Staff Profile - Nick Wilson

Kingston Univertisy Faculty of Business and Law

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Dr Nick Wilson
MA(Cantab); MBA; PGCertHE; PhD
Principal Lecturer - Full Time
Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Room KH-01 Kenry House
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7LB

Phone: 020 8417 9000 Ext: 65506

N.Wilson@kingston.ac.uk

Biography

Nick is Course Director of the University's innovative Programme of Master's courses in the Creative Economy (see www.ourcreativeeconomy.com). Nick studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to train as a singer at the Royal College of Music, London and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, before moving into music management, working for a leading artist management and concert promotions company. After completing his MBA, Nick joined the Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University as a researcher and lecturer, subsequently completing his doctoral thesis on the emergence of the early music performance labour market in the UK.

Expertise

Nick has undertaken a range of research and consultancy projects focusing on the creative industries and the creative economy. Key research projects have included commissioned work for the DCMS, Arts Council of England, and the LDA. Nick is co-author of 'Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship', published by CENGAGE.

Research Interests

Current research interests include developing critical realist theories of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and related social processes, and the development of multi-disciplinary learning in creativity and management.

Teaching

In addition to teaching entrepreneurship across many courses, Nick teaches two of the core modules on the MA Creative Economy (The Creative Economy, and Managing Creativity and Innovation). He also co-ordinates The Entrepreneurship Experience series of guest talks by entrepreneurs.

Membership/Memberships

FRSA

Recent Publications

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Number of items: 10.

Article

Wilson, Nicholas C. and Stokes, David (2005) Managing creativity and innovation: The challenge for cultural entrepreneurs. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 12(3), pp. 366-378. ISSN (print) 1462-6004

Wilson, Nicholas.C. and Stokes, David (2004) Laments and serenades: relationship marketing and legitimation strategies for the cultural entrepreneur. Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 7(3), pp. 218-227. ISSN (print) 1352-2752

Wilson, Nicholas and Stokes, David (2002) Cultural entrepreneurs and creating exchange. Journal of Research in Marketing & Entrepreneurship, 4(1), pp. 37-52. ISSN (online) 1471-521X

Wilson, Nicholas (2001) Financing small music businesses in the UK. Cultural Trends, 11(41), pp. 93-122. ISSN (print) 0954-8963

Book

Stokes, David and Wilson, Nicholas (2006) Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship. 5th ed. London, UK : Thomson Learning / CENGAGE. 479p. ISBN 9781844802241

Book Section

Wilson, Nicholas (2007) Applying critical realism: re-conceptualising the emergent English early music performer labour market. In: Lawson, Clive , Latsis, John and Martins, Nuno, (eds.) Contributions to Social Ontology. London, UK : Routledge. pp. 304-323. (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) ISBN 0415403731

Conference or Workshop Item

Kitching, John , Hart, Mark , Wilson, Nicholas and Blackburn, Robert (2008) Does regulation promote small business performance? A critical realist informed approach. In: 31st Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference: International Entrepreneurship - promoting excellence in education, research and practice ; 5-7 Nov 2008, Belfast, U.K.

Wilson, Nick , Kitching, John and Hart, Mark (2008) "It's the evidence, stupid": doing and legitimising policy-funded research. In: 31st Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference: International Entrepreneurship - promoting excellence in education, research and practice ; 5-7 Nov 2008, Belfast, U.K.

Wilson, Nick (2004) "Congratulations it’s a labour market!” A causal-explanatory account of the birth of the UK early music musician labour market. In: International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Conference 2004: Theorising Ontology; 17-19 Aug 2004, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

Monograph

Wilson, Nicholas C. and Stokes, David (2006) Entrepreneurship education: the road less travelled. (Working Paper) Birmingham, UK : National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE). 17 p.

This publications list was generated on: Tue Feb 9 03:17:37 2010 GMT.