Mike Wright, professor of financial studies at Nottingham University Business School and visiting professor at Erasmus University, EMLyon, and University of Ghent, has been named the 2010 Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar by the Department of Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management. Wright will share his knowledge of the field in a lecture titled “Micro-Foundations of Organizational Design: The Role of Entrepreneurial Mobility” on Oct. 27 at 10 a.m. in Room 525 of the Whitman School.
A former editor of Journal of Management Studies and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Wright is currently editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer and incoming editor (with Jay Barney) of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has published 50 authored/edited books and more than 300 academic papers on academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer, venture capital, private equity, and related topics in leading international journals. He is chair elect of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division.
Wright is also director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, which he founded in 1986. Ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship from 1981 to 2005, his latest books include Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe (with Bart Clarysse, Philippe Mustar and Andy Lockett, 2008), Private Equity and Management Buy-outs (with Hans Bruining, 2008), Private Equity Demystified (with John Gilligan, 2nd edition, 2010), and Contemporary Entrepreneurship: text & cases (with Paul Westhead, in press).
For more information, contact Sophia Taylor, External Relations Manager, Nottingham University Business School s.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk
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