Professor Mathew (Mat) Hughes

Professor Mathew (Mat) Hughes is Schulze Distinguished Professor (the twelfth in history and the first outside the USA) and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Leicester School of Business, UK. He previously held appointments as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Reader in Entrepreneurial Management at Durham University, and Lecturer then Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Nottingham.

His research expertise lies in entrepreneurship and innovation and their intersection with strategy and management. Professor Hughes’ expertise includes the strategy and management of entrepreneurship and innovation in various contexts with a specific focus on entrepreneurial orientation, innovation ambidexterity, and social capital and relational strategy. His work directly addresses the conditions and circumstances for business growth.

Professor Hughes is widely published in world-leading and internationally excellent journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning and R&D Management. He also sits on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others. Professor Hughes is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Business Strategy and Senior Editor of the leading practitioner website familybusiness.org, funded by the Richard M. Schulze Foundation. 

Professor Hughes is an award winning, research, teacher, and doctoral supervisor, and has supervised in excess of 18 PhD students through to successful completion.

He is a member of the Scientific Council of La Fabrique de L’Exportation, a French think tank located in Paris, France. He also hosts a successful podcast series on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and Amazon, rated by Feedspot as among the Top 25 UK Innovation podcasts in 2021. 

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Professor Hughes' research expertise lies in entrepreneurship and innovation and their intersection with strategy and management. Professor Hughes’ expertise includes the strategy and management of entrepreneurship and innovation in various contexts (including family firms) with a specific focus on entrepreneurial orientation, innovation ambidexterity, and social capital and relational strategy.

Selected publications:

Gali, N., Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E. and Wang, C.L. (2023), “Entrepreneurial entropy: A resource exhaustion theory of firm failure from entrepreneurial orientation”, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, in press. 

Hu, Q. Hughes, P., Hughes, M., Chapman, G., and He, X. (2023), “When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions”, R&D Management, in press. 

Mellahi, K., Rettab, B., Sharma, S., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2023), “Changes in Corporate Social Responsibility Activity during a Pandemic: The Case of Covid-19”, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, in press. 

Bouguerra, A., Hughes, M., Cakir, S., and Tatoglu, E. (2022), “Linking entrepreneurial orientation to environmental collaboration: A stakeholder theory and evidence from multinational companies in an emerging market”, British Journal of Management, in press. 

Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., and Hodgkinson, I.R. (2022), “Digital transformation of industrial businesses: A dynamic capability approach”, Technovation, 113, 102414. 

Hadjielias, E., Hughes, M., and Scholes, L. (2022), “External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights from the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Family Business Review, 35(3), 275-305. 

Herrero, I., Hughes, M., and Larrañeta, B. (2022), “Is blood thicker than water? Exploring the impact of family firms’ familial social relations with other firms within their industries”, Journal of Family Business Strategy, 13(3), 100471. 

Hu, Q., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2022), “Family Owners’ Fear of Losing Socio-Emotional Wealth: Implications for Firm Innovativeness”, Long Range Planning, in press. 

Hu, Q., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2022), “Family-Unique Resources, Marketing Resources, and Family Owners’ Willingness to Pursue Radical Innovation: A Model and Test”, Journal of Business Research, 146 (July), 264-276. 

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I.R., Chang, Y.-Y., and Chang, C.-Y. (2022), “Knowledge-based Theory, Entrepreneurial Orientation, stakeholder engagement, and Firm Performance”, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 16(3), 633-665. 

Mostafiz, M.I., Hughes, M., Gali, N.K., and Sambasivan, M. (2022), “The Context-Sensitivity of International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Role of Process and Product Innovation Capabilities”, British Journal of Management, in press. 

Mustafa, M.J., Hughes, M., and Ramos, H.M. (2022), “Middle-managers’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Psychological Empowerment and Personal Initiative”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, in press. 

Bouguerra, A., Mellahi, K., Glaister, K., Hughes, M., and Tatoglu, E. (2021), “Revisiting the Concept of Absorptive Capacity: The Moderating Effects of Market Sensing and Responsiveness”, British Journal of Management, 32(2), 342-362. 

Fernandes, C.I., Veiga, P.M., Ferreira, J.J.M., and Hughes, M. (2021), “Green growth versus economic growth: Do sustainable technology transfer and innovations lead to an imperfect choice?”, Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(4), 2021-2037. 

Hughes, M., Chang, Y.-Y., Hodgkinson, I.R., Hughes, P., and Chang, C.-Y. (2021), “The multi-level effects of corporate entrepreneurial orientation on business unit radical innovation and financial performance”, Long Range Planning, 54(1), 101989. 

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., Hodgkinson, I.R., and Lee, Y. (2021), “Strategic Entrepreneurship Behaviour and the Innovation Ambidexterity of Young Technology-based Firms in Incubators”, International Small Business Journal, 39(3), 202-227. 

Scholes, L., Hughes, M., Wright, M., De Massis, A. and Kotlar, J. (2021), “Family Management and Family Guardianship: Governance Effects on Family Firm Innovation Strategy”, Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12(4), 100389. 

Bouncken, R.B., Hughes, M., Ratzmann, M., Cesinger, B., and Pesch, R. (2020), “Family firms, alliance governance, and mutual knowledge creation”, British Journal of Management, 31(4), 769-791. 

Covin, J.G., Rigtering, J.P.C., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., Cheng, C.-F., and Bouncken, R. (2020), “Individual and team entrepreneurial orientation: Scale development and configurations for success”, Journal of Business Research, 112, 1-12.

Hu, Q. and Hughes, M. (2020), “Radical Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Analysis and Research Agenda”, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(6), 1199-1234. 

Herrero, I. and Hughes, M. (2019), “When family social capital is too much of a good thing”, Journal of Family Business Strategy, 10(3), 100271. 

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Yan, J.(K.) and Sousa, C. (2019), “Marketing as an Investment in Shareholder Value”, British Journal of Management, 30(4), 943-965. 

Tran, Y., Zahra, S., and Hughes, M. (2019), “A Process Model of the Maturation of a New Dynamic Capability”, Industrial Marketing Management, 83, 115-127. 

Hughes, M., Filser, M., Harms, R., Kraus, S., Chang, M.-L., and Cheng, C.-F. (2018), “Family firm configurations for high performance: The role of entrepreneurship and ambidexterity”, British Journal of Management, 29(4), 595-612.

Hughes, M., Rigtering, J.P.C., Covin, J.G., Bouncken, R.B. and Kraus, S. (2018), “Innovative behaviour, trust and perceived workplace performance”, British Journal of Management, 29(4), 750-768. 

Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I.R., Hughes, M. and Arshad, D. (2018), “Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation”, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35, 1025-1053.

Cesinger, B., Hughes, M., Mensching, H., Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., and Kraus, S. (2016), “A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on how Collaboration Intensity, Trust, and International Market Knowledge Affect Family Firms’ Multinationality”, Journal of World Business, 51(4), 586-599. 

Kyriakopoulos, K., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2016), “The Role of Marketing Resources in Radical Innovation Activity: Antecedents and Payoffs”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33(4), 398-417. 

Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E., Ireland, R.D. and Hughes, P. (2014), “Social Capital and Learning Advantages: A Problem of Absorptive Capacity”, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(3), 214-233. 

Roberts, D., Hughes, M., and Kertbo, K. (2014), “Exploring Consumers' Motivations to engage in Innovation through Co-creation Activities”, European Journal of Marketing, 48(1/2), 147-169. 

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Mellahi, K., and Guermat, C. (2010), “Short Term versus Long Term Impact of Managers: Evidence from the Football Industry”, British Journal of Management, 21(2), 571-589. 

Hughes, M., Martin, S.L., Morgan, R., and Robson, M. (2010), “Realizing Product-Market Advantage in High-Technology International New Ventures: The Mediating Role of Ambidextrous Innovation”, Journal of International Marketing, 18(4), 1-21.

Hughes, M. and Morgan, R.E. (2007), “Deconstructing the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance at the Embryonic Stage of Firm Growth”, Industrial Marketing Management, 36(5), 651-661. 

I welcome receiving PhD research proposal with a supporting resumé from enthusiastic and capable students interested in my research areas, and within the strategic management, entrepreneurship, or innovation fields.

I have successfully supervised many doctoral students through to completion to date, whom have gone on to earn appointments in academia and business.

MN7702: Managing Value Creation Processes from Idea to Market

Research Honours:
2023: P-Rank, a publication ranking intended to increase recognition of scholars with notable publication outputs, ranked Mat #446 worldwide, #146 in Europe, and #61 in the UK, for papers published since 2020 and ranked according to the CABS Academic Journal Guide 2021.

2023: Ranked #1484 in the world according (#236 in the UK) to the “World’s Best Scientists for 2023” announced by Research.com in their ranking of the best scientists in Business and Management for 2023. This recognition is based on comprehensive data collected from various sources. The ranking is based on the D-index (Discipline H-index), which considers only those papers and citation values for a particular discipline (see https://reserch.com/u/mathew-hughes).

2023: Winner of the Wiley Top Cited Article 2021-2022 in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal for my paper entitled “Knowledge-based Theory, Entrepreneurial Orientation, stakeholder engagement, and Firm Performance”.

2022: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in the field of Economics and Business. Mat ranks in the Top 1.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subfield. This distinguished list is the “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"” available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.

2022: Awarded Researcher of the Year at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University.

2022: Ranked Top 8% worldwide and Top 7% in Europe in Business & Management, and Top 9% worldwide and Top 11% in Europe for Entrepreneurship, on the Alper-Doger Scientific Index (AD Scientific Index) ranking of the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists.

2022: The 2021 Schulze Publication Award winner for one of the most impactful articles on Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eiexchange.com) and familybusiness.org with the article “Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning with Now”. Awarded by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and the EIX organization.

2022: Paper titled “Executive Turnover in Family Firms: The Effects of Board Independence and Industry Competition” (co-authored with Fernando Muñoz-Bullón and Maria Jose Sanchez-Bueno) nominated for Best Contribution to Practice Award at the 2022 IFERA Conference, Santander, Spain, 21-25 June.

2022: Winner of the Wiley Top Cited Article 2020-2021 in British Journal of Management for my paper entitled “Family firms, alliance governance, and mutual knowledge creation”.

2022: Winner of the Wiley Top Cited Article 2020-2021 in Business Strategy and the Environment for my paper entitled “The product-market performance benefits of environmental policy: Why customer awareness and firm innovativeness matter”.

2021: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in Economics and Business, and in the Top 1.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subcategory. This distinguished list is the “August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"” available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3.

2021: The 2020 Schulze Publication Award winner for one of the most impactful articles on Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eiexchange.com) and familybusiness.org with the commentary “Resilience to Resurgence: How to Grow Your Way Out of the Crisis”. This award included a scholarship of $1500 awarded by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and the EIX organization.

2021: Contributor to futurist and innovation journalist Charles Carter’s work on the ‘Future of Innovation’.

2021: My podcast series was ranked as one of FeedSpot’s Top 25 UK Innovation Podcasts.

2021: My Journal of Small Business Management paper on the usefulness and limits of machine learning and artificial intelligence for entrepreneurship scholarship was featured as ground-breaking research in an Academy of Management (AOM) Newsblast (Robledo, S., Grisales Aguirre, A.M., Hughes, M., and Eggers, F. (2021), “Hasta la Vista, Baby – Will Machine Learning Terminate Human Literature Reviews? An Entrepreneurship Application”, Journal of Small Business Management, in press).

2020: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in Economics and Business, and in the Top 3.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subcategory. Mat is the only Loughborough University entry on this distinguished list: "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3000918&fbclid=IwAR1KHoQCZruSrHrZVt94e1mAwOb6AftRyigpg-BePRheilvV0pgNSeVrM8A), in which the authors also provides data (https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2) to show the Top 100,000 scientists and Top 2% of scientists within any subfield.

2020: Paper titled “Family Business Resilience in an Economic Shock: The Role of Family Social Capital” (co-authored with Elias Hadjielias, Peggy Alexopoulou and Louise Scholes) nominated for Most Inspirational Award at the 2020 Annual EURAM Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 4-6 December (being nominated out of 1000+ submissions). 

2020: New book “Digital Entrepreneurship: Impact on Business and Society” featured in Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2020/11/25/shake-things-up-from-the-inside-be-a-digital-entrepreneur/?sh=7d0d5f4c63c9. The book secured 35,000 downloads in its first three weeks, far exceeding Springer’s other open access and non-open access books.  The book was also featured in Forbes.

2019: My PhD candidate Ye Zhang has won the AOM Best Paper Award for one of her papers - "Social Capital in a Syndicate Investment Platform: Effects on Syndicate Lead Performance" (co-authored with Louise Scholes, Kun Fu). The paper was accepted to be published in the Proceedings of the 2019 Academy of Management Meeting, August 9-13, 2019, Boston, USA.

2019: Paper titled “Family Social Capital at the Nexus Between Financial Disaster and Small Family Firm Adaptation” with Hadjielias, E., Alexopoulou, P., and Scholes, L. nominated for Best Conference Paper Award at the EIASM 15th Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Nantes, France, May 23-25. 

2018: PhD student Dr Nazha Gali (now at the University of Michigan, USA) won the Durham University Business School’s ‘Outstanding Thesis’.

2017: Paper titled “The Influence of Family Firms on the Sustainability of Start-up/Nascent Enterprises” shortlisted for Best Paper at the Family Business track and Best Conference Paper at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 8th – 9th November 2017. The paper received a Highly Commended Paper recognition in this competition.

2017: PhD student Dr Stephanie Scott (Durham University) won the Durham University Business School’s ‘Outstanding Thesis’.

2015: Emerald Citation of Excellence Award for most highly cited and influential paper published in 2012 in Business Management.  Paper: Chang, Y.-Y. and Hughes, M. (2012), “Drivers of Innovation Ambidexterity in Small-to Medium-Sized Firms”, European Management Journal, 30(1), 1-17.

2012: Hughes and Morgan (2007) paper on entrepreneurial orientation is highlighted as an influential and important paper on EO, its conceptualisation and measurement by Jeff Covin and William Wales (Covin, J.G. and Wales, W.J., 2012, The Measurement of Entrepreneurial Orientation’, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 36(4), pp.677-702).

2008:  Paper titled “The Effect of Competence Exploration and Competence Exploitation on Strategic Entrepreneurship” was nominated and shortlisted for an IDEA Award in the ‘Research promise’ category at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, USA, August 2008.

2006:  Paper titled “Time-Based Competitive Performance and Entrepreneurial Orientation” nominated and shortlisted for Best Conference Paper prize at the 26th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference held in Vienna, Austria, October 29th – November 1st 2006.  The paper won an Honourable Mention in the Best Paper Prize Competition.

Teaching Honours:
2016: Awarded the 2016 Dean’s Award for Teaching at Durham University Business School.

2016: Awarded the Durham University Business School Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award.

2015: Awarded the Durham University Excellence in Doctoral Supervision Award, having been nominated by 7 of his PhD students.

2008:  Nominated and shortlisted for Lord Dearing Award in Teaching & Learning for teaching excellence.

2006:  Participated at the ‘European Entrepreneurship Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning’ held by Harvard Business School and chaired by Harvard Professor Howard Stevenson at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, July 21st-29th 2006.

Scholarly Honours:
2022: Appointed Schulze Distinguished Professor, only the twelfth in history and the first and only one outside the United States of America.

2022: Awarded Researcher of the Year at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University.

2022: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in the field of Economics and Business. Mat ranks in the Top 1.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subfield. This distinguished list is the “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"” available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.

2022: Ranked Top 8% worldwide and Top 7% in Europe in Business & Management, and Top 9% worldwide and Top 11% in Europe for Entrepreneurship, on the Alper-Doger Scientific Index (AD Scientific Index) ranking of the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists.

2022: Included as one of the 60 business thought leaders to be featured in the book “60 Leaders on Artificial Intelligence” by George Krasadakis.

2022: Recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development in the 2022 Emerald Publishing Literati Awards.

2022: The 2021 Schulze Publication Award winner for one of the most impactful articles on Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eiexchange.com) and familybusiness.org with the article “Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning with Now”. Awarded by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and the EIX organization.

2021: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in Economics and Business, and in the Top 1.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subcategory. This distinguished list is the “August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"” available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3.

2021: Member of the jury panel for the IFERA Best Paper Contribution to Practice award.

2021: The 2020 Schulze Publication Award winner for one of the most impactful articles on Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eiexchange.com) and familybusiness.org with the commentary “Resilience to Resurgence: How to Grow Your Way Out of the Crisis”. This award included a scholarship of $1500 awarded by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and the EIX organization.

2021: Included as one of the 60 world-class business thought leaders to be featured in the book “60 Leaders on Innovation” by George Krasadakis and Robin Nessensohn.

2021: Loughborough University School of Business and Economics Dean’s Award recipient.

2020: A peer-reviewed Stanford University published study of the Top 100,000 scientists worldwide and the Top 2% within their field in ranked Mat as among the Top 2% of scholars worldwide in Economics and Business, and in the Top 3.5% of all scholars in the Business and Management subcategory. Mat is the only Loughborough University entry on this distinguished list: "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3000918&fbclid=IwAR1KHoQCZruSrHrZVt94e1mAwOb6AftRyigpg-BePRheilvV0pgNSeVrM8A), in which the authors also provides data (https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2) to show the Top 100,000 scientists and Top 2% of scientists within any subfield.

2020: Served as an Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Mentor for early career researchers.

2020: Paper “When family social capital is too much of a good thing” with Ines Herrero selected to be the inaugural JFBS/FamilyBusiness.org practitioner article, titled “Too much love in the family can hurt”. This paper also attracted the most social media interest among JFBS papers of all time.

2020: Invited to write Foreword for the first ever Research Handbook on Family firm Internationalization by Tanja Leppäaho and Sarah Jack.

2020: Co-recipient of the British Journal of Management (BJM) Best Reviewer Award 2019.

2018, 2019 and 2020: Three-time back-to-back recipient of “Outstanding Performance” award in annual performance review at Loughborough University.

2016: Recipient of “Exceptional Contribution” award in recognition of contribution to Durham University and Durham University Business School.

2015: Session and Discussion Chair at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 2015.

2014: Session and Discussion Chair at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2014.

2012:  Appointed External Expert Advisor on Approval Panel for MSc Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship programme at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

2007 – 2011:  Three-time recipient of “Exceeds Expectations” award as an outcome of the Nottingham University Business School ‘Activity Review’ process.

2008:  Recipient of the Best Reviewer Award for the BPS division of the Academy of Management.

2008:  Session Chair at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, USA, August 2008.

2005:  Session Chair at the 25th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 22nd-26th 2005.

2003:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Awarded a ‘Sir David Hughes Parry Award’ bursary toward research costs.

2002:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Awarded a full ‘Aberystwyth Postgraduate Research Studentship’.

2001:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Awarded a fees-only ‘Aberystwyth Postgraduate Research Studentship’.

2001:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Awarded ‘FSS Masters Prize’ for best results in the MSc (Econ) in Management Postgraduate Degree.

2000:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; ‘Best Student Award’ for excellence in the Business Studies Undergraduate Degree.

1998:  University of Wales, Aberystwyth; ‘Deloitte & Touche Award’ for best performance in Financial Management module at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Muñoz-Bullon, F., Sanchez-Bueno, M.J., and Hughes, M. (2023). Executive turnover in family firms: Exploring internal and external elements. STEP Project Global Consortium - Global Family Business Summit 2023, Valencia, Spain, 26-28 April.

Kipfelsberger, P., Hughes, M., Herhausen, D., Morgan, R.E., and Bruch, H. (2023). Mitigating the dark side of contextual ambidexterity: Consequences for employee well-being. WK ORG Workshop, Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria, 29-31 March.

Kipfelsberger, P., Hughes, M., Herhausen, D., Morgan, R.E., and Bruch, H. (2023). High performance at high cost: The unanticipated health consequence of contextual ambidexterity. Sixth Israel Organizational Behavior Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 3-5th January.

Nishant, R., Hughes, M., and Ravishankar, M.N. (2023), “Objective and Subjective Measurements of Time: Implications for QCA versus Panel Data Analysis”, QCA Conference of the Americas 2023, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas, USA, 6-8 April.

Ambos, T., Hughes, M., Niemand, T., and Kraus, S. (2022). Subsidiary managers’ likelihood to pursue innovation initiatives: A contingency model. European International Business Academy (EIBA) Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway, 8-10 December.

Ameen, N., Hoelscher, V., and Hughes, M. (2022). Can women have it all? A study on the regulatory focus and work-life balance of Instagram ‘Mumpreneurs’. Academy of Marketing Conference, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, 5-7 July.

Hu, Q., Hughes, P., Hughes, M., Hodgkinson, I.R., and Daut, A. (2022). Family dynamics and implications for strategy execution. International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference, Santander, Spain, 22-24 June.

Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I.R., Hughes, M. and Hu, Q. (2022). Unravelling the Planning—Strategy Execution Relationship and Implications for Strategy Adherence. Strategic Management Society 42nd Annual Conference, London, UK, 17-20 September.

Muñoz-Bullón, F., Sanchez-Bueno, M.J., and Hughes, M. (2022). Executive Turnover in Family Firms: The Effects of Board Independence and Industry Competition. International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference, Santander, Spain, 22-24 June. (Nominated for Best Contribution to Practice.)

Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., and Ahsan, M. (2022). The origin of International Entrepreneurial Orientation: The role of Dynamic Managerial Capability. Academy of International Business Conference, UK&I Chapter, Reading, UK, April 8-9, 2022.

Roth, L.K., Corsi, S., and Hughes, M. (2022). Ambidexterity Within a Multinational Context - How Organisations Leverage Emerging Economy-Centred Exploration and Exploitation. R&D Management (RADMA) Conference, Trento, Italy, 11-13 July.

Soltanifar, M., O’Connor, G., Hughes, M., Hayton, J., and Roijakkers, N. (2022). Building Organizational Capacity for Corporate Entrepreneurship. 9th Annual World Open Innovation Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 15-16 November, 2022.

Ali, N., and Hughes, M. (2021). The Longevity of Successful Multi-generational Family Firms. IFERA 2021 Annual Conference, June 2021.

Ali, N., and Hughes, M. (2021). The Longevity of Successful Multi-generational Family Firms. 2021 British Academy of Management Annual conference, 31 August – 3 September.

Herrero, I., Gallurt, P., and Hughes, M. (2021). So, do family firms promote EO more than nonfamily firms? The role of internal social capital. Sociedad Española de Investigadores en Empresa Familiar (SAFER), II Seminario AINVEF 2021, Avances en Investigación sobre Empresa Familiar, Bilbao, 26 November 2021.

Parmer, L., and Hughes, M. (2021). The Conceptualization of Creativity and Entrepreneurship. Academy of Business Research Conference, Boca Raton, FL, USA, November 10-12, 2021

Tao., X., Wang, C., Robson, P., and Hughes, M. (2021). Learning from Failure, Collective Efficacy and New Product Performance. Virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 29 July - 4 August 2021.

Zhang, Y., Scholes, L., Fu., K., and Hughes, M. (2021). Lead investors’ human capital and fundraising performance: Mediating role of reputation. Virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 29 July - 4 August 2021.

Ambos, T.C., Hughes, M., Niemand, T., and Kraus, S. (2020). It all depends? Unravelling the contingency factors of international opportunity recognition in multinational subsidiaries. 2020 Academy of International Business Conference.

Soltanifar, M., O’Connor, G. C., Hughes, M., and Roijakkers, N. (2021). Unlocking the potential of non-managerial employees in corporate entrepreneurship. A Systematic review and research agenda. 2021 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), June 9-12, 2021

Georgiadou, E., Panicker, V., and Hughes, M. (2020). Family Firm Interactional Dynamics and Post M&A Performance. 5th International Family Business Research Forum, Hasselt, Belgium, 9-11 September 2020.

Hadjielias, E., Alexopoulou, P., Scholes, L., and Hughes, M. (2020). Family Business Resilience in an Economic Shock: The Role of Family Social Capital. 2020 Annual EURAM Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 4-6 December. (Nominated for Most Inspirational Award at the EURAM annual conference.)

Kotsaki, C., Georgiadou, E., Panicker, V., and Hughes, M. (2020). The Influence of Governance Mechanisms on SMEs' International Market Entry Strategies. British Academy of Management Conference, 2-4 September, virtual, United Kingdom.

Kyriakopoulos, K., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2020). Do relational capabilities impede or promote technological and market breakthroughs? 2020 AMA Winter Academic Conference.

Mostafiz, M. I, Murali, S., and Hughes, M. (2020), Configurations of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Knowledge Management, and Positional Advantage: A Comparative Analysis between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Firms. British Academy of Management Conference, 2-4 September, virtual, United Kingdom.

Mostafiz, M.I., Sambasivan, M., and Hughes, M. (2020), The Configurational Analysis of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Knowledge Management, and Positional Advantage: a comparative analysis between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Firms. Academy of International Business UK & Ireland Chapter Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2-4 April.

Simeonova, B., and Hughes, M. (2020), An Integrative Framework for Real-Time, Collective Sensemaking Through Activity Theory. British Academy of Management Conference, 2-4 September, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Tonikidou, A., Souchon, A., Kyriakopoulos, K., Hughes, P., Dewsnap, B., and Hughes, M. (2020), Translating New Product Development-Level Improvisation-Based Learning into Strategy in SMEs. 2020 Global Marketing Conference, 5-7 November, Seoul, South Korea.

Wang, H., Hughes, M., and Georgiadou, E. (2020). Is there ever a Reason to Defamilize a Family Firm? International Subsidiaries and Family Multinational Corporations. IFERA 2020 Annual conference, June 2020.

Zhang, Y., Scholes, L., Fu, K., and Hughes, M. (2019), Social Capital in a Syndicate Investment Platform: Effects on Syndicate Lead Performance Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 9-13 August, Boston, US. Published in Academy of Management Proceedings (Best Paper).
Zhang, Y., Scholes, L., Fu, K., and Hughes, M. (2019), What Are the Effects of Social Capital and Human Capital on Syndicate Lead Performance? Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 5-8 June, Wellesley, US. Published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Proceedings.

Hadjielias, E., Alexopoulou, P., Scholes, L., and Hughes, M. (2019), Family Social Capital at the Nexus Between Financial Disaster and Small Family Firm Adaptation. EIASM 15th Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Nantes, France, May 23-25. 

Wang, H., Hughes, M., and Georgiadou, E. (2019). From Institutional Duality to Institutional Trifecta: Implications for Family Firms’ International Subsidiaries. British Academy of Management 2019 Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, 2-5 September 2019.

Wang, H., Hughes, M., and Georgiadou, E. (2019). From Institutional Duality to Institutional Trifecta: Implications for Family Firms’ International Subsidiaries. IFERA 2019 Annual Conference, Bergamo, Italy, 17-21 June 2019.

Tonikidou, A., Kyriakopoulos, K., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., and Souchon, A. (2018), Creating Value Through Real-Time Knowledge Generation: Improvisation and Organisational Learning in New Product Development. The First Global Conference on Creating Value, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 23-24 May 2018.

Yan, J. and Hughes, M. (2018), Open for Innovation: Pressure, Constraints and Breadth of Innovation. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Paris, France, October 2018.

Raphael, L., Hughes, M., and Tsinopoulos, C. (2017), Value Creation through Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Community of Practice. iBEGIN (International Business, Economic Geography and Innovation) Conference, Venice, Italy, 18-19 Dec 2017.

Lee, H., Hughes, P., and Hughes, M. (2017), Post-acquisitions Structures in Cross-border M&As: An Innovation-based Perspective. Institute of International Business and Governance (IIBG) 2017 Annual Conference, The Open University of Hong Kong, 13-15 December 2017.

Hu, Q. and Hughes, M. (2017), Theoretical Assumptions about Family Firm Radical Innovation. SIDREA International Workshop: Family Involvement in Management and firm Growth, Naples, Italy, 8 December 2017.

Gali, N.K., Hughes, M., Mallett, O., and Karam, A. (2017), The Dark Side of EO: Insights into the EO-as-experimentation Perspective by Investigating the Effect of EO on Firm Performance and Failure. RENT XXXI - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Lund, Sweden, 15-17 November 2017.

Scholes, L., Yi, Y., Hu, R., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2017), The Influence of Family Firms on the Sustainability of Start-up/Nascent Enterprises. ISBE Conference, Belfast, 8-9 November 2017.

Georgiadou, E. and Hughes, M. (2017), Theorising Family Firm Internationalisation - Socioemotional Wealth: A Luxury? IV Workshop on SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain, 7-8 September 2017.

Gali, N., Hughes, M., Mallett, O., and Karam, A. (2017), The EO-as-Experimentation Perspective: The Examination of the Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance/Survival Relationship. British Academy of Management, University of Warwick, 5-7 September 2017.

Scholes, L., Yi, Y., Hu, R., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2017), The Influence of Family Firms on the Sustainability of Start-up/Nascent Enterprises: A Decision-Making Perspective. International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), Zadar, Croatia, 28 June 2017 - 1 July 2017.

Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., and Hughes, P. (2017), Developing Dynamic Transformation Capabilities in High Velocity Environment: A Study of Industrial Internet Companies. Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Banff, Canada, 2-4 June 2017.

Kokash, R. and Hughes, M. (2017), "Can Corporate Entrepreneurship Form Second-order Competences? The Role of Internal and External Contingencies," paper presented at the Strategic Management Society Milan Special Conference, Milan, Italy, 31st March - 1st April 2017.

Filser, M., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., Harms, R., and Cheng, C.-F. (2017), Entrepreneurial orientation, Exploration, exploitation, and family influence: A fsQCA analysis of family firm performance, ACERE Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 February 2017.

Bouncken, R., Hughes, M., Pesch, R. and Ratzmann, M. (2016), Bringing Family into Alliance Research: Governance and Mutual Knowledge Creation Differences vs non-Family Firms. Strategic Management Society 36th Annual Conference on 'Strategies that Move the World', Berlin, Germany.

Gali, N., Hughes, M., Mallet, O. and Karam, A. (2016), Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory, CARMA 2016 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics. Valencia, Spain.

Herrero, I., Hughes, M. and Larrañeta, B. (2016), Analyzing the external social capital of family firms, EURAM 2016 - European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference. Paris, France.

Hughes, M., Sørensen, H.E., and Hughes, P. (2016), A Configuration Analysis of Organizational Ambidexterity in Three Types of Firms. Strategic Management Society 36th Annual Conference on 'Strategies that Move the World', Berlin, Germany.

Scott, S. A., Hughes, M. and Hughes, P. (2016), Adaptive Processes and Relational Complexities: New Contingencies in Open Innovation Network Research, Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Rome, Italy.

Scott, S., Hughes, M. and Hughes, P. (2016), Social Capital’s Role for Value Creation in Open Innovation Networks, The Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Strategy Challenges in the 21st Century: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Coopetition. Rome.

Scott, S.A., Hughes, M., Hughes, P. and Burrows, P. (2016), The Relational Complexities of Open Innovation Networks: Mapping The Social Capital within University and Business Research Collaborations, 23th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference. Glasgow, UK.

Uddin, M. M., Hughes, M. and Burrows, P. (2016), Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Firm Entrepreneurship: A Contested Exploration to Advance Corporate Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Ethics, & Entrepreneurship Conference. Denver, Colorado, USA.

Herrero, I.C., Hughes, M. & Larraneta, B. (2015), Analysing the external social capital of family firms, 9th Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. Santiago, Chile.

Scholes, L., Elliott, C., Hughes, M. & Mustafa, M. (2015), Family Firm Performance: Trusts, Ownership and Governance, IFERA 2015 Annual Conference: Tradition and Innovation in Family Business. Hamburg, Germany.

Scholes, L., Elliott, C., Hughes, M. & Mustafa, M. (2015), Family Firm Performance: Trusts, Ownership and Governance, The 11th Annual Family Enterprise Research Conference. Burlington, US.

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., and Hodgkinson, I.R. (2015), "Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship to Enable Product Innovation in New and Young Technology-Based Firms", paper presented at the 35th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, 3rd-6th October 2015.

Kokash, R. and Hughes, M. (2014), Entrepreneurial Orientation and Second-order Competences: The Moderating Role of Environmental Hostility and Organizational Structure, Strategic Management Society 34th Annual International Conference. Madrid, September 2014.

Kokash, R. and Hughes, M. (2014), Entrepreneurial orientation and organizational knowledge creation as critical pathways to second-order competences, Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Tel Aviv, March 2014.
Mustafa, M., Martin, L., and Hughes, M. (2013), "Does Psychological Ownership Facilitate Middle-managers’ Intrapreneurial Behaviour: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction", presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, in Liverpool, U.K., 10-12 September 2013.
 
Johnson, D., Ucbasaran, D., Lockett, A., and Hughes, M. (2013), "Let there be Light! Shedding Light on the Organizational “black-box” in Corporate Entrepreneurship", presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, in Liverpool, U.K., 10-12 September 2013.
 
Johnson, D., Ucbasaran, D., Lockett, A., and Hughes, M. (2013), "Patient Proximity as a component of Healthcare Professional Identity and its Potential Effect on Entrepreneurial Intention Formation in the National Health Service", presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, in Liverpool, U.K., 10-12 September 2013.

Fernholz, O., and Hughes, M. (2013), “Innovation Ambidexterity: Addressing Gaps in Theoretical and Empirical Interpretations”, at the 2013 Triple Helix International Conference, in London, U.K., 8-10 July 2013.

Lightfoot, F.R., Hughes, M. and Martin, L. (2012), “Corporate Entrepreneurship – A Theoretical Review”, at the British Academy of Management Conference 2012, Cardiff, 11-13 September.

Matthews, R.L., Martin, L. and Hughes, M. (2012), “Innovation and Value Creation within a Resource Constrained Environment: Insight from UK Manufacturing SMEs”, at the British Academy of Management Conference 2012, Cardiff, 11-13 September.

Noke, H., Simon, M., and Hughes, M. (2012), “Innovation in Healthcare: Let's start at the very beginning”, at the 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 3-7 August.

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., and Cadogan, J.W. (2012), “How does Strategic Entrepreneurship affect Product Innovation in Young and New Venture Firms? A Model and Test”, at the 2012 Global Marketing Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 19-22 July.

Mellahi, K., Ben Brik, A. and Hughes, M. (2011), “Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovativeness, and Business Performance”, at Strategic Management Society 31st Annual Conference, Miami Beach, Florida USA, 5-9 November.

Chang, Y.-Y., Hughes, M., Hotho, S. and Branine, M. (2010), “Explorative and Exploitative Innovation, Ambidexterity, and Small-to-Medium-Sized Firms' Performance”, at 17th International Product Development Management Conference, Murcia, Spain, 13-15 June.

Hodgkinson, I.R., Hughes, M., Hughes, P. and Morgan, R.E. (2010), “The Role of Absorptive Capacity in The Market Orientation-Customer Performance Relationship For Public Service Provision”, at 39th European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-4 June 2010.

Hughes, M., Martin, S.L., Morgan, R.E., Robson, M.J. and DeLuca, L. (2010), “Interrelationships among Competitive Strategy, Innovation Ambidexterity, and Positional Advantage: Insights from international New Ventures”, at 1st Tilburg CIR Conference on Innovation, Oisterwijk, Netherlands, 10-12 June 2010.

Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., Hughes, M., Kouropalatis, Y., Powell, T. and Hodgkinson, I.R. (2010), “Antecedents and Consequences of Product-Market Planning Capability”, at Strategic Management Society 30th Annual Conference, Rome, Italy 12-15 September.

Kyriakopoulos, K., Hughes, M. and Hughes, P. (2010), “The Role of Marketing Resources in Radical Innovation”, at the American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, New Orleans, USA, February 2010.

Kyrgidou, L.P. and Hughes, M. (2009), “The Effect of Firm Capabilities on Strategic Entrepreneurship”, at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 2009.

Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E., and Ireland, R.D. (2008), “Organizational Antecedents of Explorative and Exploitative Innovation: Untangling the Management of Innovation”, at the American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, February 2008.

Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E., Ireland, R., and Hughes, P. (2008), “The Interactive Effect of Social Capital and Embeddedness on Learning from Network Relationships”, at the 28th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Cologne, Germany, October 2008.

Kyrgidou, L.P., Hughes, M., Soderquist, K.E., and Prastacos, G.P. (2008), “The Effect of Competence Exploration and Competence Exploitation on Strategic Entrepreneurship”, at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, USA, August 2008.  Paper was nominated and shortlisted for an IDEA Award in the "Research Promise" category.

Morgan, R.E., Lambe, C.J., Kutwaroo, G., Hughes, M., and Kouropalatis, Y. (2008), “Knowledge Application and Knowledge Generation in High Technology Strategic Alliances: Performance Implications and the Moderating Effects of Relational Conditions”, at the 28th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Cologne, Germany, October 2008.

Kyrgidou, L.P., Hughes, M., Soderquist, K.E., and Prastacos, G.P. (2007), “Towards a Process Model of Strategic Entrepreneurship”, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, USA, August 2007.

Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E., Ireland, R.D., and Hughes, P. (2007), “Network Behaviors, Social Capital, & Organizational Learning in High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms”, 13th Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress, Verona, Italy, July 2007.

Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., Hughes, M., and Piercy, N.F. (2007), “Why Do Product-Market Strategies Fail? An Examination Under Conditions of Adherence”, 13th Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress, Verona, Italy, July 2007.

Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., Kouropalatis, Y., and Hughes, M. (2007), “Beyond Market Orientation as a Cybernetic System: A Market Knowledge Diffusion Perspective”, American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, San Diego, California, February 2007.

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., and Morgan, R.E. (2006), “Time-based Competitive Performance and Entrepreneurial Orientation”, 26th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 2006.  Paper received an Honourable Mention and 3rd place in the Best Paper Award at the conference.

Perks, K. and Hughes, M. (2006), “International Entrepreneurship and Internationalization Decisions:  Theory, Propositions, and Case Evidence”, Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA, 11-16 August 2006.

Perks, K. and Hughes, M. (2006), “International Marketing Decision-Making of Entrepreneurs:  Preliminary Findings from British and German Medium-Sized Firms”, The 35th European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Conference, Athens, Greece, 23-26 May 2006.

Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., Hughes, M., and Lee, N. (2006), “Product-Market Strategy Comprehensiveness and Business Performance: An Analysis of Antecedents and Moderators”, American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 2006.

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., and Morgan, R.E. (2005), “Interrelationships among entrepreneurial orientation, strategy fit, learning and firm performance”, 25th Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 2005. 

Hughes, M., Morgan, R.E., Hughes, P., and Ireland, R.D. (2005), “The influence of organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial intensity on incremental and radical innovation”, Proceedings of the 2005 12th International Product Development Management Conference, John K. Christiansen (Editor), pp.651-665; Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2005.

Hughes, P., Morgan, R.E., and Hughes, M. (2005), '”Resources, Strategy Type, and Business Performance: An Assessment of Strategic Fit'”, Proceedings of the 34th European Marketing Academy Conference, R. Wensley and A. Baldauf (Editors), p.131, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, May 2005.