Tuesday February 09, 2010

Professor Steve Brown

Professor Steve Brown

BA, DMS, MBA, DPhil.

Professor of Management

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Telephone: (01392) 263447

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Dr. 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). He has been involved in a number of funded research activities. He is a Visiting Professor to Baruch College, City University, New York and is also Visiting Professor at NIMBAS in Holland. He is listed in Who's Who in Europe. His management experience was gained in both Public and Private Sectors including large and SME organisations. He is actively involved in consulting in a range of organisations in manufacturing and service sectors.

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Taught Modules

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External Positions

Selected Publications

  1. Brophey G,   Brown S (2009) "Innovation practices within small to medium-sized mechanically-based manufacturers"  Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice Volume 11 Issue 3, 327-341
  2. Squire, B. Cousins, P and Brown, S (2009): 'Knowledge transfer within cooperative buyer-supplier relationships: The moderating impact of trust, relationship duration and supplier performance' British Journal of Management. Volume 20, Number 4 pp. 461-477
  3. Brown, S, Squire, B, Lewis M, (2009), ‘The impact of inclusive and fragmented operations strategies on operations performance’, International Journal of Production Research, accepted for publication.
  4. Squire, B, Cousins, PD, Lawson, B and Brown, S (2009), ‘The effect of supplier manufacturing capabilities on buyer responsiveness: The role of collaboration’, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 766-788.
  5. Brown, S (2008), ’Strategisk resonans – en punky pa agendan for hogre chefer’, Produktionsstrategei Argang, 4 Nummer, 4 December.
  6. Hill, A, and Brown, S (2007), ‘Strategic profiling: A visual representation of internal strategic fit in service organizations’, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp.1333-1361.
  7. Brown, S, Blackmon, K, and Squire, B (2007), ‘The contribution of manufacturing strategy involvement and alignment to world class manufacturing performance’, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 282-302.
  8. Brown, S and Fai, F (2006), ‘Strategic Resonance Between Technological and Organisational Capabilities in the Innovation Process within Firms’, Technovation, Vol. 26, pp. 60-75.
  9. Squire, B, Cousins, PD, Brown, S (2006), ‘Collaborating for customisation: A resource-based perspective’, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Vol. 1, No.1/2, pp. 8-25.
  10. Squire, B, Brown, S, Readman, J and Bessant, J (2006), ‘The impact of mass customization on manufacturing trade-offs’, Production and Operations Management Journal, Vol. 15, no.1, pp. 10-21.
  11. Readman, J, Squire, B, Bessant, J and Brown, S (2006), ‘The application of agile manufacturing for customer value’, Journal of Financial Transformation 18 (November), pp. 133-141.
  12. Brown, S, Lamming, R, Bessant, J and Jones, P (2005), Strategic Operations Management, (2nd edition), Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford.
  13. Brown, S and Blackmon, K (2005), ‘Linking Manufacturing Strategy to the Strategy Mainstream: The Case for Strategic Resonance’, Journal of Management Studies, 42:4, pp. 793-815.
  14. Brown, S and Maylor, H (2005), ‘Enlightened Firms, Mass Producers, Big Fish & Flatliners: A Study Of Policies, Practices & Performance’, Technovation, April 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 307-20 .
  15. Mann, C, Swuart, J and Brown, S (2005), Strategy, Operations and Tactics in Employee Development, Butterworth Heinemann.
  16. Brown, S and Cousins, P (2004), ‘Supply and Operations – Parallel Paths and Integrated Strategies’, British Journal of Management, Dec, Vol. 15 Issue 4, pp. 303-21.
  17. Squire, B, Readman, J, Brown, S and Bessant, J (2004) ‘Mass customisation: The key to customer value?’, Production Planning & Control, 15(4), pp. 459-471.
  18. Brown, S and Bessant, J (2003), ‘The Strategy-Capabilities Link in Mass Customization’, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 707-730.
  19. Crute, V, Ward, Y, Brown, S and Graves, A (2003), ‘The Adoption of Lean Practices within the Aerospace Industry – Strategy and Practice’, Technovation, Vol. 23, no.12, pp. 917-928.
  20. Ford, D, Brown, S, Naude, P and Berthon, P (2002), The Business Marketing Course, John Wiley.
  21. Brown, S (2002), ‘Managing Fulfilment’ in The Business Marketing Course (edited by David Ford), John Wiley.
  22. Brown, S (2001), ‘Managing Process Technology - Further Evidence from Manufacturing Plants’, Technovation, Vol. 21, pp. 467-478.
  23. Brown, S (2001), ‘Strategic Reconfiguration - Manufacturing's Key Role in Innovation’, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Third/Fourth Quarter, pp. 9-16.
  24. Bessant J, Brown, S, Francis, D, and Meredith, S (2001), ‘Developing Manufacturing Agility in SMEs’, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 22, Issue 1-3, pp. 28-55.
  25. Brown, S, Cousins, P, Blackmon, K and Maylor, H (2001), ‘Operations Management – Policy’, Practice and Performance Management, Butterworth Heinemann.
  26. Blackmon, K, Brown, S et al (eds.) (2001), What Really Matters in Operations Management, University of Bath, EurOMA.
  27. Brown, S (2000), Manufacturing the Future - Strategic Resonance for Enlightened Manufacturing, Financial Times Books, London.
  28. Brown, S, Lamming, R, Bessant, J and Jones, P (2000), Strategic Operations Management, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford.
  29. Brown, S (1999), ‘The Role of Manufacturing Strategy in Mass Customization and Agile Manufacturing’ in Operations Management for the Global Economy - Challenges and Prospects (edited by Kanda et al), Prospects Phoenix Publishing, New Delhi.
  30. Brown, S (1998), ‘Manufacturing Strategy, Manufacturing Seniority and Plant Performance in Quality’, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 18, no.6, pp. 565-587.
  31. Brown, S (1998), ‘Manufacturing Seniority, Strategy and Innovation’, Technovation, Vol. 18, No. 2 pp. 25-33.
  32. Brown, S (1998), ‘New Evidence on Quality in Manufacturing Plants - A Challenge to Lean Production’, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 39, no.1, pp. 14-22.
  33. Brown, S (1998), ‘Manufacturing Strategy and Its Impact on Manufacturing Performance - Evidence From 29 Manufacturing Plants in Three Industries’ in Performance Measurement - Theory and Practice (edited by Nealy, A), Cambridge University, pp. 206-214.
  34. Brown, S (1997), ‘Manufacturing Strategy, Manufacturing Seniority and Quality Capability at Plant Level’, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 38, no.3, pp. 12-28.
  35. Brown, S (1997), ;High and Low Quality Performance in Manufacturing Firms’, TQM Journal, Vol.9 , no.4, pp. 292-299.
  36. Brown, S (1996), Strategic Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage - Transforming Operations from Shop Floor to Strategy, Prentice Hall. Hemel Hempstead.
  37. Brown, S (1994), ‘The Role of Work Study in TQM’, TQM Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 9-15.
  38. Brown, S (1994), ‘TQM and Work Study - Partners in Excellence’, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 34-39.

Papers / presentations at conferences

  1. Brown, S (2009), ‘Further Evidence of Strategically Inclusive versus Strategically Fragmented Plants – Toward Strategic Resonance’, 20th Annual POMS Conference, Orlando, May 2009 (Track Chair).
  2. Brown, S (2009), ‘How capabilities in Operations can influence ‘Green Production’- Exploring the issues’, 20th Annual POMS Conference, Orlando, May 2009 (Track Chair).
  3. Brown, S (2008), ‘Managing Innovation’, Business Leaders Forum, University of Exeter, May.
  4. Brown, S (2008), ‘Making Operations World Class in Highly Competitive Markets’, Keynote Speaker at EEF (Engineering Employees Federation), Bristol (for the South West Region), October.
  5. Brown, S (2008), ‘How Organisations Need to Compete in the Current Environment’, Keynote Speaker, Business Support Network (for the South West), October.
  6. Brown, S (2008), ‘Strategically Inclusive versus Strategically fragmented plants – Toward Strategic Resonance’, presented at 19th Annual POMS Conference, San Diego, May 2008.
  7. Brown, S (2007), ‘Strategic Resonance in the Strategy Process Within Dynamic Environments', the 18th Annual POMS Conference, Dallas.
  8. Brown, S (2006), ‘The Role of Strategic Resonance in an Uncertain and Competitive World’, Production and Operations Management (POMS) World Conference, Boston.
  9. Squire, B, Cousins, PD and Brown, S (2005), ‘Knowledge transfer within inter-firm collaborations: The moderating impact of trust and diffusion capability’, Academy of Management Conference, Hawaii.
  10. Squire, B and Brown, S (2005), ‘The impact of modularisation on plant flexibility and business performance’, Production and Operations Management (POMS) World Conference, Chicago.
  11. Squire, B, Cousins, PD, Lawson, B and Brown, S (2005), ‘The effect of supplier manufacturing capabilities on buyer responsiveness: the role of collaboration as a moderator’, Production and Operations Management World Conference, (POMS) Chicago.
  12. Squire, B, Brown, S, Readman, J and Bessant, J (2004), ‘The end is (not quite) nigh! The impact of mass customization on manufacturing trade-offs’, Production and Operations Management (POMS) World Conference, Cancun.
  13. Readman, J, Squire, B, Bessant, J and Brown, S (2004), ‘Customer channels for successful product customisation’, 11th International Product Development Management Conference, Dublin.
  14. Squire, B, Brown, S and Cousins, PD (2003), ‘Collaborating for customisation: A resource-based perspective’, Mass Customization & Personalization World Conference, Munich.
  15. Readman, J, Squire, B, Bessant, J, Brown, S (2003), ‘Negotiating customer value’, EUROMA – POMS Joint Conference, Lake Como.
  16. Brown, S (2003), ‘Strategic Resonance: Evidence From High Performing Plants’, 14th Annual POMS Conference, POMS - Savannah.
  17. Readman, J, Squire, B, Bessant, J and Brown, S (2003), ‘Negotiating Customer Value’, Euroma Conference 2003.
  18. Brown (2003), ‘The Future of Manufacturing’, keynote speech at Engineering 2003, University of Warwick.
  19. Brown (2002), ‘The Role of Manufacturing Strategy in Mass Customization’, 13th Annual POMS Conference, POMS - San Francisco.
  20. Brown, S (2001), ‘The Transfer of Lean Manufacturing Principles from Automobiles to the Aerospace Industry’, 12th Annual POMS Conference. POMS - Orlando, Florida.
  21. Brown, S (2001), ‘The Role of Strategy in the Implementation of Lean Production within the Aerospace Industry’, 8th International EurOMA Conference, Bath, UK.
  22. Brown, S (2000), ‘The Role of Operations Strategy in Creating and Sustaining Strategic Resonance at 11th Annual POMS Conference’, San Antonio, Texas.
  23. Brown, S (1999), ‘The Role of Strategy in Mass Customization’, 10th Annual POMS Conference, New Delhi, India.
  24. Brown, S (1999), ‘Manufacturing Strategy’, Networking and Plant Performance, EurOMA Conference, Venice, Italy.
  25. Brown, S (1998), ‘Manufacturing Strategy and Its Impact on Manufacturing Performance - Evidence from 29 Manufacturing Plants in Three Industries’, (Ref94), Cambridge University, Judge Institute of Management Studies Conference, ‘Performance Measurement - Theory and Practice’.
  26. Brown, S (1996), ‘Is Lean Manufacturing Sufficient?’, BPICS Conference Annual General Meeting, London, March 1996, reviewed in BPICS Control Journal, November 1996
  27. Brown, S (2001), ‘The Transfer of Lean Manufacturing Principles from Automobiles to the Aerospace Industry’, published in the proceedings of the 12th Annual POMS Conference, POMS - Orlando, Florida.