Dr Chris Mason FHEA
Lecturer in Marketing
Contact Details:
Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3447
Email: C.Mason@ljmu.ac.uk
LinkedIn address: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjmason
Organisational role and responsibilities
As a Lecturer in Marketing, I am responsible for the delivery of a range of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I manage and teach on the following modules: Social and Ethical Marketing and Relationship Marketing (undergraduate), and Marketing for Social Enterprise and Ethical and Social Challenges of Marketing (postgraduate). I contribute to teaching on the Faculty’s MRes course, as well as across the suite of marketing modules offered for study at the Faculty of Business and Law, delivering lectures in Business Ethics, CSR, Corporate Governance, Social Enterprise and co-manages two modules on the MRes course run at the Faculty of Business and Law.
Biography
Chris works at Liverpool John Moores University as a Lecturer in Marketing. He completed his PhD in 2007, which focused on the ethical governance of social enterprise. His research interests can be categorised as (but not limited to): social enterprise, corporate governance, critical management, and organisational diffusion. He contributes to the research strategy of the Faculty through publication of research in peer-reviewed academic journals and presenting research papers at international conferences.
Chris is currently developing a comparative research project focusing on the differences in diffusion of social enterprises in the United Kingdom and Japan. For this project he has been the recipient of an LJMU Early Career Researcher Award and a Japan Foundation travel grant. This project begins in 2010, where Chris will travel to Japan to meet with a colleague based at the University of Tokyo. The study has already produced some interesting findings from an outline comparison of critical challenges of legal frameworks for NPOs in both countries (publication details to follow).
Chris has worked for charities in the past and maintains an interest in providing consultancy to these organisations. He recently delivered both a creative teams and board development training for two UK-based social enterprises.
Research Interests
Corporate governance, social enterprise, critical management studies, institutional theory, diffusion.
Publications
Mason, C. (2010) Choosing sides: Contrasting attitudes to governance in Social Firms in the United Kingdom. Social Enterprise Journal.
Mason, C. (2010) Grasping the Nettle: Key Challenges to Effective Social Enterprise Governance. Social Enterprise Journal,.
Mason, C. (2009) Governance in Social Enterprises. IN Doherty, B. (Ed.) Social Enterprise Management. London, Sage Publications.
Mason, C., Kirkbride, J. & Bryde, D. (2007) From Stakeholders to Institutions: The Changing Face of Social Enterprise Governance Theory. Management Decision, 45.
Mason, C. & Royce, M. (2007) Fit for Purpose - Board Development for Social Enterprise. Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services, 6.
Recent conference papers
Mason, C. (2009) Structural isomorphism and social enterprise: The pressure to maximise social benefit. Cardiff Business School Research Conference. Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Mason, C. (2009) Driving Sideways? Policy and the Shaping of the Social Enterprise Sector in the UK. Critical Management Studies 6. Warwick, United Kingdom.
Mason, C. & Richards, A. (2007) Transparency, Accountability and Legitimacy in Social Enterprise Governance. The Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Chennai, India.
