Dr Amanda J Williamson

Lecturer in Innovation and Strategy

Keywords

Emotional Intelligence; Human Behaviour; Management; Psychology; Strategic Management

Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Affect; Moods; Innovation; Sleep; Cognition; Passion; Entrepreneurial Passion; Research Methods

Qualifications: BBS, BBS first class honours, MBS, PhD.

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About Amanda

Downloadable Curriculum Vitae (CV)

I am a lecturer in innovation and strategy at Waikato Management School, at the University of Waikato. I currently teach strategic management in the Master of Business and Management (MBM) programme.

I undertook my PhD at the Institute of Work Psychology (UK, Sheffield University), on the dark side of entrepreneurship. Previous to starting at Waikato Management School, I was a visiting researcher in Chile, and earlier, a research assistant at the (then) New Zealand Centre for SME Research, Massey University.

Research Interest

My area of research intersects the fields of strategy and psychology. I examine entrepreneurship through a psychological lens, by considering the cross-directional effects between entrepreneurial behaviour, and sleep, emotions or health. I am passionate about social entrepreneurship and other compassionate and pro-social research contexts.

I have published in a leading journal in the field, and have active research projects and international collaborations on entrepreneurship and mood, employing innovative research methods like machine learning and experience sampling methodologies.

An overview of a recent article is provided in the short video below:

Research Affiliations

I am a member of The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning and affiliated with the following research centres:

• Enterprise Innovation Unit of the New Zealand Institute for Business Research
• Institute of Work Psychology
• EPIC lab (evidenced-based policy and innovation research lab)

External Profiles

Social media and external research profiles:

• Twitter: @_amandajw
• Google Scholar
• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate
• ORCID: 0000-0003-3727-4577
• WebOfScience ResearcherID Y-4508-2018
• SSRN Author ID 3429552
• Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/ajwilliamson/