Professor Frances Bowen
Chair in Innovation Studies
Roles: Chair of Postgraduate Examination Board
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2703
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, FB 3.37
Email: f.bowen@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Frances' research focuses on innovation for sustainability, particularly in large energy companies. Her recent research has addressed core themes within innovation studies such as responses to disruptive business model innovations, and relationships between organizational innovation and performance. Forthcoming pieces address characteristics of climate change innovations that make investment decisions particularly challenging, and a ‘social energy penalty’ where societal resources are wasted through corporate symbolic strategies rather than authentic innovation to solve an environmental problem. Frances has published widely on environmental and social strategy in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research and Production and Operations Management. She is the 2012 Program Chair for the Organisations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the (US) Academy of Management.
Publications:
Journal Articles and Other Peer Reviewed Publications
Okereke, C., Wittneben, B. & Bowen F. E. (forthcoming) “Climate change: Challenging business, transforming politics”, Business & Society
Bowen, F. E. and Wittneben, B. (forthcoming) “Carbon accounting: Negotiating accuracy, consistency and certainty across organizational fields”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
Bowen, F. E. (2011) “Carbon capture and storage as a corporate technology strategy challenge”, Energy Policy, 39(5): 2256-2264
Dewald, J. and Bowen, F. E. (2010), “Cognitive resilience: Storm clouds and silver linings”,
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 34(1): 197-218
Bowen, F. E., Rostami, M. and Steel, P., (2010), “Timing is everything: A meta-analysis of
organizational performance and innovation”, Journal of Business Research, 63: 1179-1185
Bowen, F. E., Newenham-Kahindi, A. and Herremans, I. (2010), “When suits meet roots: The
antecedents and consequences of community engagement”, Journal of Business Ethics, 95(2): 297-318
Balakrishnan J., Bowen F. and Eckstein A.L.H., (2008) “A Strategic Framework for Managing Failure in JIT Supply Chains." International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, 1(4): 20-38.
Bowen, F. E. (2007) “Corporate social strategy: competing views from two theories of the firm”,
Journal of Business Ethics, 75(1): 97-113
Verbeke, A., Bowen, F. E. and Sellers, M. (2006), “Corporate environmental strategy: An integrative resource-based framework”, in Weaver, K. M. (ed) Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, pp. A1-6.
Bowen, F. E. and Sharma, S. (2005), “Resourcing corporate environmental strategy: behavioral and resource-based perspectives”, in Weaver, K. M. (ed) Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, pp. A1-6.
Cousins, P. D., Lamming, R. C. and Bowen, F. E. (2004), “The role of risk in environment-related
supplier initiatives”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol 24., no. 6, pp. 554-565
Bowen, F. E., and Blackmon, K. L. (2003) “Spirals of silence: the effects of diversity on workplace
communications”, Journal of Management Studies, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1393 – 1418
Bowen, F. E. (2002) “Organisational slack and corporate greening: broadening the debate”, British
Journal of Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 305-316
Bowen, F. E. (2002) “Does size matter? Organisational slack and visibility as alternative explanations for environmental responsiveness”, Business and Society, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 118-124
Faruk, A. C., Lamming, R. C., Cousins, P. D. and Bowen, F. E. (2001) “Streamlined integrated life
cycle assessment: a tool for supply chain managers in pursuit of environmental soundness”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 13-60
Bowen, F. E., Cousins, P. D., Lamming, R. C. and Faruk, A. C. (2001) “Horses for courses: explaining
the gap between the theory and practice of green supply”, Greener Management International, no. 35, pp. 41-60
Bowen, F. E., Cousins, P. D., Lamming, R. C. & Faruk, A. C., (2001) “The role of supply management
capabilities in green supply”, Production and Operations Management, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 174-189
Bowen, F. E. (2000), “Environmental visibility: a trigger of “green” organisational response?”, Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 92-107
Millington, A. I., Bowen, F. E., & Bayliss, B. T. (1996), “Corporate integration in the EU”, Intereconomics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 68-72
Teaching Cases
Bertels, S., Van der Byl, C. and Bowen, F. E. (forthcoming) Developing a Culture of Compliance: Environmental Challenges at Suncor’s Firebag Facility, plus teaching note and video
Bowen, F. E. and McDaniels, D. (2010) Total’s Carbon Capture and Storage Project at Lacq. Part A: Risk and Opportunity in Public Engagement; Part B: Gaining Public Acceptance of New Technology, plus teaching note, published by Ivey Publishing, London:ON, in press.
Book Chapters
Bowen, F. E., Cousins, P. D., Lamming, R. C. and Faruk, A. C. (2005) “Horses for courses: explaining the gap between the theory and practice of green supply”, in Sarkis, J. (ed), Greening the Supply Chain, Springer Publishing, ISBN 1-84628-298-5.
Lamming, R. C., Cousins, P. D., Bowen, F. E., Faruk, A. C. (2001), “A comprehensive conceptual model for managing environmental impacts, costs and risks in supply chains”, in Erridge, A., Fee, R. and McIlroy, J. (eds), Best Practice Procurement : Public and Private Perspectives, Aldershot, Gower. pp. 42-49
Ephemera
Bowen, F. E. (2010) “Barriers to Carbon Capture and Storage may not be obvious”, Nature, 464: 160. doi:10.1038/464160c
Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
“Understanding barriers to low-carbon technology investments in the oil and gas industry: A managerial cognition perspective”, April 2011- March 2014. Funded by Carbon Management Canada, Research Councils NCE. $158,000. Principal applicant. Co-applicants: Drs. Tima Bansal, University of Western Ontario and Natalie Slawinski, Memorial University Newfoundland.
“Developing a culture of compliance: Lessons for Organizational Reliability from the Suncor Firebag Case”, April 2009 – September 2011. Awarded by The Government of Alberta under a creative sentencing order. $315,000. Principal Investigator. The project addresses the formal and informal organizational mechanisms required to develop a culture of compliance with environmental regulations. Co-Investigators: Drs. Harrie Vredenburg, Stephanie Bertels (SFU)
Senior Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford, January-June 2009. Fellowship awarded on a competitive basis (15% applications successful) to pursue research at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Travel expenses, accommodation and research allowance.
“The Changing Climate of the Energy Industry”, April 2008 – March 2011. Awarded under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Knowledge Impact in Society Programme, $299,030 (total with matched funding: $514,030). Principal Investigator. Grant is for knowledge translation, dissemination and co-creation activities with project partners (Energy Council of Canada, Calgary Chamber of Commerce, the Pembina Institute) on the energy industry and climate change. Co-Investigators: Drs. Bob Page, Harrie Vredenburg and Alain Verbeke.
“IRIS-ISEEE Research Initiative on Business Risks and Opportunities in Commercial CCS Investments”, April 2009 – December 2010. Awarded by Natural Resources Canada. $184,660. Principal Investigator. Grant is to fund research and dissemination on finding solutions to a range of investment challenges faced by senior decision-makers considering CCS projects. Co-Investigators: Team from IRIS / Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
“Engagement in Community”. September 2007 – May 2008. Awarded by the Leadership Council of the Research Network for Business Sustainability, $25,000. Principal Investigator. Grant funded a “knowledge project” on corporate community engagement and translating research results for academic, practitioner and university teacher audiences. Co-Investigators: Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Drs. Irene Herremans and Aloyisius Newenham-Kahindi.
“Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Environmental Initiatives at Foreign-owned Canadian Subsidiaries”. April 2006 – March 2009. Awarded under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Standard Research Grant Programme, $84,368. Principal Investigator. Grant funded a series of interviews with senior managers within foreign-owned subsidiaries, focusing on the tension between local and global environmental initiatives in their organizations.
“Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Environmental Initiatives at Canadian Subsidiaries”. June 2005 – November 2005. Awarded by the University of Calgary under the SSHRC Development Grants Programme, $1,000. Grant was to fund background research for a Standard Research Grant Application to SSHRC.
“Resource Based and Behavioural Perspectives on Subsidiary Initiative: Evidence from Canadian Subsidiaries”. April 2004 – September 2005. Awarded by the University of Calgary Research Grants Committee under the Starter Grant Programme, $9,848.75. Grant was to fund a series of interviews with senior executives at Canadian subsidiaries in the biotechnology and natural resource industries, focusing on resource allocation and subsidiary initiative.
Dean’s Research Grant. July 2003 – June 2006. Awarded by the Haskayne School of Business, $30,000. Grant funded research on the environmental responsiveness strategies of large UK and US companies.
“Corporate Environmental and Social Responsiveness (CESR): An International Survey”. September- December 2002. Awarded by Sheffield University Management School Research Committee under the Research Work Kick Start Fund, £500. Grant was to fund the UK questionnaire in a six country survey of CESR practices (USA, UK, France, Spain, China and Japan).
“The Virtual Casebook: A Pilot project”, April 2001 - Jan 2002. with Dr. Seonaidh McDonald, University of Sheffield and Dr. Nicky Shaw, University of Leeds. Awarded by the White Rose Centre for Enterprise under the Enterprise Learning programme, £5,000
“Corporate Environmental Management Summer School”, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, August 1998. Awarded by Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFA), £3,000
Undergraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUS300: Innovation and Enterprise
Postgraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUSM023: Innovation and Global Competition