Prof Ian Davidson
Prof Ian Davidson wins 2012 Abacus Manuscript Award
Professor Ian Davidson, Professor in Business and Management and Head of the School of Business, Management and Economics, is the joint winner of the 2012 Abacus Manuscript Award.
His paper - The Construction of Asset Pricing Models With Specific Factor Loadings (co-authored with Qian Guo, Xiaojing Song and Mark Tippett) - was chosen by an expert panel of accounting academics and practitioners.
Ian will receive the award, funded by the owner of Abacus, the Accounting Foundation, at the American Accounting Association Conference which takes place 3-7 August 2013 in Anaheim, California, USA.
European International Business Academy (EIBA) conference, 7-9 December 2012
Professor Roger Strange was President and co-chair of the 38th annual European International Business Academy (EIBA) conference, held in 2012 in the Jubilee Building from 7-9 December.
The theme of the conference was 'International Business and Sustainable Development' and featured an outstanding programme, with two plenary sessions closely linked to the conference theme. The opening plenary featured John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz (Institute for Development Studies) on the topic of the 'Global Green Economy: a Value Chain Perspective', whilst the Sunday plenary will feature Martin Wolf (Financial Times) on the 'Limits to Growth in the 21st Century'. The conference ended in style on Sunday 9 December with a Gala Dinner in the Empress Suite of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
- Further information can be found on the EIBA 2012 website
Paper presentation at renowned management conference
Dr Monica Masucci (Tutorial Fellow) presented a paper at the 32nd Strategic Management Society annual conference in Prague, titled “Uncovering the Determinants of Initiative Survival in Corporate Venture Units: A Multistage Selection Perspective”, co-authored with S. Brusoni (ETH Zurich) and J.C.Hayton (Warwick).
- Further information can be found on the conference website
2012 Sussex Teaching Award for Tutorial Fellow
Chris Stratford receiving his Sussex Teaching Award
Congratulations to Chris Stratford (Tutorial Fellow and module convenor for Global Business, Strategic Management and Business Strategy Report) who has been recognised at the annual Sussex Teaching Awards with a Teaching Excellence award (Established Staff category), in particular for his exemplary lecture slides and interactive teaching methods.
Previous Sussex Teaching Award winners in Business and Management include:
2011
- Teaching Excellence (Established Staff): Veronica Wong
- Teaching Excellence (Entrepreneurship Team): Piera Morlacchi, Sally Atkinson, Victoria Blessing, Shova Thapa Karki and David Storey
2010
- Teaching Excellence (Team award): John Bateman, David Green, Emmet Hayes and Richard Sykes
- Further information can be found on the Sussex Teaching Awards site.
Senior Lecturer gives Edinburgh seminar on healthcare technologies
Dr Piera Morlacchi (Senior Lecturer in Business and Innovation) visited the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen) at the University of Edinburgh to give a talk about her research on the development and use of healthcare technologies.
The title of the seminar was “Are ‘Appropriate Health Technologies 3.0' the Cure for Our Sick Healthcare Systems?”.