Prof Denise Elaine FLETCHER

Research Interests
My work focuses on how entrepreneurial work is constructed in society and the actions, discourses and relational activities used to bring entrepreneurial work into being. I am also interested in the roles and responsibilities of organizations in effecting a more equitable and inclusive society and the extent to which sustainability concerns are changing the business-society interface and encouraging entrepreneurs and managers to act in more responsible ways.

• Entrepreneurship (opportunity emergence, relational perspectives, business start up, copreneurship, internationalization and organizational change of small firms)
• Family business (family discourses, family business in the television media, growth, organizational culture, family heritage, sustainability, succession and strategic renewal of family firms)

Denise Fletcher completed her PhD degree in 1997 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK. She was a lecturer in European Business at Nottingham Trent (1990-2004) becoming a Principal Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in 1998 and Director of Entrepreneurship Research in Centre for Growing Businesses in 2004. From 2006, she moved to a Senior Lecturer role at University of Sheffield becoming a Reader in Entrepreneurship and Family Business in February 2011. Since April 2011, Denise Fletcher has been Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Luxembourg.