Professor Mary Rose
BA (Econ) Liverpool, PhD Manchester
Personal Chair
Department
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Professional Role
Research Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Current 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.
Journal article (15)
Chapter (6)
Working paper (9)
Selected publications (13)
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Publications
- Rose M B, Howorth C A and Hamilton E E, 2006, 'Definitions, diversity and development: key debates in family business research', in The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 0199288984
View details - Rose M B and Parsons M C, 2005, 'The neglected legacy of Lancashire cotton: industrial clusters and the UK outdoor trade 1960-1990', Enterprise and Society, vol 6, no. 4, pp. 682-709.
View details - Fildes R A, Rose M B and Elsubbaugh S, 2004, 'Preparation for crisis management: a proposed model and empirical evidence', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, vol 12, no. 3, pp. 112-127.
View details - Rose M B and Parsons M C, 2004, 'Communities of knowledge: entrepreneurship, innovation and networks in the British outdoor trade 1960-1990', Business History, vol 46, no. 4, pp. 606-637.
View details - Rose M B, Colli A and Perez P F, 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, no. 1, pp. 28-64.
View details - Rose M B and Colli A, 2003, 'Family firms in comparative perspective', in Business History Around the World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 339-352, ISBN: 052182107X
View details - Rose M B, 2002, 'Leadership succession in British business in the 1950s', in Entrepreneurship and Organisation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 354-372, ISBN: 0198295979
View details - Rose M B 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, no. 1, pp. 24-47.
View details - Rose M B, 1999, 'Networks, values and business: the evolution of British family firms from the eighteenth to the twentieth century', Entreprises et Histoire, vol 22, no. 2, pp. 16-30.
View details - Rose M B, 1998, 'Networks and leadership succession in British business in the 1950s', European Yearbook of Business History, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 57-74.
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