Dr Maria Jemicz Programme Director - MBA Leeds Metropolitan University
Academic Background:
Position & Roles
Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
Faculty Enterprise Champion
Qualifications:
MBA
Completing a PhD in Psychology/Enterprise
Experience:
Industrial experience International Senior Manager in the electronic sector
Areas of Expertise:
Maria is a senior lecturer in the faculty of Business & Law in Enterprise. After a lengthy commercial career in Enterprise covering, training business advisors, developing commercial training programs, creating a Euro-Audit for SME's, Mentoring SME's and facilitating budding entrepreneurs to start-up in their own business.
Within the HE sector experience in teaching and developing courses in Enterprise from Foundation to Masters degrees.
At present, completing a PhD in Enterprise addressing "the cognition of the perception of opportunity"and research active in the following areas: transition economies, entrepreneurship and enterprise.
Selected Publications:
Pollard, D. J. and Jemicz, M. The Internationalisation of Czech SMEs: Some Issues Relating to Marketing Knowledge Deficiencies. International Journal of Small Business Management (in press)
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M.W. Social Capital Theory and the internationalization of Polish SMEs. Transformations in Business and Economics. (in press)
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M.W. Barriers to the Internationalisation of Polish SMEs: A Social Capital Theory Perspective. International Journal of Applied Management. 1 2.
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M. Facilitating an Entrepreneurial Environment in Eastern Lithuania: An Organization Ecology-Based Analysis. In Bell.,J., Morrow, T. and Crossan, D. (eds.) Trends in International Management Research Vol 12. Palgrave (forthcoming).
A book containing the 12 best papers from the AIB (UK) conference, Londonderry, April 2004.
Conference papers:
(* denotes reviewed papers)
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M.W. Entrepreneurial Development: A case study from Eastern Lithuania: Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate, September 2003.*
Jemicz, M.W. and Pollard, D.J. Attitudes and Objectivity: An Examination Of High-Growth Entrepreneurship. Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate, September 2003.*
Pollard, D.J and Jemicz, M. Organisational ecology and entrepreneurial development: A Lithuanian Case Study. Paper presented at the first International conference on nuclear industry development in transformation economies 2004 Vilnius
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M. Facilitating an Entrepreneurial Environment in Eastern Lithuania: An Organization Ecology-Based Analysis. Competitive paper presented at the AIB (UK) conference, Londonderry, April 2004.*
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M.W. Barriers to the internationalization of Polish SMEs: A social capital theoretical approach. Paper presented at a conference on the competitiveness of SMEs in accession countries, Szczecin, Poland, May 2004.
Pollard, D.J. and Jemicz, M.W. Social capital theory and the internationalization of transformation economy SMEs. Paper presented at the 12th BEDCEE Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2004.
Examples of recent consultancy:
Managing Exhibition SME's & Enterprise in Lancashire
Developing national training programme for Business Advisors
Training Business start-ups
Mentoring
