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Lecturer in International Management
Melike Arslan is a Lecturer in International Management in the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
She is a sociologist and political economist whose research examines the legal and regulatory foundations of markets, the political and economic power of business, and the emergence of new professional groups in law and economics.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne) and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
Her research has been published in Socio-Economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Public Policy, International Journal of Law in Context, and Annual Review of Law and Social Science. She is currently conducting research on economic consultants, the political power of business innovations, and digital platforms, while also contributing to collaborative projects on industrial policy, long-term decision-making, and geoeconomics.
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Melike Arslan
Professor of International Management
Tony Edwards is a Professor of International Management in the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship and is currently the Academic Lead for People and Culture at Loughborough. He recently completed a term as Dean of the inter-disciplinary, postgraduate-focused London campus of Loughborough.
His expertise is in international human resource management, particularly the ways in which multinational companies are integrating their operations across borders and the ways in which this impacts the people who work for them.
He has an extensive body of published work, consisting of 55 articles in refereed journals, including in Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Human Relations. He has won numerous grants from bodies such as the ESRC, the European Union and its agencies, and from a range of practitioner bodies such as Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an Associate Editor at the Human Resource Management Journal.
He is currently leading a programme of research into ‘new global players’ which is examining the strategies and impact of Middle Eastern and Indian investment in sport, media and high tech industries.
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Tony Edwards
Reader in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Kun Fu is a Reader in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London. She holds a PhD degree in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University.
Her research interests lie in the fields of strategic entrepreneurship and technology innovation. She has published in Small Business Economics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, World Development and other journals. Some of her research has been sponsored by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, Sino-British Fellowship Trust.
Kun also undertook consultancy assignments for the national government agency (e.g., The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis), international organization (e.g., The World Intellectual Property Organization, Asian Developed Bank), and private sector enterprise (e.g., Shell).
Kun has been Module Leader for LLP201 Innovation Management, one of the largest core modules in the School, and LLP205 Intellectual Property.
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Kun Fu
Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship
Anna Grosman is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
Her research focuses on international business, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and innovation, with particular interest in how government policy, international relations, and political and social agendas shape firm outcomes domestically and internationally.
She holds a PhD from Imperial College London and has published in leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of World Business, and British Journal of Management. She serves on the editorial review boards of Global Strategy Journal and Journal of World Business, and as an editor of the Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Finance.
Anna has received research funding from the British Academy, EPSRC, Higher Education Innovation Funding, the South African Reserve Bank, Strategic Management Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
Before entering academia, she worked in investment banking and corporate strategy, including roles at Georgia-Pacific (Koch Industries), CIBC World Markets, Citigroup, and Close Brothers.
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Anna Grosman
Senior Lecturer in International Management
Philipp Kern is a Senior Lecturer in International Management in the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
He holds a PhD in Management from King’s College London and conducts research at the intersection of firms and their institutional environment, with a particular interest in norm-making within multinationals, corporate social innovation, and value creation and appropriation among stakeholders of the firm.
His research has been supported by grants from the British Academy and ESRC and has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management Journal, and other leading journals. He has expertise in conducting comparative, longitudinal studies using mixed-methods approaches, including panel data analysis, discourse analysis, and semi-structured interviews.
Philipp is currently Chief Programme Director for the Institute for International Management and teaches Comparative Management and Collaborative Project.
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Philipp Kern
Teaching Fellow
Fiona Meeks is a Teaching Fellow at the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
She specialises in the micro-level dimensions of regional innovation. Through detailed case studies—particularly those focused on actors based at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park—Fiona offers insights into how innovative practices are embedded in collaborative, creative, and sustainable initiatives across various industry sectors.
Fiona holds a PhD from Loughborough University London and brings extensive professional experience from the public sector, having collaborated with a range of local authorities on projects spanning digital health, music, and sports provision. As a consultant, she has worked with a diverse portfolio of industry clients, including At Scale, BADU Sports, Catch Impact, the Greater London Authority (GLA), Here East, the London Legacy Development Corporation, Sport England, and LOCOG.
At the Institute, Fiona leads modules on Creative Industries Business Models, The Collaborative Project, and Sustainable Enterprise Management. She also contributes to teaching in Innovation Management, Strategy and Market Analysis, and New Venture Creation.
Fiona Meeks
Teaching Fellow
Nicos Moushouttas is a Teaching Fellow at the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
He is responsible for leading the Research Methods module and contributing to the modules of International Business in Global Context, and International Human Resource Management.
Nicos holds a PhD from Loughborough University London and his research focuses on the analysis of alternative organisations, specifically worker owned and controlled cooperatives. He investigates organisational and decision-making structures, labour processes, and their potential as alternative forms of production within the current economic system. Broader research interests include economic and political sociology, political economy, and organisational studies.
Nicos Moushouttas
Lecturer in International Management
Merve Sancak is a Lecturer in International Management at Loughborough University London.
She is a political economist whose research sits at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, economic sociology, and development studies. Merve investigates how global and national dynamics influence inclusive and sustained economic development in late-industrializing countries, with a particular focus on the role of national institutions and global value chains in shaping firms’ employment practices toward vulnerable groups.
Her book, Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation (Oxford University Press, 2022), examines how governance structures in global value chains and national institutions influence skill formation in the Mexican and Turkish automotive industries. It was awarded the Japanese Outstanding Research on Development award from the Global Development Network.
Her work has been published in leading journals including Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Industrial Relations Journal, Global Networks, and Competition & Change. She has co-led the Connecting Global Capitalism with National Capitalisms mini-conferences at SASE.
Before joining Loughborough University London, she was a Lecturer at De Montfort University and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. She holds a PhD in Economic Sociology from the University of Cambridge.
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Merve Sancak
Professor of International Management & Political Economy
Gerhard Schnyder is Professor of International Management and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.
He is a political economist whose research takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to understanding the institutional and political foundations of economic activity. His work focuses on how state transformations, legal systems, and informal institutions shape firm-level practices, with particular emphasis on corporate governance and corporate political activity.
He joined Loughborough University London in 2017 and became Director of the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship (IIME) in 2019. Previously, he was a lecturer at King’s College London and Director of the MSc in International Management. He completed postdoctoral research at the Centre for Business Research (University of Cambridge), SOAS (University of London), and the University of Bath, after graduating from the University of Lausanne.
Gerhard was the lead investigator on the NORFACE-funded POPBACK project (Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the EU), involving eight universities across five countries. He also co-organises SASE’s outreach initiative Social Sciences for the Real World, following a decade of leading a SASE research network (2012–2022).
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Gerhard Schnyder
Reader in Sociology & Political Economy
Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Loughborough University London.
He has two primary research streams – one on work, management, and employment relations, another on the political economy of capitalist growth.
Matt is author of Management Divided (Oxford University Press) and Organizing Prosperity (with David Kusnet; EPI) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (with Paul Prew, Tomás Rotta and Tony Smith; OUP), and Comparative Political Economy of Work (with Marco Hauptmeier; Palgrave). He has published over 25 journal articles or book chapters, another 10 short academic pieces, and dozens of short, popular pieces.