Professor Mary Rose
BA (Econ) Liverpool, PhD Manchester
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Organisational Roles
Research Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Teaching
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Current Research
Innovation and entrepreneurship. Path dependency and innovation. Innovation and the outdoor trade. Leadership succession in business. Family firms and business culture.
Profile
Mary Rose is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. She specialises in evolutionary approaches to innovation and the relationships between innovation, entrepreneurship and communities of practice. She has published widely on the evolution of business values, networking behaviour by family firms and the problem of leadership succession, this has included numerous articles in refereed journals whilst she has authored and co-authored 3 books and edited 9. Firms, networks and business values : The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750, was published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press. In collaboration with Dr. Andrea Colli (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) and Dr Paloma Fernadez Perez (University of Barcelona) she has explored international differences in the behaviour and capabilities of family firms in Britain, Italy and Spain. Her most recent collaborative work is with businessman Mike Parsons. Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers which was published in 2003. This book traces the evolution of clothing and equipment for outdoor activities, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. Ours is an unusual collaboration of the active businessman and academic business historian and is based on an intensive dialogue over a 6 year period. Since the publication of this book Mike has been working on building his new business, OMM Ltd – in part inspired by a reawakening of his enthusiasm as an innovative designer by the book. Alongside this they have developed a highly successful course in innovation and an annual conference, Innovation for Extremes. This is destined to become the basis of a network for the outdoor trade. Mary and Mike have also successfully completed a Heritage Lottery Fund project on behalf of Mountain Heritage Trust to replicate the Mallory 1924 clothing. The replicas were tested on Everest by Graham Hoyland, in April 2006. In addition they have been spinning off academic articles from their outdoor trade work, exploring more general ways of linking theories of entrepreneurship, innovation and networks and the role of path dependency in design.
Mary Rose is research director of the newly established Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She is also Director of the Pasold Research Fund, a charitable trust which provides grants for all aspects of textile history and funds and organises conferences and lectures. The Fund also owns Textile History and publishes the Pasold Studies in Textile History in collaboration with Oxford University Press. She has twice been President of the Association of Business Historians and was President of the European Business History Association, 2003-5.
View all publications (28)
Journal/Serial (12)
Book (4)
Chapter in Book (6)
Working Paper (6)
Selected Publications
- Howorth CA, Rose MB and Hamilton EE, 2006, 'Definitions, diversity and development: key debates in family business research', in The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, (eds) Casson M, Yeung B, Basu A and Wadeson N, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 0-19-928898-4
- Parsons MC and Rose MB, 2005, 'The neglected legacy of Lancashire cotton: industrial clusters and the UK outdoor trade 1960-1990', Enterprise and Society, vol 6(4), pp 682-709
- Rose MB, Fildes RA and Elsubbaugh S, 2004, 'Preparation for crisis management: a proposed model and empirical evidence', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, vol 12(3), pp 112-127
- Rose MB and Parsons MC, 2004, 'Communities of knowledge: entrepreneurship, innovation and networks in the British outdoor trade 1960-1990', Business History, vol 46(4), pp 606-637
- Rose MB, Colli A and Perez PF, 2003, 'National determinants of family firm development? Family firms in Britain, Spain and Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries', Enterprise and Society, vol 4(1), pp 28-64
- Colli A and Rose MB, 2003, 'Family firms in comparative perspective', in Business History Around the World, (eds) Amatori F and Jones G, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 339-352, ISBN: 0-521-82107-X
- Rose MB, 2002, 'Leadership succession in British business in the 1950s', in Entrepreneurship and Organisation, (eds) Lynskey M and Yonekura S, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 354-372, ISBN: 0198295979
- Rose MB and Parsons MC, 2002, Invisible on Everest: Inovation and the Gear Makers, Old City Publishing, Philadelphia, ISBN: 0970414358
- Rose MB, 2000, Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 0-521-78255-4
- Rose MB and Colli A, 1999, 'Families and firms: the culture and evolution of family firms in Britain and Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries', Scandinavian Economic History Review, vol 47(1), pp 24-47
