Senior Lecturer in Management
I joined higher education in 2017. My research focuses on the firm's innovation and productivity. I am currently working on the virtuous relationship between a firm's innovation, exports and sustainability practices of firms operating in peripheral regions.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and provide consulting services to SMEs operating in peripheral regions.
Teaching and supervision
I teach:
- MSc International Business Management
- Master of Business Administration MBA
- Master of Business Administration (with PgCert)
I lead modules PGBM150 – Innovation, Entrepreneurship And Technology Transfer and MGTM03 – Digital Enterprise And Innovation.
Research interests for potential research students
- Firm's innovation
- Firm's sustainability
- Entrepreneurship
Research
Publications
Article
Mathew, Sony and Seddighi, Hamid (2022) The formation of a firm's core competence and its development: an analysis with a special reference to North East England firms. European Journal of Management Studies, 27 (3). pp. 267-290. ISSN 2183-4172
Seddighi, Hamid and Mathew, Sony (2020) Innovation and regional development via the firm’s core competence: some recent evidence from North East England. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. ISSN 2444-569X
Reports, briefing/ working papers
Fernandes, Professor Kiran, Goumagias, Nikolaos, Shukla, Manish, Oxley, Greg, Purvis, Kieran, Cabras, Ignazio, Xiong, Yu, Seddighi, Hamid, Watson, Derek, Coleman, Peter, Mathew, Sony, Issac, Biju and Jacob, Seibu Mary (2018) Developing an innovation ecosystem: Policy, skills and operations. Project Report. Report by the North East Innovation Observatory for the North East Local Enterprise Partnership.