Professor Tom Baum (Department of Human Resource Management) submitted a selection of his published career work in the field of workforce and employment studies in tourism for the award of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Strathclyde. This submission, covering work over some 30 years, has now been passed by three international external examiners and Professor Baum will be awarded the degree at Autumn Graduation in November.
Each year the Academy of Marketing awards up to three Teaching Research and Development Grants based on a national and international open competition. At this year's annual conference hosted by the University of Hull it was announced that the Academy gave two grant awards, both led by Department of Marketing staff members:
Dr Brian Garvey (Department of Human Resource Management) made a visit to the Economic Department at the Autonomous University of Mexico through a Santander travel award and spent a week with the Centre for Rural Development and Autonomous Indigenous University in the Zautla and Cuetzalan region of Mexico with support from a departmental pump priming grant.
Emeritus Professor Richard Butler has had two books recently published: "Tourism and Resilience" published by CABI Wallingford and "Tourism and Political Change" published by Goodfellow Oxford
Management Science academics Professor Colin Eden, Dr Igor Pyrko, and Professor Susan Howick, have been awarded the Springer Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation held in Stuttgart, Germany. The title of the paper is 'Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Support Systems'. This paper reports on the SMR H2020 research project conducted at the SBS.
Another paper, authored by Dr Pyrko, Professor Eden, and Professor Fran Ackermann, was also nominated for the same award, which means that 2 out of 5 nominated papers at the conference were authored by Strathclyde researchers. The tile of this paper is 'Towards a typology or roles in strategy making workshops - building on the use of the Group Support System data logs'.
A group of 17 alumni from the 1996/97 cohort of the Masters in International Marketing degree attended a reunion in the Marketing Department to celebrate 20 years since their graduation on August 18.
The alumni represented all parts of the globe having flown in from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, Norway, Finland, France, Japan, Switzerland and the UK.
In addition to attending a presentation from Professor Alan Wilson on the changes in the Marketing Department and touring the Business School, they planned to visit the bars and restaurants that they used to frequent during their student days.
Dr Beverly Wagner, Department of Marketing, was invited to Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki to present at their bi-annual PhD course "Publishing Articles in Logistics and Supply Chain Management." This intensive 3-day programme was supported by international journal editors in the field, who provided guidance to students in all aspects relating to writing and publishing quality articles.
Sreevas Sahasranamam, Chancellor's Fellow, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, has had a paper accepted in Management & Organization Review. Co-authored with Debabrata Chatterjee, the paper is entitled "Trends in innovation management research in India and China - A bibliometric study for the period 1991-2015".
Sreevas has also presented at the Academy of International Business (AIB) Annual Conference in Dubai on "Ownership and corporate social responsibility in India"; at the Academy of Management (AOM) annual conference in Atlanta on "The impact of national innovation systems on investment mode choices - an empirical investigation of outward FDI of Indian firms"; and at the European Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS) in Copenhagen with "Global institutional logics and the moderating influence of national institutional field structures on organisation outcomes."