Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship

Professor Suma Athreye leads work on University-Industry Technology Transfer with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), comparing the experiences of university knowledge exchange in six national contexts. She is creating a toolkit for self-assessment of knowledge exchange policies for universities, which, once completed, will be used by WIPO member states.

In 2020, Professor Matthew Allen and Dr Shabneez Bhankaraully gained funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for a prestigious Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership to work with a local firm to boost revenues and profits by extending and transforming its strategy.

Dr Charan Bhattarai has received funding from the British Academy in 2021 to understand better our knowledge of migrant entrepreneurship, to provide guidance to migrant entrepreneurs about what strategies they should adopt to grow their business, and to guide policymakers about how to best support migrant entrepreneurs.

From 2020, Professor Niraj Kumar has led multiple projects on developing sustainable food supply chains in low- and middle- income countries, including Brazil, Thailand and Vietnam, funded by the Newton fund. His research will have significant benefits for individuals, societies and the environment.

• Agrizzi, D., Soobaroyen, T., & Alsalloom, A. 2021 Spatiality and accounting: The case of female segregation in audit firms. Accounting, Organizations and Society, doi:10.1016/j.aos.2021.101238.
• Al‐kalouti, J., Kumar, V., Kumar, N., Garza‐Reyes, J.A., Upadhyay, A. & Zwiegelaar, J.B. 2020 Investigating innovation capability and organizational performance in service firms. Strategic Change, 29(1), 103-113.
• Arranz, N., Arroyabe, M., Li, J., & Fernandez de Arroyabe, J. C. 2020 Innovation as a driver of eco-innovation in the firm: An approach from the dynamic capabilities theory. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(3): 1494–1503.
• Athreye, S., Saeed, A., & Baloch, M. S. 2021 Financial crisis of 2008 and outward foreign investments from China and India. Journal of World Business, 56(3): 101190.
• Bhankaraully, S. 2019 Contested firm governance, institutions and the undertaking of corporate restructuring practices in Germany. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 40(3): 511–536.
• Bhattarai, C. R., Kwong, C. C. Y., & Tasavori, M. 2019 Market orientation, market disruptiveness capability and social enterprise performance: An empirical study from the United Kingdom. Journal of Business Research, 96: 47–60.
• Brynin, M., Karim, M. S., & Zwysen, W. 2019 The value of self-employment to ethnic minorities. Work, Employment and Society, 33(5): 846–864.
• Cheung, C. W. M., Kwong, C., Manzoor, H., Rashid, M. U., Bhattarai, C., & Kim, Y. A. 2019 The co-creation of social ventures through bricolage, for the displaced, by the displaced. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 25(5): 1093–1127.
• De, D., Chowdhury, S., Dey, P. K., & Ghosh, S. K. 2020 Impact of Lean and Sustainability Oriented Innovation on Sustainability Performance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Data Envelopment Analysis-based framework. International Journal of Production Economics, 219(August 2017): 416–430.
• Demirbag, M., Glaister, K. W., & Sengupta, A. 2020 Which regions matter for MNEs? The role of regional and firm level differences. Journal of World Business, 55(1): 101026.
• Kumar, N., Brint, A., Shi, E., Upadhyay, A., & Ruan, X. 2019 Integrating sustainable supply chain practices with operational performance: an exploratory study of Chinese SMEs. Production Planning and Control, 30 (5-6), 464-478.
• Kwong, C. C. Y., Cheung, C. W. M., Manzoor, H., & Rashid, M. U.2019 Entrepreneurship through Bricolage: a study of displaced entrepreneurs at times of war and conflict. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 31(5–6): 435–455.
• Mohsen, K., Saeed, S., Raza, A., Omar, S., & Muffatto, M.2020 Does using latest technologies impact new venture innovation? A contingency-based view of institutional environments. Journal of Small Business Management, doi:10.1111/jsbm.12534.
• Son, B. G., Lee, C. H., Ha, B. C., & Nam, H.2019 Investigating the fair treatment of suppliers and its trust fostering role and performance benefits. International Journal of Production Economics, 216(April): 54–66.
• Sousa, C. M. P., Li, R. Y., & He, X.2020 The impact of exploitation and exploration on export sales growth: The moderating role of domestic and international collaborations. Journal of International Marketing, 28(4): 1–20.
• Wood, G. T., & Allen, M. M. C.2020 Comparing capitalisms: Debates, controversies and future directions. Sociology, 54(3): 482–500.
• Zhang, A., Venkatesh, V. G., Liu, Y., Wan, M., Qu, T., & Huisingh, D.2019 Barriers to smart waste management for a circular economy in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240: 118198.
• Zhang, W., Dunkley, A., Kanabar, U., Elliott, D., & Wynn, H. P.2021 A decision support system for liability in civil litigation: a case study from an insurance company. Annals of Operations Research, doi:10.1007/s10479-020-03905-0

• In 2021, Professor Suma Athreye gave a keynote talk as part of joint Essex Business School and Birkbeck, University of London, debate on ‘The role of Public Research in the development of Covid Vaccine: heroes or laggards?’ The debate will help to launch several initiatives around health and well-being between the universities.  
• Led by Professor Mehmet Demirbag, the Group collaborated with the British Academy of Management, International Business/International Management Special Interest Group to organize, a paper-development workshop with the Journal of World Business, a pre-eminent international-business journal.