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Surrey Business School News

Our staff frequently engage with the media and are involved in leading conferences and seminars around the world. The School also offers a busy programme of events for students, alumni and the academic community.

New seminar series offers insight into the latest marketing and retail research

16 April 2012

This year has seen the successful launch of the Marketing and Retail Management Group’s new seminar series. Alongside a series of interesting presentations from Group members, three guest speakers have visited Surrey Business School to present on their research. Professor Nancy Puccinelli (Oxford University) spoke on ‘Competitive advantage through customer experience’, Professor David Grant (University of Hull) presented his research in a seminar entitled ‘Retail logistics versus retail marketing’, and Dr Gabriella Spinelli (Brunel University) presented on her study about ‘Getting to know the ageing market’. If you were unable to attend you can watch these presentations and subsequent discussions online now by following the links above.

 

SEDTC Studentships Announced

4 April 2012

The South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) Selection Panel met on 27 March and have announced a number of studentships. Gustavo Mellior, School of Economics, and Lynn Beard, Surrey Business School, have both been granted studentships. Congratulations go to them and the staff that have worked hard throughout this process including Prof Mark Saunders, Prof Giovanni Forchini and Dr Caroline Scarles.

The SEDTC is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council and provides high quality doctoral supervision as well as encouraging and supporting innovative and high impact research. Studentships can be used to cover fees, maintenance and field research and are worth up to £20,000 a year.

 

Professor Goss is Editor's Choice

30 March 2012

Professor David Goss’s paper ‘Power as Practice: A Micro-sociological Analysis of the Dynamics of Emancipatory Entrepreneurship’ is at the top of the Editors Choice list in the 4* journal Organization Studies.

Professor Goss is lead author on the paper which also involved colleagues from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. The paper explains how social rituals shape entrepreneurial behaviour through the exercise of power within social situations. It provides a novel theory of entrepreneurial motivation and an alternative to conventional conceptions of power.

 

The Economist looks at Surrey research

29 March 2012

Does it pay to hire top banks? This is the question asked in The Economist and answered by research from Surrey Business School’s Professor Dimitris Petmezas. Read the article to find out how Professor Petmezas’ research is casting fresh light on this issue:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/03/investment-banking 

 

Professor Geppert’s 'Politics and Power in the multinational corporation'

2 March 2012

Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation

The recently published book 'Politics and Power in the multinational corporation', co-edited by Professor Mike Geppert and published with Cambridge University Press in 2011, has received positive acknowledgement in the academic community. Reviews of the book appeared in the current issues of two leading academic journals, Organization Studies and the Journal of International Management.