Professor David Spicer

Professor of Small Business Development and Organisation Studies

Expertise: Business development, enterprise and entrepreneurialism, community engagement, SMEs, circular economies, economic development in the North, crisis planning

David has undertaken work with SMEs, public sector organisations (local government) and major commercial organisations. He is focused on strategic adaption and growth in small firms, and how such firms respond to crisis. His research interests lie in the study of learning and change in organisations, specifically, strategic adaptation, organisational learning, change agency and leadership, relationships between individual and organisational learning, relationships between learning, motivation and effectiveness, the role played by the individual learner and the impact and assessment of cognitive/learning style. 

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