Professor Paul Jones

Deputy Director of International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship

Professor of Entrepreneurship

International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Business and Law

Email: ac0359@coventry.ac.uk
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Biography

I am Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Coventry University. Within this role, I lead research activity for ICTE. I am an experienced researcher with over 250 research outputs including three edited books, 14 book chapters, 56 journal articles and 100+ conference papers. I have acted as a guest editor for five journal special issues including the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Strategic Change and Education + Training. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and sit on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).

I am Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Management Education. I am a member of several learned societies including the British Academy of Management and ISBE. In addition, I am an experienced external examiner at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I have supervised nine doctoral students to completion and examined 25 students in the UK, Africa and Australia. I am currently supervising a number of students and am seeking applications for doctoral candidates in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management.

Qualifications

PhD, University of South Wales, 2008
Computing MSc, Cardiff University, 1992
Business Studies BA (Hons), University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1991
PGCE, University of Wales, 1995

Research interests

During my academic career to date, I have generated over £1.4 million in external grant income. This has included entrepreneurship projects with the Nigerian government, obtaining European Structural funds, Higher Education Academy grants and Knowledge exploitation funds with the Welsh government. I am currently looking to develop projects encouraging entrepreneurial behaviour in the Middle East, Africa and the UK. I am looking to develop networks for further partnerships and am interested in any potential entrepreneurship projects on an international perspective.

Recent outputs and publications

Beynon, M.J., Jones, P. and Pickernell, D. (2016), Country-Level Investigation of Innovation Investment in Manufacturing: Paired fsQCA of Two Models, Journal of Business Research, 69(11): 5401–5407
Lewis, D., Megicks, P., Jones, P (2017) ‘Bullying and harassment and work-related stressors: Evidence from British small and medium enterprises’, International Small Business Journal, 35(1): 116-137.
Beynon, M.J., Jones, P. and Pickernell, D. (2016) ‘Country-based comparison analysis using fsQCA investigating entrepreneurial attitudes and activity’, Journal of Business Research, 69(4): 1271-1276.
Beynon, M., Jones, P., Pickernell, D., and Packham, G. (2016) ‘A NCaRBS Analysis of SME Intended Innovation: Learning about the Don’t Knows’. Omega 59(Part A): 97–112.
Beynon, M.J., Jones, P., Pickernell, D., and Packham, G. (2015) ‘Investigating the impact of training influence on employee retention in small and medium enterprises: a regression-type classification and ranking believe simplex analysis on sparse data’. Expert Systems 32 (1), 141-154.
Jones, P., Packham, G., Beynon-Davies, P., Simmons, G., and Pickernell, D. (2014) ‘An Exploration of the Attitudes and Strategic Responses of Sole-Proprietor Micro-Enterprises in Adopting ICT’. International Small Business Journal 32 (3), 285–306.

Teaching modules

I teach predominantly on postgraduate entrepreneurial modules in addition to undertaking PhD supervision.

Areas of Expertise

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Innovation