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MBA and Postgraduate Diploma in International Management

Staff profiles

Chris Howorth
Director, External and Executive Programmes, School of Management

Expertise: International Health Systems Analysis, Health Care Financing, and Management, Executive Team Interaction, and Change Management. He is also an Associate Consultant to the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies, where he works on benchmarking and action research projects conducted for the Centre.

Recent publications: Howorth C, Mueller, F and Harvey C (forthcoming - 2003) 'Can the public sector learn? The importance of patient-focussed care within a NHS hospital trust.' in: Dent, M; Chandler, J and Barry, J (eds) New Public Management Dilemmas for Public Sector Managers and Professionals. Aldershot: Avebury

Howorth C, Mueller, F and Harvey C (2002) 'The Diffusion of an Organisational Innovation: Adopting "Patient-Focussed Care" in an N.H.S. Hospital Trust' Competition and Change 6 (2): 213-232

Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies (2002) 'Report on the Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Sport in Slough' - April 2001 Report commissioned by Slough Borough Council funded by Sport England

Mueller F, Harvey C & Howorth C (2001) Archetype Change and Action Strategies: Negotiating 'Finance' in a UK Hospital Trust Board Leicester University Department of Management Working Paper 01/05

Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies (2001) Development of the Education Department Action Plan in Response to the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry. Report prepared for Westminster City Council Education Department.

Isabella Channey, PhD.
Isabella is a teaching and research associate at Royal Holloway, working in the area of marketing. She recently completed her PhD titled 'The Grapevine for New Zealand Wine: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Information Dissemination'. While her research interests are in export marketing and wine marketing, her teaching is more broadly based in marketing management and consumer behaviour.

Derrick Chong BComm, MBA, MA, PhD
Expertise: management and the arts, arts marketing, cultural industry, and theatre in the workplace
Writing a critical study for Routledge arts management as a new sub-discipline.
Publication outlets include Museum management and Curatorship, the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, the International Journal of Cultural Property, Museological Review, and Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies. International Journal of Arts and Management.

Jos Gamble, BA, MA, PhD
Expertise: business in contemporary Asia Pacific; human resource management in foreign-invested enterprises in China; the transfer of UK retail concepts and human resource management practices to Asia Pacific; production strategies and international division of labour of East Asian manufacturing firms; cross-cultural management and training.

G. Harindranath, BA, MA, PhD
Co-author of International operations management & information systems with Mr David White

Expertise: Information systems management; international information infrastructure policy issues; information technology and economic development

Recent publications: ‘Information Technology in India: Production, Diffusion and Policy Trends’ in F.B. Tan, P.S. Corbett and Y.Y. Wong (eds.) Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education, (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 1999); ‘Integration of Requirements Determination and Business Process Reengineering: A Case Study of an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre (ACAD)’, European Journal of Information Systems, 7, (with J.A.A.Sillince) (1998); ‘National Information Infrastructure Policies in International Perspective’, Emerging Technology Series – A Special Issue, Vienna: UNIDO, (with J. Liebenau) (1998), ‘Organisational Reconciliation Implications for Organisational Decision Support Systems’ in J.F. Nunamaker and R. H. Sprague (eds), Information Systems: Organisations Systems and Technology (HICSS 30, Vol III) (with J. Liebenau) (1997).

Colin Haslam, BSc (Hons), PhD.
Professor of Accounting, and Head of the School of Management, Royal Holloway.

Expertise: a novel value-added accounting framework to evaluate corporate performance and the implications of business policy.

Recent Publications: Economics in a business context (3rd ed.) (Chapman and Hall, 1999); ‘Ford versus fordism’ and ‘The end of mass production?’ in S. Tolliday (ed.), The rise and fall of mass production, (Edward Elgar, 1998); Breaking the chains: a sector matrix analysis of motoring, global competition and change, Vol. 2 (with J. Froud, S. Johal and K. Williams,1999); ‘Pharmaceuticals: a brilliant success?, Economy and Society, Vol. 27, No. 4. (1998) pp.554–584.

Craig R. Littler BSc, PhD, CMAHRI, AFAIM
Professor of Management, Director of Project Development, Chiltern Consulting, Professorial Associate, Melbourne University.

Expertise: organisational restructuring; corporate downsizing; delayering; organisation theory; Japanese and Chinese management.

Recent publications: Author of nine books, more than 100 refereed articles, and numerous conference papers. The Contours of Restructuring and Downsizing in Australia (Melbourne University, 1999); expert advisor to ‘Staff Reductions in the Australian Public Service’, Auditor-General’s office, ANAO (1999).

Sue Newell, BSc (Econ) (Hons), PhD.
Professor of Innovation and Organizational Analysis and Visiting Trustee Professor, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, USA.

Expertise: organisational psychology, innovation processes, corporate governance, information systems, implementation, recruitment and selection.

Recent publications: published widely including articles in Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Human Resource Management Journal.

Gul Berna Ozcan BSc, MSc, PhD
Author of European Business

Expertise: corporate governance; small and medium-sized businesses in southern Europe; business networks and entrepreneurship; local economic development, governance and decentralisation.

Recent Publications: Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995); ‘Local economic development and decentralisation in Turkey’,

Progress in: Planning, Vol.54, Part 4 (2000); ‘Transformation of Turkish retailing: survival strategies of small and medium-sized retailers’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Vol 2, No.1 pp. 105-120 (2000); ‘Internationalisation in southern European retailing’, European Institute, London School of Economics (May, 1998); ‘Small business networks and local ties in Turkey’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, no. 7 (1995).

Andrew Popp
Lecturer in Business History

Expertise: His principal research interests are the history and theory of industrial clustering in England, particularly in the pottery and chemical industries, and historical developments in marketing and distribution. He has also conducted research in the fields of international supply chains and quality.

Recent publications: 'Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries 1850-1914' (Ashgate 2001). He has published in numerous journals, including Business History, the Journal of Historical Geography and the Journal of Industrial History. He is the editor of Business History News.

Chris Smith, BA, PhD
Professor of Organisation Studies
Co-author of International human resources management & organisational behaviour.

Expertise: organisational behaviour and human resources – occupational and comparative formation of management, especially the role of engineers within managerial hierarchies; change within organisations; change and learning in relation to the transfer of Japanese work organisation and employee relation practices into Britain and other countries.

Recent publications: ‘Exit, Voice and Mandate – Labour Strategies and Management Practices of Japanese Firms in Britain’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1998 (June) (with T. Elger); ‘Re-Evaluating the Labour Process Debate’, Economic and Industrial Democracy, November 1998 (with P. Thompson); ‘New Town, New Capital, New Workplace? The Impact of the Employment Relations of Japanese Inward Investors in a West Midlands Town’, Economy and Society, 1998 (with T. Elger); ‘International Competition, Inward Investment and the Restructuring of Industrial Relations in Europe: a Comparison of Germany, France and the UK’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 1997 3, 3: 279-304 (with T. Elger).

Pat Sucher MSc, ACA
Author of International Accounting and Finance
Pat Sucher is a UK chartered accountant who worked for several years in industry before taking up a role as lecturer in accounting. She has lectured for the last 15 years on many aspects of accounting and finance. Her current research interests are in the development of the role of audit and accounting in economies in transition.