University of York, UK

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Biography

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Werner Bonefeld studied at the University of Marburg, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh where he received his doctorate. Before coming to York he taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh.

More recently he conducted post-graduate seminars on critical theory and the critique of political economy at the Universities of Puebla and Buenos Aires.

His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognized Open Marxism school. Werner Bonefeld is a member of the Conference of Socialist Economists, and with Hugo Radice, Greig Charnock and Stuart Shields, he organises the Trans-Pennine Working Groups on Critical Theory and Political Economy. He is a keen gardener, cycles to work, and listens to Captain Beefheart and So-Called.

He is a member of the Critical Theories of Antisemitism network
( criticaltheoriesofantisemitism.net) and an associated researcher of the research network ‘Right, History and Memory’ (direitashistoria.net). He serves on the Advisory Board of The Cooperative Institute of Transnational Studies. His bibliography was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in the World (Marquis), starting in 2010.

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Research

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Werner Bonefeld is interested in research students on topics in critical theory, critical political economy and political sociology, including state theory, global political economy, Marx and Marxism, German ordoliberalism, and the Frankfurt School.

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Projects

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Werner Bonefeld is currently completing a monograph on Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy for publication in 2014. With John Holloway he is co-editing a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke University Press, on ‘Commune, Movement, Negation’. His article on Walter Benjamin and anti-austerity is forthcoming in Spanish in 2014 in Isegoria. Revista de Filosofia Moral y Political.

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Supervision

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• Globalisation and the Transformation of the German Model;

• European Union and the Crisis of the Growth and Stability Pact;

• The critical theory of Castoriadis, Papaioannou and Axelos;

• Globalisation and the crisis of the Korean state;

• From Dictatorship to Democracy: state and economy in Turkey;

• Thailand and the Politics of Social Forces: A Neo-Gramscian Account;

• Transforming China: Smith and Marx in Beijing;

• Badiou and Precariat.

University of East London, UK,
(Editor of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies)

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Biography

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Vassilis read international history and European politics at the universities of London, Athens and Perugia. He worked in many universities in the country and abroad and founded and led academic associations, journals, centres of research excellence and post-graduate courses in International Conflict & Security at the universities of Kingston (Reader in International Relations) and Stirling (Senior Lecture in International Relations).

He was a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University in 2005 and a Leverhulme Trust Fellow in 2003. At UEL and the School Vassilis leads the Centre for the Study of States, Markets & People (STAMP). He is the founding editor of the refereed periodical Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, quarterly) and one of the founding Editors of the Journal of Global Fault-lines.

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Interests and Expertise

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Vassilis' research interests lie in the field of 20th century political and economic history; globalisation and the state; theories of international politics and economics; heterodox economics; international relations and geopolitics of Eurasia; hegemonic transitions and world systems theory; financialisation, the Euro-zone crisis and the power-shift to the "global East"; Italian, Greek and European politics; the Cyprus issue and Greek-Turkish relations. Vassilis welcomes PhD applications on any of those themes.

Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam, Netherlands;
Montpellier Business School, France

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About

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Roy Thurik is a professor of economics and entrepreneurship at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and a professor of entrepreneurship at the Free University in Amsterdam (VU).

He is scientific advisor at Panteia in the Netherlands, directeur de recherches at GSCM-Montpellier Business School in France and a research fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management.

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Research

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Professor Thurik's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, geno-economics, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies.

His research has been published in more than two hundred articles in leading international academic journals. He is (co)-editor of several scholarly books and serves on the editorial boards of many academic journals. He consults regularly for firms and (international) institutions.

Roy’s courses include Small Business Economics, Economics of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Small Business at EUR, and Economics and Management of SMEs at the Free University Amsterdam. He coordinates the master’s program Entrepreneurship and Strategy Economics, the bachelor III major Entrepreneurship and Organization and the campus minor Entrepreneurship in the Modern Economy at ESE. He set up the famous Erasmus Masterclass Entrepreneurship.

Kingston University, UK

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About

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I am Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Research Centre. I am a Past President of both the International Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ICSB) and also the ECSB. I am a fellow of the ECSB and a Wilfred Whyte Fellow of ICSB. I am also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management.

I have been involved in research relating to SMEs and entrepreneurship since the late 1980s. One of my main research interests is entrepreneurship in transition economies. Indeed in 2005 I received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lodz in recognition of my contribution to the study of entrepreneurship in transition economies. Much of my research has been conducted in partnership with researchers in other international centres, much of it policy oriented.

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Areas of specialism

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• Entrepreneurship and small business development in transition economies;

• Internationalisation and small business development;

• Small enterprise development in rural areas;

• Immigrant and ethnic minority enterprise;

• Sources of innovation for SMEs in transition and developing countries;

• Entrepreneurship and small business policy in different national and regional contexts.

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Courses taught

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• Postgraduate;

• Business PhD (Doctor of Philosophy).

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Professional membership

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• Member of the International Council for Small business and entrepreneurship (ICSB);

• Life membership of the European Council for Small business and entrepreneurship (ECSB).

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Research

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All of my research is concerned with entrepreneurship and SME development, much of it with an applied policy orientation. Entrepreneurship in transition economies is a particular specialism and I have undertaken research throughout the central European countries that are now members of the EU; in many of the former Soviet republics; and also in China.

Conceptually much of this research has been analysed through an institutionalist frame and more recently relating to the current emphasis on context in entrepreneurial studies. Almost all of my international research has been conducted in partnership with colleagues in the countries being studied.

Other research themes have included enterprise development in rural areas; ethnic minority and immigrant entrepreneurship; sources of innovation and innovation processes in SMEs; entrepreneurship and social inclusion; and internationalisation.

University of Zagreb,
Faculty of Political Science, Croatia

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About

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Title: Full Professor
Function: Predstojnik Odsjeka za međunarodnu politiku i diplomaciju
Public phone number: + 385 1 4642 016
E-mail: dejan.jovic@fpzg.hr
Department: Fakultet političkih znanosti
Graduation year: 1990
mr.sc. graduation year: 1994
PhD graduation year: 1999

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Teaching duties

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university undergraduate

• Introduction to International Politics Study (Lecturer in charge);

• Politics and Society in Southeast Europe (Lecturer in charge).

university graduate

• Foreign Policy Analysis (Lecturer in charge).

The University of Edinburgh, UK

George David Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business

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Background

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• BA (Dunelm);

• PhD (Dunelm);

• Previously taught at the University of Stirling where he was Director of Research in the Scottish Enterprise Foundation (1987-1994);

• The Director of the full-time MBA (1996-1998);

• the Director of the Stirling University Centre for Entrepreneurship (2001-2004) and Head of the Department of Management and Organization.

• Moved to the University of Edinburgh in November 2004 to take up the George David Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business.

• He has been a Visiting Professor at the Makerere University Business School since 2003.

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Research Interests

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• Entrepreneurship and economic development, particularly in the context of developing economies (Uganda, Sri Lanka);

• Entrepreneurship and the black economy in Africa;

• Habitual entrepreneurship and the formation of business groups;

• Female entrepreneurship particularly the supply of female academic entrepreneurs;

• Entrepreneurship and family businesses.

University of Graz,
Institute of Economics, Austria

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About

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• Since 2010: Professor of Economics, focusing Foreign Trade 2010;

• Habilitation 2004-2010;

• Assistant at the University of Tübingen 2003;

• Doctorate Dr.sc.pol at Kiel University 1998-2004;

• Researcher at the Institute for World Economics in Kiel 1991-1997;

• Studied Economics and Japanese studies in Tübingen and Kyoto, Japan.

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;
Co Editor of International Review of Entrepreneurship

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About

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Professor Andrew Burke is the Dean of Business Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

He is widely published in top ranked international journals including the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Regional Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Small Business Economics.

He is a Judge for the UK's Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. His work has been presented at the EU Commission, World Trade Organization, HM's Treasury, UK Houses of Commons and Lords as well as through media such as BBC Breakfast Television and the Working Lunch.

Andrew is founding editor of the International Review of Entrepreneurship and was a guest editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research and the International Journal of Research, Innovation and Commercialization. Clients Andrew has acted for as a consultant are: the European Commission, Businesslink UK, GESAC (EU), Forbairt (IDA), Hudson Contract, Schlumberger, Selex-Galileo, May Gurney, Bank of Ireland International Banking, the Irish Music Rights Organisation, and the UK Professional Contractors Group (PCG). He also has a portfolio of new venture investments.

Robert Gordon University, UK,
(Editor of Journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development)

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Role and Responsibilities

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Professor Alistair Anderson is Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship.

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Key External / Professional Roles

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• Editor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development; Editorial Board member of 13 other journals;

• Rapporteur and reviewer for ESRC;

• Peer Reviewer for European Science Foundation;

• Member of the Peer Review College of the Danish Council for Strategic Research;

• External Peer reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;

• Honorary Professor at Aberdeen University; honorary fellow at Lancaster University.

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Research Interests

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Professor Anderson is theme leader for the Business and Enterprise theme within the Institute for Management, Governance and Society (ImaGeS)research institute. His research interests are primarily in the areas of:

• Entrepreneurship and small business;

• Social aspects of entrepreneurship and SMEs.

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Key Funding

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• Federation of Small Business Professor of Small Business (2008 - 2010).

University of Belgrade, Serbia
Faculty of Economics

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Education

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• PhD – 2003, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade;

• Маster’s degree – 2002, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade;

• Маster’s degree – 1999, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade;

• Diploma –1996, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.

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Awards, grants, certificates,
memberships, corporate / public service

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• Head of International Economics Relations Department at Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade;

• World Trade Organization (WTO) expert;

• UN Conference on Trade and development (UNCTAD) expert;

• Chevening Fellowship – London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (2004, Visiting Fellow, 2006. and 2008.);

• Fulbright Fellowship – Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Economics Department, Cambridge, USA (2005, Visiting Scholar);

• RCN Fellowship – Faculty of Economics University of Oslo, Norway (2005, Visiting Scholar);

• Member of UNCTAD Virtual Institute,;

• Member of Economists’ Scientific Association of Serbia (NDES).

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Fields of teaching and research

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• International Trade (Non-tariff Barriers, WTO), Electronic Commerce and EU Economics.

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Courses taught

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• International Trade;

• European Union Economics;

• International Trade Policy;

• Electronic Commerce and E-business;

• International Trade – Theory and Policy.

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Department of Economics, Sweden

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Presentation

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Johan is involved in teaching and research. The courses are primarily on organization, leadership and entrepreneurship, but also about marketing and ethics. On the research side, he is coordinating the group REG, Rural Entrepreneurship Group and supervising three PhD students. Johan’s research interest is currently directed towards the entrepreneurial shaping places and how places shape entrepreneurship.

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Teaching

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In the first course of the undergraduate programs, Johan introduces students to organization studies. The course discusses organization and leadership theories. One of the last courses of the masters program is Ethics, which he also teaches. In addition, he facilitates a number of courses for students including: Entrepreneurship and leadership. One of his favorite aspects of teaching is supervising on different levels.

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Research

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Currently Johan runs a research project about how entrepreneurship and rural areas may be related. Previous research has problematized marketing in small, entrepreneurial firms, development of rapid growing firms, change in large food companies, as well as radical changes in rural areas.

University of Ancona, Italy

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Biography

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From 2005 he has been Associate professor of applied economics at Università Politecnica delle Marche (Faculty of Engineering) where he teaches courses on the economics and organization of firms and on industrial economics. Before joining Università Politecnica delle Marche in 2001, he was researcher of applied economics and assistant professor of business economics at the University of Urbino.

From 1985 to 1994 he did research and consulting activities for private and public institutions in the field of industrial economics with specific regard to the management of small firms and business planning.
 He holds a B.A. from the University of Urbino (Italy) an MBA from ISTAO (Ancona, Italy) and a PhD from the University of Stirling (UK).

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Expertise: Applied economics

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Prof. Iacobucci research interests are in the fields of business groups, entrepreneurship, and clustering. He has been studying the growth strategies and organization of small and medium sized firms and developed an entrepreneurship perspective to explain the presence of business groups and their organization.

On the role of clustering and agglomeration economy he is investigating the role of related variety, as opposed to specialization, in influencing firms behavior and performance. He is involved in several research projects about regional innovation systems and on the role of university technology transfer activity and academic entrepreneurship (spin-offs).

Adam Smith Business School,
University of Glasgow

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About

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Georgios is working on issues of household, personal and behavioural finance. He was previously a reader in accounting and finance at the University of Glasgow, a senior lecturer and a lecturer in economics at the University of Stirling and a lecturer in business economics and finance at the University of Essex.

He serves as a Postgraduate Convenor in Accounting and Finance and is the Wards Finance research seminar co-organiser.

His research has been featured in outlets such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, inter alia.

He has served as a consultant to the World Bank in multiple occasions and is a principal investigator for the collaborative EU-funded Horizon 2020 project “PROFIT: PROmoting FInancial awareness and sTability”.

Georgios is a member of the Finance research cluster.

Household finance, financial literacy, labour finance, economics and finance of entrepreneurship, behavioural economics and finance, labour and personnel economics.