CIMR PhD Students

PhD students are an important element in the Centre for Innovation Management research activities. Their affiliation is based on them being either first or second supervised by a core member of the CIMR academic staff. In practice, this means those in the Management Department, however all PhD students who are supervised by CIMR academic staff are invited to attend – e.g. those in Economics, Computer Science and the School of Science.

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?