1. Working with SMEs and Social Enterprises
Professor Catherine Wang
Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Brunel Business School

2. SME Research within BBS
Brunel Business School
Business Accounting
Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Marketing
Organisations and People
BBS Enterprise

3. SME Research within CBASS
College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Centre for Global Lives
SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Institutions
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Big Data and AI on Innovation
Mindfulness and Graduate Entrepreneurship
Circular Economy and Sustainability
Ethnic Entrepreneurship and SMEs

4. SME Research Priorities
Interdisciplinary and collaborative research
Theoretically sound and methodologically robust
Business engagement and impact
Building research capability
Expanding research networks
Applying for research grants

5. My Research Interest
The intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, in particular, how firms can turn strategic and entrepreneurial resources and capabilities into successful innovation and firm performance in commercial and social enterprises
The resource-based view of the firm and dynamic capabilities
Entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial learning
Organisational ambidexterity
International and comparative research on entrepreneurship and SMEs
Social entrepreneurship
Quantitative methods plus mixed methods

6. Past and Present Funded Projects
Social entrepreneurship
Assessing economic, social and environmental impact of social enterprises in London
Social enterprises in the UK: rising to global challenges in the post-Brexit era
Social entrepreneurship in higher education seminar series
Entrepreneurial and innovative capacity of UK and Chinese high-tech firms
Entrepreneurial orientation and growth potential of (Chinese and Turkish) ethnic minority SMEs in London