Innovation & Enterprise Award
Centre Associate Mehdi Boussebaa has won the Dean’s 2011 Award for Innovation & Enterprise at the Bath School of Management. Recently he gave presentations on ‘Control, conflict & power in multinationals: the case of global professional service firms’at Imperial College Business School in March and also at the Novak Druce Centre’s annual conference in July. In addition, two new book chapters by him will appear in 2012 : ‘Projects & professionals: management consultants in the new world of work’, co-written with G Morgan and A Sturdy, in New Spirits of Capitalism? On the Ethics of the Contemporary Capitalist Order (OUP), and ‘La construction de la multinationale “apatride”: le cas des entreprises mondiales de services professionnels’ in Mondialisation, Travail et Compétences (Armand Colin). An article based on the first of these has also been accepted for publication by Organization Studies.
New Grant to Study University Management
Centre Associate Markus Reihlen of Leuphana University 
and Jetta Frost of the University of Hamburg have won a 520,000 euro research grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research to study the management of universities. The study will investigate the strategic, organisational and behavioral dimensions of universities taking them as a particular case of professional organisations.
Professor Reihlen is also editing, with Andreas Werr, The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services to be published in 2012 by Edward Elgar. Its appearance will be especially timely in that the topic of entrepreneurship in professional service firms forms the theme of the next Novak Druce Annual PSF Conference which will be held at Lüneburg jointly with Leuphana University.