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Mary Rose
Mary Rose is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Research Director in the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. She specialises in studying knowledge exchange between universites and business 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 10. 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 Their book Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers (2003) was awarded the Design History Scholarship award in 2005 and was runner up for the Wadsworth Prize for business history in 2004. This academic/business research collaboration has provided a spring board to develop research, teaching and an annual innovation conference Innovation for Extremes for the outdoor industry. In its eighth year, the conference is now sponsored by the Outdoor Industries Association and is destined to become the basis of a network for the outdoor trade focusing especially on innovation and sustainability. Mary and Mike have also successfully completed a Heritage Lottery Fund project on behalf of Mountain Heritage Trust to replicate the Mallory 1924 Everest 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. Their undergraduate Innovation Course was awarded the Lancaster University Undergraduate Teaching Prize for Innovative Research Led Teaching in 2005. From 1997-2006 Mary Rose was 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. She has twice been President of the Association of Business Historians and was President of the European Business History Association, 2003-5. |
