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Prof. Dr. Denise Elaine Fletcher
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance | ||||||
| Department | Department of Economics and Management | ||||||
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Campus Kirchberg, Université du Luxembourg 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg |
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| Campus Office | G 103 | ||||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5863 | ||||||
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship (opportunity emergence, relational perspectives, business start up, copreneurship, internationalization and organizational change of small firms)
- Family business (family discourses, family business in the television media, growth, organizational culture, family heritage, sustainability, succession and strategic renewal of family firms)
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Denise Fletcher completed her PhD degree in 1997 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK. She was a lecturer in European Business at Nottingham Trent (1990-2004) becoming a Principal Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in 1998 and Director of Entrepreneurship Research in Centre for Growing Businesses in 2004. From 2006, she moved to a Senior Lecturer role at University of Sheffield becoming a Reader in Entrepreneurship and Family Business in February 2011. Since April 2011, Denise Fletcher has been Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Luxembourg.
Last updated on: Thursday, 11 May 2023
Short CV
Current appointments and responsabilities
- Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Luxembourg
- Academic Head of the Management Group, CREA
- Academic Head of the partnership with the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
- Study Director, Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Luxembourg
- Director of the Studies for Master Programme in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Visiting Professor
- Visiting Professor, Family Business Research Centre, Jonkoping Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden (May 2012-13)
- External examiner, University of Manchester, Enterprise Centre, Manchester, UK (Since Feb 2010-14)
Memberships
- Member of Family Firm Institute
- Member of International Family Enterprise Research Academy
- Member of Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Doctoral supervision
Eleven PhD completions, plus five ongoing
Last updated on: 28 Nov 2022
My work focuses on how entrepreneurial work is constructed in society and the actions, discourses and relational activities used to bring entrepreneurial work into being. I am also interested in the roles and responsibilities of organizations in effecting a more equitable and inclusive society and the extent to which sustainability concerns are changing the business-society interface and encouraging entrepreneurs and managers to act in more responsible ways.
Please visit Curriculum Vitae for complete information
Last updated on: 11 May 2023
Current undergraduate and post graduate teaching (all ongoing)
- Entrepreneurship and Business Models, Processes and Planning, Master level
- Small Business Management, Research Methodology courses
- Research methodology/thesis development, Master Level
Teaching
I am committed to creating an environment in which students can practice and extend their entrepreneurial skills, confidence and abilities in order to transform theirs and other peoples’ lives. Research and scholarly activity underpins my teaching and ensures currency of curricula where I strive to achieve an integration of theory and practice.
Drawing upon personal experiences in running a business I demonstrate how entrepreneurs use their local contexts/resources to negotiate institutional boundaries and realise market opportunities. Using entrepreneurs as guest speakers, video clips and live case studies, I also practice a process-pedagogy in my classroom work by emphasising the relationship(s) between formulation and implementation, recognition and realisation, intentionality and actualisation in the construction of business opportunities.
Please visit Curriculum Vitae for complete information
Link to MEI
Last updated on: 28 Nov 2022
Collective works published as editor or director
Articles published in scientific periodicals
Critical research and entrepreneurship: A cross‐disciplinary conceptual typology; ;
in International Journal of Management Reviews (2022)
How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams;
in Small Business Economics (2019), 52(3), 1-24
The tacit knowledge of entrepreneurial design: interrelating theory, practice and prescription in entrepreneurship research’;
in Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2019), 11
Qualitative research practices and family business scholarship: a review and future research agenda; ;
in Journal of Family Business Strategy (2016), 7(1), 8-25
The entrepreneurial journey as an emergent hierarchical system of artifact-creating processes;
in Journal of Business Venturing (2015), 30(4), 603-615
A curiosity for contexts: entrepreneurship, enactive research and auto ethnography’: an essay for Bengt Johannissonin Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2012), 1/2
Culture and values in Family Business – A review and suggestions for further research; ;
in Journal of Family Business Strategy (2012), 3/4
Entrepreneurship and Institutional change;
in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2012), 24(3-4), 199-216
A review of the educational and support infrastructure for family business in the United Kingdomin International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (2010), 30(7/8), 440-456
‘Toy Story’: the narrative world of entrepreneurshipin Journal of Business Venturing (2007), 22(5), 649-672
Entrepreneurship, Management Learning and Negotiated Narratives: 'Making it otherwise for us-otherwise for them'';
in Management Learning (2007), 38(1), 9-26
Entrepreneurial processes and the social construction of opportunityin Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2006), 18(5), 421-440
International entrepreneurship and the small businessin Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2004), 16
Interpreneurship’: Organisational (re)emergence and entrepreneurial development in a second-generation family firmin International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (2004), 10(1/2), 34-48
In the Company of Men’: a reflexive tale of cultural organising in a small organisationin Gender, Work and Organization (2002), 9(4), 65-76
Contributions to collective works
I Want to Start My Own Business. Can I Ask Our Firm or Family for Help?in Jaskiewicz, Peter; Rau, Sabine (Eds.) Enabling Next Generation Legacies”: 35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask (in press)
Ethnography: A Much-Advocated but Under-Used Qualitative Methodology in Published Accounts of Family Business Research;
in de Massis, Alfredo; kammerlander, Nadine (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Family Business (2020)
A relational conceptualisation of context and the real time emergence of entrepreneurship processes;
in Welter, Friederike; Gartner, William (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Context (2016)
A critical review of critical perspectives in entrepreneurship researchin Landstrom, Hans; Parhankangas, Annaleena; Fayolle, Alain; Riot, Phillipe (Eds.) Challenging entrepreneurship research (2016)
Navigating the growing field of entrepreneurship inquiry: successionist and relational modes of theory development;
in Fayolle, Alain; Riot, Phillipe (Eds.) Rethinking Entrepreneurship: debating research orientations (2016)
A relational conceptualisation of context and the real time emergence of entrepreneurship processes;
in Welter, Friederike; Gartner, Willam. B. (Eds.) Entrepreneurship and Context: a research agenda (2016)
Family business inquiry as a critical social sciencein Melin, Leif; Nordqvist, Mathias; Sharma, Pramodita (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Family Business (2014)
Family and Enterprisein Carter, Sara; Jones-Evans, Dylan (Eds.) Enterprise and Small Business: principles, practice and policy (2006)
'Family' as a discursive resource for understanding the small family businessin Fletcher, Denise (Ed.) Understanding the small family business (2002)
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Papers published in a book
Testing the discrimination hypothesis for female self employment migrants in the UK; ;
in IAFFE (Ed.) Books of Abstracts (2017, July 01)
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Unpublished conferences
Re-thinking culture in family business: A twelve-year review; ;
Scientific Conference (2016, June 29)
A reflexive note on reflexivity: issues to think about for entrepreneurship researchScientific Conference (2015, August)
Professional Development Workshop: Reflexive Entrepreneurship Studies; ;
Scientific Conference (2015, August)
In What Ways is Qualitative Research Vital to Family Business Scholarship? A Review of Past Trends and Planning for New Futures; ;
Scientific Conference (2014, July)
‘I’ll show them who’s boss’: A critical analysis of a television consultancyScientific Conference (2013, July)
The promise of relational modes of inquiry for entrepreneurship research;
Scientific Conference (2013, March)
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Posters
Scientific presentations in Universities or research centres
Modern Slavery and Organizational Research: Digital Technologies as Field Configuring EventsPresentation (2021, March 26)
Creating the future in the present: the embodied practice of artifactual design;
Presentation (2017, February)
How does context become context: relating multiple contexts in entrepreneurial explanation;
Presentation (2015, August)
What can critical entrepreneurship teaching offer to students when all they want is effectuationPresentation (2015, May 26)
Expert Reports
Conferences given outside the academic context
Find your passion: Developing Entrepreneurial Behaviours;
Conference given outside the academic context (2015)
Speeches
