Professor Don Webber
FeRSA FHEA BSc(Hons.) PG(Cert.)TLHE MA PhD
Management School
Head of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business Subject Group
Chair in Managerial Economics
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Look out for Don's third book:
Bennett, L., Webber, D.J. and Brooks, C. (forthcoming) Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Place, Processes, People. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
Don’s research focuses on two main areas:
- Productivity and economic growth as understood under the two-dimensional perspective – i.e. economic growth and productivity figures measure the change in the financial value of output created and not the ratio of physical inputs to physical outputs (see Don's paper with Gissell Huaccha below). Research is needed to explore the extent that productivity and growth – as measured in terms of GVA or GDP – are related to productivity efficiency, productive effectiveness, or technology. The standard view of productivity and growth is that this is of course the case, but the two-dimensional perspective strongly questions how much of this is true. Instead, market power, persuasive advertising, and in particular demand management techniques may be the dominant determining forces driving growth and productivity.
- The academic research ecosystem – i.e. how universities and the people within and outside of them enable, enhance, constrain, or belittle, etc. each other’s academic research activities and the prominence of their findings. This has huge implications for our ability to produce research output for the benefit of society and the measured performance of academic researchers.
Both of these research areas are novel and have the potential to change the way we look at the economy and our ability to create new knowledge.
Don is very interested in supporting our next generation of academic researchers and working with them to achieve their potential, including PhD students. Prospective PhD students researching the above or closely connected topics are encouraged to contact him for further discussion. He is very open to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.
Don has written over 100 academic peer-reviewed articles and led or collaborated on £2.3m of externally funded research. His work has been discussed at the United Nation's International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Welsh Government and elsewhere.
- Research interests
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- Productivity
- Health
- Education
- Regions
- Heterodoxy
- Publications
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Books
- MIGRATION, MOBILITY AND THE CREATIVE CLASS..
- How to Enhance Your Research 100 Practical Tips for Academics. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Journal articles
- . Journal of International Management, 101157-101157.
- . Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 47(1), 55-83.
- . Journal of Economic Issues, 57(3), 735-759.
- . Journal of Economic Issues, 57(1), 1-7.
- . Journal of Economic Issues, 57(1), 153-171.
- . Applied Research in Quality of Life.
- . Event Management.
- Should governments invest in cycle paths to encourage more cycling?. The Empirical Economics Letters, 21(6), 75-87.
- . Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 36(6), 524-540.
- . Regional Science Policy & Practice, 13(S1), 198-216.
- . Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 173.
- . International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.
- . Economic Inquiry, 59(2).
- Conspicuous and inconspicuous discriminations in everyday life. ECONOMIC ISSUES, 26, 103-104.
- . Regional Science Policy & Practice.
- Student entrepreneurial propensities in the individual-organisational-environmental nexus. Economic Issues, 31-59.
- . Regional Studies, Regional Science, 6(1), 405-420.
- . Studies in Higher Education, 44(4), 628-642.
- . International Review of Applied Economics, 33(4), 523-541.
- . Post-Communist Economies, 31(2), 258-278.
- . Economic Geography, 94(4), 355-375.
- . Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 33(1), 118-119.
- . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(1), 157-174.
- . Welsh Economic Review, 25, 42-50.
- . British Journal of Management, 27(3), 606-627.
- . International Journal of Social Economics, 43(3), 263-283.
- . International Journal of Innovation Management, 20(02), 1650032-1650032.
- . Personnel Review, 45(1), 183-200.
- . Regional Studies, 49(9), 1548-1560.
- . Social Science & Medicine, 134, 50-58.
- . International Review of Economics Education, 17, 39-54.
- . International Review of Economics Education, 17, 120-136.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(3), 323-339.
- . Work, Employment and Society, 28(3), 407-429.
- . Electoral Studies, 34, 216-231.
- . International Journal of Tourism Research, 16(2), 169-179.
- . Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 22(2), 299-318.
- . Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 18(4), 285-300.
- . Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(4), 507-526.
- . Journal of Services Marketing, 27(4), 294-311.
- . Applied Economics, 45(8), 1011-1025.
- . Journal of Policy Modeling, 35(6), 978-991.
- . New Zealand Economic Papers, 46(3), 189-190.
- . Applied Economics, 44(23), 2945-2954.
- . Applied Economics Letters, 19(11), 1095-1099.
- . The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(13), 2661-2679.
- . Regional Studies, 46(3), 279-291.
- . Applied Economics, 44(9), 1121-1132.
- . International Journal of Bank Marketing, 30(1), 20-42.
- . Applied Economics, 44(5), 607-616.
- . Applied Economics, 44(5), 599-605.
- . International Journal of Hospitality Management, 30(2), 439-447.
- . International Review of Economics Education, 10(2), 50-62.
- . Regional Studies, 44(6), 735-760.
- . Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 25(4), 339-355.
- . International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 17(3), 198-207.
- . Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development, 7(2), 163-178.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 15(1), 33-47.
- . Applied Economics Letters, 16(18), 1825-1829.
- . Applied Economics Letters, 16(13), 1375-1381.
- . Papers in Regional Science, 88(3), 609-621.
- . World Economy, 32(6), 965-994.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 14(2), 119-141.
- . Regional Studies, 43(5), 661-675.
- . Applied Economics, 41(9), 1183-1190.
- . Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 23(1), 47-57.
- . International Journal of Business Performance Management, 10(4), 305-305.
- . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 39(8), 1981-1997.
- . Economics Letters, 94(3), 338-341.
- . The Journal of Socio-Economics, 35(5), 854-867.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 11(1), 65-84.
- . Journal of Regional Science, 45(3), 565-589.
- . International Review of Economics Education, 4(1), 58-73.
- . The Economic Journal, 114(499), F549-F551.
- . Regional Studies, 37(8), 773-782.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 8(2), 197-212.
- . The Economic Journal, 113(488), F415-F416.
- . The Economic Journal, 113(485), F201-F202.
- . The Economic Journal, 112(483), F599-F601.
- . Applied Economics, 34(13), 1633-1643.
- . The Economic Journal, 112(480), F377-F378.
- . Applied Economics, 34(3), 385-394.
- . Innovations, 15(1), 151-151.
- . Progress in Development Studies, 2(1), 67-68.
- . Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 17(2), 96-110.
- . Applied Economics Letters, 8(11), 709-711.
- . Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 6(3), 339-354.
- . Applied Economics Letters, 8(5), 355-357.
- . Oxford Economic Papers.
- . Applied Economics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-16.
- Journal of rural studies. Journal of Rural Studies.
- Investment in digital infrastructure: why and for whom?. Region.
Chapters
- , Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science (pp. 121-135). Springer International Publishing
- How will the effects of Covid-19 on macroeconomic demand and supply affect firm-level productivity?, Productivity and the Pandemic: Challenges and Insights from Covid-19 (pp. 237-249).
- , Promoting Innovation in New Ventures and Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (pp. 3-27). WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE)
- , European Governance: Policy Making Between Politicization and Control (pp. 53-67).
Conference proceedings papers
- Fluctuating regional house price affordability and the irrelevance of mortgage rates. 2018 Joint Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research and Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, APNHR and AHRC 2018 - Proceedings (pp 135-152)
Preprints
- Research group
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Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business
- Grants
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- (2016 - 2018) Welsh Government ‘Understanding productivity variations between England and Wales: A Reassessment’ with Anthony Plumridge and Michael Horswell)
- (2015 - 2016) Welsh Government ‘Understanding productivity variations between England and Wales’ (with Anthony Plumridge and Michael Horswell)
- (2014 - 2016) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Bristol and Bath by Design (with Hoskins, S., C. McMahon, A. Noonan, G. Parry, G. Morton and A. Taylor) http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/30375/1/2016%20BBxD_FinalReport_.pdf
- (2012 - 2014) Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘'How can employment and skills policy or practice reduce poverty?’ (with Page, D., Veliziotis, M. and Johnson, S.) http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/does-poor-health-affect-employment-transitions
- Teaching interests
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I believe in research-led teaching and incorporate this into my teaching practice through, for example, the use of contemporary case studies and findings from my own research.
- PhD supervision
Prospective PhD students who wish to study productivity (very broadly defined), health, education and/or geographically-related issues are encouraged to contact Don for further discussion. He is very open to qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research.
Professor Don Webber supervises:
- PhD student Fajrin Muttaqin
- PhD student Quanbo Qi
- PhD student Alex Ricketts