Prof Alice Lam
Professor of Organisation Studies

Research Interests

• Relationship between societal institutions, organisational knowledge creation and innovation;
  
• Knowledge work, new organisational forms and employment relationships; occupational roles and careers of scientists and technical workers;
  
• Comparative management and organisation studies; Japanese management; human resource and global knowledge sourcing strategies of multinational corporations.

Recent Research Grants

Project title: A Scoping Study of University-Industry Knowledge Transfer in the Creative and Cultural Sector
Award holder: Prof. Alice Lam
Time period: April 2008 - July 2009
Funding source: HEIF3/LCACE
Amount: £6,480

Project title: Work roles and careers of academics scientists in industry-university knowledge networks.
Award holder: Prof. Alice Lam
Time period: July 2005 - March 2007
Funding source: ESRC
Amount: £47,000
Links:

• ESRC Society Today
• Non-technical summary
• Article published in Britain in 2009
• Feedback workshop

Project title: Higher Education and Industrial Innovation
Award holders: Prof. Alice Lam (UK coordinator) with LEST-CNRS (France); CRIS (Germany); DINAMIA (Portugal); IHS (Austria); LIRHE (France).
Time period: 1998 - 2002
Funding source: European Commission Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme
Amount: £585,000 (Euro 895,000)
Link: Summary and final report  

Other Projects

DIME ('Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe'), European Commission Framework Programme Six Network of Excellence under thematic priority 7 'Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society'. DIME is a research network created to integrate European research that addresses contemporary challenges facing the European member states, companies and citizens in managing the transition to a knowledge-based economy. The network has a framework budget of around €5 million (for the whole network) for integration and mobility activities (2005-2009).

'Labour, Organisation and Competence in National Innovation Systems' European Commission FP5 Thematic Network Project (2002-2004) (with B-A.Lundvall, University of Aalborg University, Denmark and Edward Lorenz, Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi, France).

'Towards a European area of research and innovation - Lessons from research undertaken in the Framework Programmes' (TEARI project 2002-2004), Funding source: European Commission FP5; coordinator: TIK, University of Oslo. http://www.tik.uio.no/forskning/Innovation/teari/r1.html

Journal Editorial Roles

Senior Editor, Organization Studies