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ENTREPRENEURIAL PLACE LEADERSHIP

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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH

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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH: VOLUME 15

ENTREPRENEURIAL PLACE LEADERSHIP: NEGOTIATING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL LANDSCAPE

EDITED BY

ROBERT NEWBERY

Northumbria University, UK

YEVHEN BARANCHENKO

Northumbria University, UK

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Colin Bell

North East Local Enterprise Partnership, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Editors

Robert Newbery is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy Department, Northumbria University. He has worked extensively in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America and has founded and run a number of entrepreneurial businesses having a PhD, MSc, MBA, and BSc. He is Co-editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. His research interests are focused on international entrepreneurship, particularly in developing contexts, with publications in the Journal of Business Venturing and other highly ranked journals. He is currently conducting research into the entrepreneurial experiences of people operating in “peripheral” communities. He publishes on entrepreneurship in international development, rural development, and entrepreneurship education.

Yevhen Baranchenko is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business at Northumbria University, where he received his PhD. Situated within the areas of strategic management and entrepreneurship, his research explores the internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) SMEs and the role of an SME managers’ global mindset in driving international opportunity identification through international knowledge acquisition and networking activities. His research also examines the impact of institutions on the ease of doing business in transition economies, revealing the importance of institutional quality and its implications for entrepreneurial autonomy. He leads projects developing knowledge exchange between higher education institutions and SMEs in Eastern Europe. His other research areas include ethical leadership, organizational commitment, and the employability of employees.

Colin Bell is Business Growth Director for the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). Prior to this, he was Consulting Services Director and an owner of business growth and software business Winning Moves Ltd. He was instrumental in achieving high growth and the expansion of the business in the UK and Internationally this included the development and delivery of programs such as Growth Accelerator and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP’s Great200Leaders. In 2013, Winning Moves was sold to the West Midlands Manufacturing Consortium (WMMC) who delivers the Manufacturing Advisory Service in the North East, North West, and West Midlands. He spent two years as part of the WMMC senior management team before moving to the North East LEP.

About the Contributors

Matt Baillie Smith is a Professor of International Development and a Co-director of the Centre for International Development at the Northumbria University. An interdisciplinary development academic, his research focuses on civil society, citizenship, and development, with particular interests in volunteering in humanitarian and development settings, young people, and learning and education.

Colin Donaldson is a Leader of the Entrepreneurship Department at the EDEM Business School, Valencia, Spain. He received an MSc with distinction in International Business at Ulster University, Northern Ireland and earned a PGCE at Bath Spa University (United Kingdom). He obtained his PhD in Business Management at the University of Valencia.

Walid Mohamed Eid is a Serial Entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience and a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Management at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport – College of Business, and the American University in Cairo – Executive Business School.

Karen Foster is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Dalhousie University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada. Her recent publications include the edited collection, The Right to be Rural (2021, University of Alberta Press), and 2016’s Productivity and Prosperity (University of Toronto Press).

David Jamieson is a Research Fellow based at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University currently working on aspects of Digital Citizenship. His research interests are in the areas of digital government, procurement and the role of platforms including Living Lab approaches.

Lorraine Johnston is an Associate Professor in Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Her recent co-authored books include Public Enterprise & Local Place: New Perspectives on Theory and Practice in the series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy and Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors with Emerald Publishers.

Joyce Liddle is a Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise and a Director of Research. She has published over 200 articles, 25 book chapters, and 14 books, she co-edits an annual book series on Critical Perspectives on International Public Management, and she chairs the Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Public Sector Management.

Mike Martin is a Professor of Enterprise Information Sciences at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He has over 40 years’ experience in the Research and Development of Information systems and telecommunications. For the last 20 years, he has been researching and consulting in the information and communications need to support multi-agency care and wellbeing.

Giampaolo Montaletti holds a PhD from Bologna University, is a Senior Manager working for the Regional Government of Lombardy, Italy, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Northumbria University. He has extensive experience in theoretical and experimental public policy design, with significant expertise in statistical analysis. He is highly experienced in strategic frameworks development and budget management, as well as design and construction of new policy instruments.

Nathan Pellow is a PhD student at the Northumbria University. He has worked across the public and private sectors in many different job roles. He has been mostly teaching for the last 10 years of his career. He has worked on a number of research projects during his career.

Edita Petrylaite is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Northumbria University, UK. She holds a PhD in Gender and Consumer Behavior. Her research interests include gender, masculinity, strategy, consumer behavior, leadership, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial marketing. She has published her research in marketing, entrepreneurship, and human resource development journals.

Angus Robson is a Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics and Leadership at Northumbria University, UK. He undertook his PhD in Leadership and Ethics in Scottish Banking. He has published on ethics in the contexts of banking and care work, most recently in the journal Nursing Ethics.

John Shutt is a Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He has worked for Sheffield and Birmingham City Council’s and Central Lancashire Development Corporation. He has extensive European and International experience working in China, as Visiting Professor, at the Zheijang University of Technology ZJUT, Hangzhou, China.

Anthony Tibaingana has been a Lecturer of Marketing and Management in the School of Business, CoBAMS, Makerere University, for more than 10 years. He was previously the Head of the Department of Marketing and Management. Prior to this, he was Country Manager of Global Business Labs. He is a Researcher in Business and Management with interests in customer care, marketing research, consumer behavior, entrepreneurship, and agribusiness. He obtained a PhD in Business Administration from Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria South Africa in 2017. He has an MBA and a Bachelor of Commerce from Makerere University. He won a Production and Operation Society Doctoral award for emerging economies in 2017.

Jorge Villagrasa currently works as a Researcher and Professor at EDEM Business School, Spain. He developed his PhD in the University of Valencia, Spain, analyzing the effect of the characteristics and perceptions of managers on their organizations’ performance. Likewise, he has developed his professional career in diverse universities of the USA, Belgium, and Spain, as well as in different private consulting firms.

Rob Wilson is Professor of Digital Economy at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. His research interests are in the areas of public service information systems and digital public services including the role of infrastructure. He has widely published in these areas including works on Digital Government and the Innovation of Digital Healthcare for Oxford University Press. His most recent works explores the role of complexity in shaping the co-creation of public services.

Sharon Zivkovic is an Adjunct Research Associate at the University of South Australia, a Lecturer in Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide, and a Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University. She is on the Board of the University of South Australia’s Yunus Social Business Centre.