Iain A. Davies

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PhD Iain Andrew Davies

Cranfield School ofManagement

United Kingdom

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Author's short biography:


Iain joined Cranfield from a major consultancy where he specialised in business strategy and development. Since joining Cranfield he has continued to specialise in the importance of business-to-business networks. He has a PhD in Business Ethics and Strategy from International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University (2000-2003), where he maintains a role as a Visiting Research Fellow. Prior to consulting Iain enjoyed a period as a civil servant and over 10 years of fair trading from grassroots to corporate level.


He has research interests strategy development and implementation in social enterprises and entrepreneurs (esp. Fair trade). Beyond topic considerations however Iain has a strong interest in research methodology and philosophy and is practiced in many forms of enquiry with published and forthcoming publications in techniques including, Qualitative grounded theory, Action research, Ethnographic interview, exploratory statistic, SEM, discriminant analysis and surveys.


He has previously published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing and Corporate Governance Journal and has a series of papers either acceped or in review with Journal of Business Venturing, Business Ethics: A European Review, Jornal of Business Ethic, Industrial Marketing Management and European Journal of Marketing.


In private consulting work Iain maintains his links into fair trade and co-operative movements but is also becoming established at developing greater customer focus in non-marketing professionals.

Iain A. Davies's publications

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Davies, Crane 2003 Ethical Decision Making in Fair Trade Companies Journal of Business Ethics 45 (1/2)   English Journal Link
Davies, Crane 2003 Ethical Decision Making inf Fair Trade Companies Journal of Business Ethics 46 pp. 79-92   English Journal Link
Davies 2007 The Eras and Participants of FairTrade: An Industry Structure/Stakeholder Perspectiveon the Growth of the Fair Trade Industry Corporate Governance Journal 7 (4) : 455-470.   English Journal Link
Davies 2008 Alliances and Networks: Creating Success in the UK Fair Trade Market Journal of Business Ethics forthcoming - DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9762-8 English Journal Link
Davies 2008 Who to work with: Ethical Dilemmas at Day/Divine Chocolate Markeitng - text book by Baines, Fill & Page English Book section Link
Davies 2009 CSR in SMEs: Investigating Employee Engagement in Fair Trade Companies Business Ethics: A European Review Was forthcoming - now unsure English Journal  
Davies, Ryals 2009 How social entrepreneurial organizations create value through social capital Journal of Business Venturing Forthcoming English Journal  
Davies, Doherty, Knox 2009 The Rise and Stall of a Fair Trade Pioneer: The Cafedirect Story Journal of Business Ethics Forthcoming English Journal  
Davies, Knox 2008 Cafedirect a fair trade pioneer European Cas Clearing House Teaching case study English Other