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Svetlana Warhurst
[Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship]

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Dr Svetlana Warhurst is a Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex.

Svetlana completed her Doctoral Research at the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business Group, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School , UK. Her doctoral thesis examines the impact of autonomy and embeddedness on performance of foreign-owned subsidiaries in the UK.

She received an MSc in International Business Management from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001, and a BSc. in Economics with Honours from Polotsk State University, Belarus in 1997.

Discipline

International Business and Entrepreneurship

Research interests

Svetlana’s research interests lie in the area of international business and entrepreneurship. She is an active member of Academy of International Business and has participated and presented at a number of UK and international conferences and research seminars.

Svetlana is a research supervisor to Master’s and PhD students at the School of Entrepreneurship and Business.

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Publications

Refereed journal publications:

 “Subsidiary Autonomy and Embeddedness and Performance in Host Locations” with F. McDonald and M. Allen, Multinational Business Review, accepted. To be published in 2008.

“Subsidiary Embeddedness, Entrepreneurial Strategies and Performance: An Empirical Study” with J. Mitra, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, under review.

Referred conference proceedings (recent):

  1. “Subsidiary Embeddedness, Entrepreneurial Strategies and Performance: An Empirical Study” with J. Mitra, Competitive Paper, 30th International Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, 07-09/11/2007, Glasgow, UK.
  2. “An Empirical Investigation into the Country-of-Origin Effects, Embeddedness and Autonomy and the Performance of Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries in the UK”, Best Research Insight Paper Award, the 6th International Entrepreneurship Forum, 31/08/06-02/09/06, Riga, Latvia.
  3. “Country of Origin Effects, Autonomy and Embeddedness and the Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries”, Competitive Paper, the 33rd Academy of International Business - UK Chapter, Manchester, UK, April 7-8, 2006.
  4. “Autonomy and Embeddedness and the Performance of Foreign Owned Subsidiaries”, the 31st European International Business Academy Conference, Competitive Paper, 12-13 December 2005, Oslo, Norway.
  5. “The problems of Sustainable Development and Financial Management of a Firm”, The problems of Stabilisation and Economic Growth in Belarus, BSU, Minsk, 27/10/99.
  6. “The problems of the management of an enterprise’s financial stability in order to improve its investment attractiveness”, International Conference on Investment Management under the Conditions Operating in Transition Economies, PSU, Novopolotsk, 31/05/99- 01/06/99.
  7. “Some aspects of the implementation of management accounting practices in Belarus”, 20th International Symposium of Students and Young Scientists, Zelona Gora, Poland, 11-12/05/98.
  8. “The Technical and Economic Analysis of Technological and Organisational Measures used to Examine the Procurement Requirements of an Enterprise”, Conference on Mathematical Methods in Micro and Macro Economics, BSEU, Minsk, 18-20/12/96, with Piskunova, E.A., Kheifetz, M.L., Bogdan, N.I.
  9. “The Reasons for Technological and Organisational Decisions under Free Market Economy Conditions”, Paper given at the Conference on The Management, Organization and Technology of Machines, Devices and Equipment Overhaul, The Crimea, 28-30/05/96, with Bogdan, N.I., Vanina, S.K.

Research projects

Svetlana has several years of research experience working on externally funded research projects:

“Survey of International Entrepreneurship in the UK ”, MMUBS, 2004.

“Establishment, assessment and development of Master programmes” – REAP Scheme, BSU and MMUBS, 2003.

“Quantitative and qualitative employment effects of German direct foreign investment in the UK on home and host countries”, Anglo-German Foundation for the Industrial Society and German-British Chamber of Commerce, MMUBS, 2002-2003.

“Education process reorganization and structural reforming”, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, MMUBS and the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics , Moscow , 2001-2002.

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