Key details
Professor Bruce Cronin
Professor of Economic Sociology
Professor Bruce Cronin specialises in the role of business networks in strategy and innovation within and across organisational and national boundaries. He is Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis and Co-Director of the Networks and Urban Systems Centre.
His corporate clients have included Defra, Ernst & Young, Institute of Management Consultants, London Knowledge Network, McGraw-Hill, Nesta, NHS, Northern Trust, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Pensions Regulator, Thackray Williams, Work Foundation, Unilever, Universities UK.
Networks and Urban Systems Centre
Centre for Business Network Analysis
Responsibilities within the university
Teaching and administrative activities
- Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis
- Co-director of the Networks and Urban Systems Centre
- Member, University Research Ethics Board
- Academic Portfolio Lead, International Business, School of Business, Operations and Strategy
- Joint Course Leader for BUSI1693 Global Networks and Innovation
MPhil/PhD supervision
Current
Steven Brown. Factors affecting inclusion in strategy making.
Bertha Okpara: The role of collaboration and social networks in achievement of change management and project success in the pharmaceutical sector.
Birant Osaman: Innovation networks in the pharmaceutical Industry
Neda Tabatabaei. User innovation in online communities.
Rafeekh Kanakkan Thodi. Innovation diffusion through managerial networks
Completions
Dr Ali Al Busaidi, Motivational and de-motivational factors during onboarding (PhD)
Dr Aya Awad: Sustainable development strategy for informal settlement in Egypt, Cairo (PhD).
Dr Christos Bassa: Deciphering strategies to manage knowledge creation processes: leveraging product and technology development (PhD).
Dr Dawn Foster: Collaboration and organizational learning among companies contributing to F/OSS production (PhD).
Dr Yehui Hu: Evolution of guanxi within Chinese large-scale exhibition service market (PhD)
Dr Matthew Smith: International trade and investment networks (PhD).
Dr Mohamed Rafik Sadek. Toward Sustainable Desert Settlements in Egypt, in light of past experiences and future prospects.
Dr Sergey Sosnovskikh: Effective management in developing Special Economic Zones in the Russian Federation (PhD).
Dr Stefanos Michiotis: Towards an archetypal change model for organisations (PhD).
Dr Srinidhi Vasudevan: Financial performance effects of interlocking directorships (PhD).
Dr Feng Zhang: Chinese corporate overseas direct investment in the UK (PhD).
Bankole Olagbaiye: Project and process management in the context of organisational complexity (MPhil).
Imad Guenane: Organisational process spillovers from foreign direct investment in Algeria (MPhil).
Shir Ali Narouei: An empirical investigation into the UK profit rate 1949-1998 (MPhil).
Ann Braithwaite, Mapping knowledge flows using archetypes (MRes).
Recognition
- Director, World Economics Association
- Treasurer, Association for Heterodox Economics
- Subject Editor, Business Networks and Innovation, Connections, Journal of the International Network of Social Network Analysts
- Member of the editorial boards of the Forum for Social Economics, Connections and The Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change.
Organisations
Member of the international advisory boards for:
- European Knowledge Management Conference
- International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
- International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
- World Association for Political Economy
Research / Scholarly interests
- Epistemic communities
- International production and trade networks
- Business-governmental relationships
- Managerial career networks