Information about the
University of London External Programme
International Management programme:
MBA - MSc - Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate
Staff profiles
Dr G.
Harindranath
Dr Harindranath is Director of the University of London External MBA
in International Management and a Senior Lecturer in Information
Systems at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hari holds a
doctorate from the London School of Economics, and his research
interests include information and communications technology use in
SMEs, information infrastructure policy and e-government initiatives
in transition economies, and ICT and economic development. Hari is an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Information Management, and
serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of
Knowledge Management. He has published in a range of international
journals including Decision Support Systems, European Journal of
Information Systems, Human Relations, The Information Society, and
Information Technology for Development. Hari regularly serves on the
programme committees of a range of major conferences in information
systems. He
has undertaken consultancy work for the United National Industrial
Development Organisation and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Dr
Isabella Chaney
Dr Chaney has been lecturing in Marketing at Royal Holloway since 1995
and prior to this she lectured at Massey University in New Zealand. The
course she is involved in for both on-campus and distance learning modes
include the second year unit Marketing Management and the third year
unit Consumer Behaviour. At the postgraduate level she is responsible
for the distance learning MBA course on International Marketing and
contribute to the teaching of the Research Methods course. She also
supervises several students dissertations both at the undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. Her research interests include the marketing of
wine, the internationalisation of companies, Chinese perceptions of
retail outlets, and product placement in online games. She has published
several articles and presented conference papers on these topics.
Dr
Derrick Chong
Derrick Chong, a senior lecturer in management at Royal Holloway,
University of London, is interested in the various relationships between
management and the arts. This is based, in part, on his academic studies
in business administration (BComm Toronto and MBA McGill) and art
history (MA York (Canada)). Aspects of his PhD (London), a comparative
analysis of art museums in the USA, Canada, and the UK, appeared in Arts
Management (Routledge 2002). Publication vehicles include the
International Journal of Arts Management, Journal of Nonprofit and
Public Sector Marketing, International Journal of Cultural Property,
Museum Management and Curatorship, and Journal of Arts Management, Law,
and Society. Consultancy work with Sothebys Institute of Art-London is
linked to research, including chapters in books on international art
markets and art business. Chongs teaching focuses on marketing, but has
included postgraduate courses on general management and North American
business. Ever cognizant of the English class system, he continues voice
classes to cultivate an authorial mid-Atlantic accent. Chong has been a
staff member at RHUL since 1992. He continues to travel between London
and Toronto with a Canadian passport.
Dr Jos Gamble
Dr Gamble is a Reader in Asia Pacific Business at the School of
Management at Royal Holloway. He joined the School in September 1998.
Jos graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 1987 with a
first class BA degree in Anthropology and History. He then undertook a
one-year intensive course in Modern Chinese at Thames Valley University.
Between 1988 and 1990 he studied Chinese language and literature at
Fudan University in Shanghai, before returning to London to take an MA
in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He
continued at SOAS to study for a DPhil in Social Anthropology, this
involved over seventeen months research based in Shanghai. Recent
publications include Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and
Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (RoutledgeCurzon, London 2003).
Jos is currently Principal Investigator on a three-year ESRC/AHRB funded
project, Multinational Retailers in the Asia Pacific.
Dr Gül
Berna Özcan
Dr Özcan is senior lecturer in European Business and Corporate
Governance. She earned her MSc in City and Regional Planning from the
Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She later received her PhD
from the London School of Economics in the UK. Dr Özcan is the recipient
of several prestigious awards including the McNamara Fellowship of the
World Bank and the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Her research
interests: Small and medium-sized businesses, local economic
development, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, enterprise
development in Central Asia, retail modernisation.
Dr Alan
Pilkington
Dr Pilkington is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Technology
Management at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of
London. He holds a degree in engineering, a PhD in manufacturing
strategy and spent six years working for a UK automobile producer.
Current research includes developing patent analysis techniques to
explore inventor and technology networks, analysing bibliometric data to
define emerging research streams, and the adoption of process
improvement methodologies for strategic advantage. He is Chair of the
IEEE Engineering Management Society UKRI Chapter and also a member of
the European Operations Management Association, Academy of Management
and POMS. He has dozens of publications including articles in the
California Management Review, Technovation, and International Journal of
Operations and Production Management. His most recent book is
Transforming Rover: Renewal Against the Odds, 1981-1994.
Dr Bill
Ryan
Dr Ryan is Lecturer in Accounting at the School of Management, Royal
Holloway, University of London where he is also Deputy Director of the
Distance Learning MBA programme. He also teaches on external company
training programmes including Mellon Financial Corporation. Before
entering academic life, he held a number of senior management positions
in Accounting and Change Management in companies such as Chrysler and
the 3M Corporation. His research is in the general area of Management
Control and spans Accounting and Business Strategy. Research Interests:
Primarily in the area of management control systems and performance
management. The focus is on management control and the contribution
ability of individuals in change environments including changing systems
of control. Teaching Qualification: 2004: Member Higher Education
Academy (ILT membership.)
Professor
Chris Smith
Professor of Organisational Studies at the School of Management, Royal
Holloway, University of London, Chris Smith was previously at the
University of Aston and has held visiting positions at the University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, University of Sydney,
University of Wollongong and Griffith University. His main research
interests are in the sociology of professions, labour process theory,
and the comparative analysis of work. He has published 10 books and many
journal articles and conference papers. Some of his books include:
Technical Workers (1987); Reshaping Work: The Cadbury Experience (1990)
with John Child and Michael Rowlinson; Global Japanization? (1994) (ed)
with Tony Elger; Engineering Labour (1996) with Peter Meiksins; and
Assembling Work: The Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals
in Britain (2005) with Tony Elger. He is currently co-editing books on
Creative Labour and Comparative Management.
Professor
David Faulkner
Professor Faulkner is an Oxford-educated economist by background, who
has spent much of his early career as a strategic management consultant
with McKinsey and Co and Arthur D. Little. David is currently Professor
of Strategy at Royal Holloway, University of London and Director of the
MBA and MSc in International management. He is also Visiting Professor
at the Open University. On moving into academic life in 1989, he became
a lecturer in the Strategy Group in the Cranfield School of Management,
and gained a Doctorate from Oxford University (DPhil), researching into
conditions for success in International Strategic Alliances. He is a
former Deputy Director (undergraduate courses) and Deputy Director (MBA)
of the Said Business School, Oxford University. His specialist research
area is strategy, in particular international cooperative strategy and
mergers and acquisitions on which subjects he has written and edited a
number of books including The Oxford Handbook of Strategy (OUP).
Dr
Catherine Liston-Heyes
Dr Liston-Heyes is a Reader in Business Economics. She received a PhD in
Economics from McGill University in 1992. She subsequently joined
Université Laval (Québec, Canada) and moved to the Royal Holloway School
of Management, University of London, a year later. The bulk of her work
examines relationships between regulators and firms from an economic
perspective. Her more recent publications focus more explicitly on
issues pertaining to environmental regulation and on the relationship
between corporate social responsibility and governments. She has
published in a number of international academic journals including the
Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, Public Choice, the Journal of Regulatory Economics and the
Journal of Consumer Policy. She is an experienced teacher in the areas
of quantitative methods, business economics and micro/managerial
economics. She has taught both at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral
level. She currently lives in Surrey (UK) with her husband and two
children.
Dr Andrew
Popp
Dr Popp is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Royal
Holloway, University of London. He is a business historian with
particular research interests in the growth and development of
industrial districts, regional business networks, and change and
evolution in sales, marketing and distribution. He has published widely
in both business and economic history and management journals. In
addition, he has published one monograph and one co-edited book. Awarded
his PhD by Sheffield Hallam University in 1998, Dr Popp has served as a
Council member of the Association of Business Historians.
