PhD students are an important element in the Centre’s research activities. This usually means that they are supervised by at least one of the Centre’s academic staff.
Name | Supervisor(s) | Title of PhD project |
Adedoyin Olorunfemi | Muthu De Silva Helen Lawton Smith | Entrepreneurial Learning in women engaged in Interconnected Selling |
Ajay Marwaha | Sorin Piperca Pamela Yeow | |
Barbara Mason | Federica Rossi Richard Tacon | Tensions in transient organisations |
Benedikt Pietsch | Sorin Piperca | |
David Stroll | Klaus Nielsen Federica Rossi | How can employees, managers and directors solve the UK Productivity Puzzle? |
Dina Mansour | Helen Lawton Smith Federica Rossi | Egypt: A Fluid Institutional Affair. An Institutional Theory Interrogation of the Egyptian Business Services Sector: The Triad Relationship of Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Intermediaries |
Emad Saleh | Kevin Ibeh Xiaming Liu | How is FDI into the UK affected by recent regional and global developments? The perspective of foreign investors in the manufacturing sector |
Emma Palmer Foster | Helen Lawton Smith Fred Guy | Beyond the triple helix model of stakeholders in UK science parks – how alternative models affect innovation outcomes and financial sustainability |
Filipe Martins-Gomes | Helen Lawton Smith Muthu De Silva | The role of innovation intermediaries in the corporate-startup collaboration towards value creation – the Saudi Arabia case |
Guilherme Matoso Macedo | Fred Guy Odile Janne | Essays on labour specialization: Evidence on Brazilian micro-data |
Irina Sukiasyan | Wendy Hein Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick | Discursive production and consumption of gendered humour in Post-Soviet Russia |
Jacqueline Winstanley | Helen Lawton Smith, Muthu de Silva | ‘Not for or to but with.’ Critical success factors to creating an inclusive international entrepreneurial ecosystem. |
James Brooke | Almuth McDowall Helen Lawton Smith | How Digital Technology Entrepreneurs Experience their Start-up Journey |
Jay Won Shin | Sorin Piperca Richard Tacon | |
John Diamondopoulos | Klaus Nielsen | A Macro Political Risk Model on Firm Valuation and the Impact on Innovation Systems |
Karine Harutyunyan | Sorin Piperca Pamela Yeow | The impact of Project Managers’ emotional intelligence and political skills on project performance and work relationships |
Mark Thurgood | Marion Frenz Sorin Piperca | |
Maryam Ghorbankhani | Federica Rossi Helen Lawton Smith | Exploitation of public sector R&D and the open innovation paradigm: Governance of Knowledge transfer and commercialisation within public research organisations (PROs) |
Maximillian Giehrl | Federica Rossi Muthu De Silva | Success Factors in the Collaboration with Innovation Intermediaries – A study in the Context of Digital Technologies |
Md Uzzal Hossain | Muthu De Silva | Organizational Approach to Circular Innovation: The Role of Creative Process Engagement and Creative Self-efficacy |
Muhammad Naeem | Muthu De Silva Grace Peng | |
Nastaran Norouzi | Fred Guy Odile Janne | Challenges of textile and clothing firms in the mature textile and clothing industry in the East Midlands cluster in the United Kingdom |
Olayinka Bandele | Kevin Ibeh Sorin Piperca | |
Reetu Sood | Richard Tacon | |
Sana Shah | Amy Hackley Wendy Hein | |
Sebastian Boo | Pamela Yeow Almuth McDowall | Kind and compassionate leadership in times of crisis |
Stephen Kataya | Lorenzo Neri Ellen Yu | The impact of corporate social responsibility on firm market performance: An examination from the United Kingdom & selected continental European economies |
Tahani Alharbi | Helen Lawton Smith Rebecca Bednarek | Leader identity construction among Saudi women academics: How does readiness matter? |
Yangyang He | Xiaming Liu Grace Peng | The Acceptance of Chinese Technology Products in Global Markets |
Yemidale Odunze | Kevin Ibeh | |
Yunwen Jiang | Xiaming Liu | What matters in the process of cross-border acquisitions for Chinese MNEs? |