Community for Internationalisation and Enterprise Research

The University of Glasgow’s Community for Internationalisation and Enterprise Research is a community for multidisciplinary study in internationalisation and enterprise with a worldwide network of internationally acclaimed scholars.

CIER aims to be an international hub for a global network of internationalisation scholars thus providing access to domestic and international networks for collaborative research, and multidisciplinary programmes in internationalisation and enterprise.

"CIER are doing some terrific research and really building the field of international entrepreneurship"  
-Professor Patricia McDougall, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington

CIER Staff Members Awarded British Academy/ Leverhulme Research Grants

Dr Margaret Fletcher, Professor Trevor Buck (both ASBS) and Dr Emmanuella Plakoyiannki (Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Greece) have been successfully awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme research grant. The two year project (2013-15) is titled "Case Study sampling: A Study of Practices in International Business". The study will involve the analysis of case selection practices used by researchers in leading international business journals. The aim is to identify good practice that will support researchers in their case selection and sampling in the field, that will result in more trustworthy and credible conclusions for theory, policy and practice.

Dr Yee Kwan Tang, in collaboration with Professor Stephen Young (both ASBS) and Dr Victor Konde (ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub, Zambia), were also awarded a British Academy/ Leverhulme research grant for a project titled "Facilitating Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study on the Effectiveness of Electronic Business Platforms". The project aims to uncover the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of electronic platforms as the primary sources of business knowledge, network development and identification of entrepreneurship opportunity by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa. The project involves a large-scale survey on MSMEs in Ghana and Zambia. The study is part funded by the Adam Smith Research Foundation and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.