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Professor John Bessant

Originally a chemical engineer, Professor John Bessant has been active in research, teaching and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over 25 years. He currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director. Professor Bessant‘s research is concerned with the process of technological innovation and its management. At firm level, it focuses on trying to identify the key structures and behaviours which enable organisations to renew their business offerings (products / services) and the ways in which they create and deliver them. Read more...
Professor Steve Brown

Steve Brown is Professor of Management within the School and joined from the School of Management at Bath, where he led the Operations Management Group and was Director of the Centre of Technology and Innovation Management (CENTAIM).

Professor Brown is currently working on how operations strategies can help organisations to perform to world-class levels within volatile markets; he is also researching how operations capabilities can enhance the chances of success with Innovation initiatives both within, and across, organisations and has been involved in a number of funded research activities. Read more...
Miguel Fonseca

Dr Miguel Fonseca joined the Business School in September 2007 from Columbia University, where he had spent the previous two years as a post-doctoral researcher. Miguel’s current research interests are on tacit and explicit collusion; social identity and its effect on public good provision and bargaining. Dr Fonseca has obtained research support from the ESRC, the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation.

Miguel‘s post-doctoral work related to water management issues in Northeast Brazil. In particular, he conducted field experiments to study the ability of market mechanisms to coordinate investment decisions when there is uncertainty about the availability of water. Read more...
Professor Jonathan Gosling

Professor Jonathan Gosling is the Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter. An expert in leadership development, he has directed many international programmes and published widely on the subject, including co-authoring with Henry Mintzberg 'The Five Minds of a Manger' in the Harvard Business Review, and the study 'The Education of Practicing Managers' for the MIT Sloan Management Review. Much of Professor Gosling‘s research for the past 10 years has been focused on elucidating the contribution made by various interventions in organisations, ranging from formal management training to collective narrative processes. Read more...
Professor Alan Gregory

Professor Alan Gregory is Director of Xfi, the Centre for Finance and Investment at the University of Exeter and a Professor of Corporate Finance. Prior to taking up this position, he held professorial positions at both the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Glasgow. In addition to his position at Exeter, he was a full panel member of the Competition Commission for two successive for year terms until September 2009 and is now External Advisor to the Commission‘s Finance and Regulation Group. His consulting experience includes acting as advisor to one of the largest accounting firms on company valuation, advising HM Treasury, and consulting for fund managers on investment strategies and asset allocation strategies.
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Richard Harris

Richard Harris is a Professor of Finance in the Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment. He has a first class BSc Economics from University College London, an MSc Economics with distinction from Birkbeck College, University of London, an MSc in Chinese Language, Business and International Relations with distinction from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Exeter. Professor Harris‘s research interests lie in the areas of financial econometrics, volatility modelling and risk management. He has written for leading international economics and finance publications including the Economic Journal, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Futures Markets and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Read more...
Professor Joanne Horton

Joanne Horton joined the Business School here Exeter in October 2009. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics, in the Department of Accounting. Joanne has published extensively in leading academic journals and was recently commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on behalf of the EU Commission to investigate the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on EU countries. Joanne’s current research activity involves investigation of the effects of social networking on certain corporate governance mechanisms and corporate disclosure. Read more...
Professor Steve McCorriston

Professor Steve McCorriston is currently Professor of Agricultural Economics. He was Head of the Department of Economics at the Business School from 2005 to 2011 and has previously served as Director for Research. He has acted as a consultant to the OECD, the UN FAO, DEFRA as well as private organisations. He is currently coordinating the Transparency of Food Pricing (TRANSFOP) project, a €1 Million EU-wide project funded by the European Commission, the Consortium involving 13 universities and research institutes across 10 EU countries. Steve’s research interests focus on commodity and food markets, with a particular emphasis on trade and competition issues. Related research covers FDI and taxation issues and the links between environmental policy and trade. Read more...
Professor Lynne Oats

Professor Lynne Oats joined Exeter Business School in September 2010, having held previous academic positions at the Universities of Warwick, Sheffield Hallam, and Curtin University of Technology. Her research interest is taxation policy and practice in social and institutional context, in both historical and contemporary settings. She has published extensively in the field, and is co-author of three books, Taxation Policy and Practice (with Andy Lymer), Principles of International Taxation (with Angharad Miller), and Accounting Principles for Tax Purposes (with Paul Tuck). Lynne is also editor of a forthcoming book, Taxation: A Fieldwork Research Handbook, that brings together examples of recent fieldwork research in tax policy. Read more...
Professor Annie Pye

Annie Pye is a Professor at the Centre for Leadership Studies, where she has been Director of the MA in Leadership Studies, Acting Head of Department, and currently continues to be Director of Research. Her research focus develops a process-oriented, sensemaking perspective on the leadership and governance of complex organizations. This includes a series of three interrelated ESRC-funded projects into how small groups of people effectively ‘run’ companies. Interviewing Chairmen, Chief Executives and directors in FTSE100 companies, institutional investors, auditors and other organizations which influence board practice and process, the latest of these projects was concluded in 2011. Sir Adrian Cadbury describes her research into corporate governance as “ground-breaking”. Read more...
Professor Zvi Safra

Professor Safra joined the University of Exeter Business School as Chair of Economics in 2010. Previously he was Vice President for Academic Affairs (Provost, MDVC) at Israel’s largest and oldest private university college (College of Management Academic Studies) – and until 2005, he was a Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie in the areas of Decision making under uncertainty, Social choice, Bargaining theory and Law and economics. Read more...
Professor Gareth Shaw

Gareth Shaw is Professor of Retail and Tourism Management and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Exeter Business School. He has just completed an ESRC project on innovation in the hotel industry and is currently working on an ESRC follow-on project on Sustainable travel and Social Marketing. He is an Innovation Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management, was formerly Professor of Human Geography at Exeter and has a BA and PhD in Human Geography. He has worked on numerous research projects related to retail development all of which have been funded by major grant awarding bodies. He is an expert on retail innovation and business history and in recent years has completed a large scale project on the impact of the supermarket on consumer behaviour in post-war Britain. Read more...
Professor Andi Smart

Professor Andi Smart is a Professor in Operations and Process Management and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Service Research (ISR) within the Business School. His research interests in Service Process Management (grounded in Systems Thinking) currently focus on process-centric typologies for operations design. He is also continuing to develop his ideas on Service Capacity using dynamic models. His work, which originated in the manufacturing sector, has expanded into Financial Services, Utilities, Telecommunications, and Public Services (NHS, Police, Fire Service). In addition to successfully supervising six PhDs and examining two PhD candidates, Andi has taken a lead role in large UK and European research projects. Read more...
Professor Mairi Maclean

Professor Maclean joined the University of Exeter Business School in October 2010 as Professor of International Management and Organisation Studies in the Department of Management, as part of the OB & HRM sub-group. She was previously Professor of International Business at Bristol Business School, and before that, Reader in International Business in the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. She has an MA and PhD from the University of St Andrews, and an MBA from the University of Bath. Read more...

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