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Dr Aylin Ates, Dr Steve Paton and Sharon Locke (Strategy & Organisation) confirmed summer placements for successful MSc Project Management and Innovation students. The students had interviews with Babcock, Thales, SDP Programme within South Lanarkshire Council and a number of paid internships are offered formally. These internships are important for MSc PMI programme in order to address the skills gap in industry and to support our students' experiential learning.
MSc Global Energy Management students are also heading off to start their internship posts over the summer months. Those doing so had opted for the internship route as part of their Summer Project. Companies include NZX Energy, New Zealand; EDF Trading, SSE; Energy Regulatory Commission, Thailand; Centre for Energy Policy, University of Strathclyde; Ricardo AEA; Scottish Power; Scottish Government/Fraser of Allander Institute; ARUP; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and Energy Savings Trust.
Dr Robert van der Meer and Professor Alec Morton (Management Science) have been awarded a 12-month extension of a highly innovative and successful series of projects that they have been leading since August 2014 with the Virtual Fracture clinic, Orthopaedics Department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, sponsored by the Quality, Efficiency and Support Team (QuEST) of the Scottish Government. Gillian Anderson is the Research Associate working on this project. Further information can be found here.
The 7th edition of Professor Susan Hart’s (Marketing) jointly authored book with Professor Michael Baker, titled ‘The Marketing Book’, was recently published. The new edition includes an international selection of writers from the worlds of academia and practice. It covers a wide range of marketing topics from organisation and planning to research methods, from the ‘mix’ through to social, services, green and ethical marketing.
Grant Allan and Professor Peter McGregor (Economics/FAI) have been awarded a grant of £76,065 for 2016/17 to provide input through the Scottish Government’s Centre of Expertise in Climate Change, ‘ClimateXChange’.
The two have also been awarded a Scottish Government grant of £117, 495 for 2016/17 to undertake analysis of agricultural systems within the FAI’s suite of economy-wide models. This research will be undertaken with colleagues at Scotland’s Rural College and form part of the Scottish Government funded centre of expertise in Climate Change.
Professor Sarah Dodd hosted the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship for Entrepreneurship’s Scottish Entrepreneurship Research Seminar 2016. The event ran over two days and was a great success.
This year’s speakers included Sarah Jack and Ed McKeever, Lancaster University; Matthew Hannon, Imperial College and the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship; Ben Spigel, Edinburgh University; Geoff Whittam, Glasgow Caledonian University; Niall MacKenzie, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Eleanor Shaw, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship.
The Swiss Alumni Group held an S100 event on May 12 in Zurich which also marked the 20th anniversary of the MBA programme in the country. The University of Strathclyde Principal Professor Sir Jim McDonald made the keynote speech on the night and Strathclyde Business School Dean Professor David Hillier made a speech welcoming the guests while David Alexander, an MBA alumnus, chaired the event.
Dr Paul Hewer of Marketing will be hosting the ‘Glasgow Consumer Culture Group Videography Workshop’ from June 20 to July 2. The event, hosted by Strathclyde Business School, is jointly organised with Professor Douglas Brownlie, University of Dundee Business School.
This two-and-half-day intensive workshop, provided by Joonas Rokka (EM-Lyon Business School) and Joel Hietanen (Aalto, Stockholm University), is designed for researchers and PhD students who wish to communicate their work through visual media to build impact. It consists of both theoretical and practical ingredients and insights on research videography production, including short lectures, discussions, readings, video examples, and a hands-on videography research project that is completed during the workshop.
The event will deepen research ties and collaboration capacity between the research partners: Strathclyde University, University of Stockholm, EM-Lyon Business School and the University of Dundee.
Dr Patrick McColgan, Accounting and Finance, has been involved in two presentations recently. He was invited to Bradford University to present a paper on May 11. ‘Managerial compensation incentives and merger waves’ is co-authored with Professor David Hillier and Athanasios Tsekeris both from Strathclyde Business School.
He also presented at the FMA European Conference, Helsinki, which ran on June 9 and 10. ‘The structure of investment bank syndicates and the quality of bond underwriting’ was co-authored with Andy Marshall (Accounting and Finance) and former Strathclyde Business School PhD student Arthur Krebbers, now with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
In addition, he and Dr Dimitris Andriosopoulos hosted Peter Limbach from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on May 25. Peter presented his paper –‘All good things come to an end: CEO tenure and firm value’.
Nineteen postgraduate students from the Department of Strategy and Organisation, together with three MBA students, attended a Summer School elective ‘Managing in Europe’ which took place at Toulouse Business School during week commencing May 30. The students were from MSc in International Management, MSc in Business and Management and MSc in Finance and Management.
Melina Mösbauer, MSc in International Management student said, “The elective was probably the best course I’ve ever had! The lecturer Shahla Ameri di Rinaldi was amazingly inspiring and taught us a lot, not only about ‘Managing in Europe' but also about ourselves and different cultures. Visiting Airbus, enjoying delicious food in Toulouse and receiving a warm welcome from Toulouse Business School made the whole experience even better!”
The Special Issue of Organization Science on Routine Dynamics edited by Luciana D’Adderio (HCE) with colleagues Martha Feldman (UCI) , Brian Pentland (Michigan) and Nathalie Lazaric (Nice/CNRS) has now been published (May-June 2016).
This three-year long intellectual endeavour includes some of the latest and most significant advances in Routines Theory to date as well as highlighting new directions for future research in this thriving and ever expanding field of scholarship. The Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, titled “Beyond Routines as Things: Introduction to the Special Issue on Routine Dynamics”, is available to download from the dedicated Routine Dynamics website.
Dr Brian Garvey and Dr Kendra Briken of the Department of Human Resource Management received a Global Encounters Award to further research links with the Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, University of Sao Paulo and the Federation of Rural Workers. They will present at the university on 28 October and help establish a new project with these partners towards sustainable work linked to food and renewable energy production.
Dr Garvey will be visiting the Autonomous University of Mexico and the Union of Scientists committed to social and environmental change in Mexico after receiving a Santander mobility grant in June.
Strathclyde Business School is hosting the EURAM conference 2017 with the theme ‘Making Knowledge Work’ next June 21-24.
Professor Harry Sminia is the conference chair and the conference theme is “Making Knowledge Work” It not only refers to the knowledge about management and organisation that we generate but is also about making this knowledge useful for management practice. The conference aims to host contributions that demonstrate useful management scholarship that is relevant across a variety of contexts.
Professor Sminia, together with Professor Peter McKiernan, Dr Veselina Stoyanova and Hazel Lamont attended the EURAM 2016 conference in Paris, France, representing Strathclyde and promoting EURAM 2017.
Further information is available here.
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While visiting Dalhousie University (Canada) as part of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant, Dr Calvin Burns (Human Resource Management) presented some findings about Adaptive Capacity (individual and organisational) to loss of critical infrastructure (in this case the closures of the MacDonald Bridge while it is being re-decked), highlighting the University's 'Future Cities' research theme.
Read a news report on this research.
Full time MBA student Montana Aeberhardt has been selected as just one of 51 participants chosen for a fully-funded, experience-intensive journey through China, Mongolia and the Russian Federation. This once-in-a-lifetime educational expedition has been organised by ASEF. The two-week educational train journey for students and young professionals on the topic “Gateways to Asia and Europe: Connectivity by Land, Sea and Air” in August/September through China, Mongolia and the Russian Federation, taking in Beijing, Harbin, Vladivostok, Chita, Irkutsk and Ulaanbaatar.
The 20th ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU20) is for those wishing to explore the role of transportation and trade in connecting Asia and Europe – in the past, present and future. A team of 51 young professionals and students will travel together for two weeks across China, Mongolia and the Russian Federation under the theme “Gateways of Asia and Europe: Connectivity by Land, Sea & Air".
The journey passes through emerging economic corridors in these three countries where participants will meet and learn from local communities and take on real-scenario challenges on road, rail, maritime and air transportation. Participants will meet with government officials, businesses, academia and the civil society during the trip.
Professor Alan Wilson was a keynote speaker at a one-day conference organised by the Customer Contact Association at the RBS Conference Centre in Gogarburn, Edinburgh. The event focused on Customer Experience Management and was hosted by Kaye Adams with an audience of customer contact practitioners from companies such as AIG Insurance, Barclays Wealth, BBC, Cooperative Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Police Scotland, RBS, Scottish Power, SGN, Sky, Standard Life Tesco Bank and Worldpay. The objective of the day was to challenge participants to explore their customer experience roles and consider how these will change in our rapidly evolving and 'always on' world.
Professor Wilson’s talk concentrated on the effective implementation of customer experience management within organisations and the use of a customer experience maturity framework that Professor Wilson has developed with Gallup Germany, DHL Freight and the Ovum Consulting.
Professor Alan Wilson delivered invited seminars on the role and value of Social Media Marketing to audiences of Faculty and PhDs during recent research visits that he has made to both the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Nomi, Japan and the Montpellier Business School in France. The main theme of these seminars was around the return of investment in using social media to engage with customers and potential customers.
The visit to Japan was funded by the research grant awarded to Professor Wilson by the Anglo-Japanese Foundation and links to the joint research he is doing with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on the delivery of public services to the elderly through the Internet.
Dr Julia Smith, of the Department of Accounting & Finance, attended the annual conference of the European Accounting Association (EAA) in Maastricht from May 11-14. Her paper on ‘Choices of Financial Reporting Regimes and Techniques and Underlying Decision-Making Processes: a case study analysis of a port authority’, co-authored with Gavin Reid (Abertay, St Andrews) and Yu-Lin Hsu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) was presented to a session on ‘Integrated Reporting & Financial Reporting’, and was well attended by academics from across Europe and beyond, including Australia.
At that meeting, Dr Smith also took the opportunity to meet with Raef Lawson, Vice President Research & Policy, and Professor in Residence, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). As the IMA Campus Advocate for Strathclyde University, Dr Smith was able to update Professor Lawson on our recent accreditation and to report on our latest departmental ranking as first in the UK (Complete University Guide 2017).
Luciana D’Adderio (HCE) and Anup Nair (DMEM) were awarded a Global Engagement Fund grant to host the visit of Professor Raghu Garud on June 13 and 14.
Professor Garud is the Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Management & Organisation and Research Director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Smeal Business School, Pennsylvania State University.
The visit was co-sponsored by the SBS/DMEM RCUK/CREATe project on Business Models for 3D Printing.
Second year Management Development Programme students were challenged to put together a business report for Link as part of their studies. The team judged to have come up with the best report presented it to the Board meeting of Link Group.
A representative from Link delivered two lectures to the MDP students, providing them with details of Link’s work and the challenges faced by housing providers. The students then worked in groups to produce reports and recommendations for Link. The student team who best demonstrated their understanding of Link and came up with the most innovative recommendations were invited to present their report to the Link Group Board.
Director Dr Konstantinos Tomazos (Strategy & Organisation), the MDP2 Academic Coordinator Dr Nikolaos Danias (Economics) accompanied a group of three from the successful MDP2 team to the Link Group’s offices in Edinburgh on April 12 where they presented their report.
The students involved in the project were Francesco Cimmino, Caitlin Connolly, Claire Devlin, Marjorie Hughes, Andrew McPherson, Deborah McDonald and Alice Sacco. All were given letters of commendation and those who were able to make it to the Board meeting received them directly from chairman Roy Stirrat.
Link was delighted with the work done by the students, and those involved found the sessions extremely valuable, providing an excellent insight into the social enterprise sector.