Richard Scase
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Now available in Japanese and Chinese and soon to be translated into other languages

Research interests

• Corporate leadership and high performance
• Globalisation and the changing business environment
• Entrepreneurship and business growth
• Managing creativity and innovation
• The restructuring of work and employment

Profile

Richard Scase is the author and co-author of twenty three books. His most recent, published in 2006, is Global Remix (Kogan Page) which discusses the impact of the emerging economies of India and China for businesses and governments in the 21st century. His other books include Living in the Corporate Zoo (Capstone Wiley, 2002); the highly influential Britain in 2010 (2000) that was originally commissioned by the UK government; and Managing Creativity (Open University Press, 1998). His other books cover a broad range of issues including: work-life balance; corporate restructuring; managerial careers; entrepreneurship and business growth; and issues of social inclusion and citizenship. Many of his books have been translated into languages as diverse as Japanese, Mandarin, Korean and Rumanian.

He has written more than eighty refereed scholarly articles that have appeared in journals such as Journal of Management Studies; International Small Business Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Human Relations; British Journal of Sociology; Industrial Relations Journal and International Journal of Corporate Law and Industrial Relations.

He sits on the editorial boards of the International Small Business Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Market Leader and Critical Eye Review.

His research has been funded by major grants obtained competitively from the Economic and Social Research Council (the final report of the most recent was rated as "outstanding"); the European Union; Office of Science and Technology; and the United Nations. The outcome of his research has been published in more than twenty five reports that have been submitted to funding bodies and as four major research monographs. These include Britain in 2010 (Cabinet Office); Fit and Fifty (All Party Committee of MPs); Europe in 2010 (EU) and Regional Futures (Housing Corporation).

He is also a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programmes as well as writing for Management Today, Strategic Human Relations and for national newspapers and magazines on business and management topics. He has regular masthead columns in Business Voice (the official publication of the Confederation of British Industry) and CIO-Connect (a publication for corporate Chief Information Officers).

Publications

Books

Twenty three in total, including, since 1995:

• Global Remix: Business Opportunities for You and Your Business
  Kogan Page, 2006
• Living in the Corporate Zoo; Work and Life in 2010
  Capstone/Wiley, 2002
• Britain in 2010: The Changing Business Landscape
  Capstone/Wiley, 2000
• From Kitchen Sink to Boardroom Table: Releasing Women's Potential for Corporate Success (with J Blaney)
Black Amber Books, 2003
• Managing Creativity: the Dynamics of Work and Organisation (with H Davis)
  Open University Press, 2000
• Changing Local Government: Rhetoric and Reality (with L Keen)
  Open University Press, 1998
• Labour Relations in Transition in Eastern Europe (with J Thirkell and S Vickerstaff, eds)
  UCL Press, 1995
• Corporate Realities: The Dynamics of Organisations Large and Small (with R Goffee)
  Routledge, 1995

Articles

Eighty Two in total, including since 2002:

• Competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises: towards a two dimensional model of innovation and business clusters, Int. J. Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 3, No. 5, 2009
• Business clusters and competitiveness in Small and Medium Enterprises: the case of the IT sector in Thessalonica, Greece, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sust. Development, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007 
• Business Clusters and SME Competitiveness  World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Vol 3 no 2  (2007)
• Strategic Management of Generational and Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
  Strategic H R Review, Volume 5, number 5 (2006)
• Putting People at the Top of the Agenda
  Strategic H R Review, Volume 5, number 4 (2006)
• Business Clusters and Competitiveness in Small and Medium Size Enterprises
  Forthcoming (2006)
• Management Strategies in Small Firms
  In Labour Relations in Small Firms, S Marlow and M Rom, eds, Routledge (2005)
• The Liberated Consumer (with Sir Robert Worcester)
  Critical Eye Review (2005)
• The Future of Europe
  Critical Eye Review (2005)
• Entrepreneurship and Proprietorship in Transition: Policy Implications for the SME Sector
  In Small and Medium Enterprises in Transitional Economies, R McIntyre and B Dallago, eds, Palgrave (2003)
• Employment Relations in Small Firms
  In Industrial Relations in Britain, P Edwards, ed, Blackwell (2003)
• Industrial Relations in Small Firms
  Industrial Relations in Britain (2003)
• Entrepreneurship in the Transitional Economies of Central Europe
  The Economics of Transition (2003)
• Work Beyond 2010
  In the Financial Times Handbook of Management, FT Books (2002)
• So Much for the American Dream
  New Academy Review, Volume 1, number 2 (2002)

Other articles