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Jonathan Scott
- T:
- 01642 342919
- Job title:
- Reader in Entrepreneurship
- E:
- j.scott@tees.ac.uk
- School/department:
- Teesside University Business School
- Research institute:
- Technology Futures Institute
About Jonathan Scott
Jonathan Scott
Reader in Entrepreneurship, Teesside University Business School
T: 01642 342919
E: j.scott@tees.ac.uk
Research institute: Technology Futures Institute
Dr Scott completed a PhD (University of Ulster, 2003) on the trading relationships between Northern Ireland and Hungarian manufacturing businesses. Prior to joining Teesside University Business School (TUBS) in 2009, he worked at Durham University, Trends Business Research, Aston University and Queen’s University Belfast. At TUBS he is Programme Leader on the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) and Chair of the School Research Ethics Committee. He has been Track Leader on the Business Support track in 2009 and the Managing for Regeneration, Growth & Sustainability track in 2010 at the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference. More recently, he co-edited a special edition of International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Dr Kevin Mole of Warwick Business School. He is a Director of Enterprise Educators UK, the national network of enterprise educators. He is also a member of both the steering group and the Research & Evaluation sub-group of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and UnLtd (the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs) HE Support Programme for Social Entrepreneurs.
Research interests
His collaborative research focuses on access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and social enterprise (SE) owner-managers and entrepreneurs. This research has had an emphasis upon diversity, i.e. gender and ethnic differences in access to finance. He has been, and continues to be, an active co-applicant for research funding. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at TSE Entre, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku in summer 2009, 2010 and 2012, researching corporate entrepreneurship and innovation with its Director Professor Jarna Heinonen, and more recently gender and entrepreneurship policy with Professor Anne Kovalainen. He has worked on over 20 research projects funded by public sector clients including the Federation of Small Businesses, Department for Trade and Industry, One North East, Middlesbrough Council, Institute for Local Governance/Redcar Council/North and South Tyneside Councils, National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Yorkshire Forward, and London Development Agency.
Publications
Selected publications
Book
Thompson, J.L., Scott, J.M. and Martin, F. (2014, forthcoming) Strategic Management: Awareness and Change, 7th edition, Cengage Learning.
Journal articles
Scott, J.M. and Mole, K. (2012) ‘Business support, firm growth, management development and learning in SMEs’, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 13(1): 5-9.
Thompson, J.L., Scott, J.M. and Downing, R. (2012) ‘Enterprise policy, delivery, practice and research: Largely rhetoric or under-valued achievement?’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 25(5): 332-345.
Sena, V., Scott, J.M. and Roper, S. (2012) ‘Gender, borrowing patterns and self-employment: Some evidence for England’, Small Business Economics, 38(4): 467-480.
Irwin, D. and Scott, J.M. (2010) ‘Barriers to raising bank finance faced by SMEs’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 16(3): 245-259.
Scott, J.M. and Irwin, D. (2009) ‘Discouraged advisees? The influence of gender, ethnicity, and education in the use of advice and finance by UK SMEs’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27 (2): 230-245.
Roper, S. and Scott, J.M. (2009) ‘Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data’, International Small Business Journal, 27 (2): 149-171.
Book chapters
Thompson, J.L. and Scott, J.M. (2013, forthcoming) ‘Social Enterprise or Social Entrepreneurship – Which Matters and Why?’ in S. Denny and F. Seddon (Eds) Social Enterprise: Accountability and Evaluation around the World, Routledge: London.
Thompson, J.L. and Scott, J.M. (2012, forthcoming) ‘Issues in measuring the performance of social enterprises’, Volume IV, Chapter 3, in T. Lyons (Ed) Social Entrepreneurship (Four volume set), Praeger/ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
Scott, J.M., Hussain, J., Harrison, R.T. and Millman, C. (2010) ‘China’, in S. Fielden and M. Davidson (Eds) International Research Handbook on Successful Women Entrepreneurs, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
