Dr Joanne Larty

Research Associate

Department

Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Contact

Room: C64
Tel: +44 1524 5 92192
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 594743
Email:

Office Hours

Wed 12-1 and Thurs 11-12

Professional Role

Programme Director BSc Business Studies

Course organizer for undergraduate course ENTR 311 Franchising. Teaching on undergraduate course ENTR 101 and ENTR 207

Current Teaching

Undergraduate: New Venture Planning; Franchising

Research Interests

  • The diversity of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
  • Stories of entrepreneurship
  • Importance of storytelling as a form of learning
  • The franchisee as a small business owner
  • Discursive forms of resistance and control within the franchise organization
  • Narrative methodologies

Current Research

  • New insights into conflict within the franchise organization - the discursive construction of franchisee resistance to franchisor hegemony
  • Franchising as a Shakespearean romantic comedy
  • Franchisee preparedness
  • Social models of entrepreneurship
  • Narrative approaches to research in entrepreneurship

Profile

Joanne is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, having joined the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in January 2008. Joanne is course organizer for the undergraduate module on franchising and plays an active role in teaching on a variety of modules relating to entrepreneurship and small business.

Her research activities are focused on the role of the franchisee as a small business owner within the wider context of the franchise organization. Through employing an inter-disciplinary approach, her research brings together work from fields such as organization, management, social psychology and linguistics to provide new ways of understanding the narrative construction of heterogeneous forms of small business ownership. Joanne is also actively involved in applying narrative to further our understanding of the recent phenomenon of social enterprises and entrepreneurship.

Joanne entered academia following a career as a business and marketing consultant within a number of small businesses.

Publications

A triple-accredited business school Association of MBAs | AACSB | EQUIS