Anne-Marie Coles
Job title
Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
Department
Systems Management and Strategy
Dr Anne-Marie Coles is Senior Lecturer in strategic management. Prior to joining University of Greenwich, she was a university-funded Research Fellow, and subsequently Research Lecturer, at Brunel University, attached to the Brunel Research in Enterprise, Innovation, Sustainability and Ethics (BRESE) centre where she established research on the themes of innovation, sustainability and ethics, obtaining funds for a number of projects.
Dr Coles was also a grant holder on an ESRC Sustainable Technologies programme project, ‘Sustainable technology transition through innovation network reconfiguration – dematerialising the printed paper text’, carried out in association with the Finnish Environmental Institute in Helsinki. She has published widely on innovation networks and sustainable technologies.
Research/scholarly interests
Leader of the Sustainability, Technology and Innovation Research group (STIR)
Leads the research theme ‘innovation, technology and complexity’
Qualitative understanding of the dynamics of complex socio-technical networks
Technical discourses
Network strategies
Emergence of socio-technical novelty
Selected publications
Peters, S.R., and Coles, A.M. (2010) Technological entrepreneurship and firm strategy: the development and commercialisation of the Ballard fuel cell. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 11(1), February, pp. 79–88.
Genus, A., and Coles, A.M. (2008) Rethinking the multi-level perspective of technological transition. Research Policy, 37(9), pp. 1436–1445.
Steward, F., Tsoi, J., and Coles, A.M. (2008) Nanoparticle innovation and print-on-paper fibre recyclability – mapping niches as emergent socio-technical networks. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(8/9), pp. 957–966.
Coles, A.M., and Harris, L. (2006) Ethical consumers and e-commerce: the emergence and growth of fair trade in the UK. Journal of Research for Consumers, 10. Available at: <www.jrconsumers.com>
Genus, A., and Coles, A.M. (2006) Firm strategies for risk management in innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 10(2), pp. 113–126.
Peters, S., and Coles, A.M. (2006) Strategic innovation in sustainable technology: the case of fuel cells for vehicles. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development: Special Issue: Striving for Sustainability – Technologies, Businesses and Society, 5(4), pp. 338–354.
