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Publications Alkhaled, S. (2016) “Are you one of us, or one of them?” An autoethnography of a ‘hybrid’ feminist researcher bridging two worlds. In: R. Thwaits and A. Pressland, (ed) Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences, and Challenges. Palgrave.

Mauthner, N. S. & Alkhaled, S. (2013) Women and Management in Britain. In: M. Paludi,(ed) Women and Management Worldwide: Global Issues and Promising Solutions. Praeger.

Dr Sophie Alkhaled Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation

Sophie Alkhaled has joined LUMS in June 2016. She is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at DESI. After gaining her BSc in Psychology and MSc in Management from Lancaster University, she undertook a PhD in Management Studies from The University of Aberdeen Business School, Aberdeen, Scotland; followed by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stockholm University Business School - Centre for Entrepreneurship, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sophie’s interdisciplinary research interest is gender, work and entrepreneurship. She is particularly interested in feminism in the Middle East and the question of women’s emancipation and political activism through entrepreneurship. She is currently focusing on Syrian women refugees’ entrepreneurship and social innovation in the contexts of the LUMSJorda Photo n, Sweden and the UK. Publications Angwin, D. N., Paroutis, S. and Connell, R. (2015) Why Good Things Don’t Happen: The Micro- foundations of Routines in the M&A Process, Journal of Business Research, 68 (6): 1367 – 1381. Angwin, D. N. and Meadows, M. (2015) New integration strategies for post acquisition management, Long Range Planning, 48(4): 235-251, August.

Angwin, D. N. and Paroutis, S. (2009) Connecting up Strategy: Are Senior Strategy Directors (SSDs) a missing link? California Management Review, 51 (3): 74- 94. Spring. Professor Duncan Angwin Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/duncan-angwin

Duncan Angwin joined LUMS in August 2015. He is a Professor in Strategic Management at DESI. He is also Head of the Sir Rowland Smith Centre of Strategic Management Research. After gaining his M.A (Hons) and M.Phil. from Cambridge University, Duncan spent 9 years in corporate finance in investment banks. Subsequently he gained an MBA from Cranfield University and a PhD from Warwick University on UK Takeovers. Duncan researches the practices of strategy actors such as strategy directors as well as organisational level strategy renewal actions, such as international mergers and acquisitions. He won the Best Practice Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Conference (SMS), Cologne Germany (2008), with co-author Sotirios Paroutis, for their paper on strategy directors. He was also Chair of the Strategy as Practice track and the Awards Panel at SMS for 4 years. Duncan is co-author of leading strategy and mergers and acquisitions books, including Europe’s best selling strategy text, Exploring Strategy (11th ed). He has worked with a wide variety of companies and lectured extensively.

Publications Dada, L. & Fogg, H. (2016). Organisational learning, entrepreneurial orientation, and the role of university engagement in SMEs. International Small Business Journal, 34(1), 86-104. Watson, A., Dada, L., Grünhagen, M. & Wollan, M. (2016). When do franchisors select entrepreneurial franchisees?: An organisational identity perspective. Journal of Business Research. Forthcoming.

Dr Lola Dada Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/lola-dada

Lola Dada is a Lecturer in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation. She also serves as the Academic (Plagiarism) Officer. She was formerly the Director of Undergraduate Programmes. She has a BSc (Hons.) in Economics, MSc in Corporate and International Finance, and PhD in Management.

Lola’s teaching has been at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Modules taught are varied, and examples are ‘entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship’ and ‘franchising’. Her current research interests are in franchising, entrepreneurship and business-university engagement.

Awards ET&P Outstanding Reviewer Award 2015 FBR Excellent Reviewer Award 2015 Best Paper Award IFERA 2014, Best Paper FERC 2014, Best Paper Award USASBE 2014, Best Paper Award AoM (2015, 2014, 2013), Outstanding Researcher Award University of Bergamo (2013, 2012) Publications (2015). A Closer Look at Socioemotional Wealth: Its Flows, Stocks, and Prospects for Moving Forward, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. (2015). Learning resources for family business education: A review and directions for future developments. Academy of Management Learning & Education.

Professor Alfredo De Massis Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/alfredo-de-massis

Alfredo holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship & Family Business and is the Director of the LUMS Centre for Family Business. He serves as member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Family Business (IFB) Research Foundation and as Chair of the Family Business Research SIG at the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He served as Global Board Member and Chairman of the European Leadership Council of the Global STEP Project for Family Enterprising founded by Babson College (USA).

Alfredo’s research interests focus on family business and innovation. On these topics, he has published widely in a variety of 4* and Financial Times journals such as ET&P, JPIM, AMLE, CMR, JBE. He serves on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Family Business Review and Journal of Family Business Strategy and has been editor of eight special issues on family business research.

Publications Demir, R. (2015). Strategic Activity as Bundled Affordances. British Journal of Management, 26(S1), S125-S141. Demir, R. & Lychnell, L-O (2015). Mangling the process: A meta-theoretical account of process theorizing. Qualitative Research, 15(1), 85-104. Demir, R. & Söderman, S. (2015). Strategic sponsoring in professional sport: A review and conceptualization. European Sport Management Quarterly, 15(3), 271-300.

Dr Robert Demir Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/robert-demir

Robert Demir joined LUMS in February 2016. He is a Lecturer in Strategic Management at DESI. After gaining a Masters degree in International Business from Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, he undertook a PhD in Strategic Management from Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden. Robert’s research interests are the practices and processes of strategy and specifically the open, collaborative modes of strategic activity, the materiality and materials of strategy, and the transfer of such practices across national and organizational boundaries. He is also interested in behavioural and cognitive dimensions of strategy practice and management practice innovations. He has studied these topics across a wide range of industries, such as aluminium profiles, automotive parts, banking, bearings, and IT consulting. Awards Outstanding Reviewer, JFBM, Emerald Literati Network 2015 Awards for Excellence Publications Discua Cruz, Hadjielias & Howorth (2016). Family Entrepreneurial teams. Discua Cruz, Ramos, Raudales & Fortin (2016). The influence of the State and immigration in the development of large family businesses in Honduras. Rosa, Howorth, Discua Cruz (2015). Habitual and portfolio entrepreneurship and the family in business.

Dr. Allan Discua Cruz Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/allan-discua-cruz

Allan joined LUMS in 2009. He brings his experience as a third generation member of a business family and as active member of non-profit organisations to teaching and research. He is a founding member of the Centre for Family Business at LUMS. Allan teaches courses on small and medium sized enterprises, internationalisation and social contexts of entrepreneurship. His research interests focus on a) Family entrepreneurial teams b) Collective approaches to portfolio entrepreneurship and c) Non-profit and hybrid entrepreneurial organisations.

Awards Best Paper Management Learning journal 2014 Publications Moisander, J., Hirsto, H., and Fahy, K. (forthcoming, 2015) "Emotions in institutional work: A discursive perspective". Organization Studies. Fahy, K., Easterby-Smith, M., Lervik, JE. (2014). "The power of spatial and temporal orderings in organizational learning." Management Learning. 45(2): 123-144

Dr Kathryn Fahy Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/kathryn-fahy

Kathryn is Lecturer in Strategic Management in the Centre for Strategic Management. Her research builds on practice-based and discursive approaches in management and organisation studies. Her research focuses on:

• the negotiation of strategic change and legitimacy in MNCs • organisational responses to sustainability pressures • spatial and temporal dynamics in organisational learning

She has over 10 years’ experience working in the private, public and voluntary sectors and is keen for her research to engage with issues of importance to practitioners and to broader society.

She is an active member of the international Strategy-as-Practice (S-as- P) community.

Awards Best Reviewer Award 2014 – IJMR

Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award 2013 – AOM – SAP IG Publications Friesl, M. and Larty, J. (2013). Replication of Routines in Organizations: Existing Literature and New Perspectives. IJMR

Friesl, M. (2012). Knowledge acquisition strategies and company performance in young high technology companies. BJM

Dr Martin Friesl Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/martin-friesl

Dr Martin Friesl is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Director of the MSc in International Business. He teaches competitive and corporate strategy on the Full-time MBA, the MSc International Business & Strategy and the MSc in Management. Martin’s research focuses on strategic renewal and the development, change and replication of organisational capabilities in a variety of contexts such as biotechnology, IT offshoring, retailing, commercial property development and financial services. He received his Masters’ degree in Business Education from LMU Munich and his Doctorate in Management from University Bw Munich.

Before joining LUMS, Martin has worked as a project manager for change management with Siemens AG. Martin serves on the board of

the Strategy Practice IG at the Strategic Management Society. Funding Awards Regional Growth Fund award of £32m for the Wave 2 Cities programme (2013, with Hamilton and Garner) ESRC Business Placement Fellowships -Entrepreneur in Residence (£32k Co-I) Publications George, M. J. A., Hamilton, E. & Gordon, I. 2010. Case Study: What is (the point of) an entrepreneur in residence? A description of the Lancaster University experience, plus some worldwide comparisons. Industry and Higher Education, 24, 495-503.

Magnus George Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/magnus-george

Senior Teaching Fellow and Academic Programme Director of the BBA in International Business Management A BSc Ecological Science (Wildlife & Fisheries Management) from Edinburgh University led to a career in marine capture fisheries science and management, then business management in the commercial sector. Following a Lancaster MBA (2000) I joined the University in 2002 to work on European funded knowledge exchange projects and a suite of regional and national government financed initiatives to support SMEs. Highlights include the LEAD, GOLD and Top Team programmes and launching the LUMS guild of Entrepreneurs in Residence. I introduce entrepreneurship to our first year undergraduates and MBA students, and am busy with student recruitment and oversight of the LUMS side of the International Partnership of Business Schools, under which we offer our BBA in International Business Management. Publications

Gordon, I (2013) SME non- executive directors; having one and being one. Industry & Higher Education, Vol 27 (6) Gordon, I., Hamilton, E., and Jack, S. (2011), ‘A study of a university-led entrepreneurship education programme for small business owner–managers’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Vol 24, No 9/10.

Gordon, I., and Jack, S. (2010), ‘HEI engagement with SMEs: developing social capital’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol 16, No 6.

Ian Gordon

Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/ian-gordon

Ian Gordon is a Senior Teaching Fellow and has been central to the development of business programmes at Lancaster University. In 2008 he was appointed an Entrepreneur in Residence funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK. His research interests include the use of non-executive directors; the design of knowledge exchange programmes specifically the interaction between higher education, small businesses and large corporations.

He teaches business planning and innovation at undergraduate, postgraduate and post experience levels.

His commercial background is that of a senior company director, growth consultant and entrepreneur, having started, turned-around, refinanced, grown, sold and exited a number of companies. He is an accomplished master class speaker delivering informative and entertaining workshops on business growth and innovation

Publications Konopaski, M., Jack, S.L Hamilton, E. (2015). How do family members learn about continuity, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14 (3), 1–18. Hamilton, E. (2015) Entrepreneurial narrative identity and gender: a double epistemological shift, Journal of Small Business Management, 4 (52), 703–712. Hamilton, E. (2013) Entrepreneurship across generations: narrative, gender and learning in family business, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Professor Eleanor Hamilton Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/ellie-hamilton

Eleanor Hamilton is an Emeritus Professor of Entrepreneurship. After gaining a Masters in Marketing at Lancaster University she undertook a PhD in Management focused on family business and intergenerational learning. Her research critically examines issues of gender and entrepreneurial identity by examining the link between dimensions of learning, identity and narrative.

Professor Hamilton served as Head of Department (2002-2009), Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies (2009-2012) and Associate Dean for Enterprise (2012-2015). She has worked at the interface of theory and practice, developing ways in which research can engage with, and support, entrepreneurs and small business. She helped to secure the Small Business Charter Gold status for Lancaster in 2014. She recently led the Wave 2 Growth Hub programme working with 15 city regions to develop Growth Hubs across England.

Publications

Huang, Q. and Gamble, J. (2015) Social expectations, gender and job satisfaction: Front line employees in China’s retail sector. Human Resource Management Journal. 25 (3): 331–347

Huang, Q. and Gamble, J. (2012) Informal institutional constraints, employee participation and employee satisfaction: evidence from the Chinese retail sector. International Journal of Human Resource Management. 22 (15): 3168-3186

Dr Qihai Huang Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/qihai-huang

Qihai joined LUMS in September 2010. He is a Reader in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at DESI. Before pursuing his academic career, Qihai had several -year work experience in the Chinese central government after obtaining his first degree from Peking University. He received MSc and PhD from the University of Bristol. Prior to Lancaster, Dr Huang worked at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and Royal Holloway, University of London.

His research involves the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to research entrepreneurship and human resource management.

Publications

Konopaski, M., Jack, S.L. and Hamilton, E. (2015). How do family members learn about continuity. Academy of Management Learning and Education.

McKeever, E., Jack, S.L. and Anderson, A.R. (2015). Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place, Journal of Business Venturing.

Dada, L., Jack, S.L. and George, M. (2015). University-business engagement franchising and geographic distance: A case study of a business leadership programme, Regional Studies.

Ivy, J., Larty, J. and Jack S.L. (2015). Searching for Relevance: NGO-Donor Relationships in a Geographically Isolated Community. Journal of Management Inquiry.

Professor Sarah Jack Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/sarah-jack

Sarah Jack is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of Research with the Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation. Her research interests primarily relate to entrepreneurship and SMEs and include social networks, social capital and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship in rural areas. She has explored these aspects also in the contexts of social entrepreneurship and family firms.

Sarah Jack has published widely in international leading journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and Regional Studies. She is an Associate Editor with Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Her work has also been published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Her prizes include the Lewis Institute Best Paper Prize at Babson College.

Sarah Jack supervises a number of PhD students and also teaches courses in Entrepreneurship at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level’s.

Following a career in industry, Sarah Jack gained her PhD from the University of Aberdeen where she also worked as an academic prior to joining Lancaster University.

Awards

Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management 2003-2007, funded by the ESRC/EPSRC

Publications

G.Johnson, S. Prashantham, S.W Floyd & N. Bourque, The Ritualization of Strategy Workshops, 31(12) Org. Studies.

Professor Gerry Johnson Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/gerry-johnson

Gerry Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management and a Fellow of the British Institute of Management. He is co-author of Europe's best-selling strategic management text, Exploring Strategy. He worked for several years in management positions before his academic career. He has a BA in Social and Physical Anthropology from University College London and a PhD from Aston University. He taught at Aston University and Manchester Business School and was a professor at Cranfield School of Management and Strathclyde Business School, prior to moving to Lancaster in 2006. His research interests are in strategy development and change in organisations. He has published many books on strategy and articles in top management journals including the Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of Management Studies. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Management Studies.

Awards

FOBI Scholar in Residence Scholarship 2015 Family Owned Business Institute, Gran Valley State University, USA

AOM Best Paper Award 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting – Entrepreneurship Division Publications

Innovation through tradition: Lessons from innovative family businesses and directions for future research Academy of Management Perspectives, 2016

Family governance at work: Organizing for new product development in family SMEs Family Business Review, 2016

Dr Josip Kotlar Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/josip-kotlar

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Dr Joanne Larty Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/joanne-larty

Joanne Larty joined LUMS in January 2008. She is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship. She also serves as Part II Director for Undergraduate Studies. After working for over 8 years as an IT consultant and Marketing Manager for a small business, Joanne returned to study for her PhD at Lancaster.

Joanne teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research interests are located in a critical understanding of entrepreneurship, as well as understanding entrepreneurial individuals within organizations that include policy-driven projects and local communities. Current research includes a critical examination of ‘desire’ as a central facet of enterprise discourse.

Publications Larty, J., Jack, S. & Lockett, N. (2016) ‘Building Regions: A Resource-Based View of a Policy-Led Knowledge Exchange Network’, Regional Studies. Forthcoming. Garrido-Moreno, A., Lockett, N. & García-Morales, V. (2014) ‘Paving the way for CRM success: the mediating role of knowledge management and organisational commitment’, Information & Management. 51 (8) 1031-1042. Lockett, N. & Blundel, R. (2011) Exploring Entrepreneurship: Practices and Perspectives, Oxford University Press.

Professor Nigel Lockett FRSA Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation

Nigel Lockett (BSc, MSc, PhD) joined LUMS in May 2016 as a Professor of Entrepreneurship. He is a senior academic, experienced manager, entrepreneur and community leader. Before joining Lancaster, he previously worked as Professor of Enterprise at the Leeds University Business School, Senior Lecturer at Bradford University School of Management and Brunel University Business School, Business Development Manager at InfoLab21 and Lecturer at Lancaster University Management School. Nigel also has more than 25 years experience as a company director, with a track record in managing start-up, joint venture and social enterprises. His current research interests include knowledge exchange between universities and industry, academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning and the use of CRM technologies by SMEs.

Publications

Mikhalkina T. and L. Cabantous (2015). 'Business model innovation: How iconic business models emerge'. Advances in Strategic Management

Tatiana Mikhalkina Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/tatiana-mikalkina

Tatiana Mikhalkina joined LUMS in March 2016. She is a Lecturer in Strategic Management at DESI. After gaining a Masters degree in Organisational and Social Psychology from London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, Tatiana pursued PhD in Strategic Management at Cass Business School, London, UK. Prior to pursuing academic career she worked in management consulting. Tatiana’s research interests fall into two major areas. Firstly, she is interested in the social construction of business models, particularly, how new business models emerge as market categories. She studies this phenomenon in the context of sharing economy. Secondly, she is interested in business models as tools in strategy and particularly the role they play in strategic cognition.

Awards

Article of Outstanding Merit 2006 - International Federation of Accountants Publications

David G Pettifer & Sauvik Banerjee (2005) Competitiveness in the UK’s Economy. David Pettifer & Tania Coke (2003). A Culture of Disciplined Empowerment. European Business Forum David Pettifer, Andrew Campbell & Lucy Dennett (2001). Creating the E- Corporate Centre.

Goold, M., Pettifer, D. & Young D (2001) Redesigning the Corporate Centre. European Management Journal, 19 (1), pp. 83-91.

Professor David Pettifer Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/david-pettifer

David is a member of the Advisory Board and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Strategic Management. He acts as a provider of practice-led teaching to post-experience students on the Full-time and Executive MBAs. David draws on his experience in corporate strategy and management consulting, and his engagement with research in the area of corporate strategy, to contribute to several modules on the MBA and MSc Programmes. His key research interests are corporate level strategy and organisation design in multi-business firms and budgeting and performance measurement with an emphasis on strategy implementation and strategic management.

David is an advisor to, and a former senior consulting partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Publications

Baba, S. & Sasaki, I. (2016). David Defeating Goliath: Institutional Work of Minority Logics in Context of Institutional Complexity. AoM Best paper proceedings.

Sasaki, Innan. (2016). A book review of “The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management, Holden, N., Michailova, S. and Tietze, S. (Eds.), (2015), Routledge.” Journal of International Management.

Sasaki, I. & Sone, H. (2015). Cultural Approach in Understanding the Long-Term Survival of Firms - Japanese Shinise Firms in Sake Brewing Industry. Business History, 57(7): 1020-1036.

Sasaki, I. & Yoshikawa, K. (2014). Going beyond national cultures - Dynamic interaction between national, regional, and organizational realities. Journal of World Business, 49(3): 455-464.

Dr Innan Sasaki Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation

Innan Saski joined LUMS in September 2016. She is a Lecturer in Strategic Management at DESI.

Innan Sasaki defended her dissertation entitled: “The way to organizational longevity - Balancing stability and change in shinise firms” in October 2015 at University of Turku in Finland. In the dissertation, she examined how organization can achieve extreme longevity by studying firms that have more than 100 years of history. After receiving her PhD, she worked as guest research associate in University of Kyoto in Japan. Her long-lasting research interests have been in organizational culture, and how it relates with the firm’s local community. From empirical perspective, she has studied mostly family firms. Her most recent research focus on history and temporality in organization studies. For example, she is interested in how past can be re-created in organizations.

She teaches undergraduate level courses such as essentials of strategic management, and management simulation (in LUMS) and managing across cultures (in University of Turku).

Publications Soetanto, D. & Jack, S. (2015). The impact of university-based incubation support on the innovation strategy of academic spin-offs, Technovation. Soetanto, D. & van Geenhuizen, M (2015). Getting the right balance: university networks influence on spin-offs’ attraction of funding for innovation, Technovation, 36-37.

Dr Danny Soetanto Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/danny-soetanto

Danny Soetanto joined LUMS in September 2010. He is a Lecturer at DESI. After gaining a Masters degree in System Engineering and Policy Analysis, he undertook a PhD in Economic of innovation from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Danny is teaching courses on entrepreneurship and innovation on the under-graduate and post-graduate level. He is actively involved in several research activities, including (1) academic entrepreneurship, (2) network and entrepreneurship, and (3) incubator and incubation process.

Publications Petrou, A. P., & Thanos, I. C. (2014). The “grabbing hand” or the “helping hand” view of corruption: Evidence from bank foreign market entries. Journal of World Business, 49(3), 444- 454. Elbanna, S., Thanos, I. C., & Papadakis, V.M. (2014). Understanding how the contextual variables influence political behaviour in strategic decision-making. Journal of Strategy and Management, 7(3), 226-250. Outstanding paper award, Emerald Literati Networks Awards for Excellence.

Dr Ioannis Thanos Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/ioannis-thanos

Ioannis Thanos has joined LUMS in March 2016. He is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at DESI. After gaining a BSc in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and a MSc in marketing and Strategy from Warwick Business School, UK, he undertook a PhD in Strategic Management from the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Ioannis teaches Strategic Management and Mergers & Acquisitions at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests are in the areas of Strategic Decision Making and Mergers and Acquisitions. He has published in several journals including: British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, etc.

Publications Walter, S. G., Heinrichs, S., & Walter, A. (2014). Parent Hostility and Spin-Out Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 35(13), 2031-2042. Walter, S. G., Parboteeah, K. P., & Walter, A. (2013). University Departments and Self-Employment Intentions of Business Students: A Cross- Level Analysis. Entrepreneur- ship Theory & Practice, 37 (2), 175-200.

Professor Sascha Walter Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/sascha-walter

Sascha Walter has joined LUMS in February 2013. He is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at DESI. He also serves as Head of Department and Doctoral Director. After gaining a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and a Masters in International Business from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes, France, he undertook a PhD in Entrepreneurship from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany.

Sascha teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests are located at the intersection between entrepreneurship and strategy and currently include university entrepreneurship, R&D alliances, and parent-child firm relationships.

Publications Xiao, L. and Ramsden, M (2016). Founder Expertise, Strategic Choices, Formation, and Survival of High-Tech SMEs in China: A Resource- Substitution Approach. Journal of Small Business Management, doi: 10.1111/jsbm.12230.

Dr Li Xiao Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/esi/people/li-xiao

Li joined the Lancaster University Management School as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in 2013. She also serves as Deputy Director for Lancaster China Management Centre. Before this, she worked as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter Business School. She has 15 years’ experience of undertaking research and teaching in the field of finance and SMEs, small business development and innovation, and entrepreneurship, and transitional economies. Li has spent the last 15 years researching in 4 core areas: Financing young high-tech SMEs, The dynamics of early stage survival and growth, Technological business incubator and start-ups, and Institutional transitions.

Publications Gil, A., San Román, E., Jack, S.L., Zozimo, R. (2015) The creation of an organization through a strong tie network: the case of SEUR, Academy of Management Proceedings 2015

Zozimo, R., Jack, S.L., Hamilton, E. (2012). Conceptualizing the observational side of entrepreneurial learning: A social learning theory approach, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 32 (4)

Dr Ricardo Zozimo Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation

Ricardo joined LUMS in March 2014. He is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at DESI. Ricardo Zozimo is currently a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at DESI, Lancaster University Management School, UK. His current research focuses on understanding how entrepreneurs learn and how this impacts on personal and firm performance.

An educator at heart, Ricardo was the inaugural winner of LUMS Significant Contribution to Student Learning Award (voted by students and staff). Based on his research, Ricardo often runs workshops with entrepreneurs designed to improve their practice. Educated in three different countries, Ricardo is an active and enthusiastic mentor of social and commercial entrepreneurs across the world (Portugal, UK, Vietnam, Mozambique).