Collaboration between LUL and SBE with colleagues at the Cyprus University of Technology began in 2018 and has led to a LUL-funded project on family businesses in Cyprus in collaboration between CCEI members at LUL and SBE. The aim is to understand whether and how family firms take advantage of their networks to mitigate the acute effects of a financial crisis (2008) to their business. The research feeds directly into the CCEI’s ‘big question’ number 5, ‘Understanding differences among organizations’. Importantly, this work has attracted scholarly attention at 3 international conferences, EIASM, EURAM and IFERA, and was nominated for the Best Paper Award at EIASM.
The CCEI has played a key role in establishing a long-term research relationship with the Entrepreneurship and Strategy group at the School of Management at Shanghai University, China, at which CCEI Co-Director Professor Mat Hughes is now a Visiting Professor. This is supported by Loughborough University signing a partnership with Shanghai University. Opportunities for data access to otherwise inaccessible Chinese business databases, state of the art neuro-entrepreneurship lab facilities, research visits and collaboration, exchange visits are emerging as a result of this. The CCEI’s strategy to develop satellite associations or consortia internationally underpins this relationship and formed a key motive for this joint, long-term research endeavour.
CCEI was intended and devised as a Centre with an international outlook from the outset and is already spearheading contributions to SBE’s international strategy (e.g., aside from the above, members have held presentations and talks to think tanks and organizations internationally as well since January 2019).
To learn more, please contact Professor Mat Hughes and Dr Simone Corsi for enterprise endeavours,