Dr Dermot Breslin
Lecturer in EntrepreneurshipErasmus/Study Abroad Tutor
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Since joining the Management School in 2008, Dermot has been responsible for developing and delivering the undergraduate Entrepreneurship modules. He has over 14 years commercial experience and since graduating in 1989 with a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from University College Dublin (Ireland), has worked in a variety of roles including engineering design, operations and sales management in the global steel, aluminium and paper industries.
Between 1996 and 2004, Dermot worked for the Sheffield-based engineering company VAIUK industries (now Siemens VAI UK), and his involvement in a number of key sales activities contributed to the company's most successful period of activity, with the company being awarded the Chamber of Commerce Export Excellence Award in 2003. In the same year he completed an MBA (Distinction) from Warwick University. This broad commercial experience has given Dermot the opportunity to work in many different roles (from operations to sales), in a variety of companies (including both SME and multinational) and in a wide range of countries (from Italy to India and China).
Teaching
Drawing on his commercial experience and ongoing research activities Dermot is strongly committed to the continual development of entrepreneurship teaching within our undergraduate management programs. Undergraduate management students currently have the opportunity to take the following key modules which Dermot is responsible for:
- MGT229: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
- MGT380: New Venture Creation
Find out more about Dermot's teaching here.
Erasmus/Study Abroad Tutor
Dermot is responsible for both incoming and outgoing undergraduate international student exchanges within the Management School. Since taking over the role in 2008 an ever increasing number of UG students taking degrees in BA Business Management and BA International Business Management have spent periods of time studying overseas at a number of prestigious International partners including; EDHEC (France), Rennes Business School (France), WirtShaftsUniversität Vienna (Austria), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Turku University (Finland), Griffith University (Australia), Sydney University (Australia), Virginia Tech (USA), Montana State (USA), Waterloo University (Canada) and Chinese University Hong Kong (Hong Kong). Within the university we now have one of the highest number of incoming/outgoing UG exchange visits, enhancing the international experience and exposure of our students, as demonstrated by our recent Equis accreditation.
Find out more about past student exchange experiences here.
Research
Since entering academia in 2004 and following the completion of his PhD in 2009, the specific focus of Dermot's research has been to use an evolutionary approach to develop a theory-led approach to the study of changing behaviour in organisations. To date he has published and reviewed papers in a number of international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Dermot has also acted as guest editor for the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, is currently an associate editor with the International Journal of Management Reviews, and has co-organised evolutionary tracks at the EURAM annual conference. Dermot remains closely engaged with practice through consulting/research projects with local small businesses. In some of these projects he has developed key ideas from his research to analyse the emergence and evolution of key competences within these organizations. In his ongoing research on the use of an evolutionary approach in management, Dermot is working on a variety of approaches including longitudinal ethnographical studies, experimental methods and simulation modeling techniques.
Publications:
Recent publications include:
Breslin, D. and Jones, C. (2012). The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Learning. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 20(3)
Breslin, D. (2012). Spaces and the Co-evolution of Practices within a UK Metallurgical Equipment Supplier. In Alexander, K. and Price, I. (Eds.), Managing Organizational Ecologies: Space, Management and Organizations, Routledge, New York
Breslin, D. (2011). Interpreting Futures through the Multi-Level Co-Evolution of Organizational Practices. Futures, 40, 1020-1028
Breslin, D. (2011). Reviewing a Generalized Darwinist Approach to Studying Socio-Economic Change. International Journal of Management Reviews, 13, 218-235.
Breslin, D. (2011). Evolution and Entrepreneurship. In Mole, K and Ram, M. (Eds), Perspectives in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Approach. Palgrave MacMillan, London, pp. 107-109
Breslin, D. (2011). The Evolving Organizational Routine. In Belussi, F. and Staber, U. (Eds), Managing Networks of Creativity, Routledge, London, pp. 46-62