Professor Niall Mackenzie

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business History (Management)

telephone: 0141 330 5134
email: Niall.Mackenzie@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Professor Niall G MacKenzie FRSA is a three-time graduate of the University of Glasgow. He currently serves as the joint Editor in Chief of Business History.

Prior to re-joining the University, he worked at the universities of Cambridge, Wales and Strathclyde in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. He is currently PI on the EC funded MCSA-ITN Project Legitimation of Newness and Its Impact on EU Agenda for Change (€4.35m) with colleagues from ASBS, and partners Aalborg University (Denmark), Oulu University (Finland), and Halmstad University (Sweden).

To date he has raised over £10m in research income, funded by a number of organisations, including:

European Commission H2020
European Institute of Innovation and Technology
ESRC
AHRC
Nesta
Scottish Government
Scottish Enterprise
OECD
Forfas (Ireland's development agency)
Department of Enterprise
Trade and Investment Northern Ireland (DETINI)
Creative Scotland
Institute for Family Business.

His work has featured in a number of journals, including:

Business History
Harvard Business History Review
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Human Relations
Journal of Product Innovation Management
Regional Studies
Small Business Economics
Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Research interests

Niall is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster

Areas of expertise:

Business history
Entrepreneurship
Regional development

Publications

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Number of items: 82.

2024

Perchard, A., Mackenzie, N. G. and Connors, D. (2024) Industry dynamics and trade association power: the shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium. Business History, (Accepted for Publication)

Wurth, B. , Mackenzie, N. G. and Howick, S. (2024) Not seeing the forest for the trees? A systems approach to the entrepreneurial university. Small Business Economics, (doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00864-1) (Early Online Publication)

Brown, O. et al. (2024) Theory-driven perspectives on generative artificial intelligence in business and management. British Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 3-23. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12788)

2023

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (Eds.) (2023) Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge. ISBN 9781032369839

Gibb, A. J. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2023) From Scotland with love: the creation of the Japanese whisky industry, 1918-79. In: Cooper, M. L. and Popp, A. (eds.) The Business of Emotions in Modern History. Bloomsbury. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Mackenzie, N. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. In: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032369839

Perchard, A. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2022) Behind the ‘tartan curtain’: cartelisation in the Scotch Whisky Industry, 1830-1960. In: Shanahan, M. and Fellman, S. (eds.) A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Series: Routledge international studies in business history. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367649180

Mackenzie, N. G. and Perchard, A. (2022) Industrial clustering in a peripheral region: Path dependence and creation in the Scottish Highlands. In: Wilson, J. F., Corker, C. and Lane, J. (eds.) Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK. Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781003036357 (doi: 10.4324/9781003036357)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Mackay, D. and Burt, G. (2022) Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present. Business History, (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2085251) (Early Online Publication)

Chalmers, D. , Harris, S., Mackenzie, N. and Gordon, J. (2022) Community Wealth Building through Digital Platform Cooperatives: A Strategy for Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

MacKenzie, N. G. , Knox, S. and Hannon, M. (2022) Fast breeder reactor technology and the entrepreneurial state in the UK. Business History, 64(8), pp. 1494-1509. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1809653)

2021

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)

Gibb, A. and Mackenzie, N.G. (2021) Love and Whisky: The Personal Relationships behind Nikka Whisky and Lessons for Business History. 2nd World Congress of Business History, 09-11 Sep 2021.

Chalmers, D. , Mackenzie, N. and Carter, S. (2021) Artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship: implications for venture creation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 45(5), pp. 1028-1053. (doi: 10.1177/1042258720934581)

Perchard, A. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2021) Aligning to disadvantage: how corporate political activity and strategic homophily create path dependence in the firm. Human Relations, 74(7), pp. 978-1006. (doi: 10.1177/0018726720908923)

2020

Mackenzie, N. G. (2020) Family and business during the industrial revolution. Business History, 62(4), pp. 712-713. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1484592)[Book Review]

2019

Mackenzie, N. G. , Pittaki, Z. and Wong, N. (2019) Historical approaches for hospitality and tourism research. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 32(4), pp. 1469-1485. (doi: 10.1108/IJCHM-03-2019-0273)

MacKenzie, N. G. , Gordon, J. and Gannon, M. J. (2019) A spirit of generosity: philanthropy in the Scotch whisky industry. Business History Review, 93(3), pp. 529-552. (doi: 10.1017/S000768051900093X)

Mackenzie, N. and Gannon, M. J. (2019) Exploring the antecedents of sustainable tourism development. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(6), pp. 2411-2427. (doi: 10.1108/IJCHM-05-2018-0384)

2018

Mackenzie, N. (2018) Innovation through Tradition: An Exploration of the Scotch Whisky Industry, 1945-99. Newcastle Business School, Newcastle, UK, September 2018. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2018) Past Futurology and Entrepreneurial Failure: The Bennie Railplane. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2018, Milton Keynes, UK, 29-30 June 2018. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. and Hannon, M. (2018) Historical Hype Cycles and Innovation Failure: A Comparison of Nuclear and Wave Energy Technologies from 1945 to Present. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2018, Milton Keynes, UK, 29-30 June 2018. (Unpublished)

Jones-Evans, D., Gkikas, A., Rhisiart, M. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2018) Measuring open innovation in SME's. In: Vanhaverbeke, W., Frattini, F., Roijakkers, N. and Usman, M. (eds.) Researching Open Innovation in SMEs. World Scientific Publishing: New Jersey, USA, pp. 399-427. ISBN 9789813230965 (doi: 10.1142/9789813230972_0013)

Chen, S., Fang, H. C., Mackenzie, N. G. , Carter, S. , Chen, L. and Wu, B. (2018) Female leadership in contemporary Chinese family firms. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 181-211. (doi: 10.1007/s10490-017-9515-2)

MacKenzie, N. G. (2018) Creating market failure: business-government relations in the British paper-pulp industry, 1950–1980. Business History Review, 92(4), pp. 719-741. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680518001046)

Mackenzie, N. G. (2018) Evaluation of the Evidence Base for Scottish Government Strategic Review of Enterprise and Skills. Documentation. Scottish Government.

Pugh, R., Mackenzie, N. G. and Jones-Evans, D. (2018) From ‘Techniums’ to ‘emptiums’: the failure of a flagship innovation policy in Wales. Regional Studies, 52(7), pp. 1009-1020. (doi: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1444272)

2017

Mackay, D. J., Perchard, A., Mackenzie, N. and Burt, G. (2017) Going Against the Grain: Examining Negative Capability as an Antecedent of Dynamic Capability in the Scotch Whisky Industry, 1960-85. British Academy of Management Annual Conference (BAM2017), Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sept 2017. (Unpublished)

Gannon, M., Gordon, J. and Mackenzie, N. (2017) Taxes, Death and Trouble: Exploring the Antecedents and Philanthropic Activities of the Edrington Group. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2017, Glasgow, UK, 29 June - 1st July 2017. (Unpublished)

Gannon, M., Mackenzie, N. and Shaw, E. (2017) “It's What Granpa Would Have Wanted”?: History and Heritage in Philanthropic Family Foundation Giving. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2017, Glasgow, UK, 29 June - 1st July 2017. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. and Perchard, A. (2017) Methodologies for the Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography, Vol. 3. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2017, Glasgow, UK, 29 June - 1st July 2017. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2017) Clio and the Business School: Towards a Framework for Advancing the Use of History in Entrepreneurship. Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, UK, June 2017. (Unpublished)

Johnson, M., Monsen, E. W. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2017) Follow the leader or the pack? Regulatory focus and academic entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 34(2), pp. 181-200. (doi: 10.1111/jpim.12355)

Mackenzie, N. (2017) The Development of the Second City and Family Business: Yarrow’s, John Lawrence and AG Barr. Greenock Philosophical Society, Greenock, UK, February 2017. (Unpublished)

Perchard, A., Mackenzie, N. G. , Decker, S. and Favero, G. (2017) Clio in the business school: Historical approaches in strategy, international business and entrepreneurship. Business History, 59(6), pp. 904-927. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1280025)

2016

Zhang, Q., Mackenzie, N. G. , Jones-Evans, D. and Huggins, R. (2016) Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level. Small Business Economics, 47(3), pp. 657-675. (doi: 10.1007/s11187-016-9759-0)

Wurth, B., Howick, S., Mackenzie, N. G. and Burt, G. (2016) Making Ecosystems Work: Identifying Structures and Mechanisms for Sustainable Regional Growth. XIV International Triple Helix Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 25-27 Sept 2016. (Unpublished)

Gkakis, A., Jones-Evans, D., Rhisiart, M. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2016) Open innovation, SMEs and Regional Development: Evidence from the UK. XXVII ISPIM Innovation Conference, Porto, Portugal, 19-22 June 2016. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Chalmers, D. and Matthews, R. (2016) Entrepreneurial Tracking: Towards a Better Understanding of Entrepreneurial Growth. Documentation. Scottish Enterprise.

2015

Gkikas, A., Jones-Evans, D., Rhisiart, M. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2015) Open Innovation, SMEs and Regional Development: Evidence from the UK. 38th ISBE Conference 2015, Glasgow, UK, 10-12 Nov 2015. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Gannon, M. and Shaw, E. (2015) Get Back: Philanthropic Family Foundations, Business Giving and Capital Theory. 38th ISBE Conference 2015, Glasgow, UK, 10-12 Nov 2015. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Matthews, R., Chalmers, D. and Shaw, E. (2015) Growing Up is Hard to Do: Exploring Early Stage Entrepreneurial Growth Dimensions. 38th ISBE Conference 2015, Glasgow, UK, 10-12 Nov 2015. (Unpublished)

Wurth, B., Howick, S. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2015) The Dynamics of Academic Entrepreneurship: Connecting Universities and the Ecosystem. 2015 Technology Transfer Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28-30 October 2015. (Unpublished)

Wurth, B., Howick, S. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2015) Exploring the Dynamic Interplay Between Entrepreneurial Universities and their Ecosystems: A Hybrid Simulation Framework. 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, UK, 12-15 July 2015. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Millar, F., Eikhof, D.R. and Beech, N. (2015) Three is a Crowd: Tension and Confusion in Creative Collaborations. 9th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Leicester, UK, 8-10 July 2015. (Unpublished)

Wurth, B., Mackenzie, N. G. and Howick, S. (2015) Research for Research's Sake? A Critical Reflection on the Unintended Consequences of Academic Entrepreneurship’. 2015 University-Industry Interaction Conference, Berlin, Germany, 24-26 June 2015. (Unpublished)

Suhartanto, E., Monsen, E. and Mackenzie, N. G. (2015) The Effects of Professional Corporate Entrepreneurship Practices on Listed and Non-listed Family Firms in Developing Economics. 35th Annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), Massachusetts, USA, 10-13 June 2015. (Unpublished)

Suhartanto, E., Monsen, E. and Mackenzie, N. (2015) The effects of professional corporate entrepreneurship practices on listed and non-listed family firms in developing economics. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 35(13), 18.

Mackenzie, N. (2015) The Family Factor in Developing a Family Business Brand. Great British Family Business Conference, London, UK, March 2015. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2015) From Techniums to Emptiums: The Failure of Innovation Policy in a Weaker EU Region. EU Cohesion Policy Conference, Riga, Latvia, February 2015. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. and Coughtrie, M. (2015) Archangels: Impact Evaluation of Activities, 1992-2015. Project Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

2014

Mackenzie, N. G. , Gannon, M. and Shaw, E. (2014) Success, Succession and Legacy in Philanthropic Family Foundations. Institute of Small Business and Enterprise Conference 2014, Manchester, UK, 5-6 Nov 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Zhang, Q., Jones-Evans, D. and Huggins, R. (2014) Entrepreneurial Universities and the Region: An Analysis of UK HIEs. Institute of Small Business and Enterprise Conference 2014, Manchester, UK, 5-6 Nov 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2014) Family Business in Scotland. Saltire Society Talk, November 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2014) Policy Support Measures for High Growth Firms in Europe: A Comparison of Scotland, the Basque Region and Sweden. European Policies Research Centre Seminar, Glasgow, UK, October 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Decker, S. and Favero, G. (2014) Clio in the Business School: Historical Approaches in Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship. 30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 July 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2014) Business Ownership Rates in Glasgow and the Commonwealth. Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow Business Embassy Commonwealth Games Event, Glasgow, UK, July 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. , Chen, S. and Carter, S. (2014) Female Leadership and Family Cohesion: The Emergence of Neoglory as a Chinese Multinational. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2014, Birmingham, UK, 27-28 June 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2014) What’s in a name? How Paisley Wove a Pattern of History and Place. Paisley Museum, Glasgow, UK, March 2014. (Unpublished)

Squires, C., Eikhof, D. R. , Mackenzie, N. G. , Millar, F. and Beech, N. (2014) Digital R&D Fund for the Arts in Scotland, Consortium for Research into Arts and Technology in Scotland (CReATeS), Final Report, March 2014. Project Report. CReATeS.

Mackenzie, N. (2014) Reconstituting the State as Entrepreneur: Fast Reactor Technology in the UK. Business History Unit Seminar, London School of Economics, London, UK, February 2014. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. G. (2014) Gabriel Tortella and Gloria Quiroga, Entrepreneurship and growth: an international historical perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Economic History Review, 67(1), pp. 316-317. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12055_18)[Book Review]

Mackenzie, N. G. and Zhang, Q. (2014) A regional perspective on the entrepreneurial university: practices and policies. In: Fayolle, A. and Redford, D. T. (eds.) Handbook on the Entrepreneurial University. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 188-206. ISBN 9781781007013 (doi: 10.4337/9781781007020.00014)

Mackenzie, N. G. (2014) Evaluation of Santander Breakthrough SME Support Programme. Project Report. Santander Bank.

2013

Mackenzie, N. , Perchard, A., Decker, S. and Favero, G. (2013) Clio in the Business School: History and Business. Higher Education Academy 15th Teaching History in Higher Education Conference, London, UK, September 2013. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2013) 'Entrepreneurship as a Collective Achievement’ – Can Governments Act Entrepreneurially? The Wilson Government, 1964-70. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2013, Lancashire, UK, 28-30 June 2013. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N. (2013) The Business Economics of Scottish independence. Fort William Chamber of Commerce, Fort William, UK, May 2013. (Unpublished)

Perchard, A. and Mackenzie, N. (2013) ‘Too much on the Highlands?’ Recasting the economic history of the Highlands and Islands. Northern Scotland, 4(1), pp. 3-22. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2013.0049)

Mackenzie, N. (2013) The Development of the Second City and Family Business. People’s Palace, Glasgow, UK, February 2013. (Unpublished)

MacKenzie, N. G. (2013) Entrepreneurial Families: Business, Marriage, and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Andrew Popp. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2012. Business History Review, 87(4), pp. 832-834. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680513001311)[Book Review]

2012

Mackenzie, N. (2012) Revisiting the State as Entrepreneur: Fast ‘Reactor Technology and the UK State. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2012, Birmingham, UK, 6-7 July 2012. (Unpublished)

Mackenzie, N.G. and Jones-Evans, D. (2012) Innovation in weaker regions: the case of Wales. Documentation. NESTA.

Gudgin, G., Mackenzie, N.G. , Gibson, N. and Magill, M. (2012) Building Economic Competitiveness: Lessons from Peripheral European Economies. Documentation. Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI).

Mackenzie, N. (2012) Be careful what you wish for: comparative advantage and the Wilson Smelters Project, 1967-82. In: Froland, H. O. (ed.) From Warfare to Welfare: Business-Government Relations in the Aluminium Industry. Tapir Academic Press: Trondeim. ISBN 9788232100491

Mackenzie, N. (2012) Comparative Study of Interventions Assisting High Growth Companies. Documentation. Scottish Enterprise.

Mackenzie, N. (2012) Manufacturing Sector: Country Comparators. Documentation. Forfas.

Mackenzie, N. G. and Jones-Evans, D. (2012) Technical entrepreneurship. In: Carter, S. and Jones-Evans, D. (eds.) Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy [3rd ed.]. Pearson Education Limited: Harlow, pp. 268-288. ISBN 9780273726104

Yoo, S.-J., Mackenzie, N. G. and Jones-Evans, D. (2012) Public sector support and technology-based SMEs in peripheral areas — the case of North Wales. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 20(1), pp. 83-104. (doi: 10.1142/S0218495812500045)

2011

Mackenzie, N. (2011) Technology Transfer in Weaker Regions: The Case of Wales’. Polish Patent Office International Symposium, Krakow, Poland, September 2011. (Unpublished)

2009

Mackenzie, N. G. (2009) Bigger isn’t always better: the British Government, Invergordon and the expansion of aluminium smelting in Scotland, 1968-82. Business Archives: Sources and History, 99, pp. 41-62.

2006

MacKenzie, N. (2006) Economic planning and regeneration projects in the Scottish Highlands, 1945-82. In: Economic History Society Conference, University of Reading, 31 March-2 April 2006,

MacKenzie, N. (2006) "Chucking buns across the fence?" Government-sponsored industry development in the Scottish Highlands, 1945-1982. Business and Economic History On-line, 4,

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