Professor Sarah Jack
BA (Hons) PGCE(S) PhD
Chair, Head of Department
Department
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Professional Role
Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
External Roles
Professor Jack is on the editorial boards for:
Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Business Venturing
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
External examiner: Durham University, Essex University
Current Teaching
Professor Jack teaches modules at postgraduate and undergraduate levels on entrepreneurship topics.
Research Interests
Social networks.
Social capital.
Social entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship in rural areas.
Entrepreneurship education.
Research Grants
Curent:
ESRC, Value £266,866, Period: 2007-2010
Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Innovation and Competitive Advantage: Past and Present. Co-investigator with Rose, M (Principal), Lockett, N. and Robinson, S.
Profile
Sarah Jack is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Lancaster Univerisity. Her research involves the use of qualitative methods to consider social aspects of entrepreneurship.
Her work has been published widely in international and national journals.
She has received various grants from funding bodies including: Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Nuffield Foundation, Carnegie Trust and EPSRC.
Recent awards include The Lewis Institute Award at Babson College for the Best Paper Exploring the Significance of Social Entrepreneurship for the paper titled Who are the social entrepreneurs and what do they really do? Steinerowski, A., Jack, S. and Farmer, J.
Journal article (26)
Chapter (peer-reviewed) (1)
Book (1)
Working paper (5)
Conference paper (2)
Selected publications (12)
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Publications
- Jack S L, Anderson A R and Drakopolou Dodd S, 2008, 'Time and contingency in the development of entrepreneurial networks', Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol 20, no. 2, pp. 125-159.
View details - Jack S L, Robson P J A and Freel M, 2008, 'Gender and the use of business advice', Environment and Planning: Government and Policy, vol 26, pp. 292-314.
View details - Anderson A R, Park J and Jack S L, 2007, 'Entrepreneurial social capital: conceptualizing social capital in new hi-tech firms', International Small Business Journal, vol 25, no. 3, pp. 245-272.
View details - Jack S L and Anderson A R, 2007, 'Entrepreneurship education within the enterprise culture: producing reflective practitioners', in Entrepreneurship Education, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 185-200, ISBN: 1845424220
View details - Jack S L, Hyman J and Osborne F, 2006, 'Small entrepreneurial ventures culture, change and the impact on HRM: a critical review', Human Resource Management Review, vol 16, no. 4, pp. 456-466.
View details - Drakopolou Dodd S, Jack S L and Anderson A R, 2006, 'The mechanisms and processes of entrepreneurial networks: continuity and change', in Entrepreneurship: Frameworks and Empirical Investigations from Forthcoming Leaders of European Research (Advances in Ent, JAI, London, pp. 107-146, ISBN: 0762313293
View details - Jack S L, 2005, 'The role, use and activation of strong and weak ties: a qualitative analysis', Journal of Management Studies, vol 42, no. 6, pp. 1233-1260.
View details - Jack S L, Anderson A R and Drakopolou Dodd S, 2005, 'The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm', Family Business Review, vol 18, no. 2, pp. 135-154.
View details - Jack S L, Drakopolou Dodd S and Anderson A R, 2004, 'The strength of strong ties and the entrepreneurial process', The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, vol 5, no. 2, pp. 107-120.
View details - Anderson A R and Jack S L, 2002, 'The articulation of entrepreneurial social capital', Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol 14, no. 3, pp. 193-210.
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