Dr Joe Lane
Lecturer in Strategy
Programme Director for International Business and Management

Specialisms
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- Business and economic History,
- Industrial districts,
- Innovation and intellectual property,
- The Industrial revolution,
- Craft-based industries
Location
Dr Joe Lane is a business historian working on knowledge and innovation strategies of firms in industrial districts since the First Industrial Revolution.
Dr Joe Lane is a Lecturer in Strategy at Henley Business School.
Qualifications
PhD in Economic History, London School of Economics
Current research focus
- Examining the organisation and evolution of historical industrial districts and clusters with a specific focus on the role of knowledge and innovation in determining firm-level strategy
- The behaviour and strategies of co-located firms and their responses to fluctuations in the economic environment during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Joe is currently co-editing a volume on historical British industrial clusters which is under contract with Routledge for publication in early 2021. He is also developing another stream of research examining patenting behaviour in craft-based industries over the long-run which picks up on a paper recently published in Enterprise & Society highlighting the innovation strategies of potters 1750-1851.
Professional roles
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Treasurer for the Management and Business History Special Interest Group in the British Academy of Management
Awards
- The Coleman Prize for the best thesis in Business History at the Association of Business Historians Conference in 2019
- Best Developmental Paper' award at the British Academy of Management conference in 2019
Business Strategy for Accountants
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Business Strategy
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Past Events
British Academy of Management Annual Conference
A History of Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK
The 24th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association
Association of Business Historians Annual Conference
Specialisms
- Business and economic History
- Industrial districts
- Innovation and intellectual property
- The Industrial revolution
- Craft-based industries