Teesside Business School Professor Wins International Award

Ted Fuller, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Foresight at the University of Teesside’s Business School has been awarded the top prize for the best contribution to theory at the 2003 International Council for Small Business Conference held recently in Belfast. The Conference was attended by more than 900 delegates from over 70 countries.

Professor Fuller, together with his co-author Jenni Lewis, a business analyst with Video Networks Limited of Stevenage, was winner of the best paper on e-business and the best theory paper overall from over 300 academic papers presented at the Conference.

His prize-winning paper was entitled “Putting the ‘R’ in E-Business; Relationships Matter to Technological Choices.” It illustrated that the way owner-managers of small businesses approached their management of relationships had a significant impact on their choice and use of information and communications technologies. In particular, the paper challenged current theories expressed by technology suppliers and policy makers which place technology itself as the main determinant of its use and value.

Copies of the paper can be obtained from Professor Ted Fuller at Teesside Business School, University of Teesside, Borough Road, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, tel 01642 342905/2885 or email ted.fuller@tees.ac.uk

* TONIGHT (Monday 15 September) Alan Clarke, Chief Executive of One NorthEast, will officially launch three new Research Centres at the University of Teesside. The event begins with a reception at 5.30pm in the Europa Building, Woodlands Road, Middlesbrough (and NOT the Clarendon Building as originally planned). Mr Clarke will speak at 6.30pm. The new centres cover Entrepreneurship and SME Development; Leadership and Organisational Change and Public Services Management.

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