Dr Suzanne Mawson
Reader
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Personal statement
I joined joined the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship (HCE) in July 2020. My research centres around how entrepreneurs think, make decisions and act in pursuit of developing and growing their businesses, as well as how such growth-oriented individuals can be supported through policy interventions and training. My current research projects focus on conceptually differentiating between firm scaling and for growth, policy interventions to support the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems and how entrepreneurial thinking and action (entrepreneurial mindset) can be shaped through education and public policy. At the HCE I teach creativity and entrepreneurial thinking classes on our MSc and MBA programmes. This aligns closely to my research interests and expertise on supporting business developent, growth and scaling through value creation.
Prize And Awards
- Certified Business & Management Educator (CBME)
- Recipient
- 2/2024
- Certified Practitioner of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile®
- Recipient
- 2/2023
- Mario Raffa Policy Paper Award, RENT XXXVI Conference
- Recipient
- 17/11/2022
- SBS Publication prize
- Recipient
- 11/2/2022
Publications
- Beyond words : how visual imagery shapes collaborative sensemaking in entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Wurth Bernd, Mawson Suzanne
- Journal of Business Venturing Insights Vol 21 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00458
- Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea : the perspectives of founder owner-managers
- Park Chongryol, McQuaid Ronald, Mawson Suzanne
- International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (2023)
- Embedding entrepreneurial competence or just "playing the system"?
- Mawson Suzanne, Casulli Lucrezia
- 3E European Entrepreneurship Education Conference (2023)
- A competence development approach for entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education
- Mawson Suzanne, Casulli Lucrezia, Simmons Emilee L
- Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy Vol 6, pp. 481–501 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/25151274221143146
- Managing through a crisis : emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Ramli Kautsar, Spigel Ben, Williams Nick, Mawson Suzanne, Jack Sarah
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Vol 35, pp. 24-48 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2022.2143905
- New thinking or the 'emperor's new clothes’? : a critique of entrepreneurial mindset and public policy
- Simmons Emilee Lauran, Mawson Suzanne, Casulli Lucrezia
- RENT XXXVI (2022)
Research Interests
My area of expertise is broadly entrepreneurship, specifically business development and growth in the context of young ventures and SMEs. Much of my work to date has focused on high growth/scale-up entrepreneurship, including the nature and processes of growth in these firms, their support requirements (financial and otherwise) and the wider public policy context and support mechanisms designed for high growth firms/scale-ups (high growth entrepreneurship policy). I am also interested in wider issues related to business development and growth including creativity; entrepreneurial thinking and mindset; the role of entrepreneurial financing; the effect of changes in ownership structure and business models; business accelerator programming, as well as entrepreneurship education for different audiences.
Professional Activities
- International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2023
- Participant
- 6/9/2023
- 3E European Entrepreneurship Education Conference
- Participant
- 10/5/2023
- RENT XXXVI Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis
- Participant
- 16/11/2022
- Entrepreneurial thinking and mindset in higher education: A Competence Development Perspective
- Contributor
- 19/5/2022
- Rethinking entrepreneurship education: Entrepreneurial thinking and mindset
- Invited speaker
- 18/8/2021
- Business and Society manuscript development workshop
- Participant
- 26/2/2021
Projects
- Entrepreneurial Mindset in UK HEI Curricula
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Simmons, Emilee Lauran (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Scottish Tech Ecosystem Fund
- Wurth, Bernd (Principal Investigator) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Entrepreneurial resiliency, innovation, and change during the COVID-19 Crisis
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2020 - 14-Jan-2021
- Employee Ownership Database Development
- McQuaid, Ronald (Principal Investigator) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Yusof, Zatun Najahah (Researcher)
- This project is funded by Scottish Enterprise to supports the Co-operative Development Scotland on updating the Scottish Enterprise Employee Ownership Database Development. The project provide a current census of the employee-owned businesses (EOBs) and co-operatives in Scotland.
- 27-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Suzanne
Mawson
Reader
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Email: s.mawson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6199