Professor John Finch

  • Professor of Marketing (Management)

telephone: 0141 330 2843
email: John.Finch@glasgow.ac.uk

Main Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8qq

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541

Biography

John is Professor Marketing in the Adam Smith Business School, and was Head of the Adam Smith Business School from January 2016 to July 2023, leading the School through a period of significant development and growth. Currently, he is Associate Dean for East Asia for the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Sciences. John is the lead investigator for the University of Glasgow’s contribution to the Innovate-UK funded project Financial Regulation Innovation Lab – a partnership with FinTech Scotland and the University of Strathclyde.

John’s research interests are in market studies, which is the application of science and technology studies approaches to understanding the ways in which markets and their regulation impact upon broadly economic exchanges. John joined the Adam Smith Business School in October 2012 as Marketing Professor. Previously he was Marketing Professor at the University of Strathclyde, where latterly he was also Vice Dean (Knowledge Exchange) for Strathclyde Business School. John began his academic career as Lecturer in Economics at the University of Aberdeen, having completed his PhD at Lancaster University Management School. 

 

Research interests

John is a member of the Marketing research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Business-to-business marketing 
  • Product and service development 
  • Market studies 
  • Economic sociology
  • Regulation for sustainability

Publications

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2025

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Otioma, Chuks (2025) Consumers as Innovators and the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.349742).

Finch, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Li, Xiang and Anderson, Erika (2025) Systems in the Making: The Role of Companies in Implementing Sustainability Policy and Reporting. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.342905).

2024

Wang, Wenting, Morgan-Thomas, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-6463 and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2024) Systematic Literature Review on Social Media and B2B Relationships. Academy of Marketing Science, Miami, Florida, USA, 22-24 May 2024. (Unpublished)

2021

Duffy, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6892, Reid, Emma and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2021) Sold out? Reconfiguring consumer demand through the secondary digital ticket market. In: Hagberg, Johan and Kjellberg, Hans (eds.) Digitalized Markets. Routledge. ISBN 9780367655709

2020

Duffy, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6892, Reid, Emma and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2020) Sold out? Reconfiguring consumer demand through the secondary digital ticket market. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 23(2), pp. 174-194. (doi: 10.1080/10253866.2019.1684270)

2018

Finch, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2018) History matters: on the mystifying appeal of Bowles and Gintis. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 285-308. (doi: 10.1093/cje/bex002)

2017

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Geiger, Susi and Harkness, Rachel (2017) Marketing and compromising for sustainability: green chemistry, regulation and competing orders of worth in the North Atlantic. Marketing Theory, 17(1), pp. 71-93. (doi: 10.1177/1470593116657924)

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Geiger, Susie and Reid, Emma (2017) Captured by technology? How material agency sustains interaction between regulators and industry actors. Research Policy, 46(1), pp. 160-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.08.002)

2016

Geiger, Susi and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2016) Promissories and pharmaceutical patents: agencing markets through public narratives. Consumption Markets and Culture, 19(1), pp. 71-91. (doi: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1067199)

Geiger, Susi and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2016) Making incremental innovation tradable in industrial service settings. Journal of Business Research, 69(7), pp. 2463-2470. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.02.015)

2015

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Horan, Conor and Reid, Emma (2015) The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device. Journal of Marketing Management, 31(1-2), pp. 167-192. (doi: 10.1080/0267257X.2014.980752)

Möhring, Monika Maria and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2015) Contracts, relationships and innovation in business-to-business exchanges. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 30(3/4), pp. 405-413. (doi: 10.1108/JBIM-12-2012-0249)

2013

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Zhang, Shiming and Geiger, Susi (2013) Managing in conflict: How actors distribute conflict in an industrial network. Industrial Marketing Management, 42(7), pp. 1063-1073. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.07.024)

2012

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Wagner, B. and Hynes, N. (2012) Resources prospectively: how actors mobilize resources in business settings. Journal of Business Research, 65(2), pp. 164-174. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.05.017)

2011

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2011) Constructing and contesting markets through the market object. Industrial Marketing Management, 40(6), pp. 899-906. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.06.034)

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2011) Buyer-seller interactions in mature industrial markets: blurring the relational-transactional selling dichotomy. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 31(3), pp. 255-268.

2010

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2010) Markets are trading zones: on the material, cultural and interpretive dimensions of market encounters. In: Araujo, L., Finch, J. and Kjellberg, H. (eds.) Reconnecting Marketing to Markets. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 117-137. ISBN 9780199578061

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2010) Positioning and relating: market boundaries and slippery identity of the marketing object. Marketing Theory, 10(3), pp. 237-251. (doi: 10.1177/1470593110373188)

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2010) Networks of mind and networks of organizations: the map metaphor in business network research. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(3), pp. 381-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.08.009)

Bloch, H. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2010) Firms and industries in evolutionary economics: lessons from Marshall, Young, Steindl and Penrose. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 20(1), pp. 139-162. (doi: 10.1007/s00191-009-0133-0)

Araujo, L., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Kjellberg, H. (Eds.) (2010) Reconnecting Marketing to Markets. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199578061

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Wagner, B. and Hynes, N. (2010) Trust and forms of capital in business-to-business activities and relationships. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(6), pp. 1019-1027. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.021)

2009

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Harrison, D. (2009) How a new resource emerged in a network setting and how the emergence of a new resource bound a network together. In: Hakansson, H., Waluszewski, A., Prenkert, F. and Baraldi, E. (eds.) Use of Science and Technology in Buisness: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations and People. Series: International business and management series (25). Emerald: Bingley, UK, pp. 121-138. ISBN 9781848554740

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2009) Industrial sales people as market actors. Industrial Marketing Management, 38(6), pp. 608-617. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.04.003)

2008

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Acha, V. (2008) Making and exchanging a second-hand oil field, considered in an industrial marketing setting. Marketing Theory, 8(1), pp. 45-66. (doi: 10.1177/1470593107086484)

Bloch, H. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2008) Schumpeter and Steindl on growth and the transformation to maturity in capitalism. History of Economics Review, 47(Winter), pp. 1-19.

2007

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2007) Economic sociology as a strange other to both sociology and economics. History of the Human Sciences, 20(2), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.1177/0952695107077022)

2005

Dolfsma, W., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2005) Market and society: How do they relate and how do they contribute to welfare? Journal of Economic Issues, 39(2), pp. 347-357.

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Orillard, M. (Eds.) (2005) Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy. Series: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843766681

Acha, V. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2005) Paths to deepwater in the international upstream petroleum industry. In: Green, K., Miozzo, M. and Dewick, P. (eds.) Technology, Knowledge and the Firm: Implications for Strategy and Industrial Change. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 73-91. ISBN 9781843768777

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Orillard, M. (2005) Introduction: the scope of complexity and its implications for policy. In: Finch, J. and Orillard, M. (eds.) Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy. Series: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781843766681

2003

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2003) Review of: The Legacy of Herbert Simon in Economic Analysis, Volumes 1 and 2 by P.E.Earl. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24(2), pp. 279-284. (doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(02)00208-8)[Book Review]

Downward, P., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Ramsay, J. (2003) Seeking a role for empirical analysis in critical realist explanation. In: Downward, P. (ed.) Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique: A Critical Realist Approach. Series: Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology (2). Routledge: London, UK, pp. 89-107. ISBN 9780415267854

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2003) Transferring exploration and production activities within the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: a capabilities perspective. In: Metcalfe, J.S. and Cantner, U. (eds.) Change, Transformation and Development. Physica-Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 97-124. ISBN 9783790815450

2002

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Macmillan, F.E. and Simpson, G.S. (2002) On the diffusion of probabilistic investment appraisal and decision-making procedures in the UK's upstream oil and gas industry. Research Policy, 31(6), pp. 969-988. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00171-8)

Downward, P., Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Ramsay, J. (2002) Critical realism, empirical methods and inference: a critical discussion. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(4), pp. 481-500. (doi: 10.1093/cje/26.4.481)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2002) Transferring exploration and production activities within the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: a capabilities perspective. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 12(1-2), pp. 55-81. (doi: 10.1007/s00191-002-0110-3)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2002) The role of grounded theory in developing economic theory. Journal of Economic Methodology, 9(2), pp. 213-234. (doi: 10.1080/13501780210137119)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2002) On categorical variables and non‐parametric statistical inference in the pursuit of causal explanations. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(6), 753 -772. (doi: 10.1093/cje/26.6.753)

2001

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2001) Review of: R.E. Salvatore, The Economics of the Mind. Journal of Economic Psychology, 22(2), pp. 291-294. (doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00035-6)[Book Review]

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Dinnie, N.C. (2001) Capturing knightian advantages of large business organisations through group decision-making processes. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 8(3), pp. 379-403. (doi: 10.1080/13571510110081187)

2000

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2000) Verstehen, ideal types and situational analysis for institutional economics. In: Streit, M.E., Mummert, U. and Kiwit, D. (eds.) Cognition, Rationality and Institutions. Springer: Berlin, Germany, pp. 213-232. ISBN 9783540674467

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2000) Is post-Marshallian economics an evolutionary research tradition? European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 7(3), pp. 377-406. (doi: 10.1080/09672560050192116)

1999

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1999) The methodological implications of post-Marshallian economics. In: Dow, S.C. and Earl, P.E. (eds.) Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm. Series: Essays in honour of Brian J. Loasby (2). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 156-177. ISBN 9781840641875

1998

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1998) The re-employment experiences of former aerospace employees within a local economy. Regional Studies, 32(5), pp. 421-433. (doi: 10.1080/00343409850116826)

1997

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1997) "Verstehen," ideal types, and situational analysis and the problem of free will. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 153(4), pp. 737-747.

1994

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1994) Strategic responses to defence sector restructuring: an analysis of Lancashire-based companies. Applied Economics, 26(3), pp. 267-275. (doi: 10.1080/00036849400000008)

1993

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1993) Company-led strategies in defence sector restructuring: implications for local economic development. Local Economy, 7(4), pp. 334-346. (doi: 10.1080/02690949308726160)

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Articles

Duffy, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6892, Reid, Emma and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2020) Sold out? Reconfiguring consumer demand through the secondary digital ticket market. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 23(2), pp. 174-194. (doi: 10.1080/10253866.2019.1684270)

Finch, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2018) History matters: on the mystifying appeal of Bowles and Gintis. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 285-308. (doi: 10.1093/cje/bex002)

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Geiger, Susi and Harkness, Rachel (2017) Marketing and compromising for sustainability: green chemistry, regulation and competing orders of worth in the North Atlantic. Marketing Theory, 17(1), pp. 71-93. (doi: 10.1177/1470593116657924)

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Geiger, Susie and Reid, Emma (2017) Captured by technology? How material agency sustains interaction between regulators and industry actors. Research Policy, 46(1), pp. 160-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.08.002)

Geiger, Susi and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2016) Promissories and pharmaceutical patents: agencing markets through public narratives. Consumption Markets and Culture, 19(1), pp. 71-91. (doi: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1067199)

Geiger, Susi and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2016) Making incremental innovation tradable in industrial service settings. Journal of Business Research, 69(7), pp. 2463-2470. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.02.015)

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Horan, Conor and Reid, Emma (2015) The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device. Journal of Marketing Management, 31(1-2), pp. 167-192. (doi: 10.1080/0267257X.2014.980752)

Möhring, Monika Maria and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2015) Contracts, relationships and innovation in business-to-business exchanges. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 30(3/4), pp. 405-413. (doi: 10.1108/JBIM-12-2012-0249)

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Zhang, Shiming and Geiger, Susi (2013) Managing in conflict: How actors distribute conflict in an industrial network. Industrial Marketing Management, 42(7), pp. 1063-1073. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.07.024)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Wagner, B. and Hynes, N. (2012) Resources prospectively: how actors mobilize resources in business settings. Journal of Business Research, 65(2), pp. 164-174. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.05.017)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2011) Constructing and contesting markets through the market object. Industrial Marketing Management, 40(6), pp. 899-906. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.06.034)

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2011) Buyer-seller interactions in mature industrial markets: blurring the relational-transactional selling dichotomy. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 31(3), pp. 255-268.

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2010) Positioning and relating: market boundaries and slippery identity of the marketing object. Marketing Theory, 10(3), pp. 237-251. (doi: 10.1177/1470593110373188)

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2010) Networks of mind and networks of organizations: the map metaphor in business network research. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(3), pp. 381-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.08.009)

Bloch, H. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2010) Firms and industries in evolutionary economics: lessons from Marshall, Young, Steindl and Penrose. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 20(1), pp. 139-162. (doi: 10.1007/s00191-009-0133-0)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Wagner, B. and Hynes, N. (2010) Trust and forms of capital in business-to-business activities and relationships. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(6), pp. 1019-1027. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.021)

Geiger, S. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2009) Industrial sales people as market actors. Industrial Marketing Management, 38(6), pp. 608-617. (doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.04.003)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Acha, V. (2008) Making and exchanging a second-hand oil field, considered in an industrial marketing setting. Marketing Theory, 8(1), pp. 45-66. (doi: 10.1177/1470593107086484)

Bloch, H. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2008) Schumpeter and Steindl on growth and the transformation to maturity in capitalism. History of Economics Review, 47(Winter), pp. 1-19.

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2007) Economic sociology as a strange other to both sociology and economics. History of the Human Sciences, 20(2), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.1177/0952695107077022)

Dolfsma, W., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2005) Market and society: How do they relate and how do they contribute to welfare? Journal of Economic Issues, 39(2), pp. 347-357.

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Macmillan, F.E. and Simpson, G.S. (2002) On the diffusion of probabilistic investment appraisal and decision-making procedures in the UK's upstream oil and gas industry. Research Policy, 31(6), pp. 969-988. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00171-8)

Downward, P., Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Ramsay, J. (2002) Critical realism, empirical methods and inference: a critical discussion. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(4), pp. 481-500. (doi: 10.1093/cje/26.4.481)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2002) Transferring exploration and production activities within the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: a capabilities perspective. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 12(1-2), pp. 55-81. (doi: 10.1007/s00191-002-0110-3)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2002) The role of grounded theory in developing economic theory. Journal of Economic Methodology, 9(2), pp. 213-234. (doi: 10.1080/13501780210137119)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and McMaster, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2002) On categorical variables and non‐parametric statistical inference in the pursuit of causal explanations. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(6), 753 -772. (doi: 10.1093/cje/26.6.753)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Dinnie, N.C. (2001) Capturing knightian advantages of large business organisations through group decision-making processes. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 8(3), pp. 379-403. (doi: 10.1080/13571510110081187)

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2000) Is post-Marshallian economics an evolutionary research tradition? European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 7(3), pp. 377-406. (doi: 10.1080/09672560050192116)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1998) The re-employment experiences of former aerospace employees within a local economy. Regional Studies, 32(5), pp. 421-433. (doi: 10.1080/00343409850116826)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1997) "Verstehen," ideal types, and situational analysis and the problem of free will. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 153(4), pp. 737-747.

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1994) Strategic responses to defence sector restructuring: an analysis of Lancashire-based companies. Applied Economics, 26(3), pp. 267-275. (doi: 10.1080/00036849400000008)

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1993) Company-led strategies in defence sector restructuring: implications for local economic development. Local Economy, 7(4), pp. 334-346. (doi: 10.1080/02690949308726160)

Book Sections

Duffy, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-6892, Reid, Emma and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2021) Sold out? Reconfiguring consumer demand through the secondary digital ticket market. In: Hagberg, Johan and Kjellberg, Hans (eds.) Digitalized Markets. Routledge. ISBN 9780367655709

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Geiger, S. (2010) Markets are trading zones: on the material, cultural and interpretive dimensions of market encounters. In: Araujo, L., Finch, J. and Kjellberg, H. (eds.) Reconnecting Marketing to Markets. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 117-137. ISBN 9780199578061

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Harrison, D. (2009) How a new resource emerged in a network setting and how the emergence of a new resource bound a network together. In: Hakansson, H., Waluszewski, A., Prenkert, F. and Baraldi, E. (eds.) Use of Science and Technology in Buisness: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations and People. Series: International business and management series (25). Emerald: Bingley, UK, pp. 121-138. ISBN 9781848554740

Acha, V. and Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2005) Paths to deepwater in the international upstream petroleum industry. In: Green, K., Miozzo, M. and Dewick, P. (eds.) Technology, Knowledge and the Firm: Implications for Strategy and Industrial Change. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 73-91. ISBN 9781843768777

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Orillard, M. (2005) Introduction: the scope of complexity and its implications for policy. In: Finch, J. and Orillard, M. (eds.) Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy. Series: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781843766681

Downward, P., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Ramsay, J. (2003) Seeking a role for empirical analysis in critical realist explanation. In: Downward, P. (ed.) Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique: A Critical Realist Approach. Series: Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology (2). Routledge: London, UK, pp. 89-107. ISBN 9780415267854

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2003) Transferring exploration and production activities within the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: a capabilities perspective. In: Metcalfe, J.S. and Cantner, U. (eds.) Change, Transformation and Development. Physica-Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 97-124. ISBN 9783790815450

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2000) Verstehen, ideal types and situational analysis for institutional economics. In: Streit, M.E., Mummert, U. and Kiwit, D. (eds.) Cognition, Rationality and Institutions. Springer: Berlin, Germany, pp. 213-232. ISBN 9783540674467

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (1999) The methodological implications of post-Marshallian economics. In: Dow, S.C. and Earl, P.E. (eds.) Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm. Series: Essays in honour of Brian J. Loasby (2). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 156-177. ISBN 9781840641875

Book Reviews

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2003) Review of: The Legacy of Herbert Simon in Economic Analysis, Volumes 1 and 2 by P.E.Earl. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24(2), pp. 279-284. (doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(02)00208-8)[Book Review]

Finch, J.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2001) Review of: R.E. Salvatore, The Economics of the Mind. Journal of Economic Psychology, 22(2), pp. 291-294. (doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00035-6)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Araujo, L., Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Kjellberg, H. (Eds.) (2010) Reconnecting Marketing to Markets. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199578061

Finch, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Orillard, M. (Eds.) (2005) Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy. Series: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843766681

Research Reports or Papers

Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 and Otioma, Chuks (2025) Consumers as Innovators and the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.349742).

Finch, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541, Li, Xiang and Anderson, Erika (2025) Systems in the Making: The Role of Companies in Implementing Sustainability Policy and Reporting. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.342905).

Conference or Workshop Item

Wang, Wenting, Morgan-Thomas, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-6463 and Finch, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-8541 (2024) Systematic Literature Review on Social Media and B2B Relationships. Academy of Marketing Science, Miami, Florida, USA, 22-24 May 2024. (Unpublished)

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Grants

  • Financial Regulation Innovation Lab, University of Glasgow lead-investigator in collaboration with Fintech Scotland and University of Strathclyde, £400,000, April 2023 to March 2025
  • Sorting Goods From Bads, Leverhulme Trust, PI, 2010-2013, £103,400.
  • Innovation for Competitive Enterprises, EU Interreg IVA Programme, CI, 2013, (this part of the project was funded at €40,000)
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP #4459) with SI Associates; PI, 2011-2012, Technology Strategy Board, £135,000
  • Technology Strategy Board, Nutrition for Life CR&D Competition, with Eat Balanced and University of Glasgow School of Medicine (Human Nutrition group), 2013-2014, CI, overall award £91,000 (marketing work accounts for £10,000). 

Supervision

  • Wang, Wenting
    How does social media as a tool affect B2B buyer and seller relationships

Teaching

John is in research leave until the end of August 2025.

He is Coordinator for Business-to-Business Relationship Management, MBA elective

Additional information

John is a Chartered Member of the Market Research Society, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has undertaken consulting work with several organisations (from large trans-national corporations to SMEs), and regularly chairs peer reviews and serves as peer reviewer for business school accreditations internationally.  

 


Professor John Finch, Head of School, photo from Our MBA 40 launch in April 2017

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