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Simon Parker

Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship

  • Director, Entrepreneurship Cross-Enterprise Centre
  • MBA '80 Professor in Entrepreneurship

Education

  • BSc, Economics - Wales
  • PhD, Economics - Durham

Contact Information

Profile

Professor Parker is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn, Germany; and a Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands. He is a Field Editor at the Journal of Business Venturing; an Associate Editor of the Journal Small Business Economics, and a Co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in economics, entrepreneurship and management journals and has edited several books on the Economics of Entrepreneurship. His latest book, The Economics of Entrepreneurship, (Cambridge University Press) was published in late 2009, and follows his earlier monograph, The Economics of Self-employment and Entrepreneurship. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and workshops.

Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Parker was Head of Department of Economics & Finance and was a full Professor of Economics at Durham Business School in England. Professor Parker was a visiting professor and Lansdowne Fellow at the University of Victoria, Canada. He teaches various classes in the Entrepreneurship group at Ivey and has previously taught a wide variety of courses in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Teaching

  • New Venture Creation, MBA
  • Entrepreneurship and Growth, MSc

Selected Publications

  • "The entrepreneur's mode of entry: business takeover or new venture start?" (with Mirjam van Praag), Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 27(1), pp. 31-46, 2012.
  • "Gender and the business environment for new firm creation" (with Leora Klapper), World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 26(2), pp. 237-57, 2011.
  • "Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?", Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 26(1), pp. 19-34, 2011.
  • "A predator-prey model of knowledge spillovers", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 4(4), pp. 307-322, 2010.
  • "Status and entrepreneurship" (with C. Mirjam van Praag), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 19(4), pp. 919-945, 2010.
  • "A general contingency measure of fit" (with Arjen van Witteloostuijn), Organization Science, Vol 21(2), pp. 540-553, 2010.

Research/Course Development

  • The economics of entrepreneurship

Experience

  • Previous positions: Full Professor of Economics, Durham University 1999-2008; Reader in Economics, Brunel and Durham Universities, 1996-1998; Lecturer in Economics, Durham University, 1991-1996
  • Previous activities: Member of the PSED II consortium; judge of the annual CBI-sponsored UK Growing Business Awards competition, London, UK; external contributor to University of Louisville, USA, PhD in Entrepreneurship programme (Economics of Entrepreneurship); member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Entrepreneurship Summit, 2009

Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship As An Occupational Choice
  • Nascent Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
  • Female Entrepreneurship
 

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