Dr Martha Prevezer
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation

Roles: Admissions Tutor, International Liaison
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7468
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.25a
Email: m.j.prevezer@qmul.ac.uk

Research interests:

Martha Prevezer’s research is on innovation and technological development in both developed countries and emerging markets. She looks at the emergence of new industries and technologies, new organizational and governance structures in response to changing technologies, and the creation of firms and entrepreneurship and its relation to institutional development in emerging markets. She has degrees in History, Economics, and English literature from Cambridge University and London University, and adopts both historical and economic approaches to these themes. Prior to Queen Mary, she worked at London Business School, City University and South Bank University.

Publications:

Journal Articles:

Institutions and New Firm Entry: How and why do Entry Rates differ in Emerging Markets?, with Saul Estrin,  forthcoming in Economic System,2010

The role of informal institutions in corporate governance across BRIC countries, with Saul Estrin, conditionally accepted for special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Management,2010

The emergence of markets and capabilities, dynamic transaction costs and institutions: effects on organizational choices in offshored and outsourced business services in China, in Journal of Strategic Management Education, 2010

Patterns of innovation in UK industry: exploring the CIS data to contrast high and low technology industries, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2002, vol 13 pp267-304, with Howard Cox and Marion Frenz

Technology Policies in generating biotechnology clusters: A comparison of China and the US, special issue of European Planning Studies, vol 16 issue 3, Rethinking Innovation Policy in the Life Sciences: Implications for Regional and Innovation Policy, ed Alessandro Rosiello 2008 pp359-374

New Product Development and Product Supply Within a Networked Setting in the Chilled Ready Meat Industry
M. Prevezer, H. Cox, S. Mowatt, Industry and Innovation, 10(2): 197-217, ISSN: 1366-2716

The Firm in the Information Age: Organizational Responses to Technological Change in the Processed Foods Sector, M. Prevezer, H. Cox, S. Mowatt, Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(1): 135-158, ISSN: 0960-6491

New Knowledge: Appropriability v Diffusion; The Case of Biotechnology, M. Prevezer, S. Shohet, International Journal of Biotechnology, 4(4): 337-360, ISSN: 0963-6048

Ingredients in the Early Development of the US Biotechnology Industry, M. Prevezer, Small Business Economics, 17(1-2): 17-29, ISSN: 0921-898X

Books & Chapters: 

The Development of Biotechnology Clusters in the US from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in Biotechnology in Comparative Perspective (ed) Gerhard Fuchs, Routledge, 2003, pp 33-55

Published Conference Papers:

The Impact of Technological Regimes on patterns of sustained and sporadic innovation activities in UK industries with Marion Frenz, DTI  IESE Economics and Statistics Reports, Paper No 9, March 2004

Other Publications: 

Policy-induced clustering: the emergence of biotechnology clusters on the east coast of China, with Han Tang, in Cluster Genesis: the emergence of technology clusters 2006 (eds) Pontus Braunerhjelm and Maryann Feldman, OUP

Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:

  • British Academy grant £7328 May-October 2006 on New regions of technological advantage: India and China
  • Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School £5000 for project on offshoring, May-December 2005
  • Centre for Business and Policy Studies, Stockholm, 2004  $8000, Cluster Genesis project 
  • Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School 2004, £9000 Entry of new firms in emerging markets
  • Leverhulme Trust, January 2001 December 2002,  £58,870, Organisational Responses to technical change
  • EU, Targeted Social and Economic Research Programme, July 2000-Feb 2002, Assessing impact of innovation and globalisation on employment and growth
  • DTI, Feb 2002 – July 2002, £9,500, on Community Innovation Surveys
  • DTI, Jan 2003-Dec 2003, £9,500, on persistence of innovation

Undergraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
BUS017: Economics for Business

Postgraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
BUSM012: International Strategy and Marketing
BUSM027: Research Methods for Business & Management

 

PhD 1st Supervisor: 

Mr. Jorge Marques

Mr Li Jian