西苏格兰大学招收商业管理博士
About the Project
The project explores the role of leadership in the development of resilience towards sustainable economic growth in the SME sector of Scotland. The SME sector accounts for over 56% of all private-sector employment in the Scottish Economy (Connor, 2021). Previous work has demonstrated the importance of the private sector towards both the regional and national economies of Scotland (Steiner and Atterton, 2014). However, like many other cases the Scottish SMEs faced significant struggles in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic with many businesses struggling to keep the business afloat amidst financial difficulties (Arshed and Knox, 2022). The Scottish government acknowledged the threats of such crisis and the activation of the Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGRR) alongside the cabinet office guarantees all necessary steps are activated to deal with any type of disruptive scenario (Peng, 2021). The projects seek to identify how SMEs could develop resilience strategies to overcome such situations in the future and the role of leadership in navigating businesses towards sustainable economic growth strategies.
However, given the uncertainty of the business landscape, many individuals, organizations as well as governments are concerned about developing capabilities and strategies to overcome crisis situations that are becoming a common occurrence. The literature has highlighted the need to investigate further the role of leadership in activating the resilience capabilities of small businesses (Acevedo-Duque et al., 2021; Sarkar and Clegg, 2021).
The project aims to expand on the contribution of SMEs and links towards SDG 8 on sustainable economic growth. Secondly, it builds on the idea of resilience towards leadership and entrepreneurship fostering an innovation-driven culture as encouraged by SDG 9.
Finally, the study also aims to strengthen the existing knowledge and understanding of the policy framing and provide an awareness of what is needed to improve the governance mechanisms aligning with SDG 16.
Based on the above understanding the following objectives are aimed to be achieved.
1. Developing a comprehensive theoretical framework surrounding resilience strategies towards sustainable economic growth
2. Identify the role of leadership in SMEs and the key barriers towards achieving its full potential.
3. Assess the present business climate of Scotland and post pandemic recovery process in the context of SMEs.
4. Identify the existing policy and governmental support mechanism in building resilience and leadership to foster and ensure business survival.
The project is from the Social Impact Leadership and Management (SILM) research group of The School of Business and Creative Industries.
We are seeking a prospective PhD student with the expertise and perseverance to see the project through to success. In the first instance, informal enquiries should be made by email to Dr Isuru Koswatte (Isuru.koswatte@uws.ac.uk ). Successful applicants will be asked to submit the application through the UWS online system (https://www.uws.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/admissions-application/ )
Application Deadline - 30/06/2023
Start Date - 01/10/2023
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