Professor David Brown
MA Systems Lancaster, Dip Chem Eng (Hons), M I Chem E C Eng
Chair
Department
Management Science
Professional Role
Director of the Lancaster China Management Centre from 1 October 2005
Project co-ordinator for the EU-funded project Enhancement of Teaching and Research in Management Education (ENTRE) from March 2005
Co-Chair: Conference on Economy and Business in China - Now and Future, Lancaster China Management Centre, 2003;
Head, Department of Systems and Information Management, 1990 - 1993.
Director MSc Information Management, 1992-99; Chairman, IM Steering Group. Chairman, University China Group.
Current Teaching
Major courses in Strategic Management and Strategy and IT, including E-business for:
Postexperience
British Airways MBA Executive Programme; VSEL MBA Executive Programme; Consortial MBA; The Bailrigg Programme (NHS Senior Management Programme).
PostgraduateMSc Information Management; MSc in Information Technology, Management & Organisational Change; Full time MBA
Undergraduate
BBA MNGT 301
Research Interests
Strategic Management; Strategy and IT, including E-Business;
Management in Transitional Economies, especially China
Current Research
Strategy formulation in China's corporatised SOEs; Strategic IT in Vocational and Technical Education in Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam; E-Business and SMEs.
Research Grants
TCS Scheme Award (lead academic) ‘SSM based Systems Implementation’ (joint), 2003, £94,000; EU Asia IT&C ‘EQUIT – Education Quality Improvement through Digital Technologies’ (joint with Copenhagen Business School), 2002, £248,000; EU Asia IT&C ‘Addressing Education Training Needs through Distributed Technologies’, (joint), 2002, £82,330; HP and SAP ‘Engaging SMEs in e-business’(joint), 1999, £40,000; ESRC "Managing the Contract Process in the NHS" (Joint), 1992 £64,680; ESRC "Comparative Decision Making in China and UK", 1990 £93,000; UNDP CPR/88/006 "Management Education for China's Foreign Trade Sector", 1990, £210,000; British Council ALCS award "Management and Management Education in China", 1990, (Extension) £2,800; British Council ALCS award "Management and Management Education in China", 1987, £14,000.
Journal article (20)
Book (1)
Conference contribution (28)
Working paper (4)
Selected publications (38)
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Publications
- Lockett N J and Brown D H, 2011, 'E-Business and the small firm', in Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy, Prentice Hall, London, ISBN: 027370267X
View details - Brown D H and Lockett N J, 2007, 'E-business, innovation and SMEs - the significance of hosted services and firm aggregations', International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, vol 7, no. 1, pp. 92-112.
View details - Brown D H and He S, 2007, 'Patterns of ERP adoption and implementation in China and some implications', Electronic Markets, vol 17, no. 2, pp. 132 - 141.
View details - Gunawardena C and Brown D H, 2007, 'IS initiatives in the vocational and technical education sector of developing Asian countries: a systems approach to the management of project intervention processes', The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, vol 30, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
View details - Brown D H and Lockett N J, 2006, 'Aggregation and the role of trusted third parties in SME e-business engagement: a regional policy issue', International Small Business Journal, vol 24, no. 1, pp. 379-404.
View details - Brown D H and Lockett N J, 2006, 'The use of hosted enterprise applications by SME: a user perspective', Electronic Markets, vol 16, no. 1, pp. 85-96.
View details - Lockett N J and Brown D H, 2005, 'An SME perspective of vertical application service providers', International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, vol 1, no. 2, pp. 1-18.
View details - Brown D H and MacBean A I, 2005, 'China's macroeconomic environment and enterprise challenges', in Challenges for China's Development: an Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 1-11, ISBN: 0415341337
View details - Brown D H and MacBean A I, 2005, 'China's macroeconomic environment and enterprise challenges', in Challenges for China's Development: an Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 1-11, ISBN: 0415341337
View details - Brown D H, Zhang Y and Qi H, 2005, 'Insights into strategy development in China's TVEs', in Challenges for China's Development: an Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London and New York, ISBN: 0415341337
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