Working with SMEs and Social Enterprises Professor Catherine Wang Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy Brunel Business School Catherine.Wang@brunel.ac.uk

SME Research within BBS Brunel Business School Business Accounting Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy Marketing Organisations and People BBS Enterprise

SME Research within CBASS College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Centre for Global Lives SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Institutions Social Entrepreneurship in Education Big Data and AI on Innovation Mindfulness and Graduate Entrepreneurship Circular Economy and Sustainability Ethnic Entrepreneurship and SMEs

SME Research Priorities Interdisciplinary and collaborative research Theoretically sound and methodologically robust Business engagement and impact Building research capability Expanding research networks Applying for research grants

My Research Interest The intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, in particular, how firms can turn strategic and entrepreneurial resources and capabilities into successful innovation and firm performance in commercial and social enterprises The resource-based view of the firm and dynamic capabilities Entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial learning Organisational ambidexterity International and comparative research on entrepreneurship and SMEs Social entrepreneurship Quantitative methods plus mixed methods

Past and Present Funded Projects Social entrepreneurship Assessing economic, social and environmental impact of social enterprises in London Social enterprises in the UK: rising to global challenges in the post-Brexit era Social entrepreneurship in higher education seminar series Entrepreneurial and innovative capacity of UK and Chinese high-tech firms Entrepreneurial orientation and growth potential of (Chinese and Turkish) ethnic minority SMEs in London