Dr Jeffrey Hughes' Outputs (3)

Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business (2024)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J., Hughes, J., Hay, A., Greene, F., & Seaman, C. (2024). Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business. Journal of Business Research, 183, Article 114859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114859

Support for small business is widely acknowledged as a complex issue of interrelated economic resilience and sustainability. Despite an established literature on the mechanisms through which university business schools support business, few studies h... Read More about Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business.

Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., Pitsis, T., Leighton, M., & Bhatia, K. (2024, April). Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation. Paper presented at 9th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference 2024, University of Leeds

A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems (2024)
Journal Article
Healy, J., Hughes, J., Donnelly-Cox, G., & Shantz, A. (2024). A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21, Article e00455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00455

Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown that social change is far more complex: it is a reci... Read More about A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems.