ISBE is delighted to announce the appointment of three new Fellows in recognition of their significant contribution to the Institute and their outstanding record of past achievements.
Professor Paul Jones
Professor Paul Jones is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swansea University. Paul previously held academic posts at Coventry University, Plymouth University and the University of South Wales. He is an experienced academic with a long record of service to our community.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ISBE’s in-house journal, the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, a role he has held for many years. Additionally, Paul serves as Senior Editor with Information Technology and People and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Management Education. He is also Editor of ISBE’s Emerald Book Series Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research.
Paul has supervised c. 17 PhD students and examined over 50 doctoral candidates across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Paul’s strong commitment to developing the next generation of entrepreneurship and small business academic researchers is also evident through his longstanding organisation and management of the ISBE doctoral day.
Moreover, Paul has generated over £1.5 million in external grant income across his career to date which includes funding for projects separately with both the Nigerian and Welsh governments
Paul has also published 130 journal articles and co-edited 17 books.
Paul has made a significant contribution to the entrepreneurship and small business research community and research base.
Paul is an exemplar of ISBE’s values – he is strongly embedded in the ISBE and E&SB community, serving as a Board member and editor of ISBE’s journal and running the doctoral day for a period of (I suspect) over ten years now. Paul is always looking forward offering valuable suggestions to ensure that ISBE maintains its position by staying relevant. He is ethical and fair in his dealings, upholding high standards of research integrity and ethics in the journal in the face of AI.
Paul is embedded in the entrepreneurship and small business community internationally and serves as an ambassador for ISBE, as well as Swansea University, when attending HEIs to serve as external examiner or sit on recruitment panels. This activity supports good attendance rates at our annual Doctoral days.
Professor Colin Mason
Professor Mason has made a significant contribution to the entrepreneurship discipline over his career. Professor Mason’s research is situated within the area of entrepreneurship having a particular expertise with regards to the area of entrepreneurship and regional development. His long-term research focus has focused on entrepreneurial finance, specifically business angel investing. Professor Mason has also undertaken research on home-based businesses, high growth firms and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Professor Mason has worked in academia for over 40 years until his retirement in 2023, most recently as Professor of Entrepreneurship in the University of Glasgow since 2012. Previously, Professor Mason held professorships in Economic Geography at the University of Southampton and in Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde. However, Professor Mason continues to be research active in his capacity as an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
Professor Mason has held visiting positions at: University of Ottawa, Memorial University of Newfoundland (both Canada), Flinders University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina), London Business, School, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax (Canada), University of Canterbury, University of Otago and University of Auckland (New Zealand). He was the founding editor of the journal “Venture Capital: an international journal of entrepreneurial finance” published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Mason was a panel member of Sub-Panel 17 Business and Management in REF 2021 and is a member of several learned societies. His research has been the subject of several awards including the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Entrepreneurship Practice Award and the ESRC Impact in Business Award for 25 years of research on business angels. Most recently, Professor Mason was awarded Canada’s National Angel Capital Organisation’ Investment Summit LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD “for long standing dedication to fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem”. Professor Mason has been a prolific scholar since the late 1970s and has produced over academic 300 outputs including publication in the highest level journals such as “Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice” and the “Journal of Business Venturing”. His body of work has been cited over 25,000 times highlighting his massive contribution to the entrepreneurship discipline.
Over his career, Professor Mason has extensive global networks of colleagues and stakeholders spanning across both research and practitioner communities. The nominee is a prolific researcher and renowned expert in the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial business, business angel and entrepreneurial eco systems fields both in the UK and globally. During their career, the nominee has regularly contributed to the ISBE conference and the wider research community. Over the years, Professor Mason has encouraged his peers and doctoral students to attend ISBE events and regularly supports symposia and other events. Professor Mason would be an excellent ambassador for ISBE in future years and a great individual to draw upon and mentor other academics within the ISBE society.
As noted previously, Professor Mason has long established international and national networks with a wide range of learned societies and bodies that would potentially be of value to ISBE. Professor Mason sits on 9 editorial boards of leading journals including the International Small Business Journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and Small Business Economics.
Professor Maura McAdam
Professor McAdam’s research is situated within the area of entrepreneurship having a particular expertise with regards to the influence of gender upon women’s entrepreneurship, high technology business incubation and family business. Her early research interests were developed in response to a curiosity regarding the development of entrepreneurial clusters, incubators and networking. Professor McAdam has extensive experience of enabling and participating successfully in both regional and international entrepreneurial ecosystems, as a result of well-established research networks in the UK, Ireland, EU, New Zealand, US and the Middle East, spanning a career of over 20 years. In her career to date she has produced over 60+ journal articles; 9 book chapters; 4 books, 100+ conference papers which have had significant impact in terms of academic metrics (over 8100 citations, h-index 39, i10-index 63). For the last four consecutive years she has been ranked amongst the top 2% of scientists in the world for research impact, by a study led by Stanford University which ranks scientists across the world, based on a composite citation index from the Scopus database.
Professor McAdam has extensive networks of colleagues and stakeholders spanning across research and practitioner communities. The nominee is an active researcher in the Entrepreneurship discipline both in the UK and globally. Professor McAdam is recognised as an expert in entrepreneurship particularly with regard to female entrepreneurship, family business and entrepreneurial ecosystems. The nominee regularly contributes research to the ISBE conference and contributes to the wider ISBE research community. Professor McAdam regularly encourages her doctoral students to attend ISBE events and regularly supports symposia and other events. Professor McAdam would be an excellent ambassador for ISBE in future years and a great individual to draw upon and mentor other academics within the ISBE society.
As noted previously Professor McAdam has established international and national networks with a range of organisation and bodies that would potentially be of value to ISBE including the Royal Irish Academy.Professor McAdam is on the editorial boards of leading UK and US journals such as the International Small Business Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.