FOREWORD BY THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT ........................................... 1

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES ....................................................................... 2

MEDIA COVERAGE ........................................................................................ 3

RESEARCH GRANTS ..................................................................................... 4

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS ........................................................................ 5

NEW COLLEAGUES ....................................................................................... 5

LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS ....................................... 7

RESEARCH CENTRES’ ACTIVITIES ............................................................. 9

CIMR Working Papers ................................................................................. 11

PHD NEWS ................................................................................................... 11

FOREWORD BY THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Foreword by Geoff Walters, the Head of the Department.

A Happy New Year to all. This edition of the departmental newsletter is my

first as Head of Department. This is therefore an opportune time to thank

Professor Kevin Ibeh for his leadership of the department over the last four

years and wish him success in his new role as Pro Vice Master (International).

Kevin’s leadership has ensured that the department remains in good shape

for 2018. As we usher in a new calendar year, we have two new colleagues

arriving: Dr Muthu de Silva, who joins as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and

Innovation, and Dr Grace Bo Peng, our new Lecturer in Accounting; and we

have another four positions to be filled in early 2018. Research excellence

continues to be a key commitment and as we gear up for the next REF, this

newsletter sets out some recent achievements by our colleagues. I hope that

you all join me in welcoming our new colleagues and I wish you all every

success in 2018.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Daniele Archibugi has attended the

Science Centres World Conference at the

Museum of Emerging Science and

Innovation in Tokyo (November 15-17

2017), where he has spoken on “Science

Fiction and Innovation” in the Plenary

Session devoted to Co-design in Science

and Technology. If you would like to know more about this, Daniele Archibugi

will be to share his deck of slides with you.

Dr Rebeca Gumbrell-McCormick participated in the first meeting of an

international inter-disciplinary research project called 'In search of a global

labour market' at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum fur

Interdisciplinare Forschung – ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld, 16 to 18

October. This project will lead to several collaborative research publications

and dissemination to the general public as well as academics. It will take up

much of her research time this coming year.

RESEARCH IMPACT

Dr Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick took part in a panel about Precarious

Workers, along with trade unionists and precarious worker activist, as part of

Manifesto, the annual forum organised by the eponym Portuguese NGO on

27-28 October. The theme for the forum as a whole was 'the work of the

future and the future of work' and there were around 100 participants from

trade unions, political parties, social movements and others. Dr Rebecca

Gumbrell-McCormick presented a comparative perspective on precarious

work and workers across Europe, and the different attitudes and relations

between them and trade unions.

Dr Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick also took part, as an invited expert in an

international training seminar on Trade Unions and Democracy, organised by

the European Trade Union Institute in Budapest from 30 August to 1st

September. There were approximately 20 participants from 10 EU countries.

This is part of an on-going collaboration with the ETUI, which is the basis for a

research impact case.

Dr Suzann Konzelmann contributed to the workshop “Labour Markets: New

Research and Policy Suggestions” organized by Centre for Business

Research of Cambridge University, Cambridge Public Policy Strategic

Research Initiative and the Cabinet Office Open Innovation Team (OIT) on 14

December. The session Dr Konzelmann contributed to focused on “The

Insecurity Cycle of Labour, Finance and Policy. Dr Konzelmann discussed

finance and inequality in labour markets (explaining the insecurity cycle and

presenting new data), considered potential policy implications and offered

ideas and suggestions for future policy focus.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Prof. Daniele Archibugi has been often interviewed by a number of Italian

media a result of the publication of his latest book Delitto e Castigo Nella

Soceità Globale (Crime and punishment in a Globalized Society) in

September in co-authorship with Alice Pease. Interviews include a video

interview by Corrado Augias, Quante storie, Raitre, on 9 November 2017 and

an interview for the newspaper La Repubblica, il Venerdì, on 23 September

2017. The book will be published in English in January 2018.

Prof. Daniele Archibugi has shared his expertise on international trials with a

number of media at the occasion of the ruling on Ratko Mladic on 23

November 2017. He has been interviewed by several Radios and TVs

including Rainews24 - see photo below. He also contributed to an article on

Ratko Mladic in the journal “Il Manifesto”.

Dr Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick gave an interview in the Portuguese

newspaper Publico, a leading broadsheet in Portugal, in relation to the work

on Precarious Workers at the Portuguese NGO Manifesto on 27-28 October.

The article entitled É preciso captar jovens e pessoas com novas ideias para

os sindicatos was published on 9 December.

RESEARCH GRANTS

The Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS), along with

the Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR), the London Centre

for Corporate Governance and Ethics (LCCGE), and the Centre for Critical

European Law (CCEL) have received a College Collaboration Competition

Grant for their project proposal on “Institutionalising Interdisciplinarity”. The

project aims to impact the College’s interdisciplinary research-led-teaching

environment by disseminating good interdisciplinary research and teaching

practices implemented outside the College and to promote networking with

IDR centres, interdisciplinary global network associations and funding

institutes. The grant, £1,340, will be used to carry two workshops and focus

groups in 2018.

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

Dr Anita Walsh was asked in November to be the pre-publication reader of a

book on Placement Learning by Springer Publishers.

NEW COLLEAGUES

The Department of Management welcomed several new faculty members this

term. A short introduction is provided below.

Dr Grace Bo Peng joined us as a

Lecturer in in Accounting coming from

Warwick Business School where she

worked as a research fellow on the

entrepreneurship finance projects. Grace

holds an MPhil from Hong Kong

Polytechnic University and a PhD in

Management from Cass Business School.

Her interests lie broadly in

entrepreneurship. She recently published

two meta-analyses on international tourism

demand analysis and forecasting Tourism

Management and Journal of Travel

Research.

Dr Muthu De Silva joined us as a Lecturer

in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in

January but she already attended writing

retreats during the Autumn term. Her

research investigates co-creation,

intermediaries, and university-business

interactions. She has published in

Research Policy, Journal of Organizational

Behaviour, International Small Business

Journal and Studies in Higher Education

and received best paper awards in

Innovation by the BAM Conference in 2015

and 2016. She has strong trackrecord in

securing large grants from Innovate UK

and EU. She will be teaching

Entrepreneurship modules. She is very

much looking forward to engaging in

collaborative research and teaching with

colleagues.

Dr Lorenzo Neri was appointed Lecturer

in Accounting in the department of

Management at Birkbeck University.

Before joining Birkbeck he was senior

lecturer in Financial and Management

Accounting at Greenwich University from

2014 to 2017. Lorenzo holds a PhD in

Business Administration from the

University of Florence, Italy where he was

research fellow and adjunct professor. In

2009 he was a visiting scholar at Columbia

University in New York. In 2008 he was a

visiting scholar at the NYU Stern School of

Business in New York. Before academia,

Lorenzo worked at KPMG Italy as tax and

business consultant for three years.

Dr Ashok Kumar was appointed lecturer

in International Political Economy. Ashok

joined us from the School of Geography at

Queen Mary where he is in the final year of

a three-year Leverhulme Early Career

Fellowship. Ashok sits on the editorial

board of the journals Environment and

Planning D: Society and Space and the

editorial collective of Historical Materialism,

as well as project editor of the critical

geography journal City. While Ashok holds

a DPhil in Economic Geography from

Oxford, his first degree was in Religious

Studies in Wisconsin. If you would like to

hear more about his research, come and

listen to him in our seminar series on

January 30 present his work with Giorgos

Galanis titled A dynamic model for

monopsony power on global value chains.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Archibugi, D and Cellini M (2017) “The Internal and External Levers to

Achieve Global Democracy” Journal of Global Policy, 8(6): 65-77.

Konzelmann S. and Wilkinson F. (2017) “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) 44(4): 393-410.

Rosli, A., De Silva, M., Rossi, F. and N. Yip (2018) “The long-term impact of

engaged scholarship: how do SMEs capitalise on their engagement with

academics to explore new opportunities?”, International Small Business

Journal, forthcoming.

Walsh, A and Powell, P (2017), “Whose curriculum is it anyway? Stakeholder

Salience in the context of Degree Apprenticeships” Higher Education

Quarterly, November.

CONFERENCES

Andriani L. has been invited as guest speaker to a half-day workshop on 4

November to talk about No Trespassing: the Risks and Rewards of

Interdisciplinary Research. The workshop has been organised for a PhD

students’ audience by the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

of Birkbeck University.

Andriani L, A. Qaddoura “Islamic Religiosity and Social Capital: Evidence

from Jordan” 2017 WINIR Annual Conference, Utrecht, The Netherland, 14-17

September 2017

Kelly J. (2017) “Contemporary British Trotskyism: parties, social movements

and sects”, Historical Materialism Annual Conference, London, November.

Walsh, A and Powell, P (2017) “Developing Managerial Skills through Inter-

Disciplinarity/Mode 2 Knowledge”, EFMD Higher Education Research

Conference, Leuven, Belgium, October.

RESEARCH CENTRES’ ACTIVITIES

• LONDON CENTRE FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND

ETHICS

The London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics (LCCGE) ran two

Seminars in the Autumn term:

• "Systemic Aspects of (Un)ethical Behaviours: CSR and Organizational

Ethical Infrastructure" by Barbara Fryzel, Jagiellonian University

Poland on 27 October.

• “The Misinterpretation of Marginalized Groups in Developing Countries

and its Consequences” by Rashed Chowdhury, University College

Dublin on 24 November

The seminar series will be interrupted during the Spring term as Dr. Suzanne

Konzelmann is on sabbatical and Dr Ioanna Boulouta is on maternity leave.

The seminar series will resume during the Summer term. The schedule of

topics and speakers is already posted on the research centre’s website:

http://www.lccge.bbk.ac.uk/news/seminar

• CENTRE FOR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

The Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR) organized a

workshop with Essex Business School on the topic: “What governance of

university-industry interactions increases the value of industrial inventions?”.

Presenters included Claudio Fassio, from Centre for Innovation, Research,

and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Aldo

Geuna, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Torino and

Federica Rossi, CIMR School of Business, Economics and Informatics,

Birkbeck

• TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS BY GENDERING CONTENTS

AND GAINING EQUALITY IN RESEARCH (TRIGGER)

Members of the TRIGGER project organised a PhD seminar on September

26 on the topic of Building an interdisciplinary Career. Speakers were Kate

Maclean, Director of Birkbeck Centre for Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) and Dr

Gabriela Alvarez Minte, who recently completed her PhD at Birkbeck after

many years of working in women’s rights at the United Nations Development

Fund for Women (UNIFEM). The seminar took the form of a conversation.

For more information about the content of the seminar, read the blog post

published on the event here.

The TRIGGER research team organised a seminar on the topic of

“Rethinking Research Methods” in partnership with Birkbeck's Department

of Psychological Sciences on Thursday 2 November. The seminar took the

form of a conversation between Teodora Gliga, Centre for Brain and Cognitive

Development, Birkbeck, Lucy Tallentire and Yanique Stanford, School of

Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck. The conversation focused on

the innovative ways in which gender perspectives can be integrated into

research processes, and how researchers might consider disseminating their

work. Specifically, Dr Teodora Gliga reflected on the tools she developed to

include gender in her research procedures at Babylab, a research centre in

the School of Science which focuses on the study of infants’ cognitive

development.

The Final Conference of the TRIGGER Consortium took place in Brussels

on November 28/29. Presentations included one by Professor Colette Henry

on Networking and Professor Helen Lawton Smith on Institutional Change.

CIMR Working Papers

Archibugi, D, Bavastrelli M, and Cellini, M, “Does Discussion Lead to Opinion

Change? An Experiment in Deliberative Democracy” in the Birkbeck Working

Papers in Management in November 2017

PHD NEWS

New PhD Cohort

The department has welcome seven new PhD students this term:

- Maryam GHORBANKHANI, supervised by Dr Federica Rossi

- Muhammed JAMIL, supervised by Prof. Pamela Yeow

- Ayse KAPTANER, supervised by Prof. Daniele Archibugi

- Filipe MARTINS GOMES, supervised by Prof. Helen Lawton Smith

- Yanique STANFORD, supervised by Prof. Helen Lawton Smith

- Ruocheng ZHAO, who is supervised by Prof. Xiaming Liu

- Chong ZHONG, who is supervised by Prof. Xiaming Liu

Details of their profiles will soon be uploaded in the website, along with the

profiles of the other PhD students here:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/management/our-research/phd

New Workshop Series in Collaboration with the University of Essex

Southend

A new workshop for PhD students (staff also welcome) in international

business, entrepreneurship, and innovation, jointly with the University of

Essex Southend has been initiated. It meets once per term, alternating

between Birkbeck and Essex.

Dr Federica Rossi presented a paper on "What governance of university-

industry interactions increases the value of industrial inventions?" at the

Birkbeck-Essex Workshop on International Business and Innovation, held at

Southend on December 6th 2017. The workshop was mainly aimed at PhD

students. The presentation discussed not only the paper's conceptual

framework, data and results but also reflected on the development of the

research idea, the management of the research collaboration and on the

publication process.

The first session at Birkbeck, hosted by the Centre for Innovation

Management Research, will be on 28th February, with papers presented by

Prof Marcela Miozzo (Kings) and Prof Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston), and

responses by Birkbeck & Essex students. This joins the ongoing Birkbeck-

Kings Marketing Seminar as a tool for engaging our students with a broader

research community.

First dedicated PhD induction

The department organised a first PhD induction event on October 3. Frederic

Guy would like to send his many thanks to the continuing PhD students who

welcomed the new at the reception following the induction session.