University of Tasmania, Australia

Small Business, Innovation and Enterprise focuses on serving the unique needs of businesses in Tasmania through engaged research that links the School of Management to the community - needs that have emerged due to Tasmania's unique geographical, environmental and social location.  There is a focus on problems that are important to Tasmania, the Commonwealth, and the entrepreneurship discipline; and currently has three long term programmes: (1) Inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship education that develops students  with interdisciplinary interests by helping them recognize, assess, and exploit opportunities through-out their career and across many contexts; (2) Innovation and entrepreneurship in agricultural value chains both in Australia and developing nations, in collaboration with scholars from the University's Tasmania Institute of Agriculture and the Australian Maritime College with School of Management; (3) linking Commonwealth, State and local regional development agencies to small businesses and entrepreneurs with the aim of creating more effective SME policy. In this regard, in concert with the Australian Innovation Research Centre, the primary purpose of the work lies in contributing to the University's role in fostering economic prosperity in the Tasmanian regional context.

Cluster Leaders: Professor Morgan Miles and Dr Colin Jones

Publications

Byrom, JW & Lehman, KF 2009. 'Coopers Brewery: Heritage and innovation within a family firm', Marketing Intelligence and Planning 27 (4) pp. 516-523.

Hazeldine, M & Miles, M 2010 'An exploratory role analysis of opinion leaders adopters, and communicative adopters with a dynamically continuous innovation', Journal of Applied Business Research 26 (4) pp. 117-129.

Hegarty, C & Jones, C 2008 'Graduate entrepreneurship: More than child's play', Education and Training, 50 (7) pp. 626-637.

Hills, G., Hultman, C & Miles, M 2008 'The evolution and development of entrepreneurial marketing', Journal of Small Business Management, 46 (1) pp. 99-112.

Jones, CD & Hegarty, C 2011 'Exploring the Role of Entrepreneurial Marketing in Entrepreneurship Education', Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 24 (1) pp. 125-138.

Jones, CD & Matlay, H 2011, 'Understanding the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education: going beyond Gartner', Education and Training, 53 (8/9) pp. 692-703.

Jones, CD 2008, 'Best Practice Full-Stop: Anticipating the Spillover Effects of Enterprise Education', Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, IV (4) pp. 123-133.

Jones, CD 2009, 'Enterprise education: learning through personal experience', Industry and Higher Education, 23 (3) pp. 175-182

Jones, CD 2010, 'Accounting for student/educator diversity: resurrecting coaction theory', Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Fayolle, Alain (ed), Cheltenham, UK, pp. 71-85.

Jones, CD 2010, 'Entrepreneurship education: revisiting our role and its purpose', Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7 (4) pp. 500-513.

Jones, CD, 2011, Teaching Entrepreneurship to Undergraduates, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 166.

Kasouf, C., Darroch, J., Hultman, C & Miles, M 2008 'Service dominant logic: Implications at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface', Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 10 (1) pp. 57-69.

Marchisio, G., Mazzola, P., Sciascia, S., Miles, M & Astrachan, J 2010 'Corporate venturing in family business: The effects on the family and its members', Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 22 (3-4) pp. 349-377.

Miles, M & Darroch, J 2008 'A commentary on current research at the marketing and entrepreneurship interface', Journal of Small Business Management, 46 (1) pp. 46-49.

Miles, M., Crispin, SH & Kasouf, C 2011 'Entrepreneurship's relevance to marketing', Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 13 (2) pp. 126-136.

Miles, M., Darroch, J & Munilla, L 2009. 'Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship', International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 5 (1) pp. 65-76.

Morrish, S., Miles, M & Deacon, J 2010 'Entrepreneurial marketing: acknowledging the entrepreneur and customer-centric interrelationship', Journal of Strategic Marketing, 18 (4) pp. 303-316.

Shepherd, C., Marchisio, G., Morrish, S., Deacon, J &Miles, M 2010 'Entrepreneurial burnout: exploring antecedents, dimensions and outcomes', Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 12 (1) pp. 71-79.

Walsh, G., Schubert, P & Jones, CD 2010, 'Enterprise system investments for competitive advantage: An empirical study of Swiss SMEs', European Management Review, 7 (3) pp. 180-189.