Dr Zella King
International Business and Strategy
Senior Lecturer
Director of PhD Programme, International Business and Strategy
Email: z.m.e.king@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5061
Location: HBS 147, Whiteknights campus
Zella King is a Senior Lecturer in Henley Business School and Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. She teaches Strategic Human Resource Management and supervises PhD students with interests in social networks, human capital, career management and employability. Her research analyses the strategic choices that people make about their human and social capital; investigates how staffing and recruitment companies affect employment outcomes; and explores how academics and technology entrepreneurs build their social capital through the choice of collaboration partners.
She is fascinated by social networks and their influence on the creation and spread of ideas. Zella has a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London. Before joining the academic world, she worked as a Consultant for Accenture, and as a Corporate Finance Executive for the investment bank Schroders.
By area: Career Management; Human Resource Management; Social Networks; Employability; Staffing Agencies; HR Function
By industry: Recruitment Consultancy; Plastic Electronics
Module convenor on Strategic Human Resource Management (undergraduate course)
Fernandez-Mateo, I. and King, Z. (2011) Anticipatory sorting and gender segregation in temporary employment.Management Science, 57 (6). pp. 989-1008. ISSN 1526-5501
Perkmann, M., King, Z. and Pavelin, S. (2011) Engaging excellence? Effects of faculty quality on university engagement with industry. Research Policy, 40 (4). pp. 539-552. ISSN 0048-7333
Inkson, K. and King, Z. (2011) Contested terrain in careers: A psychological contract model. Human Relations, 64 (1). pp. 37-57. ISSN 1741-282X
King, Z., Burke, S. and Pemberton, J. (2005) The 'bounded' career: an empirical study of human capital, career mobility and employment outcomes in a mediated labour market. Human Relations, 58 (8). pp. 981-1007. ISSN 1741-282X
Lowe, M., Chiasson, M., D'Adderio, L., George, G., King, Z., Prabhu, J. and Sapsed, J. (2009) At the edge of innovation: why shifts in the boundaries of innovation matter. Report. Advanced Institute of Management Research, London. pp32. ISBN 9781906087203
King, Z. (2009) Plastic electronics: putting the UK at the forefront of a new technological revolution. Report. Advanced Institute of Management Research, London. pp40. ISBN 9781906087210
Faggian, A., Jewell, S. and King, Z. (2010) The effect of term-time employment on UK higher education students. In:Valencia, L. K. and Hahn, B. J. (eds.) Employment and Labor Issues: Unemployment, Youth Employment and Child Labor. Nova Science Publishers, pp. 39-68. ISBN 9781608762828
Della Giusta, M. and King, Z. (2006) Enterprise culture. In: Casson, M., Yeung, B., Bassus, A. and Wadeson, N. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 629-647. ISBN 9780199288984