All Outputs (11)

Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities (2025)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., Nasirov, S., Hughes, M., & Hughes, P. (in press). Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities. Journal of Technology Transfer,

Universities are increasingly tasked with fulfilling a "third mission"-driving economic growth through knowledge creation and innovation, with inventive activities serving as an important mechanism to achieve this mission. This research investigates... Read More about Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities.

Founder Personality and Start-up Subsidies (2023)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., & Hottenrott, H. (2024). Founder Personality and Start-up Subsidies. Industry and Innovation, 31(2), 241-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2023.2243235

Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek public subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality links to entre... Read More about Founder Personality and Start-up Subsidies.

Individual Ambidexterity, Relational Context and Academic Entrepreneurship Performance: Too Much of a Good Thing? (2023)
Journal Article
Chang, Y. Y., Chapman, G., Hughes, P., & Chang, C. Y. (2024). Individual Ambidexterity, Relational Context and Academic Entrepreneurship Performance: Too Much of a Good Thing?. British Journal of Management, 35(2), 750-774. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12733

Scholars have called for a better understanding of the performance consequences of individual ambidexterity. In this work, we utilize the context of academic entrepreneurship to study how and why individual ambidexterity impacts academic entrepreneur... Read More about Individual Ambidexterity, Relational Context and Academic Entrepreneurship Performance: Too Much of a Good Thing?.

When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Hu, Q., Hughes, P., Hughes, M. (., Chapman, G., & He, X. (2023). When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions. R&D Management, 53(3), 524-542. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12580

How family firms innovate has captivated scholars for over a decade. However, an investigation into the benefits of research and development (R&D) for family firm value under differing economic conditions has received little attention in the family f... Read More about When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions.

Higher education student motivations for extracurricular activities: evidence from UK universities (2023)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., Emambocus, W., & Obembe, D. (2023). Higher education student motivations for extracurricular activities: evidence from UK universities. Journal of Education and Work, 36(2), 138-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2023.2167955

Higher education students are required to demonstrate value beyond their curricula achievements to secure jobs in increasingly competitive labour markets. Focusing on extracurricular activities as one-way students can do so, this paper uses a motivat... Read More about Higher education student motivations for extracurricular activities: evidence from UK universities.

Workforce Diversity, Diversity Charters and Collective Turnover: Long-term Commitment Pays (2022)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., Nasirov, S., & Özbilgin, M. (2023). Workforce Diversity, Diversity Charters and Collective Turnover: Long-term Commitment Pays. British Journal of Management, 34(3), 1340-1359. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12644

Modern workplaces are becoming increasingly demographically diverse. However, the influence of workforce diversity on organizational outcomes is not fully understood. In this work, we study how and why workforce gender and racial diversity impacts co... Read More about Workforce Diversity, Diversity Charters and Collective Turnover: Long-term Commitment Pays.

Green start-ups and the role of founder personality (2022)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., & Hottenrott, H. (2022). Green start-ups and the role of founder personality. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 17, Article e00316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00316

Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decisio... Read More about Green start-ups and the role of founder personality.

R&D Tax Incentives and Innovation: Examining the Role of Programme Design in China (2021)
Journal Article
Dai, X., & Chapman, G. (2022). R&D Tax Incentives and Innovation: Examining the Role of Programme Design in China. Technovation, 113, Article 102419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102419

Successful tax incentive interventions rely on effective programme design, yet designing an effective programme is highly challenging. We draw on the policy design and tax incentive literature to shed light on how two policy design choices – the natu... Read More about R&D Tax Incentives and Innovation: Examining the Role of Programme Design in China.

Late-stage venture capital and firm performance: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China (2021)
Journal Article
Dai, X., Chapman, G., & Shen, H. (2022). Late-stage venture capital and firm performance: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China. Applied Economics, 54(20), 2356-2372. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1989370

Where venture capitalists have traditionally focused on early-stage innovative firms, increasingly venture capitalists are investing in late-stage firms, especially in Asia. The performance consequences of this novel phenomenon of late-stage venture... Read More about Late-stage venture capital and firm performance: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China.

R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience (2018)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., Lucena, A., & Afcha, S. (2018). R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience. Research Policy, 47(3), 623-636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.01.009

External collaboration breadth is important for firms to acquire the knowledge needed to innovate. In this paper, we combine cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Spanish Panel of Technological Innovation Survey (PITEC) to examine the indire... Read More about R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience.

The effect of public support on senior manager attitudes to innovation (2017)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., & Hewitt-Dundas, N. (2018). The effect of public support on senior manager attitudes to innovation. Technovation, 69, 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.10.004

Senior manager innovation-orientated attitudes are key drivers of innovation within micro and smaller firms. Despite this, little guidance exists on the initiatives organisations can utilise to induce and strengthen such desirable attitudes. In this... Read More about The effect of public support on senior manager attitudes to innovation.