Professor Alexander gives BBC interview on the development of the supermarket in the UK

20 January 2012

Professor Andrew Alexander gave a wide-ranging radio interview on the development of the supermarket in the UK to BBC Radio London in December 2011. Coinciding with the release of a Government appointed independent review of the future of the High Street led by Mary Portas, Andrew spoke about the historical development of the supermarket, as well as more recent aspects of the debate on retail change and its effects. 

Andrew’s AHRC funded research on the historical development of the supermarket in the UK, and its effects on consumers, was also featured in Bagehot’s regular column in The Economist last year.

Best seller

10 January 2012

Christmas brought a special surprise for one Surrey Business School academic when his book hit the top of Amazon’s best sellers list. Professor Mark Saunders’ text, ‘Research Methods for Business Students’ is currently top of the education bestsellers list on Amazon. The book, co-authored with Adrian Thornhill and Philip Lewis has always been a popular text and the sixth edition is due out later this year.

Taking trust to China

10 January 2012

Professor Reinhard Bachmann of the Surrey Business School has been invited to take up a visiting professorship at Wuhan University in China. Wuhan is one of China’s leading universities with a long and rich history. The invitation comes from Professor Luo, Director of the prestigious Institute of Social Science Development and Innovation.

Award winning papers

10 January 2012

Between them Dr Julie Gore from the Surrey Business School and Dr Alexander Pepper, a Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics have won two awards for recent academic papers.

Dr Gore and Dr Pepper’s paper entitled “Towards a Behavioural Agency Theory: New Micro-foundations for Theorising about Senior Executive Reward” was presented at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management 3rd European Reward Management Conference in Brussels at the beginning of December where it won the Best Paper award.

New exchange agreement with Grenoble Ecole de Management

10 November 2011

The Surrey Business School is delighted to that a new bilateral agreement has been signed with the triple accredited Grenoble Ecole de Management for undergraduate student exchange. The agreement is with effect from October 2011.