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SSE Riga OPEN WORKSHOP SERIES
in Business and Management Studies
SSE Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
Calendar: Spring 2014/ 2015
Speaker
Topic
Date
Prof. Alexander Chepurenko
Higher School of Economics,
Russia
Possible prospects
of Entrepreneurship
research
January 16, 15-17.00
Room: 507
Dr. Anke Piepenbrink,
ADA University, Azerbaijan
Order without
February 6, 15-17.00
authority- the
Room: 507
innovation ecology
of a standard developing
organization
Prof. David Smallbobe,
Kingston University, U.K.
Qualitative
methods in
entrepreneurship
research
February 20, 15-17.00
Room: 507
Inna Kozlinska,
Tartu University, Estonia
University of Turku, Finland
Interlinkages
between enterprise
education and
entrepreneurshipLatvian context
March 6, 15-17.00
Room: 507
Anna Rebbmann,
Aston University, U.K.
Varieties of social
March, 31, 15-17.00
capital and social
Room: 507
entrepreneurship:
a cross national study
Bio of lecturers:
Prof. Alexander Chepurenko is Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow. He received his Doctor of Sciences in 1990 and his research
interests include theories of entrepreneurship, especially with regard to small firms in
transition economies. He has been actively involved in the GEM (Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor) in Russia and has won numerous research grants from
Russian and European funding sources. Since 2008, he has been the First Vice
President of the Russian Sociologists’ Society.
Dr. Anke Piepenbrink has worked for Siemens for more than 15 years in various
management positions: in R&D, project management, technical sales, business
development and strategy in the telecommunications industry, with an expatriate
assignment in China for 4 years. Her research interests include inter-organizational
networks and their impact on innovation, technology and location; firms' strategic
behavior, technology evolution, location choice for resources, and knowledge flow
across organizational and geographic boundaries. Dr.Piepenbrink holds PhD in
International Business from Rutgers Business School, Newark, US and Executive
MBA from Rutgers Business School, Beijing, China. She also has a PhD in
Astrophysics from Max-Planck-Institut Extraterrestrische Physik, Munich.
Prof. David Smallbone has extensive research experience in the field of small
business and entrepreneurship covering a period of 30 years. He has published widely
on topics that include: entrepreneurship and small business development in transition
economies; entrepreneurship and small business policy; high growth SMEs; enterprise
development in rural areas; innovation and innovation policy; internationalisation and
ethnic minority and immigrant entrepreneurship. He has extensive experience of
research based consultancy for a range of national and international clients, including
central government departments in different countries, the European Commission,
UNDP and the OECD, which demonstrates the policy relevance of his work.
Studies
undertaken for the UK government include an evaluation of rural business services;
analysis of the Impact of the tax system on cash flow in small businesses; a study of
mainstreaming targeted business support,; an evaluation of a national high-growth
start-up program; an evaluation of the loan guarantee scheme and the way that
operates in the inner-city areas; Small Firms and Social Dialogue at the National and
EU Levels, commissioned by Employment Market Analysis and Research Division,
DTI.
As well as undertaking numerous SME-related projects in the UK and mature
market economies, since 1993 Professor Smallbone has been involved in numerous
policy-related research projects in transition economies, many of which he has coordinated; as well as SME related technical assistance contracts.
Inna Kozlinska is a 4th year PhD candidate affiliated to the University of Tartu
(Estonia), Turku School of Economics (Finland), and BA School of Business &
Finance (Latvia). From 2012 to 2013, she held a position as a researcher at the Centre
for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu, being involved in implementation of the
Central Balticum Entrepreneurship Interaction (CB Entreint) project (INTERREG IV
A Programme 2007-2013). Entrepreneurial education and its impact is Inna’s major
research interest.
Anna Rebmann is a PhD student and lecturer in Economics and International
Business at Aston University, UK. She has served as policy analyst for OECD (Paris)
Paris and during 2010 – 2013 was a Teaching Assistant, in Economics and Business
at University College London, UK. Anna’s main research interests are high growth
aspiration entrepreneurship; comparative entrepreneurship; institutions; social capital
and emerging markets.