Dr Margaret Fletcher
- Lecturer (Management)
telephone: 01413305939
email: Margaret.Fletcher@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Margaret’s research area is currently small firm growth through internationalisation and international entrepreneurship, and the role of internationalisation and entrepreneurship policy in economic development. Her particular focus is internal knowledge transfer, organisational learning and policy evaluation, specifically in knowledge acquisition sources and knowledge assimilation processes used by internationalising SMEs.
Biography
Dr Fletcher's PhD research involved a longitudinal case study investigation into the internationalisation of Scottish small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs). The firms are participants of the Scottish Enterprise Global Companies Development Programme, which aims to help Scottish SMEs increase their presence in international markets and compete globally. The PhD focused on the learning processes involved in their internationalisation efforts. Scottish Enterprise funded the PhD research and evaluation of the programme.
Margaret was previously a lecturer at the University of Stirling in the Entrepreneurship Centre. She was Director of the MSc in Entrepreneurial Studies (Distance Learning) and Director of Graduate Enterprise. As a lecturer she specialised in the financing of small firms. Research interests and publications include bank lending to small firms and graduate entrepreneurship. She assisted Professor David Deakins at the University of Paisley on a UK wide investigation into the Financing of Ethnic Minority Business for the Bank of England and the Dti, and Women’s Enterprise research for the Scottish Executive. Margaret won first prize in the Scottish Enterprise case writing competition for Teaching Case Studies of Entrepreneurial Scottish Companies.
Potential PhD student topics
Dr Fletcher's research area is currently small firm growth through internationalisation and international entrepreneurship, and the role of internationalisation and entrepreneurship policy and evaluation in economic development.
Her particular focus is SME internal knowledge transfer and organisational learning specifically in knowledge acquisition sources and knowledge assimilation processes used by internationalising SMEs. She has also published in the financing of small firms.
Current PhD students
Co-supervisor: Professor Pavlos Dimitratos