Dr Grace Bo Peng — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Grace completed her doctoral training in Management at the Cass Business School, City University London, under the supervision of Prof. Vangelis Souitaris and Dr. Stefania Zerbinati, in the Entrepreneurship group, and passed the viva without correction in July 2017. She then worked as a research fellow on the entrepreneurship finance projects in the Warwick Business School. Grace joined Birkbeck as a lecturer in the department of management in 2018.

Before joining Cass, she conducted an MPhil in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After moving to Cass and joining the doctoral programme, she reoriented her interests to the entrepreneurship field. Her doctoral dissertation focused on entrepreneurial finance and exit strategies.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, City, University of London, 2017

ORCID

0000-0002-8164-8823

Research

Research interests

entrepreneurial finance
tourism economics

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest

Teaching

Teaching modules

Applied Financial Management (Postgraduate) (BUMN041H7)
Quantitative Methods (MOMN022H4)

Publications

Article

Georgakakis, D. and Souitaris, V. and Cannella Jr, A.A. and Kalogeraki, O. and Peng, Grace Bo (2024) Changing ideological regimes: CEO succession with a shift in political ideology and new CEO early departure. Journal of Management Studies ISSN 0022-2380.
Yu, W. and Fei, J. and Peng, Bo and Bort, J. (2024) When a crisis hits: an examination of the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on financing for women entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing 39 (2), pp. 106379. ISSN 0883-9026.
Souitaris, V. and Peng, Grace Bo and Zerbinati, S. and Shepherd, D. (2022) Specialists, generalists, or both? Founders’ multidimensional breadth of experience and entrepreneurial ventures’ fundraising at IPO. Organization Science ISSN 1047-7039.
Souitaris, V. and Zerbinati, S. and Peng, Grace Bo and Shepherd, D. (2020) Should I stay or should I go? Founder power and exit via Initial Public Offering. Academy of Management Journal 63 (1), pp. 64-95. ISSN 0001-4273.
Peng, Grace Bo and Song, H. and Crouch, G.I. and Witt, S.F. (2015) A meta-analysis of international tourism demand elasticities. Journal of Travel Research 54 (5), pp. 611-633. ISSN 0047-2875.
Peng, Grace Bo and Song, H. and Crouch, G.I. (2014) A meta-analysis of international tourism demand forecasting and implications for practice. Tourism Management 45, pp. 181-193. ISSN 0261-5177.

Book Section

Peng, Grace Bo and Song, H. and Witt, S.F. (2014) Demand modeling and forecasting. In: Dwyer, L. and Gill, A. and Seetaram, N. (eds.) Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 71-90. ISBN 9781781955956.

Monograph

Peng, Grace Bo and Mole, K. and Roper, S. (2019) Skills, management practices and productivity in SMEs. Warwick, UK: Warwick Business School.
Roper, S. and Gkypali, A. and Bo, Peng (2017) Exporting, ambition, finance and SME performance: exploratory analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2015 and 2016. London, UK: Warwick Business School.