Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor David Douglas
Professor
David is Professor of Business and Management at Leeds Business School. He currently, inter alia, leads on externally focused research funding opportunities.And, until recently he was the Director of the Business School’s professional doctorate award (DBA), and School's PhDs. David completed his PhD in entrepreneurial cognition and decision making, and has over twenty five years’ experience as an academic.
David has research interest in evaluation studies in the broad field of innovation, and innovation policy. He has a particular research interest on the lesser researched areas of non-technological innovations, and ‘additionality effects’ of policy support measures on R&D and innovation set within business and organisational contexts. He has undertaken research and evaluation contracts for a number of public and private sector organisations.
David's research seeks to establish rigorous depths of inquiry whether it be a single unit of analysis, an entrepreneur or an individual small business for example, or large inquiries that may encompass multiple actors and large complex datasets. He particularly researches in the fields of innovation, innovation policy, evaluation and impact studies, small and Medium-sized enterprise, and Entrepreneurship.
Current Teaching
- PhD
- DBA
- MBA awards
Research Interests
David has recently published a number of internationally recognised papers. They all focus on evaluation studies, where he and colleagues have been, inter alia, assessing the 'additionality effects' of policy measures on innovation support, especially in the small and medium sized business sectors. See ORCID for further details and opportunity to read some of these outputs.
Ask Me About
- Innovation
Selected Outputs
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Douglas D; Radicic D; Pugh G; Jackson I (2015) Cooperation for innovation: impact evidence for European manufacturing SMEs.
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Douglas D (2010) Enterprise Acquisition - A Grounded Theory Analysis.
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Douglas D (2009) An Exploration of a Mixed Modalities Approach Within Entrepreneurial Decision Making.
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Douglas D (2008) A Critical Examination of Mixing Methods for Developing Business and Management Theories.
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Radicic D; Douglas D; Pugh G; Jackson I (2018) Cooperation for innovation and its impact on technological and non-technological innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries. International Journal of Innovation Management
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Radicic D; Pugh G; Douglas DJ (2018) Promoting cooperation in innovation ecosystems: evidence from European traditional manufacturing SMEs. Small Business Economics
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Winjes R; Douglas DJ; Fairburn, J; Hollanders H; Pugh G (2014) Beyond product innovation; improving innovation policy support for SMEs in traditional industries. United Nations University Working Paper Series
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5415
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Douglas D; Jenkins W; Kennedy J (2012) Understanding continuous improvement in an English local authority. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 25 (1), pp. 17-33.
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Douglas D (2010) A grounded case of enterprise acquisition. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 8 (2), pp. 63-72.
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Douglas D (2003) Reflections on research supervision: a grounded theory case of reflective practice. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 8 (2), pp. 213-230.
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Douglas D (2003) Grounded theories of management: a methodological review. Management Research News, 26 (5), pp. 44-52.
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Douglas DJ (2018) Behavioural additionality in Spanish manufacturing SMEs: policy mix of regional and national public support for innovation. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
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Douglas DJ; Radicic D; Pugh G (2017) The effectiveness of public procurement in stimulating innovation outputs: empirical evidence from European firms.
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Douglas DJ; Radicic D; Pugh G (2017) The effectiveness of public procurement in stimulating innovation outputs: empirical evidence from European firms. In: Academy of Management, 4 August 2017 - 8 August 2017, Atlanta, USA.
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Douglas DJ; Radicic D; Pugh D (2016) Evaluating the effectiveness of public support on inbound open innovation: evidence from Spanish manufacturing SMEs.
