Email: b.lawson@qub.ac.uk
Position
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Subject area group
Decision Sciences and Operations Management
Biography
Benn is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at Queen's University Belfast.Previously he held positions at The University of Melbourne, Australia, as a lecturer in the Department of Management (2003) and Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems (1999-2002).Benn graduated with an Honours degree in Commerce (Management Accounting) from Monash University, Australia in 1997, and was awarded a PhD in innovation management from The University of Melbourne in 2004. His industry experience includes work in a variety of roles as a financial analyst with AXA Australia. Benn is also a member of The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply in the UK.Teaching and Research interests
Supplier relationship managementNew product development
Supplier involvement in new product development
Technology alliance management
Selected Publications
Chapters
"Implementing e-business change: An innovation management perspective", In e-business: value creation for management, ed. Samson D; Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 2003 (with Danny Samson)
"Developments in managing innovation, knowledge and e-business", In Knowledge and Information Technology Management: Human and Social Perspectives, eds. Gunasekaran, A., Khalil, O., and Syed, M.R. Massachusetts: Idea Group Publishers, 2002 (with Danny Samson)
Journals
"Knowledge sharing in collaborative product development: The impact of formal and informal socialization processes", Journal of Product Innovation Management, In Press, 2007 (with Paul Cousins, Rob Handfield and Ken Petersen)
"The effect of socialization mechanisms and performance measurement on supplier integration in new product development". British Journal of Management, In Press, 2007 (with Paul Cousins)
"Sourcing strategy, supplier relationships and firm performance: An empirical investigation of UK organisations". British Journal of Management, In Press, 2007 (with Paul Cousins)
"Supplier integration into new product development". Research Technology Management, In Press, 2007 (with Rob Handfield)
"Creating supply chain relational capital: The impact of formal and informal socialization processes". Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 24(6), 2006: 851-863 (with Paul Cousins, Rob Handfield and Ken Petersen)
"Supply chain management: Theory and practice - The emergence of an academic discipline?" International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 26(7), 2006: 697-702 (with Paul Cousins and Brian Squire)
"An empirical taxonomy of purchasing functions". International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 26(7), 2006: 775-794 (with Paul Cousins and Brian Squire)
"The impact of technological, organisational and human resource investments on manufacturing performance: Australian and New Zealand evidence". International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43(1), 2005: 81-107 (with David Challis and Danny Samson)
"Integrated manufacturing, employee and business performance: Australian and New Zealand evidence", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 40(8), 2002: 1941-1964 (with David Challis and Danny Samson)
"Using diagnostic controls to maintain and direct the momentum of strategic change - A case study", Accounting, Accountability & Performance, Vol. 7(2), 2001: 27-48 (with Anne Lillis)
"Developing innovation capability in organisations: A dynamic capabilities approach", International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 5(3), 2001: 377-400 (with Danny Samson)
Conferences
"Social capital effects on relational performance improvement: An information processing perspective". Included in the Best Paper Proceedings (only the top 10% of presented papers) (with Beverly Tyler and Paul Cousins)Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2006. (Atlanta, USA).
"An empirical taxonomy of purchasing functions: A study of United Kingdom organisations" (with Paul Cousins and Brian Squire)International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management 2005 (Bali, Indonesia).
"Creating supply chain relational capital: The impact of formal and informal socialization processes" (with Paul Cousins, Rob Handfield, & Ken Petersen)Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference 2005 (San Francisco, USA).
"The impact of supplier manufacturing capabilities and collaboration on buyer responsiveness" (with Paul Cousins, Brian Squire and Steve Brown, presentation by Steve Brown)Production & Operations Management Society Annual Conference 2005 (Chicago, USA).
"What you measure is not necessarily what you get! The mediating effect of socialization mechanisms within strategic buyer-supplier relationships" (with Paul Cousins)International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association(IPSERA) Annual Conference 2004 (Catania, Italy).
"Developing innovation capability in organisations: A dynamic capabilities approach" (with Danny Samson)Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference 2001 (San Francisco, USA).
"Using diagnostic controls to maintain and direct the momentum of strategic change - A case study"(with Anne Lillis) Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Annual Conference 2001 (Auckland, New Zealand).
