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Curriculum Vitae: G.T.Pugh 13/05/2023

Professor Geoffrey Pugh

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Achievements and Skills

TEACHING:

More than 20 years’ teaching experience in higher education.

Current:

MSc Economics: Applied Econometrics International macroeconomics and globalisation Dissertation supervision (my students have twice won

international prizes for their MSc dissertations)

Doctorate of Business Administration: Research Methods

Previous:

1. Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertation supervision Economics and business projects (BA; MA; MSc; and MBA)

2. Undergraduate teaching includes: Introductory economics International economics Economics of European integration Germany: economic institutions and business strategy Research methods & applied statistics for business

3. Postgraduate teaching includes

MBA programmes: International Economics at Boston University European Economics at Warsaw University International Finance at Staffordshire University

Chartered Institute of Public Sector Accountants (CIPFA) Public Policy in the Financial Environment (1991-93)

(co-author of the BPP textbook for this module)

In-House Company Training and Management Development: Rolls Royce: intensive course on international finance Ceramics industry: Business Environment and Our Ceramic

Industry (Executive Development module)

4. Professional development in applied economics, econometrics and research methods

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Short-courses at overseas universities funded by international organisations (EU Socrates Programme, USAID and the Open Society Institute):

European Economics (Universities of Leipzig and Antwerp) Economics of Globalisation (Skopje, Macedonia) Applied Econometrics (Pristina, Kosova) Econometric analysis of survey data (Pristina, Kosova) Survey design and analysis (Split, Croatia) Introduction to Applied Econometrics (Ohrid, Macedonia) Topics in Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis

(University of Sarajevo, Economics PhD Programme) Hedonic modelling for property markets (University of

Sarajevo, on the Master of Property programme)

One-week intensive courses for the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for the Central bank of Montenegro: An introduction to econometric analysis using Stata

One-week intensive course for the Central Bank of Macedonia: Dynamic Panel Analysis using Stata (February 2015)

EXAMINING External Examining:

Undergraduate:o University of Winchester;o University of Westminster

Postgraduateo Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

PhD examining – 22 examined to date:

12 Internal (Staffordshire University) 10 External

o Birmingham University (3)o University of Westminstero University of the West of England (2)o Deakin University, Australia (2)o Charles University, Czech Republico Brunel University

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RESEARCH SUPERVISION

RESEARCH DEGREES AWARDED:

31 completions since 2004 in Applied Economics (26), Business and Management (3) and Education Policy (2).

Applied economics

1. PhD: Thomas LANGE (01/04). Government intervention and the acquisition of workforce skills in Germany, Europe and beyond

2. PhD: Ardiana GASHI (08/07). Technological Change and Employer-Provided Training: Theory and Evidence from the UK and Germany

3. PhD: Petrit GASHI (11/07). Export Performance and the SME Sector in South Eastern Europe, with Special Reference to Kosova

4. PhD: Inflation, Growth and Happiness: Assessing Croatia’s Stabilisation Policy

5. PhD: Ermelinda LAHO (04/08). An Analysis of the IMF Supported Adjustment Programmes in Transition Economies with Special Reference to Albania

6. PhD: Fatmir BESIMI (05/08). Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Macedonia During the Process of Accession to the EU

7. PhD: Bruno ĆORIĆ (12/08). Aggregate Economic Fluctuations and Capital Market Imperfections

8. PhD: Aleksandar STOJKOV (10/09). Determinants and Sustainability of Current Account Deficits in Selected Transitional Countries

9. PhD: Adnan EFENDIC (12/09). Institutions and Economic Performance: with Reference to Bosnia

10. PhD: Igor VELICKOVSKI (03/10). Potential Costs for Macedonia from Relinquishing Independent Monetary Policy: A Contribution to Assessing the Costs of Euro Adoption

11. PhD: Silvia GOLEM (12/10). The determinants of the size of government in developed market economies

12. PhD: Sandra HLIVNJAK (03/11). Current Account Sustainability in Bosnia and Herzegovina

13. PhD: Marjan PETRESKI (06/11). Investigating and Modelling a Monetary Policy Regime Switch from Exchange Rate to Inflation Targeting, with particular reference to Macedonia

14. PhD: Nermin ORUC (10/11). The Economic Consequences Of “Mass Exodus” with reference to Bosnia

15. PhD: Natasha TRAJKOVA (03/13). Instability and volatility of economic growth under transition: an application of exogenous growth theory

16. PhD: Alan PIPER (03/13). The happiness of the young in Great Britain: the role of education

17. PhD: Arben MUSTAFA (03/14). Banking Sector Competition and its Impact on Banking Stability, Interest Rates and Access to Finance in Enlarged Europe and South East Europe: with special focus to Kosovo

18. PhD: Dragana RADICIC (05/14).The Effectiveness of R&D and Innovation Policy in Promoting Innovation in European SMEs: an Empirical Investigation of Additionality Effects

19. PhD: Belma COLAKOVIC (10/14). Systemic risks and financial fragility in a small open economy: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

20. PhD: Zorica KALEZIC (11/14). Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance in Transition Economies with Reference to Montenegro.

21. PhD: Maja IVANOVIĆ. (03/2015). Assessing Banking Sector Stability: with Special Reference to Montenegro and Central and Eastern Europe.

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RESEARCH DEGREES CURRENTLY SUPERVISED:

22. PhD: Selena BEGOVIC (05-2015). The Currency Board Arrangement in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sustainability, Desirability and Exit Strategies.

23. PhD: Merima BALAVAC (08-2015). Export diversification, determinants and effect on output volatility: the case of the Western Balkan economies.

24. PhD: Rilind KABASHI (10-2015). Effects of fiscal policy on growth and on macroeconomic stability in European transition countries, with special reference to Macedonia.

25. PhD: Albulenë KASTRATI (12-2015). The Relationship between Output Gap and Excess Liquidity in European Transition Economies.

26. PhD: Marjan IVANOVSKI (06-2016). Asset bubbles in underdeveloped financial markets with influential institutional investors: evidence from South East European (SEE) financial markets.

Business and Management

27. PhD: Jane KENNEDY (05/08). Understanding High Performance in English County Councils.

28. PhD: Lumir ABDIXHIKU (12/13). The Determinants of Tax Compliance by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Transition Economies with Special Reference to Kosovo.

29. PhD: Lorraine LIMBRICK (03/18). A strategic analysis of the UK ceramics industry.

Education policy and economics of education

30. PhD: Shqiponje TELHAJ (11/04). The Construction and Use of Value-added Indicators in Education.

31. PhD: Noshin FLYNN (06/07). Individual and Strategic Relations; the contribution of the UK voluntary sector in the brokerage and delivery of lifelong learning: a social capital approach within a qualitative case study design.

Applied Economics

1. PhD: Investigating the transmission channels of global financial crisis to the real economy with special reference to Western Balkan economies – causes, effects and policy response.

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2. PhD: Fiscal Policy in small open economies in transition, with particular reference to Macedonia.

3. PhD: Asset bubbles and their effect on financial crises.4. PhD: Capital Flows and Sustainability of the European Monetary

Union.5. PhD: The impact government creditworthiness on the cost of

public and private borrowing in transition countries.6. PhD: Explaining the impact of the Global Financial crisis on

European Transition Countries.7. PhD: Evaluating the potential of public policy to jointly promote

firms’ exporting and innovation.

Business and Management

8. PhD: Business start-ups by older workers in areas undergoing the consequences of deindustrialisation.

9. DBA: The Net Promotor Score: determinants; sales effects; and significance for corporate strategy.

10. External; PhD at Harper Adams: Chinese entrepreneurial proclivity and the conjectured link with the experience of foreign sojourns: Evidence from a study involving undergraduate students based in Beijing.

Current and Recent Management and Academic Leadership Roles

Current: REF2021 Coordinator for the Business and management Unit of Assessment.

From January 2013 to 2017: Head of Research, Staffordshire University Business School. Main responsibilities: membership of the University REF Advisory Group; leading, managing and writing the REF2014 submission in Business and Management Studies.

From 2008 to date: Founder and currently Director of the Centre for Applied Business Research (CABR) within Staffordshire University Business School.

CABR was established to raise the level of activity and profile of Business School research and enterprise activities. To this end, over the period 2009 to 2013 we secured £640,000 of additional research and enterprise funding for the Business School (according to our REF5 submission), appointed two Enterprise Readers, put in place administrative infrastructure, and enlarged our capacity by both providing more research opportunities and by mentoring more colleagues into becoming active researchers. The ethos of CABR is to realize synergies between an enterprise agenda of business engagement and a research agenda preparing for assessment under the REF2014 and beyond. My contributions to CABR included academic leadership and management, personal research, research supervision and mentoring (including joint publication), bid writing (with successes including a HEIF project and an FP7 project – see below) and working on external projects.

Previous Management & Leadership Roles

1. From 2004-09: Director of the Centre for Local Enterprise and Skills within the Business School at Staffordshire University (a centre for small consultancy projects).

2. 2001-02: Contributed as a co-opted member of Staffordshire University’s Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning Committee by analysing and reporting on participation data.

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3. 2000-04: Field Leader for undergraduate business projects.

4. Economics Field Leader (Stafford) (1998-2002): responsible for both undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum development; various roles in preparation for December 2000 QAA visit (maximum score of 24 achieved).

5. 1994-2006: MA Economics of International Trade and European Integration: worked with colleagues at University of Antwerp and the Prague University of Economics to initiate the MA and secure TEMPUS funding (1994); secured ESRC ‘specialist’ recognition (1996); secured renewed TEMPUS funding (1998); 2005: achieved EU “Erasmus-Mundus” status (25 scholarships for non-EU students). 1994 to 2006, UK member of the Programme Management Board and Course Tutor at Staffordshire.

6. 1994-99: Successful applications for five EU TEMPUS-PHARE projects (funding in excess of ECU 2 million); managed four of these multi-partner, collaborative projects.

RESEARCH:

(publications,projects and networks)

Applied, policy-oriented publications in six areas (see below for full publication details).

1) International/European economics:a) Exchange rate issues and international trade; foreign direct

investment and macroeconomic (in)stability; business tax evasion; the economic effects of ethnic diversityi) General economic journals: Economics: The Open-Access,

Open-Assessment E-Journalii) International economics journals: Journal of International

Trade & Economic Development; International Review of Economics and Finance.

iii) Applied economics journals: including, the International Review of Applied Economics and Applied Economics (×4)

iv) Interdisciplinary and business journals: including New Political Economy and the European Business Journal

v) Comparative economics journals:Economic Systems (×2); Journal of Comparative Economics

b) The German “social market”; publications includei) A book on The Economics of German Unification (Edward

Elgar)ii) Papers in Applied Economics Letters, Current Economics

and Politics of Europe, Economic Issues and the International Journal of Manpower (×2).

2) Institutional economics, especially institutions and economic performance: papers in the European Journal of Political Economy, Acta Oeconomica, and the Economics of Transition.

3) The economic analysis of innovation and small business issues:a) Productivity growth, innovation and exporting; papers in:

Economic Issues, the International Journal of Manpower, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management,

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Science and Public Policy, and Research Policy.b) Small firms and the problem of market access; papers in the

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (×3)c) SME promotion through tax reform: Environment & Planning

C: Government & Policy (×2)

4) The economics of education and training; papers in: Education and Training; the International Journal of Manpower, British Educational Research Journal (×4); School Effectiveness and School Improvement; the Higher Education Quarterly; and the Journal of Education Policy. The British Educational Research Journal is Europe’s leading education journal in the SSCI.

Commended paper: a paper for which I was the first author, published in the British Educational Research Journal in 2011 (Vol.37, No.1; February – see publication list, below) was “Commended” at the 2012 Conference of the British Educational Research Association. (Each year, in the “Best Paper” awards, one research paper is selected as the “Best paper” and two more are “Commended”).

5) Economic aspects of regeneration / local development: evaluation of the economic development effects of the M6 Toll Road; Regional Studies.

6) Protocols for the practice of meta-regression in economics (member of an authorial collective of leading practitioners): Journal of Economic Surveys.

Most of my publications involve applied econometric analysis and/or statistical analysis. Those on SME promotion, education policy and economic regeneration are linked by a common focus on policy/programme evaluation.

For the 2000 Research Assessment Exercise, my work was entered in the Business and Management Unit of Assessment; and for 2008 in Education.

My research in the period 2008-13 contributed to the Staffordshire University REF2014 submission in Business and Management Studies.

External collaborators (selected).1. Economics of education: school finance and pupil attainment

(with Prof. Jean Mangan, Staffordshire University)a. Prof. John Gray, Cambridge University;b. Vincent Blackburn, Manager of Financial Planning, New

South Wales Department of Education and Training – to apply our model to NSW data).

2. International economics and macroeconomics: supporting research and publication by former PhD students from the ex-Yugoslav republics.

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3. Small business promotion: a research agenda focussed in SME diversification and innovation in traditional manufacturing industry, building off two large research projects commissioned by, respectively, the Higher Education Innovation Fund and the EU’s DG-Research (an FP7 project) and supported by a full-time PhD scholar (see p.26 below).

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SELECTED GRANTS / PROJECTS

Swiss Development Corporation: institutional research partnership to mentor the Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) funded project KS_205 “Mapping Clientelism and its Causes: Rents, Rent-seeking and Democracy in Kosovo and Albania (1998-2013)”. 21 months to June 2016. (Leader of a team of two; value of project, €36,000.)

EU funded project managed by the European Union Office in Kosovo: Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Finance – to conduct joint research and thereby support knowledge transfer to colleagues in theMacroeconomics Research Department, focusing on vector error correction modelling of inflation and imports (December 2015).

EU funded project managed by the European Union Office in Kosovo: Technical Assistance to Further Development of Kosovo’s Trade Policy – to support the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) with training and consultancy on statistical and econometric methods for trade analysis together with research on trade and trade policy (Leader of a team of 2; value of project, €30,000). April-December, 2015.

Staffordshire University, Enterprise and Commercial Development: Evaluation of 2011-15 Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) Strategy. 12 months to November 2015. Total: £27,000

London Borough of Newham: Evaluation of the 1-1 reading guarantee programme. Two-Year project to 31-08-2014. Total: £36,000.

Technology Strategy Board (TSB). Collaboration with the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to design the evaluation of the forthcoming TSB business support programme: Innovation Vouchers in the Agri-food, Built Environment and Aerospace sectors. Three-month project, July-September 2012. Total: £15,000

EU Framework 7 project: “Good Practices in Innovation Support Measures for SMEs: facilitating transition from the traditional to the knowledge economy” (from DG Research call FP7-SME-2009-1). This project evaluated business support measures for SMEs in traditional manufacturing sectors throughout the EU. The UK research focused on the West Midlands and on North Staffordshire in particular. 2-year project (Dec.2009-Feb.2012). Total: €930,000; Staffordshire University: Total: €130,000.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH SUPPORTED EXTERNALLY (selected)

My personal research has been supported financially by: HM Treasury (real-economy effects of exchange rate variability); the Department for Education and Skills; Department for

Children, Schools and Families; and the New Zealand Ministry of Education (the economics of educational attainment); and

Staffordshire Learning and Skills Council (3-year PhD scholarship, 2004-2007, on the determinants of workplace training).

Total funding: in excess of £50,000.

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RESEARCH and ENTERPRISE ACTIVITIES by THEME

(consultancy and contract research)

I have led and undertaken projects in the following areas. Whenever possible, I have developed consultancy/applied research projects into research papers.

1) Applied economics/econometrics:

a) Project commissioned under HM Treasury’s “Single Currency Review” on the effects of the “strong pound” on productivity in the UK traded goods sector: Oct. 1998 to Sept. 2000

b) Consultancy for the Central Bank of Montenegro: professional development in applied econometrics (focussing on time series analysis); advice and assistance to the Research Department with three projects in preparation for the 2007 IMF visit. One month full time, September-October 2007.

c) UNDP office in Bosnia and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP):project advice and mentoring of local colleagues.

2) Education policy:

a) New Zealand Ministry of Education: August-September 1999. Review of econometric studies of the effectiveness of different models of secondary school governance, ownership, organisation and management

b) Department for Education and Employment (UK): February 2000. International School Benchmarking Study – Scotland; DfEE project to assess selected national school systems with the aim of benchmarking English performance

c) Staffordshire University’s Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning Committee: Sept. 2001-July 2002Report on value-added indicators in Higher Education: Other outcomes include: a paper published in Higher Education Quarterly (2005); a symposium on “Widening Participation Performance Indicators” (under the auspices of Prof. Heather Eggins, Editor of the HEQ); and an invited submission to HEFCE’s “Review of Performance Indicators” (September 2006).

d) Staffordshire University’s Recruitment Management Team: August 2006-June 2007. Identifying principles and a practical framework for fee-setting in HE. Outcomes: Report on the economics of fee-setting and a questionnaire to guide award and faculty managers in setting fees.

e) Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Value for Money Unit Research Report: Resources and Attainment at Key Stage

4: Estimates from a Dynamic Methodology. Publication Code: DCSF-RR056. Published 30-10-2008.

Research paper: subsequently developed for publication in the British Educational Research Journal, and won a “commended” paper award at the 2012 Conference of the British Educational Research Association (see publications, below).

3) Small- and medium-size enterprise (and entrepreneurship):

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a) Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and Society of Independent Brewers: June to Dec. 1999. Report on the economic consequences of a sliding scale of excise duty for small breweries; submitted to HM Treasury by CAMRA (the research base of a successful campaign – the sliding scale was introduced in the 2002 Budget). Spin-off from this project included three papers published in the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development and one in Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy.

b) European Social Fund Objective 4 project to support small- and medium-size firms in the Ceramics Industry: September 1999 to August 2000. Spin-off from this project included extensive media publicity (regional and national newspapers, national radio and national TV) together with the lead paper in a book on the ceramics industry (Ceramic Ambitions and Strategic Directions; see publications).

c) Development and implementation of Performance Indicators for the Ceramics Industry Forum (CIF): from April 2002 to July 2004. Extensive evaluation of CIF business support programmes; invited contribution to the evidence base and methodology of the UK Department for Trade and Industry’s “Evaluation of Industry Forum & The Industry Forum Adaptation Initiative”; Oct. 2003 & July 2004.

d) EU-funded SRB6 project on diversification within the ceramic supply sector: 2003-04 (in collaboration with CERAM, a private sector technical research institute). Report published in 2004: The Ceramic Supply Sector: Its Identity, Capabilities, Threats and Opportunities and Support Needs.

e) Advantage West Midlands (INDEX Voucher): project and report for Social Work Choices (a private-sector agency) on “The Cost Effectiveness of Agency Social Workers: a comparison of the costs of agency social workers supplied by Social Work Choices and of permanent staff employed by Local Authority Social Services Departments”. September 2009. Subsequently published as an example of best practice

INDEX Voucher projects

f) Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF): Supporting High Value Added Industries in Diversification and Export. 2 year research and knowledge transfer project (Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2010). To research and inform knowledge transfer activities in support of business diversification in North Staffordshire, especially by SMEs.

g) European Commission - DG Research: Good Practices in Innovation Support Measures for SMEs (GPrix). Research project (Dec.2009 to February 2012) to evaluate innovation support programmes for SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries. http://www.gprix.eu/

4) Local economic issues and regeneration:

a) A “Village Appraisal” (funded by the UK Countryside

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http://www.gprix.eu/


Agency): design and analysis of a questionnaire survey (May-October 2002).

b) Project for UNISON on the Regeneration effects of “fair wages” (April to December 2004) (in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation).

c) Evaluation of the economic impact of the M6 Toll Motorway for the Southern Staffordshire Partnership (a consortium of local authorities in Southern Staffordshire, the Government Office for the West Midlands, and Midland Expressway, the operator of the M6 Toll) (2005). Outcomes include: Extensive media coverage Presentation at the Department for Transport Paper published in Regional Studies

d) Project for Stafford Chamber Services. Methodology and database: Identifying high-tech SMEs in Staffordshire Objective 2 areas eligible for internationalisation assistance (2006).

5) Environmental issues: (collaborations with John Fairburn of the Institute for Environment, Sustainability and Regeneration at Staffordshire University)a) Study on environmental justice for the Commission for

Racial Equality (2006-07)b) Report commissioned by Midland Expressway: An

assessment of the carbon footprint of the M6 Toll Motorway in the UK (2008). Presentations toi) European Association of Tolled Motorways, Bridges and

Tunnels (ASECAP) Conference, Marrakech (May 2008)ii) The Staffordshire Business Environment Network (August

2008)iii) The Highways Agency Carbon Accounting Forum

(Department for Transport, December 2008)

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

1) Undergraduate: designed the management component of the Engineering School awards in “Technology with Management”; Business School representative on the proposing team during the successful validation process (1999).

2) MA Economics of International Trade and European Integration: contributed to the design of this consortium award as well as to the securing of EU TEMPUS funding; ongoing participation in the monitoring, revision, and quality improvement process. (See above: Management, Item 5).

3) Consultancy in curriculum design under EU TEMPUS programmes (1994-98):a) Undergraduate: participation in the design and

implementation of a four-year BA Business Studies programme at the University of Tirana, Albania.

b) Postgraduate: participation in the design and management of an English-language MBA programme, delivered at Warsaw University by an EU-Polish consortium.

4) Contribution to postgraduate research training: Staffordshire University Business School has one of the largest PhD programmes in economics in the “new” university sector (perhaps the largest). In addition to supervision, my particular contribution has been to introduce our PhD students to new econometric techniques and empirical strategies (such as natural

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experiments and meta-regression analysis).

MEDIA RELATIONS

I contribute frequently to local and regional media on economic and business issues. In return, Staffordshire University and my Faculty are mentioned prominently.

Some of my research has attracted media interest: frequently at local and regional levels and also at national level. My research on school performance was

featured in the professional press - Public Finance (07/09/2007) and the Times Educational Supplement (07/09/2007 and 14/09/2007),

reported widely in the regional press, including the Evening Standard (mainly on 07/09/2007),

reported in the Independent, the Times and the Guardian (07/09/2007), and

reported and combined with interviews in prominent articles in the Daily Mail (07/09.2007) the Daily Telegraph (07/09/2007) (front page) and the South China Morning Post (08/09/2007).

In addition, the research was reported on BBC Breakfast TV, BBC Radio 2 News and Sun FM Radio News (07/09/2007).

On the same day, I also gave interviews broadcast by BBC TV News 24, Independent Radio News (ITN’s regional network), BBC Radio 4 News Briefing, BBC Radio 5 Live News and, most prominently, BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.

The publicity resulted in a large number of requests for the research paper; from, amongst others, academics, practitioners and both Houses of Parliament.

OTHER SKILLS German: good reading and speaking (postgraduate year in Hamburg, 1977-78).

All standard Microsoft packages, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Experienced user of statistical and econometrics packages: SPSS; Microfit; Limdep; STATA and JMulTi.

SERVICE Includes:

Weekend and evening social events for overseas students. Occasional hosting of overseas students over Christmas. One-week Summer Schools on applied econometrics (on an

expenses only basis) in Kosova (twice) and Macedonia. Representing Staffordshire University, as the need arises, on local

and regional bodies (e.g., the Southern Staffordshire Partnership Research and Evaluation Group).

Local, regional and national media interviews and articles. Invited participation in the North Staffordshire Regeneration

Partnership project “Transforming North Staffordshire” (2007-08). Member of Southern Staffordshire Partnership’s “Expert Panel”

(2008-09). Member of the North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership’s

“Ceramics Industry Development Group” (2009-2011). Member of Stoke City Council’s Export Promotion Group (2012).

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Employment HistorySalary

Professor (Scale 11)

Staffordshire University Jan.21st 2013 to date £ 67,970

Professor (Scale 10)

Staffordshire University Feb.2005 – Jan.2013

Principal Lecturer

Staffordshire University 1995-2005

Senior Lecturer

Staffordshire University 1993-95

Senior Lecturer

Leeds Polytechnic 1991-93

Lecturer Leeds Polytechnic 1989-91School Teacher

William Ellis School, Inner London Education Authority 1984-89

Full-time education(teacher training)

1983-84

Research Assistant

North London Polytechnic 1979-83

Full-time education(BA and PhD)

1973-79

Voluntary work

Community Service Volunteers 1971-73

Education

M.Sc. – Distinction Economics Birkbeck College,University of London

1989

Postgraduate Certificate in Education – Distinction

Professional qualification

Institute of Education, University of London

1984

PhD Politics and Government(Political Economy)

University of Kent at CanterburyThesis: Economic Theory & Political Thought in German Social Democracy

1983

BA [Hons] – 2:1 Politics University of Kent at Canterbury 1976

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Other achievements / peer recognitionMy most important external appointment: membership of the Advisory Committee to the Council of the Central Bank of Montenegro (from December 2011).

Other examples of peer recognition are as follows.

1. External examining:

2017: PhD examiner at Brunel University, London 2017: PhD examiner at Charles University, Prague 2012 & 2015: PhD examiner at the University of the West of England (UWE) 2008 & 2012: PhD examiner at Deakin University, Australia. 2006 & 2008: PhD examiner at Westminster University. 2000, 2002 and 2004: PhD examiner at the Institute for German Studies,

Birmingham University. 1996-2001: Senior External Examiner at Robert Gordon University

(MSc International Trade Policy). 1999-2000: University of Westminster (Business Studies). 1995-99: University of Westminster (Economics and Quantitative Studies). 1993-96: responsible for both politics and economics on the BA/BSc Modular

Programme in Social, Economic, and Political Studies at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester.

2. External assessor for award validation:

BA in Business Administration: Middlesex University in partnership with the Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Paris (December 2013 in Paris)

University of Westminster with Westminster International University of Tashkent: awards in economics and business (2003 in London and 2004 in Tashkent)

Leeds Metropolitan University: Modular Undergraduate Programme in the Social Sciences (1997)

London Guildhall University: BA Globalisation (1997)

3. External assessor for senior academic appointments:

External referee for Readership/Associate Professorship applications: Robert Gordon University; Portsmouth University; the University of East London; and Bournemouth University.

External member of professorial appointments panels: Glyndŵr University (2004); Bournemouth University (twice in 2009; once in 2013).

4. External reviewer for Glyndŵr University - internal quality audit of the Wrexham Business School (April 2002).

5. Reviewer for Macmillan; Oxford University Press; Birmingham University Press; Routledge; and McGraw-Hill (book proposals; in particular, on the economics of European integration, the German economy, and applied econometrics).

6. Birmingham University: Visiting Fellow of the Institute for German Studies (2000-04).

7. Reputation as a practitioner of meta-analysis in social science:

Member of an authorial collective of leading practitioners invited to publish

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protocols for the practice of meta-regression in economics: ‘Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines’, Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol.27(2), pp. 390–394, April 2013.

Member of the Programme Committee of the International Colloquium on Meta-Analysis in Economics: 2008, Nancy (4th); 2013, Greenwich (9th).

External reviewer for the UK Cochrane Centre: protocols for a systematic review (2010).

8. Referee for academic journals (current activity mainly for numbers 8-19).

In education policy:1. International Review of Economics Education (from 2005)2. Higher Education Quarterly (from 2006)3. Asia Pacific Education Review (from 2009)In economics (in particular, applied economics) & related disciplines:4. Economic Issues (from 1997)5. Current Politics and Economics of Europe (from 1998)6. International Review of Applied Economics (from 2000)7. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (from 2000)8. Applied Economics (from 2007)9. Applied Financial Economics (from 2007)10. South East European Journal of Economics and Business (from 2008)11. Journal of Economic Surveys (from 2008)12. Comparative Economic Studies (from 2012)13. International Journal of Manpower (from 2012)14. American Journal of Political Science (from 2012)15. Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (from January 2014)16. European Journal of Political Economy (from April 2014)17. International Small Business Journal (from June 2014)18. The International Trade Journal (from August 2014)19. Environment and Planning C (from November 2014)20. Social Science and Medicine (from January 2015)21. The Australian Economic Review (from October 2015)22. Research Policy (from May 2016)23. Regional Studies (from August 2016)24. Journal of Development Studies (from January 2017)25. Empirical Economics (from November 2017)26. International Journal of Technology Management (from December 2017)

9. Czech National Bank: Reviewer for their Working Paper series (June 2014)

10. UK Government:

Academic Advisor for the DTI’s “Evaluation of the Industry Forum Adaptation Initiative” (2003 – 2005)

Academic Assessor for the Government Economic Service (from January 2002 to December 2010)

11. Keynote address: “Institutions and economic development: the need for evaluation ".

For: Economic Development Perspectives of the SEE Region in the Global Recession Context (October 14th-15th 2010, Sarajevo).

12. Journal Editorial Boards.

Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, published by the Central Bank of Montenegro (from May 2012). http://www.cb-mn.org/eng/index.php?bl=journal

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South East European Journal of Economics and Business (from April 2017)http://journal.efsa.unsa.ba/index.php/see/index

Economic Systems (from December 2017) – published in collaboration with the European Association for Comparative Economic Studieshttps://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-systems/editorial-board

13. European Association for Contemporary European Studies (EACES)

EACES PhD Award, 2014: Reviewer for the Award Committee

14. Keynote address: “Innovation policy support for SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries: some lessons from the EU?”

Keynote address for the 2014 UACS 9th annual international conference on European integration: The Europe of Tomorrow: Creative, Digital, Integrated (May 15th 2014, Skopje).

15. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC):Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP)

Member of the RRPP Expert Evaluation Panel (from May 2014)

16. German Ministry of Education and Research (September 2016)

Review of research proposals for the call on "Global Change"

17. Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (May 2017)

Peer Reviewer for a Research Grant proposal

18. UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (December 5th 2016)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Fellowship “One Week Programme”: lecture on “Economic Reform in the UK” followed by Q&A session and facilitated discussion on the BiH Reform Agenda (co-chaired with Duncan Weldon).

19. Member of the Advisory Panel for INFORM, “Closing the gap between formal and informal institutions in the Balkans”, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme

Coordinated by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (2016-19). http://www.formal-informal.eu/

20. Appointed as an External Expert by the EU’s “European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions” (April 2018)

Member of the Expert panel on: Labour market change (covering Well-functioning and inclusive labour markets and Monitoring structural change and managing restructuring, and Innovation and job creation in companies)

Personal / Other InterestsPersonal Date of Birth: 12.05.53; Married; No children

Other interests

Active member of St John’s Church, Wakefield (Anglican) Active member of Wakefield tennis club (the extreme lower

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edge of competitive tennis) History Modern American and UK crime novels

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PUBLICATIONS and WORK IN PROGRESS

The h-index for all my publications is 17; 13 for those published in the past 5 years (Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-0m5qfsAAAAJ&hl=en). The London School of Economics found that full professors in economics had an average h-index – computed using Google Scholar – of 7.6 (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/the-handbook/chapter-3-key-measures-of-academic-influence/).

PAPERS in REFEREED JOURNALS

Since January 1st 2014 (Current UK REF period)

1st/2nd author

Main discipline and Quality indicators: SSCI, ISI JCR impact

factor; ABS and

ERA/ABCD ranking *

SC Imago Journal Rank †

RePEc rank ‡

1. Promoting cooperation in innovation ecosystems: Evidence from European traditional manufacturing SMEs, Small Business Economics. Accepted 01-08-2018. (With: Dragana Radicic and David Douglas.)

2nd Economics; BusinessSSCI, Impact Factor 3.106 (2017)ABS: 3ERA & ABCD: ASCImago: Q1; H=98

2. The effect of ethnic diversity on income – an empirical investigation using survey data from a post-conflict environment. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2018-17): 1–34. (With: Adnan Efendic.) http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-17

2nd EconomicsSSCI, Impact factor: 0.398 (2016)ABS: n.a.; ERA: n.a.SCImago: Q2; H=8

3. Business Tax Evasion in Transition Economies: A Cross-Country Panel Investigation, European Journal of Comparative Economics. (With: Lumir Abdixhiku and Iraj Hashi), Forthcoming.

2nd Open-access journal of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES); http://eaces.liuc.it/Default.asp

4. Output gap in transition economies using unobserved component method: the case of Czech republic, Estonia and Kosovo, Economic Thought and Practice (Ekonomska misao i praksa) No. 2/2017. (With Albulenë Kastrati and Valentin Toçi). Forthcoming.

2nd

5. Firm Level Determinants of Tax Evasion in Transition Economies. Economic Systems, 41, 354-366. (With Lumir Abdixhiku, Besnik Krasniqi and Iraj Hashi). On-line

4th Economics. SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 1.341ABS: 2; ERA: B

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publication: August 2017. SCImago: Q2; H=296. Performance Effects of External Search Strategies in

European Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Journal of Small Business Management. (With Dragana Radicic). First published on-line: Feb.15th 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12328

2nd Innovation:SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 3.392ABS: 3; ERA: A SCImago: Q1; H=85

7. Kosovo – EU trade relations: a dynamic panel poisson approach, Applied Economics, 49:27, 2642-2654, DOI:10.1080/00036846.2016.1245836. To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1245836 49(27) (with Petrit Gashi and Mehtap Hisarciklilar). On-line publication 03-11-2016.

3rd Economics.SSCI Impact Factor (2017) 0.751ABS: 2;ERA & ABCD: ASCImago: Q2; H=67

8. R&D programmes, policy mix, and the “European Paradox”: evidence from European SMEs, Science and Public Policy. (With Dragana Radicic). doi: 10.1093/scipol/scw077 First published online: October 2, 2016.

2nd Public AdministrationSSCI Impact Factor (2017): 1.393ABS: 2; ERA: BSCImago: Q2; H=51

9. The link between trade openness, export diversification, institutions and output volatility in transition countries, Economic Systems, 40 273-287 (June 2016) (with Merima Balavac).

2nd Economics. SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 1.341ABS: 2; ERA: BSCImago: Q2; H=29

10. Dimos, C. and Pugh, G. The effectiveness of R&D subsidies: a meta-regression analysis of the evaluation literature. Research Policy 45 (2016) 797–815. First published on-line, 02-02-2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.01.002

2nd

(Corr. author)

Innovation:SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 4.963ABS: 4*; ERA: A*SCImago: Q1; H=191

11. The impact of innovation support programs on small and medium enterprises innovation in traditional manufacturing industries: An evaluation for seven European Union regions.Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34(8) (December): 1425-1452. First published online December 18, 2015 (with Dragana Radicic, Hugo Hollanders, René Wintjes and Jon Fairburn) doi:10.1177/0263774X15621759

2nd Public Administration: SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 1.773ABS: 3; ERA: ASCImago: Q1; H=55

12. An investigation into the credibility of currency board arrangements in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria,Journal of Comparative Economics, 44(3) (August 2016) 787–799 (on-line prepublication 29-07-2015) (with Selena Begovic and Nick Adnett) : doi:10.1016/j.jce.2015.07.003

2nd Economics. SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 1.203ABS: 3; ERA: ASCImago: Q2; H=69

13. Institutional Effects on Economic Performance in Transition:a Dynamic Panel Analysis, Acta Oeconomica,Vol. 65 (4), pp. 503–523 (December 2015) (with Adnan Efendic).DOI: 10.1556/032.65.2015.4.1

2nd Economics. SSCI, Impact Factor (2017): 0.350;ABCD – C; ERA – CSCImago: Q3; H=10

14. Issues in the Estimation of Dynamic Happiness Models: A Comment on "Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?". Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 10 (2016-5): 1—6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-5 (with Alan Piper)

2nd EconomicsSSCI, Impact Factor 0.644 (2014)ABS: n.a.; ERA: n.a.SCImago: Q2; H=8

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15. The Effectiveness of Non-Surgical Weight Management Interventions for Obesity in the UK: A Review and Meta-Regression Analysis, Open Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2014, pp. 235-249 (with J. Randall, M. Slater, A. Stewart, K. Lewis, C. Levy and P. Alessandri-Gray,). doi: 0.4236/ojmp.2014.33025.

4th Health (public policy)

16. School Expenditure and School Performance: Evidence from New South Wales schools using a dynamic panel analysis, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 244–264 (with Jean Mangan, Dragana Radicic and Vincent Blackburne). DOI: 10.1002/berj.3146

1st EducationSSCI, Impact Factor: 1.759 (2017) (1st ranked UK/European Education journal);ABS: 3; ERA: A*SCImago: Q1; H=73

17. Export Behaviour of SMEs in Transition Countries, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol.42(2):407–435 (February 2014) (with Iraj Hashi and Petrit Gashi): DOI 10.1007/s11187-013-9487-7

2nd Economics; BusinessSSCI, Impact Factor 3.106 (2017)ABS: 3ERA & ABCD: ASCImago: Q1; H=98

UK REF 2014 period: Jan.1st 2008-Dec.31st 201318. Foreign Direct Investment and Output Growth Volatility: A

Worldwide Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance. Vol.25 (2013) pp.260-271 (with Bruno Ćorić). Available online since 20-07-2011: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2012.07.011

2nd EconomicsSSCI: 0.927 (2011); 0.855 (2012)ABS: 2ABCD: A

19. Does Exchange Rate Volatility Discourage International Trade? A Meta-Regression Analysis, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (with Mekbib Haile). Vol. 22(3) (April 2013) pp.321-350. DOI:10.1080/09638199.2011.565421.

2nd EconomicsSSCI: 0.309ABS: Not listed.RePEc ranking: 207/813ABCD: B

20. Invited submission: protocols for the practice of meta-regression in economics (member of an authorial collective of leading practitioners)

Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines, Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol.27(2), pp. 390–394, April 2013 (with Tom Stanley et al.).

NA EconomicsSSCI: 1.328 (2011); 0.986 (2012)ABS: 2ERA: A

21. Can Powerful Buyers “Exploit” SME Suppliers? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Vol.19, Issue 2 (May 2012) pp.322-334 (with David Tyrrall and John Wyld).

2nd SMEs and EnterpriseABS: 2ERA & ABCD: C

22. Institutions and Economic Performance: A Meta-Regression Analysis, the European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 27, No.3 (September 2011) pp.586-599 (with Adnan Effendic and Nick Adnett).

2nd EconomicsSSCI: 1.437 (2011); 1.132 (2012)ABS: 2ERA & ABCD: ARePEc: 90/813

23. Confidence in Formal Institutions and Reliance on Informal 2nd EconomicsSSCI: 0.782 (2012)

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Institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an Empirical Investigation Using Survey Data, The Economics of Transition, Vol. 19, Issue 3 (2011), pp. 521-540, 2011 (with Adnan Efendic and Nick Adnett).

ABS: 2.ERA & ABCD: ARePEc: 116/813

24. Constraints on Exchange Rate Flexibility in Transition Economies: a Meta-Regression Analysis of Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Applied Economics, Vol.43 (27) (2011) pp.4111-4125 (with Igor Velickovski).

2nd Economics.SSCI Impact Factor (2016) 0.709ABS: 2;ERA & ABCD: ASCImago: Q2; H=62

25. Award: “Commended” paper:

Do increased resources increase educational attainment during a period of rising expenditure? Evidence from English secondary schools using a dynamic panel analysis, British Educational Research Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, (2011), pp.163-189 (with Jean Mangan and John Gray).

“Commended” at the 2012 Conference of the British Educational Research Association. (Each year, in the “Best Paper” awards, one research paper is selected as the “Best paper” and two more are “Commended”).

1st Education PolicySSCI Impact Factor: 1.14 (2011); 1.66 (2012) (1st ranked UK/European Education journal);ABS: 3ERA: A*

26. Evaluating the impact of progressive beer duty on small breweries: a case study of tax breaks to promote SMEs, Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy, Vol.28 (2) (2010) pp.225-40 (with John Wyld and David Tyrrall).

2nd Regional Science / Business / Public PolicySSCI: 1.161ABS: 3ERA: A

27. Technological change and employer-provided training: evidence from UK workplaces, International Journal of Manpower, Vol.31, No.4 (July 2010), pp.426-448 (with Ardiana Gashi and Nick Adnett).

2nd Business (HRM, management and labour economics)SSCI: 0.472 (2012)ABS: 2ABCD: A

28. The effects of exchange rate variability on international trade: a Meta-Regression Analysis, Applied Economics, Vol.42 (20) (2010), pp.263-2644 (with Bruno Ćorić).

2nd Economics.SSCI Impact Factor (2016) 0.709ABS: 2;ERA & ABCD: ASCImago: Q2; H=62

29. Evaluating the effects of the M6 Toll Road on industrial land development and employment, Regional Studies, Vol.42, No.7, pp.977-90 (August 2008) (with John Fairburn).

1st Regional Science(12th ranked in the top 35 geography journals)SSCI Impact Factor: 1.465 (2012)ABS: 3ERA & ABCD: A*RePEc: 104/813

30. Faith schools, social capital and academic attainment: evidence from TIMSS-R mathematics scores in Flemish secondary schools, British Educational Research Journal, Vol.34, No.2 (April 2008), pp.235-67 (with Shqiponje Telhaj).

1st EducationSSCI: 1.14 (2011) 1.66 (2012) (1st ranked UK/European Education journal;ABS: 3ERA: A*

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Previous UK research assessment periods (2007 and earlier):

31. Institutions and economic performance: an overview of empirical research with the main focus on transition economies, South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Vol.2, No.1, pp.25-30 (April 2007) (with Adnan Efendic).

32. Should we have faith in not-for-profit providers of schooling?, Journal of Education Policy, Vol.21, No.1, pp.19-33 (with Nick Adnett and Peter Davies) (Jan. 2006).

33. Changes in Examination Performance in English Secondary Schools over the Course of a Decade, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Vol.16, No.1 (March 2005) pp.29-50 (with Jean Mangan and John Gray).

34. Performance Indicators and Widening Participation in UK Higher Education,Higher Education Quarterly, Vol.59, No.1 (Jan. 2005) pp.19-39 (with Nick Adnett and Gwen Coates).

35. The provision and accessibility of small business Web sites: a survey of independent UK breweries, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol.11, No. 3 (2004)(E-commerce Special Edition) pp.302-314 (with Jackie Fry, David Tyrrall and John Wyld).

36. What’s in a trend? A comment on Gray, Goldstein and Thomas (2001), British Educational Research Journal, Vol.29, No.1 (2003) pp.77-82 (with Jean Mangan).

37. Introduction: Skilling and the role of the firm, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 24, No.1 (Jan.-March 2003) pp.7-10 (with Thomas Lange, Gwen Coates and Melissa Spore).

38. Will the single currency promote intra-European trade?, European Business Journal, Vol.14, No.3 (September 2002) pp.150-57 (with David Tyrrall).

39. Will progressive beer duty really help UK small breweries? A case study in profit appropriation, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol.8, No.4 (Winter 2001) pp.311-338 (with David Tyrrall and John Wyld).

40. Reforms in the new German labour market: a case for institutional corporatism, International Journal of Manpower, Vol.22, No.6 (Sept.-Oct. 2001) pp.494-507 (with Thomas Lange and Lothar Funk).

41. Consensus in the German labour market: Economic consequences and the implications for reform, International Journal of Manpower, Vol.22, No.6 (Sept.-Oct. 2001) pp.526-543 (with David Tyrrall).

42. Culture, productivity and competitive advantage: the role of consensus in sustaining innovation, Economic Issues (Dec.2000) – Special Issue on Economics and Business Strategy - pp.5-25 (with David Tyrrall).

43. An Experimental Test of Trade Hysteresis: market exit and entry decisions in the presence of sunk costs and exchange rate uncertainty, Applied Economics, Vol.31, No.4 (April 1999) pp.427-36 (with David Ansic).

44. Financial Markets, the Maastricht Convergence Criteria and the “Depoliticising” of Fiscal Policy, Current Economics and Politics of Europe, Vol.8, No.2 (Winter 1998) pp.207-24.

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45. Monetary Cooperation in Europe and the problem of differential productivity growth, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol.12, No.3 (Sept.1998) pp.445-57 (with Bob Beachill).

46. ‘Wage Policy and Transition in Eastern Germany’, The International Journal of Manpower, Vol.19, Nos. 1&2 (April 1998) pp.95-114 (with Thomas Lange).

47. The Profit Elasticity of investment in West Germany and the investment diversion effects of unification, Applied Economics Letters, Vol.5 (February 1998) pp.97-99.

48. Reaping the Bundesbank’s Whirlwind in Germany, New Political Economy, Volume 2, No.3 (November, 1997) pp.496-502 (with Charlie Jeffery).

49. High-tech investment and learning-by-doing: an alternative training strategy, Education and Training, Vol.39, Nos.8-9 (November, 1997) pp.316-21 (with Thomas Lange).

50. Die Ökonomischen Konzequenzen der deutschen Wiedervereinigung für die Europäische Gemeinschaft, Berichte, Forschungsinstitut der Internationalen Wissenschaftlichen Vereinigung Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik (Sept.1994), pp.53-66 (Translation: ‘The Economic Consequences of German Reunification for the European Community’, Reports of the Research Institute of the International Scientific Union for World Economics and Politics , Berlin).

51. Problems of Economic Transformation in Eastern Germany, The British Review of Economic Issues, Vol.15, No.37 (October 1993) pp.121-44. (The BREI was subsequently renamed Economic Issues.)

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* SSCI – Social Science Citation Index; Impact Factors from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Citation Reports (JCR)ABS/ERA/ABCD journal rankings.

According to The Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide (2018 - see https://charteredabs.org/academic-journal-guide-2018-view/ Journals are ranked 4* (journals of distinction), 4, 3, 2 or 1 (4*/4, 3, 2 and 1 roughly corresponding to the RAE/REF assessment grades).

ERA: Australian Research Council (ARC): Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Outlet Ranking (2010); journals are ranked A*; A; B; C. These quality categories are interpreted as follows:

o A* (top 5%) "Virtually all papers they publish will be of a very high quality"; o A (next 15%) "The majority of papers in a Tier A journal will be of very high quality"; o B (next 30%) "Generally, in a Tier B journal, one would expect only a few papers of very high

quality"; and o C (next 50%) Journals "that do not meet the criteria of higher tiers".

http://research.unsw.edu.au/excellence-research-australia-era-outlet-ranking If no ERA rating, then ABCD: Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rating List (2013). For the

rankings: http://www.abdc.edu.au/pages/abdc-journal-quality-list-2013.html; To find the 2016 ABCD ranking for any particular journal: http://www.abdc.edu.au/master-journal-list.php?title=Regional+Studies&issn=&for=0&rating= The proportion of the total 2671 ABCD journals in each category is as follows: A*: 6.9%; A: 20.8%; B: 28.4%; and C: 43.9% journals

† The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). Source: SCImago Journal & Country Rankhttp://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=18768&tip=sid&clean=0

Quartile (Q): The set of journals (i.e. all journals in a subject area such as Economics and Econometrics, Business, Management and Accounting, etc.) have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles – namely, Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.

H Index: The h index expresses the journal's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both journal scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is also applicable to scientists, countries, etc.

‡ http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.all.html Citations in Economics provides citation analysis for documents distributed on the RePEc digital library. CitEc has narrower criteria for citation matches, thus having fewer errors than Google Scholar. Also, the coverage of CitEc is narrower than Google Scholar's. Version updated November 1st 2010.

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http://www.abdc.edu.au/master-journal-list.php?title=Regional+Studies&issn=&for=0&rating

http://www.abdc.edu.au/master-journal-list.php?title=Regional+Studies&issn=&for=0&rating

http://www.abdc.edu.au/pages/abdc-journal-quality-list-2013.html

http://research.unsw.edu.au/excellence-research-australia-era-outlet-ranking

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Research Reports: published by national governments

Department for Children, Schools and Families: London, UK

Pugh, G., Mangan J. and Gray, J. (2008) Resources and Attainment at Key Stage 4: Estimates from a Dynamic Methodology. Publication Code: DCSF-RR056. Published 30-10-2008. *

New Zealand Ministry of Education,Research Division: Wellington, New Zealand

Rentoul J., Rosanowski J., Demster N., Fisher D., Hosking N., Hunter R., Pugh, G. and Walford G. (2000) New Zealand Ministry of Education Strategic Research Initiative. Literature Review 4. The Effects of School Governance, Ownership, Organisation and Management on Educational Outcomes.ISBN 0-477-05181-2

* Available from the DCSF Research Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/resources-and-attainment-at-key-stage-4-estimates-from-a-dynamic-methodology

GUEST EDITORSHIPS of JOURNALS

1. Guest editorship of an international journal (SSCI listed): International Journal of Manpower: Special issue on ‘Skilling and the role of the firm’,

Vol. 24, No.1 (Jan.-March 2003) (with Thomas Lange, Gwen Coates and Melissa Spore).

2. Guest editorship of an international journal (SSCI listed): International Journal of Manpower: Special issue on ‘Reform of the new German labour

market’, Vol.22, No.6 (Sept.-Oct. 2001) (with Thomas Lange and Lothar Funk).

BOOKS

1. Monograph: The Economics of German Unification (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998); with Thomas Lange.

2. Textbook: Public Policy and the Financial Environment (London: BPP, 1992); with Bob Beachill and Bob Leach; 2nd Edition, 1993.

3. Sources in Modern European History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987); with Dr. Chris Cook.

PAPERS in EDITED COLLECTIONS

1. ‘An Introduction to Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA): Using the Example of the Trade Effects

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of Exchange Rate Variability’, in Guido Erreygers and Mieke Vermeire (eds), Macroeconomics and Beyond: Essays in honour of Wim Meeusen (Antwerp-Apeldoorn: Garant, 2011) (with Bruno Ćorić and Mekbib Haile).

2. ‘The German Economic Model: Consensus, Stability, Productivity and the Implications for Reform’, in Ben Clift and Jonathan Perraton (eds), Where are National Capitalisms Now? (Basingstoke: MacMillan, 2004) (with Clare Annesley and David Tyrrall).

3. ‘Institutional Perspectives on Reforming the New German Labour Market’, in Lothar Funk and Simon Green (eds), New Aspects of Labour Market Policy (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2002) (with Lothar Funk and Thomas Lange).

4. ‘The DM' s Undervaluation and West Germany's Economic Performance', in Jens Hölscher (ed.), Fifty Years Deutsche Mark (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001) (with Jens Hölscher and Eric Owen-Smith) – Festschrift for Stephen Frowen.

5. ‘The Pottery Industry: Exploding the Myths and Charting the Way’, in Ian Jackson, Suzanne Leech, Michael O’Keefe, Les Trustrum (eds), Ceramic Ambitions and Strategic Directions (Stoke-on-Trent: Staffordshire University Business School, 2000) (with Hugh Padley).

6. ‘Exchange rate variability, international trade and the single currency debate: a survey’, in Wim Meeusen (ed.), Current Issues in European Economic Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999).

7. ‘Catching up with the West: the achievements and limitations of creative destruction’, in Jens Hölscher and Anja Hochberg (eds), East Germany’s Economic Development Since Unification: Domestic and Global Aspects (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).

8. ‘Uneven productivity growth, monetary integration and unemployment in Europe’, in Thomas Lange (ed.), Unemployment in Theory and Practice (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998).

9. ‘Economic Reform in Germany: 1948 and 1990’, in Len Shackleton and Thomas Lange (eds), Germany: An Economy in Transition (Oxford: Berg, 1998).

10. ‘Financial Systems and Industrial Performance’, in Len Shackleton and Thomas Lange (eds), Germany: An Economy in Transition (Oxford: Berg, 1998).

11. ‘The Treuhand: a positive account’, in Len Shackleton and Thomas Lange (eds), Germany: An Economy in Transition (Oxford: Berg, 1998) (with Thomas Lange).

12. ‘The Investment Diversion Effects of German Unification’, in Jens Hölscher and Steven Frowen (eds), The German Currency Union of 1990: A Critical Assessment (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997).

PAPERS in PROFESSIONAL orMASS-CIRCULATION JOURNALS

1. ‘European trade and the single currency’, Financial Management (April 2003) (with David Tyrrall).

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2. ‘The Pottery Industry: Exploding the Myths’, Staffordshire Life (January 2000) (with Hugh Padley).

3. 'German Unification and the EC', Economia, Vol.3, Part 2 (Winter 1993) pp.38-45.

4. 'Monetary Consequences of German Unification: Why Germany has high interest rates', Economics and Business Education, Vol.1, Part 1, No.3 (Autumn 1993) pp.116-123 (with David Carr).

5. 'Making Links Between Economics and Mathematics at A-Level', Economics (March, 1991) pp.25-27.

CONTRACT RESEARCH REPORTS (selected)

1. The Cost Effectiveness of Agency Social Workers: a comparison of the costs of agency social workers supplied by Social Work Choices and of permanent staff employed by Local Authority Social Services Departments INDEX Voucher project for Social Work Choices Methodology for evaluating the relative costs of employing private-sector agency staff

and public-sector staff with permanent contracts Selected as an example of best practice by the Advantage West Midlands’ Innovation

Voucher programme (with John Wyld)

2. An assessment of the carbon footprint of the M6 Toll Motorway in the UK (November 2008) Report for Midland Expressway Ltd (owner & operator of the M6 Toll) (with J. Fairburn).

3. Setting tuition fees at Staffordshire University from September 2007: a framework of principles for guiding policy Report for Staffordshire University’s Recruitment management Team; including a

questionnaire framework for use by faculty and award managers in setting fees (2007).

4. Identifying high-tech SMEs in Staffordshire Objective 2 areas eligible for internationalisation assistance (2006). Project for Stafford Chamber Services. Methodology and database.

5. The economic impact of the M6 Toll on southern Staffordshire. Report commissioned by the South Staffordshire Partnership (a consortium of local

authorities in Southern Staffordshire, the Government Office for the West Midlands, and Midland Expressway, the operator of the M6 Toll) (2005-06).

6. The regeneration effects of “fair wages”: The economic benefits to Stoke-on-Trent of closing the gap between private and public sector pay for residential care work Report for UNISON (with Ian Jackson) (2005).

7. Evaluation work for the Ceramic Industry Forum (CIF) (with Ian Jackson). Report on various industry-support programmes (2004).

8. September 2003: The Ceramic Supply Sector: Its Identity, Capabilities, Threats, Opportunities and Support Needs EU funded project (SRB6) for Stoke Works (with Ian Jackson, Bill Murray and CERAM).

9. March 2003: Pilot implementation of performance indicators for the Ceramic Industry Forum (CIF) Evaluation of selected CIF projects (with Ian Jackson and Bill Murray).

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10. October 2002: Performance indicators for the Ceramic Industry Forum (CIF) (funded by the DTI) Design of performance indicators to evaluate the impact of CIF interventions on its SMC

clients (with Ian Jackson and Bill Murray).

11. October 2002: Village appraisal for Checkley Parish Council (funded by the Countryside Commission’s “Vital Villages” programme) Design and analysis of a questionnaire survey of Parish residents (with Charlotte

Raynor).

12. July 2001: Widening Participation: Performance Indicators and Benchmarks at School Level Report for Staffordshire University’s Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

Committee (with Nick Adnett and Gwen Coates). Included results for each School together with a methodology for future implementation by Central Information Services.

13. Research commissioned by HM Treasury (with Bob Beachill): completed in two parts with an Executive Summary for policy makers and advisers (May 2000).1) ‘Exchange rates and productivity: is there a sterling silver lining effect?’

An econometric study of the macroeconomic evidence2) ‘The impact of exchange rate swings on productivity growth’:

Theoretical and empirical study of the effect of exchange rate movements on industrial efficiency at firm level

Presented at an internal HM Treasury seminar (Sept.2000); published for initial dissemination as Staffordshire University Division of Economics Working Papers (July 2001).

14. February 2000: International Benchmarking Project: Schools, Scotland: Report commissioned by the DfEE; Centre for Economics and Business Education,

Staffordshire University (Mimeo) (with Nick Adnett and Peter Davies).

15. December 1999: A progressive system of excise duty for small brewers: Report commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (with David Tyrrall and John Wyld).

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CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected)

1. Invited presentation of research findings and policy recommendations from GPrix, an EU FP7 project: ‘Innovation support for traditional sector manufacturing SMEs’. Conference of the West Midlands Economic Forum. Sustaining Competitiveness: The West

Midlands Economy in a Global Context (July 2012). http://westmidlandseconomicforum.co.uk/index.php/pages/info/about

2. Invited presentation of preliminary findings from the GPrix survey of European SMEs in traditional manufacturing industry Making Progress and Economic Enhancement a Reality for SMEs: New Approaches Towards

RTDI Programmes, EU Committee of the Regions, Brussels (October 6th, 2011); available at:http://mapeer-sme.eu/news-and-events/news/2011/10/presentations-available

3. ‘The Financial Accelerator, Globalization and Output Growth Volatility’ (with Bruno Ćorić). INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Trinity College Dublin (8-9 June 2009)

4. ‘Can tax breaks promote SMEs? Some theory and a case study of the impact of progressive beer duty on small breweries’. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference, Belfast (October 2008)

(with John Wyld and David Tyrrall).5. ‘Examination Performance, Specialist Status and School Expenditure in English Secondary Schools:

a dynamic panel analysis’. Contribution (one of three papers) to a symposium on Specialisation between and within

schools: where are the benefits? For the Annual Conference of the British Education Research Association, Sept.2007.

6. Full (refereed) paper: ‘Achieving High Performance in English County Councils’. British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Sept. 2007 (Public management and

Governance stream) (with Jane Kennedy and David Douglas).7. Conference paper: ‘Faith schools, social capital and academic attainment’

5th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economy and Culture (affiliated to the US Society for the Scientific Study of Religion), Portland, Oregon; Oct. 2006.

8. ‘Not-For-Profit Providers of Schooling: Dominant in the Past – and Future?’ (with Nick Adnett and Peter Davies) Presented at the London Institute of Education, May 2004 (ESRC Supported Seminar series).

9. Conference paper: ‘Attainment effects of school enmeshment with external communities’ European Conference on Educational Research: Economics of Education Section Hamburg;

Sept.2003.10. Conference paper: ‘Evaluating the Ceramic Industry Forum’

Evidence-Based Policies and Indicator Systems Conference, July 2003.11. Working Paper: ‘International HRM, innovation and productivity: the role of culture and consensus’

British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Sept. 2002 (Organisational Behaviour stream) (with Beverley Metcalf and David Tyrrall).

12. Full (refereed) paper: ‘Will the single currency promote intra-European trade?’ British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Sept. 2002 (Strategic Management stream)

(with David Tyrrall); published in Conference Proceedings.13. Refereed Paper: ‘Performance Indicators, Value-Added and Widening Participation in HE’

British Educational Research Association (Sept. 2001) (with Gwen Coates and Nick Adnett).14. Refereed Paper: ‘The Internet presence of small UK breweries: accessibility or invisibility?’

(with Jackie Fry and David Tyrrall (Open University Business School) and John Wyld (Staffordshire University) International Academy of Business 28th Annual Conference (April 2001);

published in Conference Proceedings.15. Refereed Paper: ‘Monopsony power in the brewing industry: buyer power, tax reform and small

business survival’, with David Tyrrall (Open University Business School) and John Wyld British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference (Sept. 2000);

published in Conference Proceedings.16. Refereed Paper: ‘Culture, productivity and competitive advantage: the role of consensus in sustaining

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innovation’, with David Tyrrall (Open University Business School) International Academy of Business 27th Annual Conference (April 2000);

published in Conference Proceedings.

17. Refereed Paper: ‘What ails small brewers? Buyer power, tax reform and small business survival’, with David Tyrrall (Open University Business School) and John Wyld Small Business and Enterprise Development Conference, April 2000;

published in Conference Proceedings.18. Invited Paper: ‘Institutional sources of productivity advantage in German industry: implications for

German business practice and reform of the social market’ Political Economy Research Centre, Sheffield University – Conference: Where are National

Capitalisms Now? (July 1999).19. ‘Cultural and institutional sources of productivity advantage in German industry: insights from X-

efficiency theory and recent developments in corporate strategy’ University of Westminster / Economic Issues – Conference: Economics and Business Strategy

(June 1999).20. Invited Paper:

‘Exchange rate variability, international trade and the single currency debate’ Prague University of Economics – Conference: The European Monetary Union and Beyond

(June 1999).21. ‘Exchange rate variability, international trade and monetary cooperation in Europe’

ESRC International Economics Study Group (Feb. 1998).22. ‘Inflexible Labour Markets and Uneven Productivity Growth’

International Labour Markets Conference (June 1996).23. Refereed Paper: ‘Monetary Cooperation in Europe and the Problem of Differential Productivity

Growth’ Royal Economic Society Conference (April, 1996).

24. Refereed Paper: ‘Monetary Cooperation in Europe and the Problem of Differential Productivity Growth’ Applied Econometrics Association: 46th Annual Conference - on Exchange Rate Determination;

published in Conference Proceedings (AEA, March 1995).25. Refereed Paper: ‘The Investment Diversion Effects of German Unification’

Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, Conference on The German Currency Union of 1990 (March 1995).

26. ‘The Economic Consequences of German Unification for the EC’ Conference on Europe in the 1990's, Staffordshire University (July, 1993).

27. ‘Problems of Economic Transformation in Eastern Germany’ Conference on Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, Staffordshire University (Feb.93).

28. ‘German Unification and Problems of Monetary Integration in the EC’, Conference on European Integration, The University of North London (Nov. 1992).

29. ‘Restructuring for the Market: problems and opportunities’ Yorkshire and Humberside Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Conference on

Eastern European Trade (Dec. 1990).30. ‘Exchange Rate Instability and International Trade’

Association of Polytechnic Teachers of Economics Conference (APTE) (April 1990).

KEYNOTE and INVITED LECTURES, etc. (Selected)

1. Innovation policy support for SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries: some lessons from the EU? Keynote address for the 2014 UACS 9th annual international conference on European

integration: The Europe of Tomorrow: Creative, Digital, Integrated (May 15th 2014, Skopje).2. Staffordshire Manufacturing 2020 – Future Trends

Keynote speaker at the Staffordshire Manufacturers’ Forum (April 4th 2014) Conference (sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund)

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3. The impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing industries: an evaluation for seven EU regions (October 3rd 2013) Invited Seminar, UNI-MERIT, University of Maastricht and United Nations University

4. Economic Development Perspectives of the SEE Region in the Global Recession Context (October 14th-15th 2010, Sarajevo). Keynote address: “Institutions and economic development: the need for evaluation".

5. National Government: The Highways Agency Carbon Accounting Forum (November 2008) ‘Carbon Footprinting the M6 Toll Road’ (with John Fairburn); presenting the recently published

report An assessment of the carbon footprint of the M6 Toll Motorway in the UK6. 4th International Colloquium on Meta-Analysis in Economics - to present a ‘Meta-Regression Analysis

Of The Impact Of Institutions On Macroeconomic Performance’ (paper with Adnan Effendic and Nick Adnett). Nancy, France (funded by Nancy University) (October 2008)

7. 3rd International Colloquium on Meta-Analysis in Economics - to present ‘Meta regression analysis of the effects of exchange rate variability on international trade’. Sønderborg, Denmark (funded by Aarhus University) (September 2007).

8. Common Purpose Leadership Development Programme (June 2006) Introduced and led seminar on “Global markets and local business”

9. Regional Government: North Staffordshire Local Strategic Partnership (December 2005)- presentation of a consultancy report The regeneration effects of “fair wages”.

10. National Government: Department for Transport (November 2005) - research seminar. The wider economic implications of the M6 Toll: methodology and findings.

11. Discussant: invited discussant’s contribution to the DAAD/Anglo-German Foundation Conference on “Germany’s Economic Performance: from Unification to Euroisation” (April 2005).

12. National Government: HM Treasury: presentation to the European Monetary Union team (responsible for HMT’s “Single Currency Review”) ‘The trade effects of exchange rate variability’; research contribution to HMT’s review of the

conditions for UK participation in the single currency (November 2002).13. Presentation to the Board of the Ceramics Industry Forum (including a DTI representative)

‘Performance indicators for the Ceramics Industry Forum’ (October 2002).14. Research Seminar presentation: Institute for German Studies (October 2000)

‘The German Model: the economic consequences of consensus and the implications for reform’.15. National Government: HM Treasury: presentation of commissioned research to economists and

policy advisors (Sept. 2000) ‘Economic consequences of the “strong pound”: exchange rate swings and productivity in the

UK traded goods sector’.16. Presentation: Ceramics Industry Competitiveness: Exploding the Myths

CERAM Research workshop for members and clients (Feb. 2000).17. Presentation: Progressive Beer Duty – presentation of research findings

Campaign for Real Ale Industry Committee (meeting attended by John Grogan MP of the Parliamentary Beer Group) (Jan. 2000).

18. Keynote Lecture: German Unification and the future of German “corporatism” Annual Meeting for DAAD Lektoren in the UK and Ireland (Dec. 1997).

19. Discussant: invited discussant’s contribution to a policy workshop on exchange rate parities and the European Monetary System Government Economic Service Conference: Keble College, Oxford (July 1996).

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CURRENT RESEARCH AGENDA

From the platform of current projects and postgraduate research funding, I am developing applied research in three areas:1. institutional influences on economic performance at both micro and macro levels, in particular in the

context of transitional economies; 2. SME innovation and diversification in traditional manufacturing industries, including the evaluation

of innovation support programmes; and3. The Net promotor Score – project in Marketing/Corporate Strategy (see below).My contributions include both primary econometric studies and meta-regression analysis.

The first of these areas continues a long-established research agenda and 15 years of PhD supervision (see pp.3-4 above). The second reflects more recent interests developed by way of leading the survey and econometric analysis in a European Union Framework 7: Good Practices in Innovation Support Measures for SMEs: facilitating transition from the traditional to the knowledge economy (GPrix, completed in February 2012).

Under submission

1. Cooperation for Innovation: Impact Evidence for European Manufacturing SMEs (with Dragana Radicic, David Douglas and Ian Jackson) Under invited resubmission to: Journal of Product Innovation Management.

2. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Support on Open Innovation: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing SMEs (with Dragana Radicic) Invited resubmission to: Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Pipelined for journal submission

3. With: Chris Dimos and Mehtap Hisarciklilar-Riegler: R&D tax credits vs R&D subsidies: A Comparative Meta-Regression Analysis For submission to Research Policy

4. Barker, J. B., Slater, M. S., Pugh, G., Mellalieu, S. D., McCarthy, P.J., Jones, M. V., & Moran, A.: The effectiveness of applied sport psychology interventions: A meta regression Joint research with colleagues in Sports Psychology Final version currently being finalised for submission in February 2018 to the

International Review of Sport & Exercise Psychology (Impact Factor 3.682).5. With: Dragana Radicic, Mehtap Hisarciklilar-Riegler, Ian Jackson, and David Douglas: The

effects on firms' cooperation behaviour of innovation support programmes (Working title only) 1st resubmission led to rejection by Research Policy (January 2018). Currently

considering whether to appeal or submit elsewhere6. With: Dragana Radicic: The effectiveness of public procurement in stimulating innovation

outputs from US and European firms Presented at the Academy of Management (Summer 2017) To be developed for journal submission

7. With: Marjan Ivanovsky, Junie Tong and Ian Jackson: Project on defined-contribution pension schemes and asset-price bubbles in transition economies Derived from Marjan Ivanovsky’s PhD (Staffordshire University, 2016) Theoretical modelling complete; new empirical work almost complete Submission in June/July 2018

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The Net Promotor Score (Marketing/Strategy)

This project was developed in collaboration with Andy Stephenson, who is the former HR Director of DFS and studying for a DBA at Staffordshire (supervised by Jana Fiserova and Geoff Pugh). (Currently, Andy is HR Director for Lookers, a FTSE 100 Company.) The basis of the project is support from DFS and thus access to their Customer Satisfaction database. This will for the first time allow rigorous investigation of the Net Promotor Score – a prominent tool for assessing customer satisfaction used by major corporations, especially in the US and the UK – from two perspectives:

(i) does it drive sales growth; and, if so,

(ii) how can be improved?

This research has potential for both high-level publication and business impact.

So far the research has been written up as two Working Papers, the first already presented at the 2017 British Academy of Management Annual Conference and the second to be submitted to the 2018 Conference:

1. Fiserova, J., Pugh, G.T., Stephenson, A. and Dimos, C. (2017) What drives customer propensity to recommend a brand? British Academy of Management Annual Conference, September 5-7, 2017. University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.

2. Fiserova, J., Pugh, G.T., Stephenson, A. and Dimos, C. As it turns out, the Net Promoter Score really does predict sales growth! (paper accepted by the British Academy of Management 2018 conference)

Impact, even at this stage, has been demonstrated by the early reception of the first Working Paper, the results of which have been presented at

o an event organised by the British Chamber of Commerce in Prague, Czech Republic, and

o a FTSE 100 companies at a business breakfast event organised by a major consultancy company in London

After taking advice from a leading marketing academic at Bath University where Chris Dimos, a former Research Fellow at Staffordshire University – is employed, the intended publication outcome is

Fiserova, J., Pugh, G.T., Stephenson, A. and Dimos, C. Grow NPS, grow sales (data analysis complete, article writing up; intended submission to a world elite double-weighted 4* ABS journal)

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