Dr Suzanne Mawson
Reader
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Personal statement
I joined joined the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy (HCESI) in July 2020. My research centres around how entrepreneurs think, make decisions and act in pursuit of creating value, as well as how such individuals can be supported through policy interventions, educaton 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 (mindset) and action can be shaped through education and public policy. At the HCESI I teach entrepreneurial thinking classes on our UG 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
- Looking inside the 'black box' of digital firm scaling : an ethnographically informed conceptualisation
- Brown Ross, Mawson Suzanne, Rocha Augusto, Rowe Alex
- Journal of Business Research Vol 186 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114987
- 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
- Entrepreneurial Thinking : Mindset in Action
- Mawson Suzanne, Casulli Lucrezia
- (2024)
- Beyond self-efficacy : how core beliefs shape engagement with the entrepreneurial journey
- Casulli Lucrezia, Mawson Suzanne, MacLaren Andrew
- Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (2024)
- 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)
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
- Exploring Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Speaker
- 18/9/2024
- Exploration of Entrepreneurship
- Participant
- 18/6/2024
- Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference
- Participant
- 5/6/2024
- Beyond self-efficacy: how core beliefs shape engagement with the entrepreneurial journey
- Speaker
- 5/6/2024
- Provocation: Nurturing entrepreneurial mindsets through education
- Speaker
- 31/5/2024
- International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2023
- Participant
- 6/9/2023
Projects
- Entrepreneurial mindset for primary school children: Educational resources for entrepreneurial skills
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- 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) Mohd 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, Strategy and Innovation
Email: s.mawson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6199