Dr Sally Randles

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Name : Dr Sally Randles

Date joined CRIC : 1^st Feb 2000

Funding source : CRIC mainstream/ESRC

Background :

1) Qualifications:

Management Sciences (Marketing) (BSc.Hons.2.1) 1980-1983, University of Lancaster

Diploma of the Market Research Society (Dip.MRS) 1983-1985

Diploma of the Institute of Marketing, (Dip.M.)1986

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Kingston Business School, University of Kingston 1989-1992

Thesis (1992): “Finance for Growing Businesses: Revisiting the equity gap and government assistance to fast growth firms”

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

University of Manchester, School of Geography, 1996-April 2000

Thesis (2000): “Cities in Evolutionary Perspective: Diversity, Reflexivity, Scale and the Making of Economic Society in Manchester and Lyon”

2) Work

Market Research Executive, Communications Research Ltd (1983-85)

Survey Officer, the Consumers Association (1985-1987)

Marketing Advisor, Hammersmith & Fulham Enterprise Agency (1987-1988)

Co-ordinator, Spitalfields Community Job-Link (1988-1990)

Principal Economic Development Officer, Team Leader (Strategy and Regeneration), Bedfordshire County Council (1991-1995)

Research Fellow, CRIC, (Feb 2000 - )

3) Overview of Current research interests :

Theoretical themes: Competition, competitive processes, and systemic competition across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Instituted economic process and institutional evolution – the emergence and decline of institutions of economic governance and command/control producing interdependence and systemic integration. A systemic/complex systems approach to provision-consumption interfaces with particular attention to instituted practices. The instituted and interdependent nature of markets and the creation/demise of markets. their heterogeneity and contingent characteristics, their social construction, institutedness, normalisation and stability.

The role of the State and regulatory frameworks in instituting markets and competition.

Grounding literature: Instituted Economic Process and Markets (Polanyi). Economic Sociology (Weber through to Swedberg). Institutions and Regularities (Boyer). Sociology (Parsons and Garfinkel ) through to Bourdieu (on fields and practices) the theory of structuration (Giddens) collective reflexivity (Storper). Institutions and Markets (Hodgson) Geography (D.Harvey, Smith, Massey, Dunford, Dicken, Peck, Brenner, etc on Uneven Development, Space and Scale, Internationalisation, Divisions of Labour etc.)

Empirical contexts : 1) environmental technologies and services industries : their regulatory frameworks, development and internationalisation – the case of NW England. 2) Industrial ecology - problems and opportunities of an ecosystems approach to the organisation of manufacturing 3) researching the market research profession interfaces and ‘spaces between’ production and consumption, practices and professionalism, the sociology and politics of information, constructing and deconstructing the consumer 4) restructuring in pharmaceuticals - development, transition and drivers to the integration of interdependent instituted markets : the case of GlaxoSmithKline

Links to other sites. With others at CRIC, Sally works with the NEXSUS network for Sustainable Complex Systems

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