Iain Davies

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PhD Iain Andrew Davies

University of Bath

United Kingdom

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Iain recently joined the University of Bath after four successful years at Cranfield School of Management, where he was Senior Research Fellow in B2B Marketing, and led research for the KAM Best Practice Club; a corporate membership club for practitioners interested in improving the management of their strategically most important customers, to which he is still affiliated. He has a PhD in Strategy and Marketing from Nottingham University, where he maintains a role as a Visiting Research Fellow.

Prior to his academic career Iain held a number of posts in B2B Marketing including as a Strategic Consultant with Accenture, a Legal Policy Advisor in the Banking Sector for HMCE and working in sales and marketing in the fair trade industry.

He has research interests as the principal researcher for the KAM BP Research Club and as a member of the Centre for Business, Organizations and Society (CBOS). He has published in leading academic journals including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Marketing Management and the European Journal of Marketing. He is also the Marketing Trainer for the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Deputy Lead of the Academy of Marketing Business-to-Business Special Interest Group and Member of the Academy of Management: Social Issues in Management Group.

He specialises in coaching Business-to-Business Marketing - particularly Account Management and Sales Performance – and Marketing Ethics – focused on Social Entrepreneurship and Ethical Brand Management.



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 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 86 pp. 109-126   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 19 (2) : 126-139. Was forthcoming - now unsure English Journal Link
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 92 (1) : 127-147. Forthcoming English Journal Link
Davies, Knox 2008 Cafedirect a fair trade pioneer European Cas Clearing House Teaching case study English Other  
Davies, Zoe Lee 2011 Do consumers care about ethical luxury Journal of Business Ethics Forthcoming English Journal