Professor Andrew Godley
International Business and Strategy
Director of Centre of Entrepreneurship
Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship
Email: a.c.godley@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5051
Location: Whiteknights campus
Andrew Godley is a Professor of Management and Business History and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Henley Business School. He is the Programme Director for the MSc Entrepreneurship and Management. He joined the University of Reading in 1991 after completing his PhD at the LSE. His research interests lie in the area of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation, with a particular focus on the international food and pharmaceutical sectors. He has been a consultant to several leading firms and government departments and is a frequent commentator in the broadcast and written media on industry trends.
By area: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Business, Business History
By industry: Food, Pharmaceuticals, Retailing
By geography: Global
Programme Director for MSc Entrepreneurship and Management. Module Convenor for Advances in Entrepreneurial Theory and Practice and Global Entrepreneurial Management.
‘International Retailing and Globalization’, with Haiming Hang, Business History forthcoming.
‘Implicit Contracts, Information Asymmetries and Entrepreneurial Marketing Capabilities’, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, forthcoming.
‘The Veterinary Medicines Industry in Britain, 1900-2000’, with Tony Corley, Economic History Review, 2011, Vol. 64 (3): 832-854.
‘Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken” in Britain’, with Bridget Williams, Business History Review 2009, (Summer) 83 (2): 267-290.
‘Internationalisation and Technological Leapfrogging in the Pharmaceutical industry’, with Suma Athreye, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 18 (2), April 2009: 295-323.
‘Business History and the Middle East: Local Contexts, Multinational Responses’, with Relli Shechter, Enterprise and Society, 2008 (Winter) 9 (4): 631-636.
‘Revisiting the Emergence of the Modern Business Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and the Singer Global Distribution System’, with Mark Casson, Journal of Management Studies, 2007 (November) 44 (7): 1064-1077.
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in London and New York: Enterprise and Culture Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001