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Dr Joanne Roberts

Before joining the Newcastle University Business School in 2007, Joanne taught international business at Durham Business School, Durham University for 6 years. Prior to this she taught economics and international business at Northumbria University. Since 1998 she has been an Honorary Associate Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester. She is a member of the European Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe (DIME) network of Excellence.

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Newcastle University Business School
Newcastle University, Citywall, Citygate
St James Boulevard
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

Qualifications

B.A. (Hons) Economics (Lancaster University)
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (University of Leicester)
Ph.D. Economic Geography (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Previous Positions

Durham Business School, Durham University.
Northumbria University

Memberships

Academy of International Business
British Academy of Management
European Group for Organizational Studies
The Higher Education Academy

Honours and Awards

Honorary Associate Fellow since 1998 at the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, UK.

Best Paper Prize: ‘Global Consultancy Services: Conceptual Issues Concerning the Cross-Border Delivery of Knowledge Intensive Services’, British Academy of Management Conference, 13th – 15th September 2005. Awarded the Best Paper Prize in the Management Consultancy Track.

Research Interests

Joanne’s research interests include knowledge intensive services, new information and communication technologies and knowledge transfer, communities of practice and the internationalisation of business services. She has participated in a number of research projects including a European-wide investigation into 'Patents in Services' funded by the EU. Most recently she has completed research on Communities of Practice in collaboration with members of the EU DIME network of Excellence.

Esteem Indicators

• Co-founder and co-editor of Critical Perspectives on International Business, published by Emerald from 2005- http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/cpoib/cpoib.jsp
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Global Business Advancement, (new journal sponsored by University of Connecticut, University of Memphis and Texas A&M University) published by inderscience.
• Editorial Advisory Group Member of Northern Economic Review, published by Durham Business School, University of Durham.

Invited speaker:

• ‘Business Service Firms: From Market Oriented to Resource Oriented Overseas Expansion?’, invited paper presented at Internationalisation, Technology and Services: Analysis of its Determinants and Implications for Competitiveness Workshop, ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, UK, 1st -3rd October 2001.
• ‘Competition in the Business Services Sector’, Institute of Innovation Seminar Series, University of Manchester, UK, 3rd March 2003.

Reviewer for the following journals:

British Journal of Management; Culture & Organization; Cultural Politics; Geoforum; Human Relations; Industry and Innovation; International Business Review; International Journal of Innovation Management; International Journal of Public Sector Management; International Journal of Service Industries Management; Journal of Management Studies; Review of International Political Economy; The Learning Organization; The Services Industries Journal.

Selected Publications

• Roberts, J. & Armitage, J. From Organization to Hypermodern Organization: On the Accelerated Appearance and Disappearance of Enron. Journal of Organizational Change Management 2006, 19(5), 558-577.
• Roberts, J. Limits to communities of practice. Journal of Management Studies 2006, 43(3), 623-639.
• Roberts, J. 2003. Competition in the business services sector: implications for the competitiveness of the European economy. Competition and Change: The Journal of Global Business and Political Economy 2003, 7(2/3), 127-146.
• Roberts, J. The drive to codify Implications for the knowledge-based economy. Prometheus: The Journal of Issues in Technology Change, Innovation, Information Economics, Communications and Science Policy 2001, 19(2), 99-116.
• Roberts, J. Challenges facing service enterprises in the global knowledge-based economy: lessons from the business services sector. International Journal of Services Technology Management 2001, 2(3/4), 402-433.
• Roberts, J. Trust and electronic knowledge transfer. International Journal of Electronic Business 2003, 1(2), 168-186.