Professor Andrew Godley

Associate Dean International

Head of the Department of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Academic Director for the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship
Professor of Management and Business History
Senior Fellow, UK HEA

Specialisms

Entrepreneurship,
Business History,
Entrepreneurship in the Reading Region,
Historic Entrepreneurship in Global Pharmaceuticals Industry,
Historic Entrepreneurship in Global Food Industry

Location

Edith Morley building room 269, Whiteknights campus

Professor Andrew Godley is Associate Dean (International) and Head of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour at Henley Business School. He is Professor of Management and Business History and the Academic Director of the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Andrew's research interests lie in the areas of entrepreneurship and business history. Andrew has published in journals ranging from Economic History Review, Business History Review, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and won research grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy among others.

Andrew has been a consultant to several leading firms and government departments and is a frequent commentator in the broadcast and written media on trends in entrepreneurship. He is a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, China, where he is the Co-Director of the Reading-Zhejiang Sino-British Entrepreneurship Research Centre. He supervises doctoral students in the area of global entrepreneurship and business history.

The synergy approach to understand entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem taxonomy

Dr Maksim Belitski, Professor Andrew Godley,

The complementarity perspective to the entrepreneurial ecosystem taxonomy

Professor Andrew Godley, Dr Norbert Morawetz, Dr Lebene Soga,

A theoretical exploration of consumer engineering: implicit contracts and market making

Professor Andrew Godley, Keith Heron,

Different expectations: a comparative history of structure, experience, and strategic alliances in the U.S. and U.K. poultry sectors, 1920-1990

Professor Andrew Godley,

Technology transfer in the interwar U.S. pharmaceutical sector: the case of E. Merck of Darmstadt and Merck & Co., Rahway New Jersey

Professor Andrew Godley, Dr Marrisa Joseph,

Collective financing among Chinese entrepreneurs and department store retailing in China

Professor Andrew Godley,

The emergence of Agribusiness in Europe and the development of the Western European broiler chicken industry, 1945-73

Professor Andrew Godley,

'Doctor, Doctor...' entrepreneurial diagnosis and market making

Professor Andrew Godley, Professor Mark Casson,

Made in Italy. Made in Britain. Quality, brands and innovation in the European poultry market, 1950-1980

Professor Andrew Godley,

Priority research questions for the UK food system

Professor Andrew Godley,

Globalization and the evolution of international retailing: a comment on Alexander’s ‘British Overseas Retailing, 1900-1960'

Professor Andrew Godley,

Introduction: Jewish success in British business

Professor Andrew Godley,

Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer’s international marketing strategies, 1850-1920

Professor Andrew Godley,

Veterinary medicines in Britain: output and industry organisation since 1900

Professor Andrew Godley,

The development of the Jewish clothing industry in New York

Professor Andrew Godley,

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Globalisation and the evolution of international retailing: a comment on Alexander's 'British overseas retailing, 1900-1960'

Professor Andrew Godley,

The economic theory of entrepreneurship: an overview

Professor Mark Casson, Professor Andrew Godley,

Entrepreneurial opportunities, implicit contracts and market making for complex consumer goods

Professor Andrew Godley,

The emergence of modern marketing: international dimensions

Professor Andrew Godley,

The emergence of modern marketing: international dimensions

Professor Andrew Godley,

Foreign multinationals and innovation in British retailing, 1850-1962

Professor Andrew Godley,

Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: enterprise and culture

Professor Andrew Godley,

Foreign multinationals and innovation in British retailing, 1850-1962

Professor Andrew Godley,

A varrógép értékesítése a világpiacon: a Singer nemzetközi marketing stratégiái, 1850–1914 (Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer’s international marketing strategies, 1850–1914)

Professor Andrew Godley,

Entrepreneurship and historical explanation

Professor Mark Casson, Professor Andrew Godley,

Jewish mass migration and the choice of destination

Professor Andrew Godley,

The British entrepreneur in the 20th century revisited

Professor Andrew Godley, Professor Mark Casson,

The history of ethnic entrepreneurship

Professor Andrew Godley,

Revisiting the psychic distance paradox: international retailing in China in the long run (1840-2005)

Professor Andrew Godley,

The chicken, the factory farm and the supermarket: the emergence of the modern poultry industry in Britain

Professor Andrew Godley,

Business history and the Middle East: local contexts, multinational responses

Professor Andrew Godley,

Internationalising to create firm specific advantages: leapfrogging strategies of U.S. pharmaceutical firms in the 1930s and 1940s & Indian pharmaceutical firms in the 1990s and 2000s

Professor Andrew Godley,

Specialisms

Entrepreneurship
Business History
Entrepreneurship in the Reading Region
Historic Entrepreneurship in Global Pharmaceuticals Industry
Historic Entrepreneurship in Global Food Industry

Location

Edith Morley building room 269, Whiteknights campus

Professor Andrew Godley

Associate Dean International

Specialisms

Location

Key Publications Open

The synergy approach to understand entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem taxonomy

The complementarity perspective to the entrepreneurial ecosystem taxonomy

A theoretical exploration of consumer engineering: implicit contracts and market making

Different expectations: a comparative history of structure, experience, and strategic alliances in the U.S. and U.K. poultry sectors, 1920-1990

Technology transfer in the interwar U.S. pharmaceutical sector: the case of E. Merck of Darmstadt and Merck & Co., Rahway New Jersey

Collective financing among Chinese entrepreneurs and department store retailing in China

The emergence of Agribusiness in Europe and the development of the Western European broiler chicken industry, 1945-73

'Doctor, Doctor...' entrepreneurial diagnosis and market making

Made in Italy. Made in Britain. Quality, brands and innovation in the European poultry market, 1950-1980

Priority research questions for the UK food system

Globalization and the evolution of international retailing: a comment on Alexander’s ‘British Overseas Retailing, 1900-1960'

Introduction: Jewish success in British business

Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer’s international marketing strategies, 1850-1920

Veterinary medicines in Britain: output and industry organisation since 1900

The development of the Jewish clothing industry in New York

Globalisation and the evolution of international retailing: a comment on Alexander's 'British overseas retailing, 1900-1960'

The economic theory of entrepreneurship: an overview

Entrepreneurial opportunities, implicit contracts and market making for complex consumer goods

The emergence of modern marketing: international dimensions

The emergence of modern marketing: international dimensions

Foreign multinationals and innovation in British retailing, 1850-1962

Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: enterprise and culture

Foreign multinationals and innovation in British retailing, 1850-1962

A varrógép értékesítése a világpiacon: a Singer nemzetközi marketing stratégiái, 1850–1914 (Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer’s international marketing strategies, 1850–1914)

Entrepreneurship and historical explanation

Jewish mass migration and the choice of destination

The British entrepreneur in the 20th century revisited

The history of ethnic entrepreneurship

Revisiting the psychic distance paradox: international retailing in China in the long run (1840-2005)

The chicken, the factory farm and the supermarket: the emergence of the modern poultry industry in Britain

Business history and the Middle East: local contexts, multinational responses

Internationalising to create firm specific advantages: leapfrogging strategies of U.S. pharmaceutical firms in the 1930s and 1940s & Indian pharmaceutical firms in the 1990s and 2000s

Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer's international marketing strategies, 1850-1920

American multinationals in British retailing

Democratizing luxury and the contentious "invention of the technological chicken" in Britain

Revisiting the psychic distance paradox: international retailing in China in the long run (1840-2005)

Internationalization and technological leapfrogging in the pharmaceutical industry

Entrepreneurship and innovation in and out of the credit crunch

The veterinary medicine industry in Britain in the twentieth century

Introduction

Weetman Pearson in Mexico and the emergence of a British oil major, 1901-1919

Culture, opportunity and entrepreneurship in economic history: the case of Britain in the twentieth century

Entrepreneurship in Victorian Britain

What was new in the 1980s? International retailing in Britain from 1850-1991

The emergence of modern marketing

Selling the sewing machine around the world: Singer’s international marketing strategies, 1850–1920

Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in London and New York

Migration of entrepreneurs

History of entrepreneurship: Britain 1900-2000

Entrepreneurship in Britain 1830-1900

Entrepreneurship and vertical integration: the origins of the Singer global distribution system

Revisiting the emergence of the modern business enterprise: entrepreneurship and the Singer global distribution system

Taught Modules Open

Finding your leadership DNA

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