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Full Name and Title: Dr Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor
Position: Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organisation
Department: Marketing and Strategic Management Group
Employer: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
Email: abpjel@r.postjobfree.com
Websites: http://www.wbs.ac.uk/faculty/members/bridgette/sullivan-taylor
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/solar/
BSullivan-Taylor.com
Education/Qualifications:
2008 PGCPCE (HE). PG Teaching, University of Warwick
2003 PhD, Strategic Management, University of Warwick
1994 MCom, Management Studies and Labour Relations, University of Auckland, NZ.
1992 BCom, Management Studies, University of Otago, NZ.
Appointments held:
2011-2012 Visiting Scholar, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
2010-2011 Maternity leave (Nov 2010-July 2011)
2008-2009 Maternity leave (Dec 2008-June 2009)
2008- WBS Assistant Professor of Organisation and Strategy
& Director of the Strategy, Organisational Learning and Resilience Research Unit
2007- WBS: Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Associate
2007-2008 WBS: Research & Teaching Fellow
2004-5: Visiting Fellow, Imagination Lab, Switzerland.
2002-2006 WBS: ESRC, Herobc, & Leverhulme Research Fellow
1998-2003 WBS: PhD/ESRC Researcher
1997-2006: Part-time Teaching Fellow at:
Pembroke College, Oxford University; Oxford Brookes University Business School;
Coventry University Business School; Warwick Business School; Aston Business
School, University of Birmingham (HSRC).
Visiting academic appointments at Oxford and Durham Universities (UK), Vlerick
School of Management (Belgium), Centre for Studies on Globalisation &
Regionalisation (CSGR) and consulting to various public/private organisations.
1994-1997: Strategic Management Roles: Fletcher Challenge (NZ), Avis Europe, (London).
1992-1994: Research & Teaching Assistant, MER Dept., Faculty of Commerce, University of
Auckland, (NZ).
Membership of learned or professional societies:
2010 Member of the ESRC Peer Review College (ESRC)
2007- Strategic Management Society (SMS)
(Global Strategy SIG European Rep-at-Large 2007-08)
Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR),
Industry and Parliamentary Trust (IPT).
2006-2008 China-Britain Business Council (CBBC)
2005- Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House (RIIA)
2005- Academy of International Business (AIB)
2000- European Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS)
1999- British Academy of Management (BAM)
1997- Advanced Institute of Management (AIM),
1996- Academy of International Business (AIB),
1992-4, 2011- Australia and NZ Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Academic Experience
Research Interests
I am currently is the Research Director of SOLAR. My research examines emerging issues in
strategic management, organisation studies and international business. My current research
projects examine:
(1) strategic capabilities, change and decision making: examining global uncertainties, risk and
developing organisational resilience in the face of global threats and extreme threats and
events (supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Institute of Advanced Studies, the Warwick
International Security Initiative as well as the UK Cabinet Office, the CBI, AWM, BT, HSBC and
IBM)
(2) inter-and intra-organisational learning, innovation and knowledge transfer (funded by ESRC,
EPSRC, DTI, AIM, CBBC).
I have previously held strategic management positions and academic appointments in NZ, the
UK and Europe. My research interests include understanding strategic thinking and acting in
different international business contexts; organisational challenges with implementing corporate
strategy, organisational change and the development of capabilities for achieving sustained
competitive advantage, innovation and corporate resilience in the face of new phenomena (e.g.
the rise of emerging markets such as China, global uncertainties and extreme events such as
global terrorism, the global financial crisis, global climate change) to inform both policy and
practice.
My PhD examined the implementation of strategic change in a global service organization, a UK
airline. This research investigated strategic change from three perspectives: the context,
content and process to help identify the factors that impacted upon the diffusion of the strategy
at the macro level of the firm. The three perspectives of organisational culture framework which
was then applied to analyse the micro level findings. The macro and micro level findings
revealed a highly differentiated organisation with significant integrated-responsiveness tensions
resulting in a wide discrepancy between thinking and acting in practice.
I endeavour to use my current research to inform my executive teaching activities and have
received a number of Outstanding MBA Teaching Awards. I have taught executive, MBA,
Masters and undergraduates as well as supervised dissertations at all levels. I have also
supervised PhD and Research Fellows and overseen ESRC, AIM, Leverhulme Trust and public
and private sector funded research projects.
I have received awards from Emerald Publishing for recognition of highly cited/downloa ded
articles. My research has informed practitioners, think tanks and UK government policy through
publications and other dissemination events at Westminster. My research has also been
profiled in the media (e.g.; The Guardian, The Times), University of Warwick events and
publications, The World Today (Chatham House/RIIA publication), The Bridge (Industry and
Parliamentary Trust) and at the Warwick/IPT series held at Westminster to inform government
policy
Publications
Journal Publications:
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2011) Creating Resilient SMEs: Why one size might not fit all.
International Journal of Production Research. Vol. 49, 18 (forthcoming).
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207543.2011.563837#preview).
D.C. Wilson, L. Branicki, B. Sullivan-Taylor, A. D. Wilson (2010). Extreme Events, Organizations and
the Politics of Strategic Decision Making. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 23, 5, 699-
721.
Wilson, D.C., Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B. Global Strategy in Practice: Managing the Integration-
Responsiveness Dilemma at British Airways. Strategic Innovators (2010)
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and Wilson, D.C., (2009). Managing the Risk of Terrorism in the British Travel and
Leisure Organizations, Organization Studies, February/March, 30, 2-3: 251-276.
Legge, K., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2007).'Management Learning and the MBA: The Beast that
Morphed into a Chameleon', Management Learning, 38 (4), 440-457.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, M. (1996). TQM Implementation in NZ Service Organisations . The TQM
Magazine, 8, (5), 56-65.
Government/Thinktank Policy Reports & Publications
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2010), Organisational Resilience Project Report and Overview: Report on project
activities and outputs between 2008-2010, UK Cabinet Office.
Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Chinese Competition: Learning from Japan. The China
Challenge. The World Today. February. 28-31. London: RIIA.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. Resilience and Complacency in the Private Sector, Britain and Security: Threats;
Policy Responses; Technology and the Private Sector; and Values in Security in Dr Paul Cornish (Eds.),
Britain and Security, The Smith Institute, 2007, 60 69.
Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wang, J.L. (2007). Adapting to the China Challenge. Lessons from
Experienced Multinational . Advanced Institute of Management Research Executive Briefing, 1-42.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D. (2007). Safe Hands. The World Today. London: Royal Institute of
International Affairs, 22-24. London: RIIA.
Dissertations:
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2003).'Strategy and Change: An Empirical Study of Putting 'Think Global, Act Local'
Into Practice in an Airline'. University of Warwick, Doctoral Dissertation.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (1994). TQM Implementation in NZ Service Organisations . Masters Dissertation.
Auckland University, NZ.
Current Working Papers:
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and Branicki, L. (2010). Organisational Resilience: Emergent or Planned?
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and Branicki, L. (2010). Joined-up Security: The Role of Public Private Partnership in
Creating UK Resilience.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and Branicki, L. (2010). Resisting resilience: The role of myth and ceremony in the
adoption of business continuity management practices.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and Branicki, L. (2010). Re-thinking resilience practices: The dark side of organizing.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M. (2010). Losing the Talent War.
Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2009). Losing the Crown Jewels? Analysing the
Transfer of British Manufacturing Capabilities to China. 1-18.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. Challenges to NZ exporters in the new European context.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2010). Organisational Resilience: An Overview of Current Policy and
Practice.
McGee, J, Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Complex Service Organisations. Blown to Bits and Reassembled.
1-28.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2007). 'Transferring Strategy Practice in an International Airline: A
Case Study of British Airways', Management International Review, 1-23.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Wilson, D. (2007). Global Strategy in Practice: Extending the
Integration-Responsiveness Framework in the Context of Dynamic Intangible Services, 1-20.
Dean, D., MacDonald, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Exploring the Emotional Landscape of Fieldwork .
Current Conference Papers:
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Suzanne, P. Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M. (2011). Managing innovation:
Knowledge transfer in key positions in the Chinese Context. ANZAM, December, Wellington.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2011).The Implementation Gap: An Examination of the Failure of
Organizational Resilience Strategies in Practice. Strategic Management Society Conference Strategy in
Practice Track, Miami, November.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Suzanne, P., Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M. (2011) Challenges with managing
tacit knowledge transfer and talent in Chinese acquisitions'. BAM, Aston, September 2011.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L., Steyer, V. (2011) An Examination of the Risky Role of the Business
Continuity Manager: A France UK Comparison. BAM, Aston, September.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2011) Organizational Resilience as Control in a Global City within a
City . 16th World Congress of the Int'l Society for Criminology, August, Kobe, Japan.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and A. Spicer (2011). The Mis-management of Meaning: Rebranding The World s
Favourite Airline. EGOS July, Gothenburg.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. and L. Branicki (2011). Safety in numbers: An Examination of inter-organisational
relationships under conditions of extreme strategic uncertainty. EGOS, July, Gothenburg.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Suzanne, P., Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M. (2011) SMEs: Surviving the Chinese
war for human resource talent. EGOS, July, Gothenburg.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L., Stephenson, A. (2011). Intra-organisational barriers to inter-
organisational relationships. An examination of the impacts of internal crisis planning and silos . BAM,
Aston, September.
(see list of previous conference papers in the appendices)
Book/Chapters:
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Mudambi, R. (2012). The Contribution of Innovation to EMNE s Competitive
Advantage . In Williamson, P. Fleury, A., Fleury, M.T., Ramamurti, R. Eds. Re-assessing Emerging
Markets Multinationals Competitive Advantages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(forthcoming).
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2007). Resilience and Complacency in the Private Sector in Cornish,
P. (Eds). Britain and Security: Threats; Policy Responses; Technology and the Private Sector; and
Values in Security. London: Chatham House & Smith Institute Joint Policy of Response Publication, 60-
68.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2005). BA Profits In Flight and Case B: A Case of a Tail Fin Too Far. An Identity
Crisis at BA in McGee, J., Thomas, H., Wilson, D.C. (Eds.), Strategy: Analysis and Practice,
Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 357-375.
Bridgewater S.H., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Johnston R., Mattson J., Millet B., (2004). 'The Internationalization
Process and the role of learning in small service firms', The Process of Internationalization,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 211-231.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2001). BA at Waterside', Operations Management, UK: FT Prentice Hall, 294.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2001). The Empress Hotel Group', Service Operations Management, UK: FT
Prentice Hall, 231-232.
External Coverage of Research:
Sullivan-Taylor, B. Branicki, L. (2011). Riots, reputation and resilience: can London recover its global
image in time for the 2012 Olympics? University of Warwick Research Series. Knowledge Web,
August.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2011). Strategic Planning: An Olympian Task. University of Warwick Research
Series. Knowledge Web, August. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/terror/solar
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2011). Creativity in the Context of Managing Extreme Uncertainty, NEXUS, WBS.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2010). Organisational Resilience in the Context of Key Public-Private Partnerships.
The Bridge. Industry and Parliamentary Trust Journal. Westminster, August.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Business Risk and Resilience: Coping with Uncertainty. University Strategy
Publication Research, University of Warwick Communications Office, Spring.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008) Organisational Risk and Resilience and Coping with Uncertainty. Cabinet
Office News.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008) Magazine Article Organisational Resilience: Preparing. Manchester Business
Continuity Forum Newsletter
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Business Risk and Resilience: Coping with Uncertainty. University Strategy
Publication Research, University of Warwick Communications Office, Spring.
February 2008, January 2008, October 2007 University/WBS publications.
December, 2006. Coping with the Threat of Terrorism: The Challenge of Organisational Resilience .
WBS Nexus.
February, 2005. Warwick University Business and Society Research Website: Featured Expert.
December, 2004. Strategic Weapons WBS Nexus.
October 5, 2004. Risk Management . The Guardian: Work in Progress.
September, 2004. Airline Terrorism SAGA Radio interview. August, 19 2004. Leverhulme Award
Announcement . The Times.
August, 24, 2004, Terrorist or Tourist Warwick University/Warwick Business School Press Release.
August 26, 2004, New Research Set to Reveal Similarities Between Terrorists and Tourists .
Innovations Report: Forum For Science, Industry and Business.
Also profiled in Auckland University Alumni Newsletter, NZ News UK, New Zealand Govt (NZTE)
publications.
Administrative Experience
Teaching: I have been NIE (Named Internal Examiner/Programme Manager) for a number of MBA,
DLMBA and EMBA programmes which involves overseeing all aspects of online and classroom
delivery, content and assessment, including liaising with internal and external examiners. I have
been involved in all aspects of the supervision of MSc, MBAs, PhDs and UG tutees.
Research: I have set up the SOLAR research unit with funds raised from research council grants.
Managed relationships with research partners and private and publics sector sponsors and
employed and supervised research associates and fellows. Hence, I have helped to set-up a
research centre, successfully applied for research grants to fund activities, overseen research
fellow recruitment, training and development, managed research unit finance and budgets,
managed external promotions and established the research unit website.
Developed SOLAR advisory board with members of the House of Lords and House of Commons,
private and public sector members.
Helped to establish the Warwick/IPT Secure Outcomes series at Westminster (2010-2012) .
Refer to website for more information: BSullivan-Taylor.com
Reviewing and Editorial Experience
Journal reviewing: Human Relation, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies,
Organization, Management International Review International Marketing Review, Management
Learning, Journal of World Business.
Conference paper reviewer: Academy of International Business (AIB), European Group for Organisation
Studies (EGOS), Strategic Management Society: Global Strategy Special Interest Group (SMS)
Session chair: British Academy of Management (BAM) Innovation Track, 2007.
Panel organiser and speaker: Under assault: how companies can fight organized crime . Strategic
Management Society Conference Global Strategy Track, Cologne 2008.
Track Convenor, Organizations Operating at the Extreme EGOS 2009.
Other Conference Roles: Elected as European rep-at-large for the Strategic Management Society:
Global Strategy Group (07-09).
Currently Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Emotion, Embodiment and Research in the International
Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion (IJWOE). (Forthcoming 2012).
Awards Received
Research Funding
Title Sponsor Start End
- Assessing Organisational Cabinet Office & 01-April-2008 31-December-2012
Resilience: The capacity of University of Warwick
organisations to Cope with the Threat Strategic Award
or Act of Extreme Events
Event at the House of Lords for IAS (Institute of 01-Aug-2010 31 Jul 2011
policy-makers and business people Advanced Study)
involved in the Strategy,
Development and Implementation of
the Olympic Games
Knowledge Transfer and Innovation AIM (Advanced Institute 2007 2008
in Foreign Firms in China of Management),
ESRC, EPSRC
ESRC Seminar Series on Emotion ESRC 01-Sep-2007 28-Feb-2009
and Embodiment in Research.
ESRC Seminar Series on Emotion ESRC-Research 01-Sep-2007 31-Jan-2010
and Embodiment in Research. Seminar/Workshop
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship: Leverhulme Trust 01-Oct-2004 30-Sep-2006
Strategic Management of Global
Terrorism
Developing communities of practice ESRC 01-Apr-2002 01-Apr-2003
through inter-organizational learning.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2003).'Strategy WBS Bursary 1998 2003
and Change: An Empirical Study of Fletcher Challenge
Putting 'Think Global, Act Local' Into Scholarship
Practice in an Airline'. University of
Warwick, Doctoral Dissertation.
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught:
Warwick Business School:
MMBA, EMBA, DLMBA, FTMBA:
Global Business-China focus (elective), Management of Change, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy as
Practice, International Business, Strategic Advantage
MSc:
Marketing Across Cultures, Issues in Strategy and Practice, International Management: International
Business, Marketing and Strategic Management: Issues in Strategy, Marketing and IB, Research
Methods for Marketing and Strategy, Management of Change, Cultural Policy
UG:
Corporate Strategy, Global Environment and Business, Critical Issues in Management, International
Business, International Management
EMBA programmes:
Eversheds, IBM, Cap Gemini, NHS, Accenture, Transport for London, BCI, AIRMIC.
Other institutions:
Judge Business School, Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford, Coventry Business School,
Vlerick School of Management, University of Auckland GSB
Areas: IHRM, Economics and Management, Global Business, International Business, Strategic
Challenges in the Emerging Markets Context.
Research Supervision
Supervised UG tutees, MSc, MBA and PhD dissertations and Research Fellows and Assistants.
Refer to list of supervisees in the appendices.
Honours and Awards:
2010 Emerald Citation/Downloading Award: for D.C. Wilson, L. Branicki, B. Sullivan-
Taylor, A. D. Wilson (2010). Extreme Events, Organizations and the Politics of
Strategic Decision Making. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 23, 5,
699-721.
2010 WBS Outstanding MBA Teacher Award 2009/2010 'In recognition of excellent
teaching to the MBA programme'.
2008 WBS Outstanding MSc in Management Teacher Award 2007/08 'In recognition of
excellent teaching to the MSc in Management Programme'.
2007 WBS Outstanding MBA Teacher Award 2006/07 'In recognition of excellent teaching
to the MBA programme'.
2007 Emerald Citation of Excellence: Karen Legge, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor, David
Wilson have been recognized by the Emerald Management Reviews Independent
Review Board as the authors of one of the top 50 management articles of 2007 for
the paper: 'Management Learning and the Corporate MBA: Situated or Individual?',
Management Learning, Vol 38, No. 4, 2007.
2005 WBS Outstanding MBA Teacher Award 2004/2005 'In recognition of excellent
teaching to the MBA programme'.
Appendices:
Projects supervised (some examples)
Programme Research Area
MBA To study and analyse the evolution of private labels(in the juice and milk category) in the UAE
retail sector, in order to understand and recommend options available to national brands.
MBA Global aircraft freight nets market analysis and strategic recommendations for Amsafe
MBA The future direction of IBM Global Services Strategy & Change division in the Danish market
MBA Critical review of Global Delivery IT Implementation Projects
MBA A critical analysis of whether CRM can help provide the Pharma industry and specifically Shire
Pharmaceuticals with a sustained Strategic Advantage
MBA An income strategy for BAA's non-regulated airports (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Southampton)
MBA How seriously do the insurance and re-insurance firms take corporate social responsibility?
MBA Do pharmacists require management skills?
MBA Summergate Fine Wines - Changing Tastes of Chinese Society.
MBA Who to license the new bone substitute material technology to?
Reducing the commercialisation gap between new technology identification and its readiness to
license that technology to an increasingly risk averse industry?
MBA Assessment of differentiation strategies in the IT services market
MBA Determinants of success when implementing change across a dissolved organisation
MBA A critical review of IBM corporate strategy and competitive advantage
MBA Creating sustainable differential advantage for Honeywell Life Safety in the Middle East Industrial
Fire & Gas Market
MBA The Bio-similar challenge and counter-strategies for the Biopharmaceutical industry
MBA The evolution of the Global Integrated Enterprise: an analysis of the implementation of IBM
Finance Transformation through the Expense team example, with a focus on national culture
perspective.
MBA Emerging markets as a source of growth for organisations constrained by diminishing domestic
growth opportunities. How to capitalising on emerging market opportunities through a risk based
due diligence, country assessment and selecton approach. (South Africa and Africa).
MBA Critical review of setting up a new entity in Saudi Arabia.
MBA Can change in Business Model and Strategy of Investment Bank(s) prevent re-occurrence of the
2008 Financial Crisis and still remain competitive in a changing business environment?
MBA A critical review for IBM Solution Design Process
MBA Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitive Advnatage-An exploration of how Maple Leaf
Bakery UK can benefit from CSR.
MBA To investigate the impact of cyber crime in the UK advnaced technology economy and assess
the current and future business strategies to mitigate the threat and maximise the opportunity.
MBA Relevance of Porter's Model in predicting industry evolution using the example of the packaged
juice industry in Canada
MBA Mergers and Qcquisitions in IT market, effectiveness evaluation and outcome
MBA Strategic re-alignment through organisational re-structuring- Case study
MBA Difficulties of industrialising a multinational IT company. the studied company is Cap Gemini
MBA Sales and Key account management as mechanism to create and sustain a competitive
advantage for GE Money home lending in the B2B 1st charge specialist mortgage market
MBA A proposal for a new way of engaging and working with IBM customers in Strategic
Outsourcing(SO)
MBA 'Global Accounts' - Options for an improved management system using
the example of 'Client X' and IBM.
MBA Competence-based competition.
MBA The Effect of Aggregators on Direct Insurers
MBA Determinate of market size and company's market share in China
MBA Analysis of how different European countries implement and monitor the EFPIA code of pratcice
for marketing pharmacuetical products with special reference to the UK, Ireland and Belgium.
MBA Evaluation of organisational designs and public-private partnership strategies to protect and grow
Fera commercial business complimentary to a modern government delivery body.
MBA Gaining strength for IBM storage positioning in local market through improvement of product
image
MBA Product differentiation in Health Information Exchange (HIE) serving the ambulatory healthcare
segment of the United States
MBA A critical review of Offshoring business in Morocco and its implication for IBM
MBA Strategic Anaylsis and sources of Competitive Advantage of Certikin International in the UK
MBA IBM transformation strategy: special focus on Growth Market Regions
MBA An Investigation in to the attitudes and experience of UK SMEs exporting
or considering exporting to SE Asia
MBA A critical analaysis of how presribing behaviour has changed in recent years and whether a
'Serviced Based' model can assist the pharmaceutical industry in influencing prescribers and
gain strategic advantage
MBA Framework for advice on procurement of projects in transportation sector through Public Private
Partnerships The Mafraq to Ghweifat Highways PPP in the UAE.
MBA How Effective are Current Market Entry Decision Models for a Swedish Retailer taking a Decision
on a Market Entry into Japan?
MBA Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Tidal Energy Industry
MBA To What Extent do the Documented Facilitators and Inhibitors of Change Programmes Aid the
Implementation of a Change Programme Across the Public Sector in Politically and
Geographically Dissolved Organisations, using the English Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) as a
Case Study What is the influence of Global Delivery on the Swiss IT System Integrator Market?
MBA To what extent can strategic frameworks help to address the commercial
challenges facing Edinburgh airport?
MBA Leveraging Competencies to Create Competitive Advantage
MBA Subsidiary Performance in Multinational Corporations: A Case Study for the IT Services Market
in Spain
MBA What is the influence of Global Delivery on the Swiss IT System Integrator Market?
MBA The resource-based view and competitive advantage.
A case study of IBM Global Business Service, Strategy & Change
MBA The economic cost of employees (direct and indirect) to Jaguar Land Rover
MBA Impact of government policy on pharmaceutical and biotechnology strategy in the UK
MBA The evolution of the Global Integrated Enterprise: An Analysis of the Implementation of IBM
Finance Transformation Through the Italian Expense Team Example, with a focus on national
culture perspective
MBA East Meets West: No Substitute to Good Practice for Successful Business Strategy in China
MBA The Extent of the Commercialisation Gap when Licensing Bone Substitute Material
MBA Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitive Advantage A Study of the Global Insurance
Sector
MBA Evaluation of Offshoring services business in Morocco - An opportunity for IBM?
MBA Is patient choice an important driver and does consumerism have a place in a consumer -led
NHS?
MBA Improving performance of global multinational company in a host country, the
case of IBM storage products in Israel
MBA A Proposition for a New Way to Contract with an Outsourcing Organisation
MBA Can the drivers of sustainable competitive advantage of one product be identified and transferred
to another product within the same business: a review of two products for Certikin International
Limited within the UK
MBA A way to standardize methods and tools in a decentralized IT company: Cap Gemini
To what extent is IBM's global organizational structure an inhibitor or facilitator
to growth and performance in the context of ITS in Egypt
MBA Post-acquisition integration strategies: Developing a post-acquisition integration framework for
RM Education Plc.
MBA Improving public value through merger and acquisition, deliver better
services or shuffling the chairs?
MBA Mergers and Qcquisitions in IT market, effectiveness evaluation and outcomes
MBA Strategic re-alignment through organisational re-structuring- Case study
MBA Difficulties of industrialising a multinational IT company. the studied company is Cap Gemini
MBA Sales and Key account management as mechanism to create and sustain a competitive
advantage for GE Money home lending in the B2B 1st charge specialist mortgage market
MBA Determinate of market size and company's market share in China
Leveraging Competencies to Create Competitive Advantage
MSc Strategy in Practice: changes to strategic approaches to risk after extreme events.
MSc Review of the resilience of security strategies for international sporting events
PhD Organisational Resilience: UK vs. NZ comparison
PhD Organisational learning during extreme events
PhD Reputational effects of organisational responses to extreme events
PhD Swine flu-the European response
Previous Conference Papers:
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki. L. (2010). Managing Corporate Community Resilience in a City within a
City . EGOS Conference, Lisbon.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2010). The Resilience Gap: Strategic Thinking and Acting under
Conditions of Extreme Uncertainty . SMS Conference, Rome.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Branicki, L. (2009). Resilience in the Face of Extreme Threats and Events: A
Collaborative Leadership Challenge? 8th ICSL, Leadership in Crisis, Birmingham.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Organisational Risk and Resilience and Coping with Uncertainty, Cabinet
Office Presentation, 2008
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Facing Organized Criminal Groups, Strategic Management Society
Conference.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M. (2008). When East Acquires West : Reverse
Knowledge Transfer at MG. British Academy of Management, International Business Track. Harrogate,
York, 1-7, September, 9-11th.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Knowledge Uncertainty: Developing the Capacity of Organisations to Cope
with the Threat of Global Terrorism. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Global Strategy
Track, Cologne, October, 12-15th.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Risk, Uncertainty and Strategy: Coping with the Threat of Global Terrorism.,
The Context of Global Business: National Security, International Political Economy and Business
History Track. Academy of International Business Annual Conference, Milan, 30 June-3rd July.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Organisational Risk and Resilience: Coping with Uncertainty. Risky
Organisations and the Organisation of Risk Management, European for Organisation Studies Annual
Conference (EGOS), Amsterdam, 10-12th July.
Collinson, S., Easterby-Smith, M., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2008). Losing the Crown Jewels? Analysing the
Transfer of British Manufacturing Capabilities to China. Organizing Interdependent Co-Production of
Services in Space and Time: Working and Learning Across Boundaries Track, EGOS, and Amsterdam.
10-12th July.
McGee, J, Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Complex Service Organisations. Blown to Bits and Reassembled.
Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference, San Diego, USA, October 14-17th
Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wang, Jung-Li. (2007). Losing the Crown Jewels? Analysing the
Transfer of British Manufacturing Capabilities to China. British Academy of Management, Innovation
Track. Warwick Business School, UK, September 11-13th.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Coping with the Threat of Terrorism: The Challenge of Organisational
Resilience. British Academy of Management Conference.
McGee, J., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Value Chain and Core Competence Analysis in Complex Service
Industries. British Academy of Management, Strategic Management Track, 1-8, Warwick Business
School, September 11-13th.
McGee, J., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2007). Service Knowledge Webs: Knowledge-Based Strategies in
Service Industries. EGOS Conference, University of Economics & Business Administration, Vienna,
Austria, July 5-7.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Wilson, D. (2007). Global Strategy in Practice: Extending the
Integration-Responsiveness Framework in the Context of Dynamic Intangible Services. EGOS
Conference, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 1-28, Austria, July 5-7.
Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wang, J.L. (2007). Strategic Knowledge transfers and Unintended
Spillovers: Learning How to Innovate Through Strategic Alliances in China. Academy of International
Business Conference, 1-16, Indianapolis, USA., 25-28th June.
Collinson, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wang, J.L. (2007). Reciprocal Learning and the Co-Evolution of
Innovation Capabilities: Foreign Firms Strategic Alliances in China. Submitted to Strategic Management
Society Special Conference on China Strategies, 1-11, Shanghai, 29-30 May.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, DC. (2007). Rare Events, Uncertainty and Organization: Framing and
Theories of Action in the Perceived Threats from Terrorism. Risk & Rationalities Conference. Organised
by SCARR: Social Context and Responses to Risk. 1-22, Queens College, Cambridge University, 29-31
March.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Wilson, D.C. (2006). Global Strategy in Practice: Extending the
Integration-Responsiveness Framework in the Context of Dynamic Intangible Services. The
Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management. 1-18, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. 12-
13 December.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2006). Challenges of CIR in Practice: Research in China. Doing Comparative
International Research. Methodologies, Principles, Pitfalls and Practicalities. LBS, 10th November.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2006). Researching Rare Events and Uncertainty in Organizations . Strategy
Process Innovation Workshop. AIM Capacity Building Workshop, London, 4th October.
Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2006). Managing Pluralistic Tensions Within the Context of Recently Privatised and
Globalising Organisations . Studying Organizations as Pluralistic Contexts, AIM Capacity Building
Workshop. London, 6th October.
Dean, D., MacDonald, S., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2006). Exploring the Emotional Landscape of Fieldwork .
Presented at the Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and
Management Sciences, 1-21. A Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University
Institute for Public Policy and Management, 13 -14 September.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Collinson, S., Wilson, D.C. (2006). Global Strategy in Practice: Managing the
Integration-Responsiveness Dilemma at British Airways, 1-28, AIB 2006 Annual Meeting, Beijing, 23-26
June.
Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2006). 'Rare Events, Uncertainty and Organization: Sensemaking and
Theories of Action in the Perceived Threats from Terrorism', 1-21, 22nd EGOS Colloquium, Bergen, 6-8
July.
Legge, K., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2005). Management Learning and the MBA: The Beast
that Morphed into a Chameleon, 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, 1-19,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, 4-7 July.
MacDonald, S., Dean, D, Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2005). Unlocking Fieldwork: Recognising the Personal,
1-21, 21st EGOS Colloquium, Freie Universitat, Berlin, 30th-2nd July.
MacDonald, S., Dean, D., Sullivan-Taylor, B. (2005). Inside Story: Learning from Researchers, The 4th
European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM). 1 -27,
Universit Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France, 21-22 April.
Sullivan-Taylor. B. (2004). Strategy and Change: Aligning Organisational Strategic Thinking and Acting
in a Global Airline, AIM: Doing Research on Strategy Process & Practice Workshop. 1-21, Aston
Business School, 28th, Birmingham, October.
Legge, K., Sullivan-Taylor, B. Wilson, D.C. (2004). Do Corporate MBAs Contribute to Organizational
Learning? Exploring High Rhetorical Aspirations and Low Instrumental Realities, 1-21, 20th EGOS
Colloquium, 1-3 July Ljubljana.
Legge, K., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2003). Organizational Learning through Communities of
Practice or Organizational Badging through Communal Collusion?, 1-20, 19th EGOS Colloquium.
Copenhagen, 3-5 July.
Legge, K., Sullivan-Taylor, B., Wilson, D.C. (2002). A Clash of Cultures: Managing Problematic Inter-
Organizational Relationships, Organization, Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities Conference (OKLC),
1-21, Alba, Athens, 5-6 April.
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