FOREWORD BY THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH VOICES

AWARDS

MEDIA COVERAGE

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

NEW COLLEAGUES

SUMMER RESIDENTIAL WRITING RETREAT

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

RESEARCH CENTRES ACTIVITIES

PHD NEWS

FOREWORD BY THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

This edition of our Departmental bulletin hints at fresh beginnings. It ushers in

a new academic year, a few new colleagues, academic and administrative, and

marks the first outing by our new Newsletter Editor, Dr Olivier Sibai. I heartily

welcome these new ‘brooms’ on behalf of the Department of Management. I

also delightfully welcome the avalanche of good tidings showcased in this latest

Newsletter, which evidence the continuing flourishing of our research and

impact-generating activities. A quadruple of awards for excellence within one

report period certainly call for a celebratory cocktail, but these are only a tip of

our iceberg of achievements, which encompass invited international talks,

media contributions, external appointments, bounteous research publications,

and vibrant research centres’ activities. This introductory note celebrates all of

these as well as our thriving writing retreat series. Finally, do join me in wishing

our new colleagues a fair wind as they set forth to writing their respective

Birkbeck histories.

Thanks for your kind attention,

Kevin

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Daniele Archibugi recently delivered a talk at the Swiss Institute in Rome

entitled “Can a Europe of good-willing citizens prosper?”. This was part of the

Experiment Europe meeting on the theme of Borders and Beyond: Reinventing

Europe, held on 8 June 2017. Professor Achibuigi also gave a talk on “Polices

to foster innovative investment”, based on his joint work with Marion Frenz and

Andrea Filippetti, at the Scientific Workshop on Transforming Innovation Policy,

organized by Innovative Firms Forum, Madrid, 25 April 2017.

Dr Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick travelled to two Central European

countries to discuss trade unions in Europe at the end of August – early

September. In Budapest, she was an invited expert for an international training

session on Trade Unions and Democracy, organized by the European Trade

Union Institute (ETUI). Over 20 trade unionists from throughout Europe took

part in this three-day session, where Rebecca talked about her research on

trade unions and Europe, with a special focus on the recent democratization of

the Dutch confederation, FNV. This session was related to her school research

grant, to develop trade union training with the ETUI. In Warsaw, she took part

in the annual IREC (Industrial Relations in Europe) Conference, and discussed

her prospective new research on disability.

RESEARCH VOICES

Prof. Daniele Archibugi delivered a talk on “Science Fiction and Innovation:

Who is leading the dance?” at the International Ph.D. Academy at the Venice

International University on September 18-22, 2017. He argued, inter alia, that

the search for a new techno-economic paradigm is not a task for scientists,

engineers and businessmen alone. New ideas often originate in other social

contexts. Film-makers and writers may be more in tune with the human psyche

than politicians and businessmen. Artists and engineers, film-makers and

political theorists, architects and businessmen could make an effort to imagine

how existing scientific and technological opportunities can be exploited and

incorporated in the social fabric – in short, how another world is possible.

Prof Kevin Ibeh, Ven Sriram, Sonny Nwankwo and Tigi Mersha, editors of

Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa, recently authored an invited

piece entitled “Why Entrepreneurship? Why Africa? Why Now?” for Palgrave

Macmillan’s Business in Africa webpage. The 700-word piece discusses

Africa's incipient economic breakthrough and the need for researchers to share

their perspectives on this fast-changing continent. Read more at

http://www.palgrave.com/us/campaigns/business-in-africa/why-

entrepreneurship-why-africa-why-now

Dr. Suzanne Konzelmann also delivered an invited Lecture on ‘Labour,

Inequality and the Changing Nature of Economic Policy in Britain” at the XIII

SOAS Industrial Development and Policy Lecture. School of Oriental and

African Studies, University of London, London, 7 June 2017. Her presentation

on Labour, Finance and Inequality discussed the interaction between politics,

economics, social dynamics and the legal framework – and the process of

change in the conventional wisdom and the policies informed by it. In the

lecture, these were examined against the backdrop of British history from the

early twentieth century to the present, to assess why change happens, why it

doesn’t always happen when it might be expected to and the influence of shifts

in the relationship between the state and the market, the state and society and

the relative power of key segments of society on this process. The lecture also

included a discussion of the shifts in the relative power of the state and

international business and finance, and how this has affected both the policy

options available to national governments and their relative effectiveness. The

lecture can be accessed here: https://soundcloud.com/soaseconomics/labour-

finance-and-inequality-the-changing-nature-of-economic-policy-in-britain

AWARDS

Dr Rebecca Bednarek and Laure Cabantou won the

Best Paper Award of the Strategizing Activities and

Practices Interest Group at the Academy of Management

Conference in August 2017 for their paper “Timing

practices and material markers in coordinating collective

market patterns”. Rebecca thanks her colleagues for the

feedback she received on that paper when she presented

it earlier this year at the Department of Management

Seminar Series.

Nick Pronger recently received the Half Colours and Honours Award from the

Birkbeck Student Union. Lecturers can receive that award when students

nominate them for providing “great support to students during their studies”.

Professor Helen Lawton-Smith and R Lock’s 2016 paper, “The impact of

female entrepreneurship on economic growth in Kenya”, published in the

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship was selected by the

journal’s editorial team as the Outstanding Paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati

Network Awards for Excellence.

Dr Richard Tacon and Dr Geoff Walters won the Best Developmental Paper

of the Corporate Governance Track at the British Association of Management

Conference in September 2017 for their paper “Governance paradoxes over

time: Understanding the role of temporality”.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Dr. Luca Andriani, A.Filippetti and A. Batinti recently wrote a short article

entitled, “There is social capital behind the re-election of a good mayor” (“C’e’

il capital esociale dietro la rielezione del buon sindacao”), in the June 2017

edition of the magazine La Voce. Dr. Andriani and his colleagues’ work on

social capital and incumbent mayor re-elections across the Italian municipalities

was also cited in an article in the June 2017 edition of the Italian magazine, Il

Fatto Quotidiano, to explain the results of the last Italian municipal elections.

The article is available here:

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/06/13/amministrative-cosa-ce-dietro-alla-

mancata-rielezione-di-un-buon-sindaco/3656453/

Prof. Daniele Archibugi, on 27 June, 2017, published an editorial on the Italian

newspaper, Il Manifesto, entitled “Chi ha paura della concessione di

cittadinanza?”, and was subsequently interviewed by a few Television and

Radio stations.

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

Prof. Kevin Ibeh was recently appointed PhD External Examiner at Adam

Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, July 2017. He was also

appointed External Panel Member for the Review of the Lancaster University

Ghana partnership (July 2017) and Expert Reviewer for a research grant

proposal by the National Science Centre, Poland (Sept. 2017). Prof. Ibeh was

also an invited Panellist for the Doctoral Colloquium of the 21st McGill

International Entrepreneurship Conference held in Galway, Republic of Ireland,

(August 30 – Sept. 1, 2017).

Prof. John Kelly was appointed PhD examiner at Darwin College, University

of Cambridge, in May 2017.

Dr Anita Walsh was recently appointed Reviewer for the UK National Teaching

Fellowship Awards. She was also appointed External Examiner for Certificate

in Higher Education Social Welfare, Advice and Guidance at the University of

Leicester.

NEW COLLEAGUES

The Department of Management welcomed several new faculty members and

administrators in September 2017. A short introduction is provided below.

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

Dr. Bruno Schivinski, appointed Lecturer in

Marketing, gained his PhD from Gdansk University of

Technology, Poland, and has taught in a number of

countries, including Poland, Portugal and the UK.

Bruno joined us from the Nottingham Trent University.

Dr. Sorin Piperca, appointed Lecturer in Project

Management, joined us from the University of

Coventry Business School, where he served, until his

new appointment, as Lecturer in Project

Management. Sorin gained his PhD from Montreal,

Canada, and has taught in Canada and elsewhere.

NEW ADMINISTRATORS

Nicola Jackson (n.jackson@bbk.ac.uk), appointed

new Administrator for BSc Marketing and Cert HE,

replaces Dolores King who left Birkbeck to pursue a

career in another sector.

Ana Hickmann (a.hickmann@bbk.ac.uk) is new

Administrator for the BSc Business, along with

Matthew Greenway. She replaces Alex Aspden who

was promoted to a Team Leader role in a sister

Department.

Vanessa Schreiber (v.schreiber@bbk.ac.uk) is the

new Administrative Assistant supporting the

Department in a variety of housekeeping tasks. She

replaces Chris Fray who was promoted to an

Administrator role in a sister Department.

SUMMER RESIDENTIAL WRITING RETREAT

Seven academics from the Department of Management and Organisational

Psychology participated in the second edition of our residential writing retreat

held at the Congham Hall Hotel, close to King’s Lynn, Norfolk, 3-5 July 2017.

The participants engaged in intensive writing on their personal projects,

benefiting from a production-oriented environment and the peace of mind of not

having to manage everyday responsibilities. The Department of Management

successfully runs weekly writing retreats during term time (co-ordinated by Dr.

Federica Rossi and Dr. Wendy Hein) and plans to continue these residential

retreats in the 2017/2018 academic year.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Archibugi D and A Filippetti (2017) “The retreat of public research and its

adverse consequences on innovation” Technological Forecasting and Social

Change. Available online.

Kelly J, A. Hodder, N. McCarthy and M. Williams (2017) “Does strike action

increase trade union membership growth?” British Journal of Industrial

Relations, 55(1): 165-86.

Konzelmann S, F. Wilkinson (forthcoming) “Co-operation and Competition in

Production and Exchange: The “District” Form of Industrial Organization and

Development” Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (Economia e

Politica Industriale).

Konzelmann S, M. Fovargue-Davies and F. Wilkinson (forthcoming) “Britain’s

Industrial Evolution: The Structuring Role of Economic Theory” Journal of

Economic Issues.

Konzelmann S (2017) “Governance in the Making – A View from Academe”

Board Leadership: Innovative Approaches to Governance. 151, May-June.

Lawton Smith H, S Bagchi-Sen, and L Edmunds (2017) “Innovation cycles and

geographies of innovation: A Study of Healthcare innovation in Europe”

European Urban and Regional Studies

Sahiti F, and H Lawton Smith, (forthcoming) “An application of Growth

Diagnostics on the Growth of Firms: with evidence from Kosovo firms” Journal

of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Meschitti V and Lawton Smith, H (2017) “Mentoring for women academics. A

review of the literature and proposition for future research” Journal of Research

in Gender Studies 7(1): 166–199

Rossi, F (2017) The drivers of efficient knowledge transfer performance:

evidence from British universities, Cambridge Journal of Economics,

September

Rossi, F, Rosli, A and N Yip (2017) “Academic engagement as knowledge co-

production and implications for impact: Evidence from Knowledge Transfer

Partnerships”, Journal of Business Research, 80, 1-9

Tacon, R., Walters, G. and Cornforth, C. (2017) “Accountability in nonprofit

governance: A process-based study”, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector

Quarterly, 46 (4), 685-704.

Tacon, R. and Vainker, S. (2017) Fantasy sport: A systematic review and new

research directions, European Sport Management Quarterly.

BOOKS

Archibugi D and A Pease “Crime and Global Justice. The Dynamics of

International Punishment” (“Delitto e castigo nella società globale. Crimini e

processi internazionali”), Castelvecchi. The English edition is in press and will

be published by Polity in January 2018.

Growth Frontiers in International Business, edited by

Professor Kevin Ibeh, Dr Paz Estrella Tolentino, Dr

Odile E.M. Janne and Professor Xiaming Liu of the

Department of Management, has recently been

published by Palgrave Macmillan. The 300-page

research volume, produced in association with the

Academy of International Business UK and Ireland

Chapter, provides insights on new growth avenues and

trajectories in international business and offers fresh

and interdisciplinary perspectives on directions for advancing the growth of

international enterprises and the global economy. An international cast of

established and emergent scholars from the International Business and

International Entrepreneurship fields contributed the individual chapters, which

illustrate a variety of contemporary growth directions in international business.

The book explores topics around international entrepreneurship, foreign direct

investment, international networks and growth industries, triggers and

practices, and is organized in four main sub sections, covering policy frontiers,

emerging market frontiers, innovation pathways and ethical growth avenues.

BOOK CHAPTER

Tuncay Zayer L, C. A. Coleman, H Wendy, J Littlefield, L Steinfield (2018 – in

press). “Gender and the Self: Traversing Feminisms, Masculinities, and

Intersectionality Towards Transformative Perspectives”. In Michael R.

Solomon, Tina M. Lowrey (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Consumer

Behavior, Routledge: London.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Andriani L and A. Christoforou organized a social capital panel entitled “Can

social capital forge bonds and bridge differences to deal with inequalities?” at

the 7th Annual IIPPE conference, Berlin, Germany, 13-15 September 2017

Andriani L, A. Filippetti and A. Batinti “Why does social capital increase

government performance? The role of local elections across Italian

municipalities” Public Management and Institutional Quality Workshop,

Gothenburg, Sweden, 6-8 June 2017

Andriani L “Fighting corruption and the use of bribe in the Palestinian

Territories: with or without social capital” Research Group of the Analysis of

Economic Policies Seminar (GRAPE), Rome, Italy, May 2017

Archibugi organized a Panel at the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities on

Crossing Borders: Negotiation, Provocation, and Transgression, London, 5-6

May 2017

De Silva, M A Rosli, F Rossi, N Yip, “Overcoming the dark side of value co-

creation in service networks: An entrepreneurial approach” Academy of

Management Conference 2017, Warwick Business School , September 2017

Steinfield L, C Coleman, L Tuncay Zayer, J Brace-Govan, R Harrison, W Hein,

J Östberg N Ourahmoune and M Sanghvi “Mapping out a Transformative

Consumer Research Agenda for Gender & Intersectionalities”, Transformative

Consumer Research Conference 2017, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

Ibeh, K “Thoughts on Developing a Fit-for-Purpose International Business

Curriculum for African Students and Practitioners”, 59th Annual Meeting of the

Academy of International Business, Dubai, UAE, 1-5 July, 2017.

Ibeh, K “Impact of FDI on Africa’s Sustainable Development”, 59th Annual

Meeting of the Academy of International Business, Dubai, UAE, 1-5 July, 2017.

Ibeh, K Special Panel Organizer/Chair on the Impact of Multinational

Enterprises in Africa, 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International

Business, Dubai, UAE, 1-5 July, 2017.

Kelly J “Rethinking Industrial Relations”, British Universities Industrial

Relations Association Annual Conference, Portsmouth, June 2017

Kelly J “Left of Centre Parties and Trade Unions”, Queen Mary University of

London/Political Studies Association Workshop, June 2017.

Konzelmann S participated in the Commemoration of the Cambridge Journal

of Economics’ 40th Anniversary. Cambridge Political Economy Society. A movie

was created at this occasion. To watch the associated promotional video, follow

the link: http://www.cpes.org.uk/cje-film/

Lawton Smith H, A Lindholm Dahlstrand, L Edmunds, and S Bagchi-Sen,

“Understanding the role of the local in technological innovation systems:

Research-based firms and regional development in Sweden and the UK”,

Invited paper for special session in honour of Charlie Karlsson, Uddevalla

Symposium, Trolhatten, Sweden, June 2017

Lawton Smith H and R Waters ‘Universities and their local labour markets: the

cases of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire’, Presentation at Uddevalla

Symposium, Trolhatten, Sweden, June 2017

Lawton Smith H, D Assimakopoulos, N Baines, R Romeo, and M Tsouri,

“Oxford and Grenoble: knowledge organisations in local development

revisited”, Presentation at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference

Dublin, Ireland, June 2017

Lawton Smith H and S Bagchi-Sen, “Medcity: Challenges and Opportunities

in Envisioning a ‘Golden Research Triangle’ in the UK”, Presentation at

Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, USA, April

2017

Lawton Smith H “Geographies and the gender politics of skill Invited panellist”

in Panel session: Placing the Politics of Skill II American Geographers Annual

Conference, Boston, USA, April 2017

Lawton Smith H, Discussant of “Meeting the Challenge of Social and Regional

Inequality: How Coordinated Market Economies Link Innovation and Welfare”

given by Bjorn Asheim, Regional Studies Association Annual Lecture,

American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston April 2017

Rosli A, M de Silva, F Rossi, N Yip, “Engaged scholarship and new business

opportunities: how do SMEs capitalise on their engagement with academics?”

British Academy of Management Conference 2017, Warwick Business School

, September 2017

Tacon R and G Walters “Governance paradoxes over time: Understanding the

role of temporality, British Association of Management Conference, Corporate

Governance track, September 2017

Walsh A. and P Powell “Impact Through Engaged Learning: Working with

Mode 2 Knowledge and Intrapreneurship” Engaged Learning Conference

Sheffield, July 2017.

RESEARCH CENTRES’ ACTIVITIES

• CENTRE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY AND INSTITUTIONAL

STUDIES (CPEIS)

Birkbeck hosted a half-day workshop on 15 June to launch Birkbeck’s new

Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS). The event was

sponsored by the School of Business Economics and Informatics (BEI) and the

School of Law. After a welcome from Prof Philip Powell, Executive Dean, BEI,

three distinguished guest speakers from the fields of economics, politics and

criminology talked about the importance of institutions and political economy in

their respective research fields. Prof. Stephen Farrell (University of Sheffield)

presented preliminary results from an ESRC funded project, The Long-Term

Impacts of Thatcherism. Dr Waltraud Schelkle (London School of Economics)

presented some of the key findings from her new book, The Political Economy

of European Monetary Solidarity. Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson (University of

Hertfordshire) talked on The importance of institutions in understanding

international economic performance. Dr. L. Andriani, Dr. D. Hodson, Prof. R.

Smith and Dr. S. Xenakis led a final roundtable discussion about the origin and

the aim of the CPEIS.

• BIRKBECK SPORT BUSINESS CENTRE

On Thursday 27 July 2017, the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre and the

Birkbeck Sport Business Society (the Association of Sport Management

Students and Alumni) co-hosted a social event for current sport management

students, alumni and staff in the Birkbeck Bar. The evening was very well

attended and there were plenty of opportunities for catching up. The Birkbeck

Sport Business Society presented an annual report of their activities and

elected new representatives to take the Society forward in 2017/18.

• CENTRE FOR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (CIMR)

Workshops and Research Seminars

May 8 2017: Presentation and discussion of the article “Small Firm Adaptive

Capability, Competitive Strategy, and Performance Outcomes” published in

Strategic Change. Presenters were George Chryssochoidis (University of Kent)

and Dimitrios Dousios (University of East Anglia). The event was chaired by

Carlo Milana, with Ning Baines and Dina Mansour as discussants.

June 23 2017: A workshop on “Absorptive Capacity: Conceptual and Empirical

Issues” was organized by Marion Frenz and Grazia Ietto-Gilles.

September 12 2017: A workshop on “How can SMEs make the most of public

R&D investment? Drivers of SMEs impactful engagement with universities” was

organized by Dr Federica Rossi at the British Academy, London SW1Y 5AH.

CIMR Working Papers

• WP37 Innovation in risky markets. Multinational and domestic firms in the

UK regions by L Gagliardi and S Iammarino.

• WP38 A tale of persistent network additionality, with evidence from a

regional policy by A Caloffi, F Rossi, and M Russo

TRIGGER

The members of the Trigger team organised a workshop on “Women & Careers

in STEMM” at the University of Pisa on 27 May 2017.

The final conference of the TRIGGER project was held at the British Medical

Association building on June 21 2017.

PHD NEWS

Department of Management PhD Qualitative Research Discussion Group

The group aims to provide some space and time for PhD students to talk about

the specificities of doing research with qualitative data. Each month, group

members read and then discuss two academic journal articles: one

methodological article focusing on a particular research approach and one

empirical article that uses that approach. For example, in the first meeting, the

group discussed Kathleen Eisenhardt’s classic paper ‘Building theories from

case study research’ (1989) and a recent study by Felipe Santos and

Eisenhardt (2009), which used the multiple case study approach to develop a

theory of how entrepreneurs shape organisational boundaries and construct

markets.

The inaugural meeting of the Birkbeck Department of Management PhD

Qualitative Research Discussion Group took place in July 2017 in the basement

café of Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road. The next meeting will take

place on 2 October.

The group currently goes by the name Quartz (for Qualitative Research Talk

Zone), but it might change in the near future as the group is still in its inception

phase. The group was set up by Richard Tacon and Rebecca Bednarek, in

collaboration with a number of Department of Management PhD students.

For more information, get in touch with Richard Tacon.