Dr Leslie Davies
Dr Leslie Davies
Principal Lecturer/Programme Leader MBA
l.davies@glyndwr.ac.uk
01978 293285
Leslie joined Glyndŵr University as Principal Lecturer and Director of the Glyndŵr MBA Programme in 2008. Before that he was at the University of Bedfordshire as Head of Postgraduate Programmes, sometime Head of Doctoral Programmes, Director of the Chartered Management Institute Executive Diploma Programme and acting Head of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and HRM Department.
He has taught in South Africa, Delhi, Oman, Thailand and Hong Kong and undertaken research projects in Scandinavia, Australia and the Ukraine.
Previous university appointments have been at Bradford Management Centre, his alma mater, where as a student he obtained the postgraduate prize for Corporate Strategy and where he also obtained his doctorate in International Business. Whilst at Bradford he and several other doctoral students established the Bradford Doctoral Society for academic and social gatherings and mutual support.
After Bradford he took a position at Durham University Business School where in addition to research and teaching he undertook consultancy assignments and was also instrumental in establishing and co-ordinating across 14 countries the European Doctoral Programme in Small Business, part of the European initiative contained within Erasmus.
Leslie also has significant international experience and as Dosent Professor at a Graduate Management School in Norway he was instrumental in establishing the Norwegian Small Business Research Centre. In this capacity he attracted a major research grant equivalent to £250,000 for research into the internationalisation of Norwegian SMEs. Based upon this work he collaborated with Professor Mark Weaver who was then at the University of Alabama, USA. Their joint papers resulted in the Coleman Foundation best paper award at the most prestigious small business conference in the USA, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, in Atlanta, Georgia. He and Professor Weaver also won the second best paper award at the ICSB World conference in Stockholm.
The International Council for Small Business (ICSB), based at the time in the USA, is the oldest and largest membership organisation in the world for the advancement of the SME. It was thus a great privilege for Leslie to be appointed Senior Vice President of this organisation. During ICSB conference periods he also presented staff and student seminars at Australian and New Zealand universities.
Leslie’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of corporate strategy, small business and international business, especially the international aspects of strategy and small business. Lesser but still interesting areas are in the areas of economics and finance, particularly small business finance.
A selection of publications is shown below. The article in the Journal of Marketing Channels was acclaimed as a seminal article by the editor.
Publications
Books
1997. Small Business Finance: an entrepreneurial emphasis. Harcourt Brace (with Professor Jerry Osteryoung, Florida State University, and Dr Derek Newman, Lincoln University, New Zealand). Published April 1997 in USA. UK and world followed.
1997. Small Business Finance: an entrepreneurial emphasis. Instructor’s Manual & Solutions. Harcourt Brace. Authors as above. Published June 1997.
1993. Strategic Investment Decisions: theory, practice and process (with Professors R. Butler, R. Pike and J. Sharp). Routledge. London.
1991. Recent Research in Entrepreneurship. Avebury. Aldershot. England. (with Professor A.A. Gibb).
1988. The Collins Dictionary of Economics (with Dr.C.Pass & Dr.B.Lowes). Collins. London. U.S. edition Harper Collins, 1991.
Papers
2001. ICSB World Conference (June). “Strategic alliances: – an international comparative analysis”. Co-authored with Prof. Mark Weaver.
2000. The Bradford Studies of Strategic Decision Making. A paper in the collected readings: Strategic investment decision making. Hickson, D.J., Butler, R.J., Wilson, D.C. (Eds.). Ashgate Publishing (Gower). August.*
1999. “Environmental Determinants of SME-based Strategic Alliances: An Exploration of Objective and Perceptual Measures across Two Cultures”. In, Research at the Marketing / Entrepreneurship Interface. Eds., Hultman, C.M., Gigierano, J.J., Hills, G.E. Annual Symposium in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Series.
1998. “The Analytic Hierarchy Process: a decompositional research methodology tool for financial management”. Paper presented to faculty and graduate students, University of Western Sydney, January.
1996. “Entrepreneurial Orientation, Co-operative Behaviour and Perceived Outcomes Among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: An exploratory study of Norwegian and U.S. firms”. Paper presented to the USASBE Conference, Atlanta. January. The Coleman Foundation: Best Empirical Paper Award. (With Dr Mark Weaver).
1996. “SME Based Inter-firm Co-operation: An empirical investigation of partner behaviours and outcome satisfaction”. Submitted to the 41st ICSB World Conference, Stockholm, 15-18 June 1996. ICSB World Conference second best paper award. (Co-author: Prof. Mark Weaver.)
1995. “Exploratory Modelling of Financial Reporting and Analysis Practices in Smaller Growth Enterprises”. The Journal of Small Business Finance. Vol.3 (3). (With Prof. R.G.P. McMahon.)
1994. “Financial Reporting and Analysis Practices in Smaller Enterprises: Their Association with Growth Rate and Financial Performance”, Journal of Small Business Management. Vol.32, No.1, January. (with R.G.P. McMahon).
1993. “Financial Reporting and Analysis Practices in Smaller Growth Enterprises in the north east of England: an empirical study”. Paper presented to the European Accounting Association Conference, Turku, April 28-30.
1992. “Effective Investment Decision-Making: The Concept and its Determinants”. Paper presented to the British Academy of Management 6th Annual Conference. Bradford University, England. September 14-16. *
1992. “Exploratory Modelling of Financial Reporting and Analysis Practices in Smaller Growth Enterprises”. Accounting, Finance and Management Research Paper 92/5. The Flinders University of South Australia.
1992. “Methodological Problems in the Development of a Growth Model of Business Enterprise”. The Journal of Entrepreneurship. Vol.1, No.1, January to June. (with Prof. A.A.Gibb).
1992. “Primary Characteristic and Management Process Correlates with Size and Age in Smaller Growth Enterprises”. Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand, Vol.1(1). (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon).
1992. “Exploratory Modelling of Financial Reporting and Analysis Practices in Smaller Growth Enterprises”. Presented at the International Research Symposium World Conference on Small Firm Finance; Baylor University, Waco, Texas. (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon & N.M. Bluhm).
1992. “Financial Reporting and Analysis in Smaller Growth Enterprises: Descriptive evidence on practice”. Accounting Forum, Vol.16 (1) June. (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon).
1991. “Financial Reporting and Analysis in Smaller Enterprises: Associative evidence on Practice in the north-east of England”. Paper presented to Faculty of Queensland University of Technology, 25 October. (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon).
1991. “The role and burden-allocation of credit in industrial distribution channels”, Journal of Marketing Channels, Vol.1, No.1. (with D. Shipley). A seminal article, quoting the editor.
1991. “Financial Reporting and Analysis in Smaller Enterprises: Associative evidence on practice in the north-east of England”. Paper presented to Small Enterprise Research Day, Discipline of Accounting and Finance, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, 20 September. (with R.G.P. McMahon).
1991. “Financial Reporting and Analysis in Smaller Growth Enterprises: Evidence on Practice in the north-east of England”. Accounting and Finance Research Paper 91/4 Flinders University of South Australia. (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon).
1991. “Strategic investment decision making: complexities, politics and processes”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol.28, No.4, July. *
1991. “Financial analysis in smaller growth enterprises: evidence on practice in the north east of England”, paper presented to the Third Annual Symposium on Small Business Finance, Florida State University, April. (with Prof. R.G.P. McMahon).
1990. “In pursuit of frameworks for the development of growth models of the small business”, International Small Business Journal, Vol.9, No.1, Oct-Dec. (with Prof. A.A. Gibb).
1989. "Capital investment: an optimising perspective", paper presented to the British Academy of Management, Organisational and Strategic Decision Making Workshop, University of Bradford Management Centre, January. *
1987. “Capital investment decisions: the impact of uncertainty on management risk taking”, presented to the European Accounting Association Congress, LSE, London, March. *
1987. “Strategic investment decision making: complexities, politics and processes”, presented to the British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick University, September. *
Reports and proceedings
1995. To Nordland Fylke (regional government) Government Export Schemes for SME's: a Norwegian perspective. Nordland Research Institute. Report no. 21/95.
1991. To 3i Venture Capital and Tyne & Wear City Action Team (UK sponsors of a research project). With A.A. Gibb: The Essential Growth Characteristics of Independent Small Firms in the North East of England.
1989. To the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK: Strategic Investment Decision Making in British Companies. *
* with Professors: R.Butler, R.Pike and J.Sharp
