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Engaging ethnic minority businesses in HR change: An action research study
Date: Wednesday 22 February 2023
Time: 2.00-3.30pm
Location: Seminar Room 5, University of Liverpool Management School
About this event
The economic and social importance of ethnic minority microbusinesses (‘EMMBs’ with 1-9 employees) is neglected in HR academic and policy discourse on productive ways of working. This talk presents an action research study to showing how academics and intermediaries (local trusted industry representatives) can collaborate to promote HR development programmes targeted at more productive methods of operating in EMMBs.
Our research collaboration involves academics, EMMBs (from the catering and creative sectors) and intermediaries. We develop perspectives on HR in small firms by showing how EMMBs can be engaged in initiatives of learning and development targeted at organisational change. The study contributes to recent calls for a more inclusive approach to HR theorising and practice.
About the Speaker
Professor Monder Ram OBE is the Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject, and has extensive experience of working in and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses.
Monder is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, and advises the government on the importance and value of ethnic minority businesses through his position on the APPG for BAME Business Owners. He also holds visiting positions at Warwick University and the University of Turku.
Previous events:
Firm failure from an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective: A case study
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 2.30-3.30pm
Location: Seminar Room 2, University of Liverpool Management School
About this event
Governments are criticised for ‘wasting public money’ when companies that they have funded subsequently close down or fail. The assets that these companies have created with such funding – in particular the skills and knowledge that is embedded in their employees - is likely to remain in the ecosystem.
In this first Seminar Series, Professor Colin Mason examines the failure of a technology company in St John’s, Newfoundland – a peripheral, economically under-developed Canadian province that had received significant amounts of government financial support. It shows that the recycling of its employees to other local firms played a significant role in the development of the embryonic local entrepreneurial ecosystem. The implication for government is that positive outcomes can arise from the failure of companies that they have supported, but that they need to carefully consider which types of companies to support to ensure that such outcomes occur.
About the speaker
Colin Mason is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow since October 2012, previously holding professorships in Economic Geography at the University of Southampton and in Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde.
He has also held visiting positions at: University of Ottawa, Memorial University of Newfoundland (both Canada), Flinders University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina), London Business, School, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax (Canada), University of Canterbury, University of Otago (both New Zealand).
Colin's research and teaching are in the areas of entrepreneurship and regional development. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship; business start-up; social and community entrepreneurship; and corporate entrepreneurship and innovation.
His long-term research focus is entrepreneurial finance, specifically business angel investing. He has also undertaken research on home-based businesses, high growth firms and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Colin is the founder and joint editor of Venture Capital, an international journal of entrepreneurial finance (Taylor and Francis); and is on the editorial boards of several journals.
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