October 2014
GUESSS National Report for England, co-authored by Marfuga Iskandarova and Robert Blackburn, is published online. GUESSS is an international research project using a geographical and temporal comparison to investigate the entrepreneurial intention and activity of students.
September 2014
New PhD Studentship: New Recruit
Professor Audley Genus, of Kingston University's Small Business Research Centre, has recruited a doctoral student who will be supported by a three-year studentship funded via a donation from YTL Corporation. The YTL PhD studentship will be held by Leigh Champagnie, who graduated from Kingston University with an MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering in 2014. Leigh will work on a project investigating entrepreneurship in the renewable energy sector, expecting to complete his studies in 2017.
September 2014
British Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop on "Researching and Engaging with SMEs" organised by Dr Natalia Yakovlena, Professor George Saridakis, Dr Elina Meliou and Professor John Kitching.
The workshop investigated current and future perspectives of engaging with SMEs for academic research and development of business practice and policy. Specifically it discussed four important themes of research in the area of SMEs: leadership, sustainability, economy and impact. These themes were explored in roundtable discussions with active contribution from workshop participants and facilitated by the organisers. At the end of roundtable discussions, participants presented their ideas to the room, which were finalised with open panel discussion.
September 2014
Professor George Saridakis joined the Editorial Board of Spoudai: Journal of Economics and Business, University of Piraeus, Greece.
September 2014
Prof Kitching is to be appointed a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Entrepreneurial, Behaviour and Research (to start 1 Jan 2015).
John Kitching's Background Paper for the OECD Project on Inclusive Entrepreneurship 'Entrepreneurship and self-employment by people with disabilities' has been published and is available online.
September 2014
Professor Genus is organising the SCORAI Europe workshop on Sustainable Consumption, which will take place at the Royal Society, London, on 30 September/1 October, 2014 (and for which he has a book contract with Springer publishers). He has been invited to chair a session at a two-day SCORAI Europe workshop on inter-disciplinarity and research and teaching of sustainability at the University of Lausanne, due to take place in December 2014.
August 2014
Dr John Kitching was appointed Professor on 1 August in recognition of his contribution to field of small business research. Congratulations to Professor Kitching!
June 2014
Professor George Saridakis and Dr John Kitching with colleagues from University of Winchester had a proposal for a Professional Development Workshop on 'Researching and Engaging with SMEs' accepted for the forthcoming British Academy of Management Conference.
The workshop aims to generate focused discussion on important themes of research in the area of SMEs: leadership, sustainability, economy and impact.
June 2014
Professor Genus was involved in organising the conference of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which took place in Shanghai on June 8-11, 2014. He was recently involved in organising two sessions on sustainable consumption and production at the Degrowth conference in Leipzig, Germany. In 2014 Professor Genus attended the UK National Research and Innovation conference, as well as the Tracing Biofuel Transitions: Policies, Practices and Phase outs conference in Rotterdam.
June 2014
Call for papers - The deadline for the submission of papers is 30 November 2014.
Supply Chain Decision Modelling in Times of Unrest, Instability and Change, Operations Research Perspectives, ELSEVIER.
April 2014
Professor George Saridakis provided new evidence on the empirical relationship between "Firm Growth and Shareholder Wealth" at SALISES 2014 Conference and chaired the sessions on "Vulnerable Populations, Social Exclusion, Poverty and Inequality" and "Productivity, Efficiency, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness".
Also, he carried out a research visit at The University of the West Indies and examined with colleagues from SALISES and Economics Department the effect of crime on innovation.
March 2014
The Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development has selected Professor Blackburn's paper as the 'Outstanding Paper of 2013' it has been announced.
His paper entitled 'Small business performance: business, strategy and owner-manager characteristics" focuses on acquiring a heightened understanding of factors that influence small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance and in particular, the growth of such companies.
March 2014
A senior lecturer in Finance from the University of Seville, María-José Palacín-Sánchez, has arrived for a six-week stay to continue further research into a comparison of Spanish SMEs and their capital structure within different European countries including the UK. Maria's work has been previously published in the prestigious journal of 'Small Business Economics' and has presented her work at a number of conferences both in Spain and internationally.
Maria discussed her excitement at being with the SBRC, 'It is a privilege to be able to continue my research in such a renowned Centre, particularly to do with the work done here focusing on SMEs as this is in direct connection with my own work. To be able to count experts such as Professor Blackburn and others in the SBRC, will help to further compare SMEs across Europe and I am truly excited to be here.' Professor Blackburn added' We are delighted to host visiting overseas scholars of such high calibre as it helps stimulate an interesting and creative environment in the SBRC for staff and research students. We will be working with Maria to help her in her research focusing on the capital structure of SMEs in the UK. A recent paper by Professor George Saridakis of the SBRC (co-authored with S. Marlow and D. Storey) has been published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field of entrepreneurship.
March 2014
A recent paper by Professor George Saridakis of the SBRC (co-authored with S. Marlow and D. Storey) has been published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field of entrepreneurship.
The paper leads the Volume 29 (Issue 3) of the Journal of Business Venturing and investigates an important research question "Do different factors explain male and female self-employment rates?"
The paper employs time-series techniques and offers new insights in the topic and the role of the social and economic factors on the entrepreneurial decision. The analysis challenges existing findings and provide useful information for policy makers.
February 2014
In its recent report An Entrepreneurial Profile of Young Enterprise Participants, Kingston University Small Business Research Centre asked 8,000 people aged 18-64 if they had taken part in programmes run by Young Enterprise - the UK's largest business and enterprise education charity - and what effect this had on their lives.
The study was carried out in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, and concludes that its findings: "offer clear evidence that taking part in a programme at school or university does appear to have an impact on a set of attitudes which are associated with entrepreneurial potential."
It goes on to say that the principle strengths of Young Enterprise are in developing enterprising skills, attitudes and capabilities that could be used in many situations, not just business.
