Dr. Peter Rodgers
Lecturer in Strategy and International Business
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Peter was appointed a Lecturer in International Business in September 2011 after joining the Management School in June 2010 as an ESRC/SAMS Conversion Fellow. Peter gained a BA (Hons) degree in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Following his PhD, he worked at the Aston Business School, researching business-state relations in the Russian Federation.
Research Interests
Peter is a member of the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED). His research interests include:
- Informal work and informal entrepreneurship
- Regional economies and resilience: See www.project-resilience.co.uk
- Business-state relations in Russia and the former Soviet Union
Research Funding
- Funder: Sheffield University Management School
Grant: £7200
Description: Exploring off-the-book practices in small business enterprise development in post-crisis Moscow
Time period: February - December 2013
Co-researchers: Professor Colin Williams (SUMS) & Professor Aleksandr Chepurenko & Dr. John Round, both Higher School of Economics, Moscow - Funder: Interdisciplinary Centre for the Social Science, University of Sheffield
Grant: £1200
Description: Visiting Fellowship for Professor Aleksandr Chepurenko, Dean of Sociology, higher School of Economics, Moscow
Time period: November 2013 - Funder: ESRC
Grant: £1650
Description: Opportunities and challenges of internationalising SMEs
Time period: November 2013
Co-researchers: Dr. Tim Vorley and Dr. Nick Williams - Funder: ESRC
Grant: £1350
Description: Illegal enterprise: understanding criminal entrepreneurship
Time period: November 2013
Co-researchers: Professor Ged McElwee and Dr. Stephen Dobson, both Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. - Funder: ESRC
Grant: £51,000
Description: Evading the taxman: Hidden work practices in UK
Time period: June 2010 to September 2011 - Funder: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Grant: €15,550
Description: Urban agriculture as an integrative factor of climate-optimised urban development in Morocco
Time period: 2010 - 2011
Co-researchers: Prof. Colin Williams (Sheffield) and Dr. Sara Nadin (Sheffield) - Funder: UK Social Policy Association
Grant: £500
Description: Informal Entrepreneurialism and the Formalisation of Work
Time period: January to August 2011
Co-researchers: Dr. Tim Vorley (Sheffield) - Funder: HEFCE – HEIF4, Knowledge Transfer Grant, University of Sheffield
Grant: £8680
Description: Economic Resilience in the Sheffield City Region
Time period: February 2011 to August 2011
Co-researchers: Dr. Tim Vorley (Sheffield) - Funder: EU – ESPON
Grant: €15000
Description: Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level
Time period: May 2011 to September 2012
Co-researchers: Dr. Tim Vorley (Sheffield) and Bart Kamp (Innova Europe) - Funder: British Academy Small Research Grant
Grant: £5800
Description: Harnessing Entrepreneurialism: The Resilience of Young High-Growth Firms in the Sheffield City Region
Time period: August 2011 to August 2012
Co-researchers: Dr. Tim Vorley (Sheffield) - Funder: ESRC Festival of Social Science
Grant: £1400
Description: ‘Who wants to be an Entrepreneur?’ - Event involving a learning day for local schoolchildren
Time period: Autumn 2011
Co-researchers: £1400 – Undertake a learning day for local school children
Teaching
Peter´s teaching is research-led and encourages students to think critically. Peter currently runs two modules:
- MGT695: International Management (post-graduate level)
- MGT 376: international Business (undergraduate level)
Peter is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of informal work and entrepreneurship and business-state relations in emerging economies.
Administration
Peter is also currently the Management School’s Widening Participation Officer. This role entails nurturing nurturing links with local schools and colleges and encouraging students to consider the University of Sheffield as part of their future career plans.
Impact and Engagement
- Peter has presented on issues concerning state corporatism and corruption in Russia and Ukraine at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. In June 2012, Peter briefed the British Ambassador to Ukraine on the business environment in Ukraine.
- Along with Dr Tim Vorley (Sheffield) Peter is working with Business & Education South Yorkshire to host an outreach event focusing on developing entrepreneurial skills called `Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur?´
- With Dr. Tim Vorley (Sheffield) Peter has co-hosted a stakeholder forum under project resilience, which involved the Yorkshire Forward, Yorkshire Cities, Ekosgen, Barnsley MBC, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield City Region LEP, CFE, and the Local Government Information Unit.
- Peter together with Dr. Tim Vorley is also working on a major cross faculty internationalisation project with Russian partner universities.
- Peter is a regular participant at events on Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs)’s programme on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Publications
Monographs
Williams, C.C, Round, J & Rodgers, P (2013), The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World. The End of Transition?, Routledge.
Rodgers, P (2008), Nation, region and history in post-communist transitions. Identity Politics in Ukraine, 1991-2006, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series, Ibidem: Stuttgart.
Guest-Edited journal
Rodgers, P, Williams, C, (2009) The Informal Economy in the Former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe, International Journal of Sociology, vol.39, no.2, Summer 2009.
Journal articles
Vorley, T, Rodgers, P,(2013) “Home Is Where the Business Is: Incidents in everyday life and the formation of home-based businesses”, International Small Business Journal, 2012.
Ljubownikow, S, Crotty, J & Rodgers P (2013) "The state and civil society in post-Soviet Russia: The development of a Russian-style civil society", Progress in Development Studies, 13.2, 153-166.
Crotty J, Rodgers, P, (2012) “Sustainable development in the Russian Federation: The Limits of Greening within Industrial Firms”, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 19 (3), 178-190.
Crotty, J, Rodgers, P (2012) The Continuing Reorganisation of Russia’s Environmental Bureaucracy: Regional Interpretation and Stakeholder Response, Problems of Post-Communism, 59.4, 15-26.
Williams, CC, Rodgers, P (2012) Evaluating the persistence of subsistence work in contemporary economies: Some lessons from Moscow, International Journal of Social Economics 39(9):721-737.
Williams, CC, Nadin, S., Rodgers, P & Round, J (2011) Rethinking the nature of community economies, Some lessons from post-Soviet Ukraine, Community Development Journal, 47 (2). 216-231.
Williams, C.C, Nadin, S & Rodgers, P, (2011)"Beyond a "varieties of capitalism" approach in Central and Eastern Europe: some lessons from Ukraine", Employee Relations, 33,4, 413-427.
Round, J, Rodgers, P & Williams, C.C (2011) "The Role of Domestic Food Production in Everyday Life in post-Soviet Ukraine", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100, 5, 1-15.
Williams, C.C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P (2011) "Explaining the normality of informal employment in Ukraine: a product of exit or exclusion?", The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70, 3, 729-755.
Williams, C.C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2010) `Explaining the off-the-books enterprise culture of Ukraine: reluctant or willing entrepreneurship?´, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.165–180.
Rodgers, P, Williams, C, (2009) “The Informal Economy in the Former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe”, International Journal of Sociology, vol.39, no.2, Summer 2009, pp.3-11.
Round, J, Rodgers P, (2009) “The Problems of Corruption in Post-Soviet Ukraine’s Higher Education Sector”, International Journal of Sociology, vol.39, no.2, Summer 2009 pp.80-95.
Williams, C, Round J & Rodgers P, (2009) “Evaluating the Motives of Informal Entrepreneurs: Some Lessons from Ukraine”, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, vol.14, Issue 1, March 2009, pp. 59-71
Rodgers P, Round J & Williams C (2008) “Workplace crime and the informal economy in Ukraine: employee and employer perspectives”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 35, no.9, 2008, pp.666-678.
Round J, Williams C & Rodgers P (2008) “Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experience of recent graduates in post-Soviet Ukraine”, Work, Employment and Society, vol. 22, no.1, March 2008, pp.149-166.
Round J, Williams C & Rodgers P (2008) “Everyday tactics and Spaces of Power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine”, Social and Cultural Geography, Vol9, No.2, pp.172-185, 2008.
Williams C, Round J & Rodgers P (2007) “Beyond the formal/informal economy binary hierarchy”, International Journal of Social Economics, vol 34,no.6, pp.402-414, 2007.
Williams C, Round J & Rodgers P (2007) “The Hidden Enterprise Culture of Ukraine”, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, vol 12, No.1,pp.119-136, 2007.
Rodgers, P (2007) “Compliance or contradiction? Teaching ‘History’ in the ‘New’ Ukraine. A View from Ukraine’s Eastern Borderlands”, Europe-Asia Studies, vol.59, no.3 pp.501-517, May 2007.
Williams C, Round J & Rodgers P (2006) “Beyond necessity and opportunity-driven entrepreneurship: some case study evidence in Ukraine”, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, vol.22, no,2., pp. 22-33, June 2006.
Rodgers P (2006) “Understanding regionalism and the politics of identity in Ukraine’s eastern borderlands”, Nationalities Papers, 34(2), May 2006, pp.157-174.
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