ANNOUNCE: PhD Studentships 2011/2012 - University of Strathclyde Business School

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

From: Erik Monsen [erik.monsen at strath.ac.uk]
Date: Mon 23 May 2011 11:27

Greetings from Glasgow!

three of the six PhD Studentships described below involve collaborative projects with the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. We would greatly appreciate your help in finding well suited candidates so that we can futher grow our Entreprenership programme, as well as any help you can offer in finding candidates for the other three projects as well.

Best Regards,

Erik Monsen

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PhD Studentships 2011/2012

University of Strathclyde Business School

Strathclyde Business School, in the heart of Glasgow, supports a vibrant and innovative research culture, with a specialist programme of training and support for research students. Strathclyde Business School was rated as 'world leading’ in its research, 1st in Scotland and 7th in the UK by the most recent Research Assessment Exercise in 2008.

The Business School invites applications for fully-funded PhD studentships in the following interdisciplinary research projects.

· Corporate Governance, Insider Trading, and Regulatory Compliance
· Open Innovation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
· An International Comparison between Risk Regulatory Frameworks
· Entrepreneurial Philanthropy and Social Innovation
· People, Practices and Technology in Innovation and Commercialisation
· Self-employment, Employment Choice and the Accounting Profession

All studentships are competitive and tenable for 3 years full-time study from October 2011. They cover fees at Home/EU or non-EU international rates, plus an annual stipend of approximately £13,590.

The ideal candidate is expected to hold a First Class Honours undergraduate degree or a Masters degree with distinction in a relevant business and management or related social science discipline.

How to Apply:

Applications should be made online at http://pgr.strath.ac.uk/ and include all of the following materials:

· A cover letter identifying your project of interest and explaining your research interests, relevant training and skills, and long-term career goals. This should include a short statement (max 800 words) explaining how these fit with and can add to the research programme
· A curriculum vitae (CV)
· If available, a substantial piece of writing (5,000-10,000 words) such as a literature review or previous research findings
· Official transcript(s) of your undergraduate/postgraduate degrees
· Two academic references from an institution at which you have studied
· English qualifications obtained, if English is not your first language

Informal enquiries should be directed to the contact name indicated for each Project Descriptor at the following page http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/research/studentships/projects/

For more information on Strathclyde Business School’s research, visit www.strath.ac.uk/business/research<http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/research>

Completed application must be received online no later than: Monday 20th June 2011

Project Descriptors

Corporate governance, insider trading, and regulatory compliance
Informal enquiries: Prof David Hillier, Accounting & Finance<http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/>, david.hillier at strath.ac.uk<mailto:david.hillier at strath.ac.uk>

David Hillier (Editor, Journal of Economics and Business, and Associate Editor, Review of Behavioral Finance) and David Reeb (Area Editor, Journal of International Business Studies and Temple University, US) are seeking a PhD candidate to investigate the areas of corporate governance, insider trading and regulatory compliance in the US. Applicants should have a very strong Masters qualification (or, in exceptional circumstances, a first class honours degree) in Finance or a related discipline. Very strong academic references and programming skills are a necessity.

Open innovation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Informal enquiries: Dr Jill MacBryde, Dept of Management Science<http://www.strath.ac.uk/mansci/>, jillian.macbryde at strath.ac.uk<mailto:jillian.macbryde at strath.ac.uk>

Jill MacBryde (Management Science<http://www.strath.ac.uk/mansci/>) and Beverly Wagner (Marketing<http://www.strath.ac.uk/marketing/>) are seeking a PhD candidate to investigate open innovation in small and medium sized enterprises. Open innovation defined by Chesbrough et al (2006) as “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies,” is an emerging concept which could offer an important lever in unlocking the innovation potential within many smaller firms. The successful applicant will join a vibrant multidisciplinary research team, working in collaboration with the Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management (www.strath.ac.uk/siom/<http://(www.strath.ac.uk/siom/>).

An international comparison between risk regulatory frameworks
Informal enquiries: Dr Calvin Burns, Dept of Human Resource Management<http://www.strath.ac.uk/hrm/>, calvin.burns at strath.ac.uk<mailto:calvin.burns at strath.ac.uk>

Calvin Burns (HRM<http://www.strath.ac.uk/hrm/>/Organizational Psychology), Andrea Coulson (Accounting & Finance<http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/>), and John Quigley (Management Science<http://www.strath.ac.uk/mansci/>) are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of Risk Governance. The project will involve a comparison of how two Westminster systems (UK and Canada) plan for and respond to events which involve critical infrastructure (e.g. food/water supply, energy, climate change/flooding, epidemics, terrorism). It is expected that a central theme of the research will involve how resources are allocated/mobilized and then either stepped up or scaled down as more information about the event becomes available. This project is open to candidates with an academic background in any area but it is expected that the successful candidate will have a background in either psychology, sociology/public administration, government, politics, economics, accounting and finance, management scie!
 nce, or a risk-related engineering area.  Skills in statistics/mathematical modelling are desirable as the candidate will be expected to adopt multiple methods consistent with the interdisciplinary nature of the project. The candidate will be required to spend about 9 months in Canada (based at Dalhousie University with Kevin Quigley and Ron Pelot) for the purposes of data collection and collaboration.

People, practices and technology in innovation and commercialisation
Informal enquiries: Dr Barbara Simpson, Dept of Management<http://www.strath.ac.uk/management/>, barbara.simpson at strath.ac.uk<mailto:barbara.simpson at strath.ac.uk>

This cross-disciplinary project is broadly concerned with the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of technology, innovation and commercialisation practices, and what it is that people actually do to innovate, why they choose the commercialisation paths they do, and how technologies can support this. The project team (Barbara Simpson (Dept of Management<http://www.strath.ac.uk/management/>), Jason Whalley (Management Science<http://www.strath.ac.uk/mansci/>), and Erik Monsen (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship<http://www.strath.ac.uk/huntercentre/>) is seeking a high calibre doctoral student who has an interest in any of the following areas:

· A multi-industry, interpretivist inquiry into the social dynamics that lead to technology-mediated innovations;
· The role of online business models, such as cloud computing, as critical success factors in new technology-based businesses;
· Surveying knowledge exchange policies and commercialisation activities of university researchers working to entrepreneurially create new value.

Applicants should demonstrate their capacity to engage with both the broad project topic and any one, or more of these specific topic areas.

Entrepreneurial philanthropy, agency and innovation
Informal enquiries: Dr Eleanor Shaw, Dept of Marketing<http://www.strath.ac.uk/marketing/>, eleanor.shaw at strath.ac.uk<mailto:eleanor.shaw at strath.ac.uk>

Sara Carter (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship<http://www.strath.ac.uk/huntercentre/>) and Eleanor Shaw (Marketing<http://www.strath.ac.uk/marketing/>) are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy. The successful candidate will join the Centre for Giving and Philanthropy (www.cgap.org,uk<https://nemo.strath.ac.uk/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>), a UK-wide, ESRC-funded research centre which is undertaking research on entrepreneurial philanthropic giving led by the Hunter Centre of Entrepreneurship and the Department of Marketing. They will contribute to an on-going programme of research which is engaged in the critical analysis of entrepreneurial philanthropy in the 21st Century. We are interested in a number of research themes including:  the antecedents of entrepreneurial philanthropy; the impact of these on the mechanisms, processes and capitals used by entrepreneurial philanthropists and, the effects of entrepreneurial philanthropy on social change and innovation. We are keen to receive applications from candidates interested in any of these themes and will make our selection based on the quality of applications received. Applicants should have a very strong Masters qualification (or, in exceptional circumstances, a first class honours degree) in Entrepreneurship or a related discipline. Very strong academic references and programming skills are a necessity.

Self-employment, employment choice and the accounting profession
Informal enquiries: Dr Erik Monsen, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship<http://www.strath.ac.uk/huntercentre/>, erik.monsen at strath.ac.uk<mailto:erik.monsen at strath.ac.uk>

Erik Monsen (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship<http://www.strath.ac.uk/huntercentre/>) and John Ferguson (Accounting & Finance<http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/>) are seeking a PhD candidate to investigate why individuals make the employment and self-employment choices they make. The first aim of this study is to explore why accountants and other professionals who have a consistent educational background choose a variety of employment options; for example, self-employment vs. employment, and small employers vs. large employers. Surveying accounting students from the first year of their undergraduate education through to the third year of their professional training, as well as practicing professional accountants, this study endeavours to improve our understanding of why individuals make the employment and organizational choices they do. The second aim of this study is to enable better employment consultation for accounting students and professionals, as well as to inform and improve university accountant education and continuing professional training regarding the specific skills needed to grow and diversify accounting practices and to better meet ever changing market demands. We anticipate that the research and training outcomes of this study will be of interest to accounting professional bodies, accounting employers and accounting educators.

Strathclyde Business School

Strathclyde Business School's innovative research programme utilises both single discipline specialisms and multidisciplinary teams to generate and disseminate international thought leadership. In keeping with the University's mission as 'The Place of Useful Learning', our research operates at the front end of new theory development whilst practically impacting on policy and practice.

The University is part of the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) and the Scottish Graduate School<http://www.socsciscotland.ac.uk/home> of Social Science. This consortium was awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council to provide enhanced training opportunities for PhD students in the social sciences. Strathclyde Business School is playing a leading role in both the Accounting and Finance and Business and Management doctoral training pathways which are part of the DTC.

The Business School supports a vibrant research culture, with a specialist programme of training and support for research students and early career researchers. Opportunities to share ideas with researchers in other disciplines, to develop expertise in new areas of research methodology and to collaborate with researchers in other institutions around the world help our students to develop and grow in a competitive but supportive environment.

Our research students are an integral part of the Business School community. We attract top students from around the world, both recent graduates looking to pursue a career in academia and those with decades of experience in industry who wish to take their career to a new level.

Strathclyde’s research excellence

The University’s research and its continuing growth in areas of strategic importance were confirmed by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

Strathclyde Business School was affirmed as 'world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent', and rated 1st in Scotland and in the UK top 10. Strathclyde achieved the highest ‘research power’ rating for engineering in Scotland and our performance was impressive in areas across the sciences and social sciences.

The postgraduate student experience

The University of Strathclyde is made up of a vibrant, international, community of 16,000 full-time students from 100 countries, and over 3,500 full-time equivalent staff. We are the third largest university in Scotland with a distinctive reputation for innovation and enterprise.

Glasgow is Scotland’s largest and most cosmopolitan city. The city boasts world-famous art collections, the best shopping in the United Kingdom outside London and consistently tops surveys of preferred places to live and work in the UK.

For more information on postgraduate life at Strathclyde visit www.strath.ac.uk/postgrad<http://www.strath.ac.uk/postgrad>.

Our research agenda

Collaboration and cross-disciplinary research are integral to our success. We have created a culture of collaboration, fostering partnerships with other leading universities across the globe and the major players in industry. Research pooling – the joining of research strategies, expertise and resources across Scotland – ensures that Scottish research remains of an internationally-leading standard and gives you access to top academics and facilities across a number of institutions.

The University has committed to developing its campus to ensure facilities fully support an institution that is dynamic, internationally-focused and successful. Major developments include the Advanced Forming Research Centre in partnership with global industrial manufacturing firms (www.strath.ac.uk/afrc/<http://(www.strath.ac.uk/afrc/>); the Technology and Innovation Centre (www.strath.ac.uk/tic/<http://www.strath.ac.uk/tic/>) and the recently completed pharmacy and biomedical sciences building (www.strath.ac.uk/sipbs/<http://(www.strath.ac.uk/sipbs/>).

For more information on Strathclyde’s research visit www.strath.ac.uk/research<http://www.strath.ac.uk/research>.

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Dr. Erik Monsen
Senior Lecturer, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
University of Strathclyde, Room 15.09 Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XH, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 141 548 3157
Email: erik.monsen at strath.ac.uk

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