty (based on Tversky and Kahneman ’s work on heuristics and biases)."
The paper is a joint effort with Professor Marian Jones of the University of Glasgow. Because of the novelty of the approach within the area of internationalisation of firms, the paper has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice dedicated to high potential new approaches in the area of international entrepreneurship. The special issue will feature work from leading scholars including Jay Barney, Sharon Alvarez, Shaker Zahra, Francois Hennart and Jeff Covin.
Professor Christine Cooper in Warsaw
Professor Christine Cooper, Accounting and Finance, made a presentation at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, on writing world class research publications on July 19, and a similar one on July 20 at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland.
A paper which Professor Cooper jointly wrote with PhD student Joanne Johnston, entitled "Vulgate accountability: insights from the field of football" published in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, has been chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013. Details can be found here.
About 50 students, alumni, and community members gathered on Strathclyde Business School UAE's Abu Dhabi campus for a 'Big Data Analytics' evening talk on June 25. The seminar was held to address the enigma and utility of big data for modern managers, and was delivered by Dr Matthew Revie of the department of Management Science, who has extensive experience providing decision support and continuing professional development to a wide range of organisations.
Over the course of the two-hour community lecture, Dr Revie provided insights into how big data can be used and the various considerations that should be kept in mind when trying to successfully implement big data analytics strategically and meaningfully within an organisation. He went on to answer questions from audience members, encouraging those with applicable concerns in their own workplaces to get in touch after the seminar.
Captivating case studies and straightforward non-technical dissections of the features, techniques, benefits, and complexities of big data analytics allowed this evening talk to successfully demystify this important topic in a way that was both enlightening and useful for the forward thinking managers in attendance.
The University hosted the British Universities Industrial Relations Conference this year from June 27-29. In their first plenary, nearly 80 delegates gathered to hear the first findings from WERS (Workplace Employment Relations Study) & the National Skills Survey. The second of the plenary sessions discussed low pay and the living wage campaign. The main theme of the conference, Working Lives in an Age of Austerity, included streams on employee voice and pursuing equality and diversity and included academics from UK but also USA, Canada, Australia.
The stewardship of BUIRA, which for the last three years has been undertaken by a team from the department of HRM (Kay Gilbert, Kirsty Newsome, Debbie Campbell, Ian Cunningham and Paul Stewart) now passes to Leeds University.
At the invitation of Professor Sarah Harper, Professor Robert E. Wright (Economics) spent two weeks as a Visiting Professor at the Oxford Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford. At the invitation of Andrew Dilnot, Warden of Nuffield College, he was also a Visiting Fellow at this college.
Professor Wright delivered lectures on the economic impacts of population and immigration policy at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Department of Economics.
Congratulations to Fatema Kawaf (Marketing) who won the best paper award at the Academy of Marketing Doctoral Colloquium 2013, held on July 8 at the University of South Wales. Her paper was titled, "Web atmospherics and Consumers' emotions in online fashion shopping experiences".
Members from the Department of Marketing contributed to the European Association for Consumer Research conference in Barcelona in July. Dr Kathy Hamilton presented a paper, co-authored with Dr Matthew Alexander, entitled "Caring about the Community: Exploring Place Transformation through Adopt a Station."
First year PhD student Ashleigh Logan presented a working paper co-authored with Nina Brosius from the University of Auckland New Zealand, entitled, "The 'Young Global Elite' of Tomorrow: Attachment to Foodstuffs, Food Brands and Food Consumption Practices in a Liquid, Mobile World."