The Department of Marketing hosted Professor Ashlee Humphreys of Northwestern University, USA during June 10-11. As an internationally renowned Marketing scholar who is expert on institutional theory, Professor Humphreys delivered two research seminars on Monday, 10 June and a keynote speech at the Department of Marketing’s 8th International Doctoral Colloquium on June 11.
Emeritus Professor Richard Butler has had two books published in May 2019, “OVERTOURISM-Issues and Implications” co-edited with Professor Rachel Dodds (Ryerson University, Toronto) and published by De Gruyter, Berlin, and “Tourism in Conflict-Ridden Destinations” co-edited with R.Isaac and E.Cakmak of NHTV Breda, Netherlands), published by Routledge, London.
The Department of Economics have awarded a number of prizes to first to fourth year students with an outstanding performance in their year:
Over the past few months Strathclyde Business School has donated 30 laptops, which were end-of-life within the University, to the charity Comfort International.
In the UK recycled laptops often are broken up for parts or metal recovery, with some components going to landfill, but Comfort International rebuilds old laptops and delivers them to the projects they work with in DRC. Most go to schools but one has gone to the Central Hospital of Rusayu where the administrator was delighted to receive his laptop. The hospital has been doing some amazing work with rape survivors, maternity care and recently with the aftermath of a rebel attack on a village called Rubaya. The laptop helps them retain better records, improves communication and analysis.
Comfort International was established in 1999 to help and encourage genocide survivors on their road to recovery after the tiny east African country of Rwanda was devastated by the worst genocide the world had ever seen. Working with local partners to support street kids, build hospitals and provide pre and post-natal care, they are currently embarking on new projects to build a vocational training site with accommodation facilities. Micro-income generation, education support, and vocational training for healing and reconciliation projects are currently taking place.
Dr Grant Allan, Dr David Comerford and Professor Peter McGregor (Fraser of Allander Institute and Department of Economics) had their paper, “The system-wide impact of healthy eating: assessing emissions and economic impacts at the regional level” accepted for publication in Food Policy.
This paper looks at the economic and emissions impact of a shift in consumption under healthy eating guidelines, using an environmentally disaggregated model of the Scottish economy. It finds a possible “triple dividend” of improved economic and environmental impacts alongside health benefits. The work is part of the research groups work funded by the Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division of the Scottish Government.
Strathclyde Executive Education and Development (SEED), formerly the Centre for Corporate Connections, launched cohort 2 of Productivity through People in May. Productivity through People is a 10-month, cohort based executive education programme for leaders within SMEs wishing to “work on the business, not in the business”. Delivered in collaboration with and subsidised by five world class organisations, GSK, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Leonardo and The John Lewis Partnership, the programme is endorsed by Be the Business, the business-led organisation created to boost management skills and close the UK’s productivity gap.
Students who took the Family Business module on the MBA25 programme travelled to Stockholm in June for the module. Meanwhile recruitment is underway for MBA25 cohort 5.
Dr Kathy Hamilton, Department of Marketing, has published an article in The Conversation entitled “Tears and rage - the rise of the emotional release industry”. This article draws on her recent paper in the Journal of Consumer Research on therapeutic service-scapes.
Yana Wengel, Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, also had an article in The Conversation on the subject of mountaineering tourism and how increasing commercialism has led to dangerous overcrowding and even death on the slopes. This was republished in the Strathclyde Business School blog.
Professor Anne Marie Doherty, Department of Marketing, has been appointed as an assessor for the Marketing Trust Research Awards. Based in the UK, the Marketing Trust is an independent charitable trust which makes grants of financial assistance to charitable, volunteer, educational and other organisations for the purposes of training their staff, volunteers, young people and the general public in any or all aspects of marketing understanding and/or execution, and to appreciate the role of marketing in today's society.
Professor Doherty has been reappointed to the Royal Anniversary Trust’s Readers Panel, which assesses the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education. Awarded biennially, the Prizes are part of the British Honours System and acknowledge world-class excellence and achievement. The ‘Reading Phase’ took place across April and May, with the award announcements being made at St James Palace, London, in November.
A one day conference entitled “Celebrating the Pragmatist turn in
Organisation Studies” is taking place at Strathclyde Business School,
sponsored by the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, on July
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Pragmatism is a well elaborated philosophical perspective concerned with
the experiencing of everyday living. The formative thinkers in this field,
including Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, Mead and Follett, sought new ways
of engaging with the continuity of lived experience with all its dynamic
complexities and future uncertainties. Their ideas inform a variety of
social disciplines including politics, economics, education and law, but
they are surprisingly absent in organisational research.
However, in his recently published book, ‘Pragmatism and Organization Studies’, Professor Philippe Lorino signals a Pragmatist Turn that invites organizational scholars and practitioners to reconsider the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding processes of organising.
Professor Lorino, ESSEC Business School, Paris, is one of the speakers, along with Professor Moshe Earioun, Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Professor Sami Paavola, University of Helsinki, Professor Moihaela Kelemen, Keele Business School, as well as Professor Barbara Simpson of Strathclyde.
Around 50 delegates are attending, travelling from across the UK, as well as the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, France, Estonia, and Canada.