bbs news - january 2012

NSS 2011: Brunel Business School in the top 5 in London

In this year’s National Student Survey, Brunel Business School successfully managed to reach the top 30 for Student Experience helping Brunel to become the UK’s most improved university for student satisfaction. The Business School also now finds itself in the top 25 for Research Power.

The Business School’s contribution to this result has been significant with the overall satisfaction rising from 66% to 85%. The impact of our success has seen the Business School rise from 89th position out of 93 UK Business Schools in 2010, to 29th position out of 94 UK Business Schools in 2011.

Commented, Zahir Irani, Head of BBS “The Business School’s performance is nothing short of outstanding given the size of our Undergraduate student population, and demonstrates that the student community has responded well to our efforts of engagement through our Business Life programme.”

Top FT rankings for Brunel Business SchoolGreat news for the Rankings this year as Brunel Business School has improved in categories in the UK, Europe and worldwide! The Financial Times European Business School ranking released on 5th December saw us climb from 75th to 73rd place, elevating us among the top Business Schools in Europe. In addition we were ranked within the top 20 in the UK, which is great news at such a challenging time for UK Universities. Zahir Irani, Head of School, commented, “The rankings reflect the large investment of the School into quality management and student satisfaction.”

MSc Management Climbs FT Global Rankings!Huge congratulations are in order for us regarding our Masters in Management programme! Following on from our first appearance in The Financial Times 2011 Global Masters in Management ranking last year, we were delighted to see our position climb three places this year putting the Business School’s MSc in Management programme 56th worldwide! In terms of career progression, the MSc has jumped from 56th place to 8th place globally adding huge credibility to our Employability agenda. We continue to hold our position in the UK as 9th best and managed to rise above some tough competition, notably Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, Durham Business School and Lancaster. This is extremely exciting news, and a promising step in the right direction for the Business School’s Rankings. Head of School, Zahir Irani is delighted that the School is “making steady progress” in key rankings which included an 85% satisfaction rate in the latest National Student Survey. He congratulated all those responsible for delivering on this programme, and those that coordinated our submission.

Francesca Vitale

ACRoSS The SChooLBefore we look ahead to a very exciting new year which will see London host the Olympic Games and Her Majesty The Queen celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, and of course BBS move into its new home the Eastern Gateway Building (EGB), it seems appropriate to look back and celebrate the successes and highlights of another rewarding year in our first newsletter for 2012. And what a year it has been!

ContentsAcross the school 1News round up 2Important dates for your diary 4People news 5Student news 7Special feature: Business Life 8Business Life: events 10Research news 13

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Professional Accreditation update

Accreditation confirmed for MSc Applied Corporate Brand ManagementThe Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) recently confirmed accreditation for the Business School’s new MSc Applied Corporate Brand Management. It also confirmed that the programme met the qualification criterion for entry to the CIM’s Chartered Postgraduate

Diploma in Marketing. This means that graduates of the MSc Applied Corporate Brand Management will enjoy a fast track route to Chartered membership of the CIM.

The MSc Applied Corporate Brand Management will be offered for the first time from September 2011. The course benefits from the active involvement of an Advisory Board comprising senior professionals from the world of corporate brand management who have had input into course content and delivery and who will provide guidance and feedback to students over the duration of the programme. It is also expected a number of work placements will be on offer to students on the course that will enable them to apply the knowledge they have gained either in-house or within a corporate brand management consultancy.

John Balmer, Professor of Corporate Brand Marketing and Director of Brunel’s Centre for Research in Marketing, commented “This is great news for students of the course and of course testimony to the quality and relevance of the programme’s content.”

Brunel Business School’s BSc Business and Management (Marketing) and MSc Marketing are also accredited by the CIM.

Full exemptions for MSc Global Supply Chain Management GraduatesThe Business School recently learnt that students who graduate from the MSc in Global Supply Chain Management course will get full exemption from the educational requirements for the Chartered Membership with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Earlier this year, the MSc in Global Supply Chain Management was formally accredited by the CILT (UK); it already enjoys accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS).

Accounting Pathway granted Partner in Learning Status

One recent development in the accounting pathway is that we have been granted partner in learning status by the ICAEW. This means that our students will now be able to get access to the ICAEW graduate recruitment team and that staff teaching on exemption modules can get access to ICAEW material for their teaching.

update on the new Business School BuildingAs is clear from the congestion caused by the one way system, work on the Eastern Gateway Building is proceeding at a very fast pace. The contractor (Laing O’Rourke) is trying to complete the building to a stage called “Practical Completion” where it can be formally handed over to the university, although a list of agreed tasks could still remain to be done. These might be internal snagging or some final finishes, landscaping, etc. The target for this is Christmas. However this is a very ambitious plan and January 2012 is probably more realistic.

When we have taken possession it remains to procure, deliver and install the fixtures and fittings; furniture, computers, AV installations and other moveable equipment. We are hoping to procure furniture examples shortly and are planning to let staff view these in situ in the new building.

Finally we have to pick a time for the move of the Business School. It is felt that just before Easter is too risky given some procurement lead times so we are considering a week after Easter where we can squeeze the move in between examination organisation. At present the most likely date is the week commencing 21st May. When the date is confirmed we will install a large countdown clock somewhere and start it running. We will also be starting to ask people about their movements (holidays, overseas trips, etc.) around that time as everybody will have a massive amount of packing and unpacking to do!

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Bringing Christmas cheer to disadvantaged children in eastern europe

BBS staff managed to fill seven shoeboxes for the Mustard Seed Relief Mission. The shoeboxes were taken over to the Meeting House to join the others collected from across the University and will be transported by Mustard Seed to schools, churches, refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals in Romania, Moldavia and the Ukraine. Well done to Louise Faux and the rest of the APO team for coordinating the shoebox collection for the Business School.

Alumni Round-up

Second event for Brunel Business School’s Indian ChapterAs part of our strategy and mission to internationalise the Business School and develop the Brunel Alumni network, we are delighted to inform you of our second event within Brunel Business School’s Indian Chapter!

On 26th November, lunch was held at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai followed by a 2 hour networking session in one the Hyatt’s prestigious boardrooms. This event was a great opportunity for alumni students to showcase their achievements and exchange contacts, expanding and building upon their professional business network.

Ashley Braganza, Professor and Director of Alumni and Rankings, hosted this Alumni Event in Mumbai and presented the latest research into Change Management.

BBS Alumni Lunch in ChinaBrunel Business School held an Alumni lunch at the Westin Bund Hotel in Shanghai on Saturday 3rd December 2011 for Masters and MBA graduates that are either currently living or working in or around Shanghai in order for us to establish the first overseas Chapter in China.

The main aim of the Alumni China Chapter is to help our Chinese alumni to network with each other as well as keep in touch more closely with BBS through dinner events and networking meetings.


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IMPoRTANT dATeS FoR youR dIARy

Save the date! Alumni event at the Saatchi Gallery RestaurantAfter the great success of this year’s Alumni event at the Albemarle Gallery in Mayfair, where over 60 students, graduates and staff attended, we are pleased to inform you of the next London gathering which will be taking place on Thursday 15th March 2012 at the Saatchi Gallery Restaurant, Sloane Square. Save this date in your diary for an evening of networking and meeting some of our esteemed MBA and MSc graduates. There are limited spaces for staff, so registration must be done quickly to avoid disappointment! The link to register for this event will be emailed to all in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on your inbox! Business School Alumni are very imperative to our future, and it is of utmost importance that we continue with networking events like these to keep them connected to both ourselves and each other.

Francesca Vitale

BeST 2012The BEST event is a highly significant and integral feature of the Business Life Programme.

Following on from the success of events held in 2009, 2010 and 2011, BEST 2012 is an exciting, innovative event resulting from a collaboration involving current and past students, employers, acclaimed guest speakers, the Placement and Careers Centre and Business School staff.

Come along and support BEST 2012—26 January 2012 (1-5.30pm, Hamilton Centre).

doctoral Symposium 2012The annual PhD Symposium will take place on 27th & 28th March, 2012.

Keynotes Speakers:

Professor John Burgoyne, Chair of Management Learning, Lancaster University Management School and Professor Mark Jenkins, Director of Research and Professor of Business Strategy, Cranfield School of Management.


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PeoPLe NewSBrunel Business School has welcomed a number of new academic and administrative staff:

New academic staffGrahame Fallon joined BBS in September as a Senior Lecturer in International Business and he will be the MSc Management Course Director. Grahame is heavily involved in academic research in the international business field, where his main focus is on the causes and economic effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment in the EU, Eastern Europe, Russia and China.

He has submitted and had accepted a range of academic papers to international scholarly journals including Regional Studies and the European Business Review.

Joyce (Wai Wai) Ko joined BBS in September and is currently in the process of preparing to defend her PhD, from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her current research interests include knowledge/skill formation, capabilities development, social network, social capital, marketing strategy and corporate social responsibility. Her work has been published or accepted in Journal of Business Ethic, Nonprofit and Voluntary

Sector Quarterly, and Journal of Small Business Management.

Cathrine Seierstad joined BBS in September as a Lecturer in HRM. She received her PhD from the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London in 2011. Her research interests include gender, equality, leadership, corporate governance and the use of affirmative action strategies. She has published in Work, Employment and Society (forthcoming) and Scandinavian Journal of

Management. She has also contributed to various books and edited editions.

Cristina Stoian joined BBS in September as a Lecturer in International Business. Cristina obtained her PhD at the Business Economics Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2010. Her main research interests include: strategies and practices of international/entrepreneurial new ventures and multinational corporations; organisational and institutional determinants of international strategy; business incubators;

branding and consumer purchasing behaviour in the global market. She is the author (co-author) of several articles published in international journals at 3* level.

welcome back…BBS welcomes back Michael Bourlakis as Professor of Supply Chain Management. Mike rejoins BBS from the University of Kent and has taken over the role as Director of OASIS in the BBS. Mike has a background in Marketing and Operations Management, with a track record of publishing in 3* journals such as the journal of Marketing, Supply Chain Management: International Journal and the Journal of Marketing

Management. Before leaving BBS, Mike was the Director of Postgraduate Studies.

New Admin StaffWithin the administration section of the Business School, please give a warm welcome to Joanna Oman, Admissions and Marketing Manager:

Joanna joined BBS in October after having worked in Marketing and Admissions management roles in private business schools for the last six years. Joanna is from Poland and first came to England over 10

years ago to study a Masters in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She was a Lecturer at both Thames Valley University and Middlesex University before moving on to education management roles. She has a great interest in multimedia and has co-founded an online learning company, which helps students in developing countries have better access to education. She is currently writing up her MBA thesis.

Recent PromotionsCongratulations to Keith Dickson who will be taking over Adrian Wood’s role as Assistant Head of School. Also, congratulations to Ruth Simpson who has therefore taken the role of Deputy Head of School (Research).

BBS School Board: Academic Staff RepFrancesco Moscone has been elected to join Sarmad Alshawi, Steve Smith and Maged Ali as representatives to the School Board on behalf of all full-time academic staff within the School.

Moving on…The Business School has sadly had to say goodbye (or will be shortly) to a few members of its staff in the last few months:

At the end of August BBS said farewell to Chima Mordi and Stefania Zerbinati and Ying Fan will be leaving at the end of December.

Founder of the Department of Management Studies back in the early 1990s, Adrian Woods, decided to take a year’s sabbatical leave from September and following this Adrian plans to retire. In recent years, Adrian contributed significantly to the School’s recent success in terms of our engagement with students and the annual BEST event is just one of many examples of this. Adrian’s extensive experience of academic leadership and management across the university (Adrian was once Dean of the Graduate School and also Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences) as well as within BBS will be greatly missed by all.


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Brunel scholarship winnersThis year nine brilliant students from BBS were chosen from all over the world to receive a scholarship of up to £5,000.

MBA students Xiaolei Guo and Hongyan Zhao from China and MSc Applied Corporate Brand Management student Xiaocan Wang also from China plus BSc Business and Management student Sara Mansoor Zafar from Pakistan all received a regional scholarship towards their tuition fees. BSc Business Management student Michael Oluwadolapo Carzim from Nigeria and MBA student Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelkhalek from Egypt were awarded Alumni Scholarships. Both awards are based on academic merit and students are chosen from a wide range of nationalities and subject areas. A total of 19 students from across the university were awarded with six going to BBS students. The scholarships are awarded by a panel with representatives from all Schools.

Three other MBA students were awarded the Home/EU scholarships - Elizabeth Huang, Flavia De Facendis and Funmi Obileye (pictured left).

In November the scholarship winners were invited to a formal dinner with Brunel’s Vice Chancellor Professor Chris Jenks to officially welcome them to the university. The scholarship winners were presented with a certificate, had the chance to meet their Heads of School and also enjoyed some delicious food.

BBS exchange Programme with Korean Aviation university (KAu)BBS has established an exchange programme with the Korean Aviation University (KAU). This year, two students have joined our undergraduate programme at Level 2. The aim is to organise a competition to

select the best four Level 2 BBS students to go on KAU’s Summer Programme which takes place for four weeks in June/July 2012. BBS will sponsor the selected students in terms of free flights and £500 in cash for the student to spend on accommodation etc. The selection process will be through competition.

winners of the Induction week ChallengeNew first years students were tasked with an “Induction Challenge” during Freshers Week in September. Working in groups of 3 the students had to rank some business priorities, find and list the full reference to three journal articles and books from the library for the topic “Improving business processes.” The winning students were Doyin Brown and Rakhi Jain. They won £50’s worth of Chimes Shopping Centre vouchers which were presented by Zahir Irani, Head of BBS at one of the school’s coffee mornings.

First year Phd student presents paper at BAM 2011First year PhD student Yazeed Alhezzani attended the BAM 2011 conference (British Academy of Management Conference) at Aston University in September. Yazeed presented his first paper along with his supervisor, Ashley Braganza, Professor of Organisational Transformation and Director of Executive Development and Alumni.

Yazeed commented, “The BAM 2011 conference improved my existing knowledge of some areas of research whilst informing me of new areas too. As a result I have reconsidered the methodology part of my proposal, in order to make it more applicable. Overall, BAM 2011 was a great experience for me.”

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Business Life takes shapeFollowing intensive work from the Business Life Team over the last quarter of 2011 the Business Life Programmes takes a much larger shape in the year to come. A group of around 20 stakeholders deliberated on a two day ‘Away Day’ in November and a major development of the programme will be rolled out over the next few months.

All activities in BSS and partner activities (PCC, ASK, etc) related to the student employability now fall under a carefully planned, cohesive and far reaching employability programme running parallel to the academic study of students on all levels in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Business Life is run in partnership with the Placement and Careers Centre and Brunel Library Service (ASK).

Business Life employability Programme… open to students, alumni and business!Current BBS students are key stakeholders, but the programme in its new shape includes potential employers of BBS students, alumni and potential students, who will hopefully choose BBS because it offers them this value added to the standard offering of education.

Activities organised with employers and the professional community in and out of the University, are carefully planned into the Business Life programme of events to ensure that throughout their entire stay with BBS students have abundant opportunities to enhance their core employability skills and experience real life job tools.

AcademicQualifications

Employability Skills

Careers Prospects+ =The main objective of Business Life is that

students from BBS graduate with a unique mix of skills to boost their employability.

• an academic award

• a Professional Portfolio consisting of professional certificates and applicable skills

• a professional network

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highlight on Business Life events for 2012Students and employers will have ample opportunities to come together in 2012 and some of the highlights we are looking forward to include:

• Brunel Enterprising Student Talent (BEST) 2012 networking event

• Meet the Apprentice with a celebrity guest in February

• Oxford Mini Factory Tour in February• MBA and MiM Showcase Events in March and June• MBA Business Tour to India in February• Tutorial Day Showcase in February• Career Booster Programmes• Naked Series - Inspiration Career Journeys from

Industry Professionals

Business Life TeamEvery member of BBS is on the Business Life team: from the students who attend and give feedback on the programme, through to the academic colleagues who encourage students to participate in the workshops and events; and the administrators who make the operations tick like clockwork; to the core Business Life team comprising of:

• Ashley Braganza – Project Director• Heather Carr – Project Leader• Ronan Lavelle – Project Consultant

Business Life websiteBBS has dedicated prime spaces on its website www.brunel.ac.uk/bbs/employability to allow this unique Employability Programme to stand out as a star feature amongst some other achievements of the School like research and academic quality.

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BuSINeSS LIFe: eVeNTS

BBS students entered for national PwC Business ChallengeIn association with Bright Futures, PwC are launching the Business Champions competition for the second year running and the team that BBS have entered has been selected to take part in the actual challenge (the application stage was a competitive process). Our team will now receive mentoring from PwC to help them complete the challenge.

The challenge is to come up with a viable business idea that will a make a profit by March 2012. Bright Futures will provide each team selected to take part in the challenge with £250 to help them get their business idea going. PwC will support the teams in the development of their business plan and in the execution of their business idea.

Our team consists of third year students: Tom Frumerman (Marketing), Joshua Fitzgerald (Accounting), Stephanie Gaynor (Marketing) and Luke Smythe (Law).

Winners will be announced in late March/early April. Watch this space!

Leading Professional Bodies at BBSOn 2nd November BBS students met with the leading Professional Bodies to discuss the career opportunities available to them upon graduation. Professional Bodies in attendance included: Accounting Bodies: ACCA, ICAEW, CIPFA, CIMA; eBusiness: BCS; Management & HRM: CMI, CILT, CIPD; International Business: CII, CBI, CFA; Marketing: CIM and CIPR.

CIMA Global Business ChallengeAccounting Lecturer, Laura Kerrigan, is currently recruiting students for the annual CIMA Global Business Challenge.

The CIMA Global Business Challenge is an international business competition designed to bring out the best in the young business leaders of tomorrow. The GBC 2012 competition is run in three stages. Stage one involves a case study analysis (group report of 3,000 words); Stage two – synopsis and presentation (country / regional final) and Stage three – presentation (global final). The competition will take place late next spring so more details to follow in the next issue of BBS News.


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MBA News Round up

The MBA Showcase eventThe “Showcasing MBA Talent” event held on 29th September in the MEPC (Michael E Porter Centre) provided access to Brunel MBA talent as well as an opportunity for organisations to provide an insight into their current enterprise challenges.

Invited organisations which included Barclays, HSBC, Hewlett Packard, Enterprise Rent a Car, Sharp Europe, The Walt Disney Company, NHS and several others presented a contemporary business topic / challenge from their organisation and groups of Brunel MBA graduates applied their management skills to present recommendations and suggested approaches on the given topics, using a “speed networking” approach.

MBA Guest Speaker Series: Jim Bodoh from Radley yeldarMBA students had another opportunity to “talk business” on 14th November when Mr Jim Bodoh gave a talk as part of the MBA Guest Speaker Series.

Jim is responsible for delivering robust brand strategies and appropriate creative solutions designed to help clients achieve their strategic ambitions. He has worked on major branding and communications projects for all sorts of clients in the public and private sectors. These include Balfour Beatty, Capita, P&O Cruises, Hermes, the NHS, Allied Irish Bank, Christian Salvesen, the British Council and more than 20 UK colleges and universities.

MBA careers roundtableOn 10th November, The Brunel MBA arranged a careers roundtable Business Life event, entitled “Your Next Step” held in the MBA suite on campus.

The session provided outgoing MBA students with practical and useful insights into the MBA recruitment market and career prospects for MBAs in the current climate and how to approach and position themselves armed with an MBA.

Expert speakers from organisations such as: the Association of MBAs (AMBA), QS Global-Workplace, Farley and Associates and MBA and Company, attended the careers roundtable. Each session kicked off with a brief presentation and background on the respective topic after which the floor was opened to a Q&A session.

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CAPCo exhibits exclusively for MBA students at earls CourtOn 25th November MBA students visited Capital & Counties Properties PLC (Capco), a major property investment and development company in London. The inaugural visit was part of a series of company visits that will run throughout the year, giving MBA students firsthand experience on how businesses operate. The visit offered a unique insight into two major construction and redevelopment projects run by Capco.

The business trip which was followed by a Q&A session with the Director of Investment and Director of Planning was an occasion to examine in more depth the complexities of the project, and to create connections between classroom theory and the reality of business practice. MBA student Shekar Kamble commented: “This trip was an excellent exposure for my management studies – to understand the challenges in the Real Estate & Development Market in terms of strategic planning, sustainability, urban marketing, revenues, investment and market risks. The amount of learning through Capco was incredible!”

Students were engaged by the extent of the challenges involved in these projects, as Elizabeth Huang commented: “The visit to Capital & Counties was highly interesting because it allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the firm’s grand vision, their strategies and the extraordinary level of complexity they have to deal with in order to achieve their objectives. As a former Chinese urban planner, I’m also very impressed with fact that, despite all the challenges, they have gone to great lengths to strike a good balance between social responsibility and commercial success.”

Report by Flavia De Facendis, MBA Student Ambassador

MBA Students meet Goldman Sachs executives

Brunel MBA Students meet Goldman Sachs executive director of Investment ManagementA group of Brunel MBA students attended a regional networking event organised by Association of MBAs held at Fyvie Hall of Westminster Business School. The event was designed for MBA students with an interest in global business and BRIC economies.

Speaking on behalf of Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division, Anna Stupnytska presented views and predictions for the BRIC economies for the next 10 years whilst Guy Fraser-Simpson, drawing on his expertise in private equity investment, talked about investment opportunities in the BRIC countries.

The presentations were followed by a Q & A session, during which various interesting questions about China, India, Russia and UK were put to the panel of experts, sparking even more insightful comments from the panel.

Report by Elizabeth Huang, MBA Student Ambassador


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NewS IN BRIeF

Textbook on “Intelligent Agrifood Chains and Networks” publishedMichael Bourlakis, Professor in Supply Chain Management, has recently co-edited a book entitled “Intelligent Agrifood Chains & Networks”, Wiley Blackwell.

It is a research-oriented book that includes a collection of chapters covering topics such as RFID, Telematics and other “intelligent” applications in the food chain. The book also analyses the role and importance of these intelligent technologies for various companies including Arla Foods, AB Vasilopoulos / Delhaize Le Lion and Nikas.

New director announced for BBS Centre for Research into entrepreneurship, International Business and Innovation in emerging Markets (CeIBIeM)Francesco Moscone, Reader, has recently taken over from Suma Athreye, Professor of International Strategy as Director of CEIBIEM. He is also currently principal investigator on an ESRC (UK government funding) first research grant entitled “Statistical Modelling of Interdependence in Economics”. Additionally, Francesco is co-investigator for the grant “Economic Performance and Quality of Life in European Cities” awarded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Francesco is also a co-investigator for the grant “Development of new indicators to assess research within scientific areas” awarded by the European Social Fund.

Grant SuccessCongratulations to Jill Collis for the award of a grant for research into the ‘Value of the financial statements of small entities to lenders and creditors’ (£35,000 for 12 months).

These funds are provided by the International Association for Accounting Education and Research but administered by ACCA. In the accounting community this is a significant award and demonstrates the maturing efforts of our Accounting research in BBS.

Publishing awardRay Hackney, Professor of Business Systems and Director of Doctoral Programme, has recently achieved a publishing award through his co-authored paper with Barney Tan, University New South Wales, Australia and Shan-Ling Pan, National University, Singapore). The paper has been awarded the ‘joint’ IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, BEST PAPER for 2010.

Visiting ProfessorshipNeil Anderson, Professor of Human Resource Management, has been appointed as Visiting Professor to the Work and Organizational Psychology Group at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. As one of the leading departments of its kind in Holland, this zero-hours appointment has been made to develop research links and ongoing collaborative work to include joint publications, funding applications, and international conference symposia and presentations. Following the highly successful hosting of the European Association of Work and Organization Psychology (EAWOP) conference at Maastricht last year (for which Neil served on the Strategic and Programme Committees), this appointment will extend and develop links between BBS and the University of Maastricht at a time when such international collaborations are key to successful programmatic research efforts.


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Best Professor in Marketing AwardCongratulations to Suraksha Gupta who was awarded the Best Professor in Marketing at The Asia’s Best B-School Awards at Suntec, Singapore in July.

10th amongst 25 most read articles in IMM

One of Suraksha Gupta and TC Melewar, Professor of Marketing and Strategy and Director of MSc Applied Corporate Brand Management, articles is 10th among the 25 most read articles of IMM (Industrial Marketing Management).

Conferences

heritage, Nostalgia and Tradition: Reflections and directions SymposiumWith funding from the University Research Series Award, John Balmer, Professor of Corporate Marketing, held a three day event (30th November – 2nd December) at Brunel University and at the Royal Overseas League Club in St James’ London.

It is envisaged that one or more special editions of journals will be linked to the event and John sees this as the first of what he hopes will be an annual symposium on heritage identities and heritage corporate brands.

Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility workshopIn November, Dimitrios Koufopoulos and Angela Ayios both presented papers at the CSR Workshop which was organised by The Company and Commercial Law Group of the Brunel Law School and attended by Law scholars as well as business management scholars.


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Phd viva successThe second half of 2011 has seen several research students successfully defend their PhD vivas:

Sharif Abbasi: “Culture, Demography and Individuals’ Technology Acceptance Behaviour: A PLS Based Structural Evaluation of an Extended Model of Technology Acceptance in South- Asian Country Context” (1st Supervisor: Zahir Irani, 2nd Supervisor: Amir Sharif)

Zahran Al-Salti: “An Investigation of Knowledge Transfer in Information Systems (IS) Outsourcing: A Clients Perspective” (1st Supervisor: Ray Hackney, 2nd Supervisor: Vishanth Weekaroddy)

Fida Chadio: “Studying Acceptance of Online Banking Information System: A Structural Equation Model” (1st Supervisor: Zahir Irani, 2nd Supervisor: Amir Sharif)

Matilda Chen-Chu Chen: “The Use of Corporate Reputation in the Development of Brand Image Strategy in the Taiwanese Pharmaceutical Industry” (1st Supervisor: Charles Dennis, 2nd Supervisor: Geraldine Cohen)

Marwan Elnaghi: “Exploring the Role of Leadership in Facilitating Ict-Enabled Transformation of Government” (1st Supervisor: Sarmad Al-Shawi, 2nd Supervisor: Zahir Irani)

Jamshed Halepota: Predictors of Public sector employees’ job satisfaction: An empirical study of Pakistan’s Public employees (1st Supervisor: Zahir Irani, 2nd Supervisor: Amir Sharif)

Rudolf Holzhausen: “A Generic Clinical Patient Vital Signs Parameter Measurement, Processing and Storage Protocol” (1st Supervisor: Sarmad Al-Shawi, 2nd Supervisor: Dr Jahromi (Ahlia)). Rudolf is the Business School’s latest PhD success from the Ahlia PhD programme.

Amir Nasrullah: “Critical Analysis of Micro Enterprise Policy Development in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Bangladesh” (1st Supervisor: Keith Dickson, 2nd Supervisor: Stefania Zerbinati).

BBS Phd Students bag two awards at conferenceTwo BBS students (Tamer Darwish and Fattah Mohamed) allied to CEIBIEM (Centre for research into entrepreneurship, international business and innovation in emerging markets) research centre won two out of five best paper awards at the Human Resource Management and Professional Development for the Digital Age (HRM&PD) conference for 2011, held in Singapore in November.

The papers were selected for the conference against tough competition and several prominent figures from the field of HRM and IB were involved in the selection process for the award. The students were working under the supervision of Satwinder Singh, Ruth Simpson, and Zahir Irani.

Brunel Research Society (BRS)Since the last issue, BRS has managed to finalize its logo. As of 4th November, BRS has 71 members from various courses and schools within Brunel. BRS is now on facebook and has its own mini website provided by Union of Brunel Students. However, committee members are planning to create a professional research website that can create a new

platform for researchers to communicate and share their valuable knowledge.

For further information and how to become a member of BRS, please visit www.brunelstudents.com/research.

Successful BRIeF applications by BBS staffCongratulations to Aida Hajro and Suraksha Gupta on their recent successful Brief awards.

daiwa foundation awardGabriella Spinelli, Senior Lecturer, has received a Daiwa foundation award of £9000 to support research collaboration with Tokyo University. The research will investigate the demographic challenges in UK and Japan with specific attention to the role of ageing users as catalysts of technology innovation. The grant compliments Gabriella’s current stream of research and contributes to the Business Strategy and Innovation programme that she leads within BIAS (Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies).

Knowledge Transfer Leave (KTL) Scheme: Seminar Series to Indian InstitutionsIn July Satwinder Singh and Keith Dickson visited two Indian Institutions to deliver a series of Seminars to PhD research fellows and postgraduate students and hold research meetings with their Indian counterparts on two research projects that are currently active under the KTL scheme of Brunel University.

It is very much hoped that the working relationship between the BBS and the Indian counterparts will continue in the future.

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