Mike Brown

Professor of Corporate Reputation and Strategy

Email:: mike.brown@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 5000

Mike Brown is Head of the Centre for Corporate Reputation and Strategy at Birmingham City Business School and the founder of the ‘Britain’s Most Admired Companies’ research published annually in Management Today. With a PhD from York University he has published in a number of management journals, contributed to a number of edited texts and co-authored The Admirable Company book.

Having headed up the Centre for Corporate Reputation and Strategy at his previous University he has corporate teaching experience and has worked with a number of international companies including Arla Foods, Anglian Water, Bass, Coors, Gala-Coral, Greene Core, GPT, Keepmoat, Lloyds TSB, Mitchells and Butlers, Northern Foods, TNT, Severn Trent Water and J D Wetherspoon; in countries including Azerbaijan, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic and Zimbabwe.

He has accepted invitations to give lectures at Manchester and London Business Schools and has worked with Accenture, Echo Research and Mercer Consultancy. He has also shared some of his research findings at leading conferences around the world and with leading blue chip British companies including: BSkyB, Babcock International, Cadbury’s, Diageo, Greene King and Northern Foods.

Memberships

Publications

Peer refereed research papers

Krabbenhoft, A. and Brown, D. M. (2007). An international consultancy experience. Journal of International Society of Business Disciplines.

Brown, D. M. (2000). Corporate performance: the paradox of UK Plcs’ management perceptions. International Journal of Business Performance Measurement, Vol. 2, Nos.1-3, pp. 194-209.

Brown, D. M. and Laverick, S. (1994). Measuring corporate performance. International Journal of Strategic Management Long Range Planning, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 89-98.

Brown, D. M. and Laverick, S. (1993). Adding cost effective value to quality products. The Quarterly Journal of the Economics and Business Education Association, Vol. 1, Part 1, No. 4.

Saunders, J., Brown, D. M. and Laverick, S. J. (1992). Research notes on the best of British companies - a peer evaluation of Britain's leading firms. British Journal of Management, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.181-195.

Textbooks

Brown, D. M. and Turner, P. (2008). The Admirable Company. London: Profile Books.

Conference presentations

Brown, D. M., Beard, L and Lee, M. (2009). Both sides of the story. Association of Business School (ABS) Conference. Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, England. 21 May 2009.

Brown, D. M. and Whysall, P. (2008). Changing perceptions of community and environmental responsibility within the retail sector. 15 International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science (EIRASS). Zagreb, Croatia. 14-17 July 2008.

McCollin, C. and Brown, D. M. (2006). Can we run a company as a design experiment? Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS) International Workshop. Wroclaw, Poland. 4-8 September 2006.

Brown, D. M. (2005). An insight into Britain’s most admired companies. Management Today Conference. The Waldorf, London, UK.

Agarwal, V., Taffler, R. and Brown, D. M. (2004). Are well-managed companies good investments? 13 European Financial Management Association Meeting. Basel, Switzerland. June 30 – July 3 2004.

Agarwal, V., Taffler, R. and Brown, D. M. (2004). Are well-managed companies good investments? University of the Algarve research seminar. Portugal.

Agarwal, V., Taffler, R. and Brown, D. M. (2003). Are well-managed companies good investments? British Accounting Association Annual Conference. Manchester, England. 23-25 April 2003.

Krabbenhoft, A. and Brown, D. M. (2003). Creating an international consulting experience for students. South Dakota International Business Conference. South Dakota, USA.

Agarwal, V., Taffler, R. and Brown, D. M. (2002). Are well-managed companies good investments? Cranfield School of Management Research Conference. Bedford, England.

Brown, D. M. (2000). For what it’s worth: the value and sensitivity of perceptions of reputation. Corporate Reputation, Conference. Paris, France.

Brown, D. M. and Toms, S. (1999). The stock market value of managerial reputation: the UK evidence. British Academy of Management Conference. Nottingham, England. 1999. 14-16 September 1999.

Brown, D. M. (1998). Corporate performance: the paradox of UK plc’s management perceptions. Performance Measurement: Theory and Practice Conference. Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England. 15-17 July 1998.

Brown, D. M. (1997). A most admired company. Management Today Conference. Savoy Hotel, London, England. 26 March 1997.

Other publications

Brown, D. M. and Laverick, S. J. (1991). Britain's most admired companies. The Economist - special publication, Economist Intelligence Unit.