John Francis Wilson

Professor John Wilson

Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

My previous employers were: Manchester; Leeds; Manchester Metropolitan; Queens Belfast; Nottingham; UCLan; Liverpool; and Newcastle.

Campus Address

Faculty of Business and Law, CCE

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Key Publications

Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis, Jones, I., Wilson, J., Tilba, A., Larson, M. 2 Sep 2025, In: Business History
British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–1975, Verma, S., Wilson, J., Linsley, P., Abdelrehim, N. 23 Jul 2025, In: Business History
Knowledge Flows and Industrial Clusters: Assessing the Sources of Competitive Advantage in Two English Regions, Corker, C., Lane, J., Wilson, J. 1 Mar 2025, In: Enterprise and Society
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–1939, Beniamin, A., Wilson, J., Abdelrehim, N. 3 Oct 2025, In: Business History
The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce: by Tom Levitt. London, London Publishing Partnership. 2025, 326 pp., illus., £24.99 (hardback), ISBN 97819167493, Wilson, J. 15 Oct 2025, In: Business History
Corporate Networks and Business Groups in Egypt, 1924-1948: Economic Necessity or Entrepreneurial Dynamism, Beniamin, A., Wilson, J., Abdelrehim, N. 1 Dec 2024, In: Enterprise and Society
Business History and the ‘Practical Turn’, Wilson, J., Tilba, A. 2023, In: Management and Organizational History
Coping with crisis: Strategic renewal in The Co-operative Group, 2013-2023, Webster, A., Wilson, J. 1 Dec 2023, The Consumer Co-operative Sector, New York, Taylor & Francis
Nathan Meyer-Rothschild’s Reproduction of Business Masculinity in the Portrait A View from the Royal Exchange: A Historical, Bourdieusian and Visual Semiotic Exploration, Giazitzoglu, A., Wilson, J. 1 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Organizational Sociology
Preface and acknowledgements, Wilson, J., Webster, A., Ekberg, E., Skurnik, S. 1 Dec 2023, The Consumer Co-operative Sector, New York, US, Taylor & Francis

PGR Supervision

Niels Van 't Hoff Start Date: 01/10/2024
John Abbott Start Date: 01/10/2024
Niels Van 't Hoff Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
John Abbott Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025

Qualifications

History BA (Hons) January 01 2017
Information not provided Academy of International Business (AIB) 2017

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