Dr Michael Smets

Lecturer in Strategy

Economics and Strategy Group

• Phone: 0044 (0)121 204 5262
• Email: m.smets@aston.ac.uk
• Room: SW1019

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Profile

I joined Aston Business School in August 2009 as a Lecturer in Strategy in the Economics and Strategy Group. My research focuses on professional and knowledge-intensive service organisations, specifically their strategic management, internationalization, and interaction with socio-cultural contexts.Recent research projects included studies of global law firms and the alignment of their work across various jurisdictions, comparisons of risk- and reinsurance-trading practices in Lloyd’s of London, Bermuda, and Continental Europe, and continuous service innovation in professional sectors.I use qualitative methods, specialising in video- and team-ethnography. I received my DPhil from Said Business School, University of Oxford in 2009, where I am now an Associate Fellow of the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms. Method expertise in: (Corporate) Ethnography, Qualitative Interviewing

Research Interests

• institutional theory
  

• practice theory

• (international) strategic management

• Professional service innovation

• management of knowledge-intensive and professional services (esp. law, consulting, reinsurance) http://www1.aston.ac.uk/reinsurance/

• Aston Centre for Critical Infrastructure and Services (ACCIS) - http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/research/centres/accis/

• Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms - http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/professionalservices/Pages/default.aspx
  

Teaching activity 

• Strategic Management, part-time MBA (BSM999)

• Strategic Management, executive MBA (BSM989)

• Topics in Advanced Strategy, MSc elective (BSM931)

• Perspectives on Business and Management, undergraduate (BS1131)

• Centre for Executive Development