Dr Leslie Budd
Reader in Social Enterprise
Dr Leslie Budd is a member of The Open University's Centre for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise.
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Biography
Leslie is Reader in Social Enterprise at The Open University Business School in the Centre for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise (PULSE) and a member of the cross-faculty research centre, The Centre for Innovation Knowledge and Development (IKD) ones of whose streams, Regional Transformation and Development, he leads. He joined The Open University Business School in October 2001 following two years at Brunel Business School at Brunel University. Previously, he was Senior Economist at the West London Training and Enterprise Council where he jointly set up the Research and Intelligence Centre, following a long career at London Guildhall University. Leslie began his career in structural engineering and switched to economics as a mature student. His academic career has been interspersed with research secondments in France and Germany working on the relationship between decentralisation and corporatism.
He is an economist who is well known internationally for his work in regional and urban economics in the context of the development of international financial markets. His current interests cover a range of issues that are centred, within an inter-disciplinary framework, on the region (both supra-national and sub-national) and its urban implications as the unit of analysis. Leslie has developed a line of enquiry in the development of the New Regional Management, investigating decentralisation of governmental functions and the impact this has on policy fields, for example innovation and entrepreneurship. He is Director of the Regional Analysis Innovation Knowledge and Entrepreneurship (RAIKE) Research Exchange.
Between 2003 and 2006, Leslie was Chair of the Regional Studies Association, one of the world's leading learned societies and was elected an Academician of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences in 2004, for his services to regional studies. He has carried out research consultancy projects for the London Development Partnership on the London economy; the Corporation of London on London's financial markets and those in the Middle East; the UK Small Business Service on the Regional Venture Capital Fund; the Gulf Finance House; Civic Arts: the Association of Consulting Engineers; and is an Associate of Capital Business Strategies. He was academic referee to the ESRC on the new Centre for Spatial Economics Research Competition and was a member of the Department of Trade and Industry Working Group development, the UK government Social Enterprise Strategy in 2001.
Teaching interests
Leslie's current teaching includes Deputy Course Chair of Shaping public policy: contexts and processes (B856); one of the core units of the Master in Public Administration (MPA) and a course team member of Investigating entrepreneurial opportunities (B322).
Research interests
Leslie's research interests lie in the fields of regional economic development particularly global and European Union economic governance with regard to international financial markets; eEconomy, eGovernance and eEntrepreneurship in relation to changing functional and territorial scales; public governance, policy and management. My New Regional Management project attempts to integrate the relationship between social enterprise and the devolution and management of governmental functions.
Research student supervision
Publications
(2012) 'Re-regulating the financial system: the return of the state or societal corporatism?', Contemporary Social Scienve, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 1-19. Abstract
(2008) 'Neglected aspects of the East Asian financial crisis', Twenty-First Century Society, vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 31-48. Abstract
(2008) 'Neglected aspects of the East Asian financial crisis', Twenty-First Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 31-48. Abstract
(2007) 'A cohesion pact for the regions: a role for industrial policy', Policy Studies, vol. 28, issue 4, pp. 347-363. Abstract
(2007) 'Post-bureaucracy and reanimating public governance: A discourse and practice of continuity?', International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 20, issue 6, pp. 531-547. Abstract
(2005) 'Emotional labour and the regional question', International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, vol. 1, issue 2, Inderscience Publishers, pp. 105-119. Abstract
(2004) 'Conceptual framework for regional competitiveness', Regional Studies, vol. 38, issue 9, Routledge, pp. 1015-1028. Abstract
(2001) 'Not the leading edge (Book review)', City, vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 113-118.
(2001) 'Relationships between the financial and property markets in the Asia-Pacific area', Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, vol. 7, issue 2, University of Western Sydney, pp. 113-125.
(2000) 'Financial services and the urban system: an exploration', Urban Studies, vol. 37, issue 3, Routledge, pp. 593-610. Abstract
(2000) 'Offdigital: why money has always been virtual', City, vol. 4, issue 1, Routledge, pp. 155-161. Abstract
(1998) 'Territorial competition and globalisation: Scylla and Charbydis of European cities', Urban Studies, vol. 35, issue 4, Routledge, pp. 663-685. Abstract
(1997) 'Confirming conforming conventions: the four world cities study', City, vol. 2, issue 7, Routledge, pp. 171-181. Abstract
(1997) 'Regional government and performance in France', Regional Studies, vol. 31, issue 2, Routledge, pp. 187-192.
(1997) 'Regional integration and convergence and the problems of fiscal and monetary systems: some speculative lessons for Eastern Europe', Regional Studies, vol. 31, issue 6, Routledge, pp. 559-570. Abstract
(1997) 'The rentier city in the millennium?', City, vol. 2, issue 8, Routledge, pp. 166-171. Abstract
(1995) 'Globalisation, territory and strategic alliances in different financial centres', Cities, Enterprises and Society at the Eve of the XXIst Century, IFRESI, Lille, France, MarchUrban Studies, vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 345-360. Abstract
(1995) 'The growth of global strategic alliances in different financial centres', Urban Studies, vol. 32, issue 2, Routledge.
(1994) 'European regional distributional coalitions in a global-local environment', Current Politics and Economics of Europe, vol. 4, issue 2.
(2008) 'eGovernance: Managing or Governing?', London, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2006) 'Making policy happen', London, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2006) 'The Rise of the English Regions?', Routledge.
(2005) 'Key concepts in urban studies', Key Concepts Series, London, UK, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 200. Abstract
(2004) 'The eEconomy: rhetoric or reality?', Routledge.
(2004) 'e-Economy: rhetoric or business reality?', Routledge eBusiness, UK, Routledge, pp. 248. Abstract
(1992) 'Global finance and urban living: a study of metropolitan change', UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2012) 'The potential role of Regional Development Agencies in achieving the priorities of Europe 2020 in the context of the Financial Crisis', Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 70-86. Abstract
(2009) 'A cohesion pact for the regions: a role for industrial policy', Industrial and Regional Policies in an Enlarging EU, London, Routledge. Abstract
(2009) 'Governance puzzles', e-Governance: Managing or Governing, London, UK, Routledge, pp. 29-52. Abstract
(2008) 'e-Governance and the governance of the Internet', eGovernance: Managing or Governing?, New York, Routledge, pp. 53-70. Abstract
(2008) 'The limits of post-Lisbon governance in the European Union', eGovernance: Managing or Governing?, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2008) 'Managing governance or governance management: is it all in a digital day's work?', eGovernance: Managing or Governing, UK, Routledge, pp. 1-25. Abstract
(2006) 'London: from city-state to city region?', The Rise of the English Regions?, Routledge. Abstract
(2006) 'The English region's last hurrah? An introduction', Baker, M, Hardill, I, Benneworth, P and Budd, L (eds) The Rise of the English Regions?, Routledge.
(2006) 'Measurement and its pitfalls', Making Policy Happen, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 216-228.
(2006) 'The rise of the english regions: an introduction', The rise of the english regions?, London, UK, Routledge, pp. 3-21. Abstract
(2004) 'Death of the 'New'? Re-materialising the economy', e-Economy: rhetoric or business reality?, Routledge, pp. 1-27. Abstract
(2004) 'The Economy of virtuality and reality: an introduction', The e-Economy: rhetoric or reality?, London, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2004) 'Where do we go from here? embedding the rhetoric of the e-economy in the reality of business', The e-Economy: rhetoric or reality?, London, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2004) 'E-Business processes: information and operations for competitive advantage', The eEconomy: rhetoric or reality?, Oxford, Routledge. Abstract
(2003) 'The Business environment for eCommerce', eBusiness Fundamentals, London, Routledge, pp. 13-42. Abstract
(2000) 'Peripherality and economic development', Margins in European Integration, Basingstoke, UK, Macmillan. Abstract
(1999) 'Globalisation and the crisis of territorial embeddedness in international markets', Money and the Space Economy, Chichester, John Wiley, pp. 49-70.
(1999) 'Cohesive divergence in Euroland: the regional implications of managing the single currency', Hardy, S and Hart, M (eds) European Regions at the Margin?, London, Routledge.
(1998) 'Global cities and finance: a troubled relationship', Nederlands Geographical StudiesTiming global cities, vol. 241, issue 241, Utrecht, Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, pp. 67-83.
(1992) 'Introduction', Global Finance and Urban Living,, London, UK, Routledge, pp. 1-28. Abstract
(1992) 'An urban narrative and the imperatives of the city', Global Finance and Urban Living, UK, Routledge, pp. 260-281. Abstract
(2011) 'Multi-channel governance and electronic democracy', Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2011: Contested Regions: Territorial Politics and Policy, London, UK. Abstract
(2008) 'This limits of post-Lisbon Governance in the European Union', Regional Studies Association Annal International Conference, Regions: The Dilemmas of Integration and Competition, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic.
(2008) 'Unequal voice of BME network in regional economic development', Regional Studies Association Winter Conference: Working Regions, London, UK.
(2008) 'Unequal voice of BME networks: theories of discrimination and economic development', ESRC Seminar Regional and Local Dynamics of Minority Community Networks: Voice and Agency, Open University, 12 November.
(2007) 'Between the earth and the sky? The discourses of architects and engineers in 1970s'', Tall Buildings in the London Landscape: A historical and Contemporary Sympsosium (Institute of Historical Research), University of London.
(2007) 'The canard of a globalising service economy? Regional aspects of the commodity boom', Regional Studies Association International Conference - Regions in Focus, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
(2007) 'Competitiveness, clusters and commodities: a global or regional brew?', Advanced Institute of Management/Regional Studies Seminar Competitiveness and Global Clusters, University of Birmingham.
(2007) 'Perverse outcomes of new transport infrastructure in cities and regions', Regional Studies Association Winter Conference - Transport, Mobility and Regional Development, London, UK.
(2006) 'Between informal organisation and space of emotion? Theorising the region', Whither Regional Studies? Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago. Abstract
(2006) 'A cohesion pact for the regions?', Regional Studies Association International Conference - Shaping EU regional policy: economic, social and political pressures, University of Leuven, Belgium.
(2006) 'Neglected aspects of the East Asian financial crisis', Regional Studies Annual Conference, Global City-Regions?, London, UK.
(2005) 'Managing the distribution of growth trajectories: China's uneven regional boom', Regional Studies International Congress Regional Futures, Aalborg, Denmark. Abstract
(2004) 'A cohesion plan for Europe's regions'', EU Regional Policy, Peripherality and Rurality, Regional Studies Association, EU Regional Policy Conference, University of Angers, France.
(2003) 'The conceptualising the benchmarking of regional competitiveness', Rethinking the Regions and Regional Competitiveness, Cambridge-MIT Institute International Conference,, University of Cambridge, UK.
(2003) 'The feasibility of benchmarking indicators of regional competitiveness', Reinventing the Region in the Global Economy Regional Studies Association International Congress, University of Pisa, 12-15 April, University of Pisa. Abstract
(2003) 'The prospect of hypothecating devolved finance', Economic Governance Post-Devolution: Differentiation or Convergence? Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, London.
(2003) 'The regulation of international transfer pricing: a theological approach', European Association of Accounting Conference (EAA), Seville, Spain. Abstract
(2002) 'An evaluation or a framework for evaluation? The conundrum of creating a system for appraising the regional impact of EMU', Evaluation and EU policy: new question and new challenges, Regional Studies Association, Université d'Aix - Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France.
(2002) 'The prospect for entrpreneurial regions through social enterprise', Building Entreprenurial Capacity in the Regions, Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, London, UK.
(2002) 'The regulation of international transfer pricing: a theological critique', British Academy of Management Annual Conference, London.
(2001) 'Modelling the impact of training using a characteristics approach: implications for UK learning and training infrastructure', Regionalising the Knowledge Economy, Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, London.
(2001) 'The possible role of financial markets and instruments as mechanisms of regional distribution in central and eastern European countries', Regional Studies Association International Conference: Regional Transitions - European Regions and the Challenges of Development, Integration and Enlargement, Gdansk, Poland. Abstract
(2000) 'Cohesive Divergence? The regional implications of the economic governance of the Euro-Area', EU Regional Policy: Progress, Problems and Prospects, Regional Studies Association International Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.
(2000) 'The East Asian crisis from a regional perspective: the contribution of central place theory', European Congress of Regional Studies Association, University of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain.
(2000) 'A study of financial markets and real estate performance in Pacific Asia economies', 7th European Real Estate Society Conference, Bordeaux, France. Abstract
(1998) 'The architecture of finance and space', International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, Canada.
(1997) 'Creating a new geography of financial production to extend the frontiers of regional development in Central and Eastern Europe', European Congress of Regional Studies Association, University of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder.
(1997) 'The future may be urban but will Asia's cities become global?', International Sociological Association, Urban and Regional Research Committee Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin.
(1996) 'Extended peripheries and shifting cores in Europe's regional globalism', European Urban and Regional Studies Conference, University of Exeter, UK.
(1996) 'Regional questions of European integration', ESRC Urban and Regional Economics Seminar, University of Paisley, July.
(1995) 'Extended cores and shifting peripheries in a wider regional Europe', University Association for Contemporary European Studies, University of Birmingham, September.
(1995) 'Regional performance and regional government in France', Annual Conference of Regional Studies Association - 'Regional Building', Regent's College, London, November.
(1995) 'Territorial competition and globalisation: Scylla and Charbydis of European cities', Regional Studies Association International Congress, Regional Futures, Gothenburg, May.
(1993) 'Globalization, capital markets and state intermediation: some introductory remarks', Key Nodes in the Global System: New York, Tokyo, Paris and London Planning Conference, New York, May.
(1993) 'The nationalisation of cities in a global economy', World Congress of International Sociological Association, University of Bielefeld, July.
(1993) 'Regional distributional coalitions (or a re-run of corporatism) in a global-local environment', 9th Urban Change and Conflict Conference, University of Sheffield, September.
(1993) 'Regional integration and convergence and the problems of fiscal and monetary systems: some lessons for eastern Europe', 33rd European Congress of Regional Science Association, Moscow, August.
(1992) 'Competing financial centres and the consequences of a regional hierarchy', International Sociological Association: modernisation, regional hierarchies and the end of bi-polarity, UCLA Los Angeles, April.
(1992) 'The spatial and temporal transformation of Europe's regions', 8th Conference of Council of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Palmer House, Chicago, March.
(1989) 'Local and regional economic policy making in Nord-Pas-de-Calais', ESRC/ Conseil Cultural, Ambassade de France, Londres, Sponsored Conference Local Economic Policy Making in Lille and Sheffield, January, City of London Polytechnic.
(2010) 'Advertising', Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Advertising: Speed-dating for business', issue 05/03/10, Open2.net article for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Can the three Rs help the world economy recover?', issue 09/02/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Design for living - or living by design?', issue 19/02/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'The Guns n Roses approach to tricky markets', issue 15/03/10, Open2.net article for th BBC's The BottomLine.
(2010) 'Hubris, schadenfreude and the unbalanced Eurozone', issue 28/05/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'The knowledge economy is dead! Long live the design economy!', issue 12/07/10, Blog for the OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Lap dancing around the regulations', issue 18/03/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Advertising', issue 05/03/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... being seen to do nothing', issue 24/06/10, Video Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Branding', issue 15/07/10, Video Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Conferences', issue 15/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... creative superstars', issue 25/03/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Creatives', issue 01/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... cutting costs', issue 11/03/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Design', issue 01/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Headhunting', issue 10/06/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... hedge funds', issue 10/06/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... old versus new', issue 03/06/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Outsourcing', issue 26/02/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... product placement', issue 12/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Risk', issue 18/03/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Teamwork', issue 08/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... Technofear', issue 08/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... the eurozone', issue 27/05/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... the public image', issue 11/02/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'Leslie Budd on... theft or investment?', issue 24/06/10, Video Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Money for nothing, crisis for free?', Business Works, issue Autumn, pp. 08/09/10.
(2010) 'Outsource and be damned?', issue 05/03/10, Open2.net article for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Playing the game, attracting the talent', issue 11/06/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2010) 'The public relations piper plays the propagandist's tune', issue 12/02/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'The showroom to the heart of business leadership', issue 09/02/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2010) 'Spider's stratagem', issue 12/07/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2009) 'Accounting for creative frontiers', issue 18/11/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Can masters and mistresses of the corporate universe connect with mere mortals?', issue 08/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Connecting clusters to broadcasting', issue 12/11/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Faith in fakes? Travels in hyper-mobility', issue 16/10/10, blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Is planning the new mantra of business?', issue 17/07/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'King Cash still exercises its divine right over the economy', issue 15/06/10, Blog for the BBC's The Money Programme.
(2009) 'The language of private capital', issue 09/11/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Making manufacturing motor', issue 08/06/10, Blog for the BBC's The Money Programme.
(2009) 'Money's second life?', issue 02/11/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2009) 'Technological ageism?', issue 26/10/10, Blog for the BBC's The Bottom Line.
(2001) 'Regional convergence in the EU: the Commission's view', REGIONS, vol. 236, issue 1, Newsletter of the Regional Studies Association, pp. 24-25.
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