Nick Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3541-5586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship
This book analyses the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Returnee entrepreneurs are defined as individuals who have moved away from their home country and lived as part of the diaspora, and have later returned home to live, invest, or both. With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant, yet little is still understood a…
Entrepreneurship and local economic resilience
This article examines how the legacies of the past in peripheral post-industrial places serve to shape current and future entrepreneurial activity, and with it local economic resilience. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with key regional stakeholders, the article reveals how peripheral post-industrial places are constrained by their histories. This is found to be manifest in different ways, such as low aspirations, generational unemploy…
Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment
This paper examines the development of policies which seek to mobilise and maximise the potential of diaspora investment in their home countries. While a great deal of migrant entrepreneurship literature focuses on impacts in the host country, less is known about the impacts of diasporans on home countries. The paper focuses on the three post-conflict Balkan economies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, each of which has large diasp…
Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Spatial approaches to examining entrepreneurship have increasingly built on theories of social capital. However, the nature and extent of local social capital in less successful deprived communities remains under researched and inadequately understood. This article examines the association between social capital and entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood in the city of Leeds, UK as a means of contributing to an improved theoretical un…
The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions
This paper examines the role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions. Extant research on resilience has examined ‘economic’ factors. This paper adds to the academic discourse by considering how effective leadership shapes economic development within sub-national economies. Through a case study of the Sheffield City Region (SCR), UK, the paper considers the role of civic leadership in enabling Local Enterprise Partners…
Engaged Composition, Dehierarchisation and My Politics of Practice
All music, by its nature, is political, whether explicitly concerned with political subject matter or not. A composer's stylistic decisions, choice and treatment of material, along with who plays the music and who listens to it, are all aspects determined to a large degree by political factors. In this paper I shall explore two distinct modes of compositional practice to illustrate my position. The first mode involves the use of techniques that e…
Creating and sustaining a model of community-based enterprise learning
Entrepreneurship education has increased in prominence over the past decade yet somewhat paradoxically remains outside the statutory school curriculum in many places, including the UK. Despite this, there has been a growing movement to embed enterprise education widely, including supporting enterprise through community-based learning. This article is the output from a participatory action research case study which analyzes the implementation of c…
Habit
This paper introduces the performance project SynSite, created in collaboration with dancer and aerial artist Mona McCarthy. In this performance, a motion-tracking system monitors McCarthy's movement as she improvises. She explores an interactive audio environment, responding to sonic events as they emerge and move around her and negotiating her control over the system. The system, however, is capable of varying degrees of obstinacy and resists s…
City-Region 2020
Greening the Built Environment
Better than it sounds”
To date, plans for a comprehensive European security architecture seem to have been subordinated to the primacy of military security. The future architecture will be based more on a synergy of political processes than on a hierarchy of institutions
Life cycle analysis of housing
This paper reports the findings of a project to assess the costs and benefits of adopting environment‐friendly construction practices for social rented housing in Scotland. Two contrasted dwelling specifications — one for a conventional building (the Control) and one for an environmentally responsible building (Eco‐Type 1) — are compared using Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Costing methodologies. An assessment is made of the environmental and…
Why Nato will survive
NATO has proven its ability to manage the fundamental tasks determining European security. However, two common misperceptions have emerged that predict its demise. The most common fallacy, that NATO must have a clear‐cut mission to survive, ignores that even during the Cold War NATO served many functions beyond deterring Soviet aggression. Another widely held misconception is that NATO must formally expand its role to engage in out‐of‐area disput…
Partnership for peace
Creating and sustaining a model of community-based enterprise learning
Entrepreneurship education has increased in prominence over the past decade yet somewhat paradoxically remains outside the statutory school curriculum in many places, including the UK. Despite this, there has been a growing movement to embed enterprise education widely, including supporting enterprise through community-based learning. This article is the output from a participatory action research case study which analyzes the implementation of c…
Partnership for peace
Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment
This paper examines the development of policies which seek to mobilise and maximise the potential of diaspora investment in their home countries. While a great deal of migrant entrepreneurship literature focuses on impacts in the host country, less is known about the impacts of diasporans on home countries. The paper focuses on the three post-conflict Balkan economies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, each of which has large diasp…
Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Spatial approaches to examining entrepreneurship have increasingly built on theories of social capital. However, the nature and extent of local social capital in less successful deprived communities remains under researched and inadequately understood. This article examines the association between social capital and entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood in the city of Leeds, UK as a means of contributing to an improved theoretical un…
The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions
This paper examines the role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions. Extant research on resilience has examined ‘economic’ factors. This paper adds to the academic discourse by considering how effective leadership shapes economic development within sub-national economies. Through a case study of the Sheffield City Region (SCR), UK, the paper considers the role of civic leadership in enabling Local Enterprise Partners…
Greening the Built Environment
Life cycle analysis of housing
This paper reports the findings of a project to assess the costs and benefits of adopting environment‐friendly construction practices for social rented housing in Scotland. Two contrasted dwelling specifications — one for a conventional building (the Control) and one for an environmentally responsible building (Eco‐Type 1) — are compared using Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Costing methodologies. An assessment is made of the environmental and…
Partnership for peace
Life cycle analysis of housing
This paper reports the findings of a project to assess the costs and benefits of adopting environment‐friendly construction practices for social rented housing in Scotland. Two contrasted dwelling specifications — one for a conventional building (the Control) and one for an environmentally responsible building (Eco‐Type 1) — are compared using Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Costing methodologies. An assessment is made of the environmental and…
Why Nato will survive
NATO has proven its ability to manage the fundamental tasks determining European security. However, two common misperceptions have emerged that predict its demise. The most common fallacy, that NATO must have a clear‐cut mission to survive, ignores that even during the Cold War NATO served many functions beyond deterring Soviet aggression. Another widely held misconception is that NATO must formally expand its role to engage in out‐of‐area disput…
Better than it sounds”
To date, plans for a comprehensive European security architecture seem to have been subordinated to the primacy of military security. The future architecture will be based more on a synergy of political processes than on a hierarchy of institutions
Greening the Built Environment
City-Region 2020
Habit
This paper introduces the performance project SynSite, created in collaboration with dancer and aerial artist Mona McCarthy. In this performance, a motion-tracking system monitors McCarthy's movement as she improvises. She explores an interactive audio environment, responding to sonic events as they emerge and move around her and negotiating her control over the system. The system, however, is capable of varying degrees of obstinacy and resists s…
Engaged Composition, Dehierarchisation and My Politics of Practice
All music, by its nature, is political, whether explicitly concerned with political subject matter or not. A composer's stylistic decisions, choice and treatment of material, along with who plays the music and who listens to it, are all aspects determined to a large degree by political factors. In this paper I shall explore two distinct modes of compositional practice to illustrate my position. The first mode involves the use of techniques that e…
Creating and sustaining a model of community-based enterprise learning
Entrepreneurship education has increased in prominence over the past decade yet somewhat paradoxically remains outside the statutory school curriculum in many places, including the UK. Despite this, there has been a growing movement to embed enterprise education widely, including supporting enterprise through community-based learning. This article is the output from a participatory action research case study which analyzes the implementation of c…
The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions
This paper examines the role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions. Extant research on resilience has examined ‘economic’ factors. This paper adds to the academic discourse by considering how effective leadership shapes economic development within sub-national economies. Through a case study of the Sheffield City Region (SCR), UK, the paper considers the role of civic leadership in enabling Local Enterprise Partners…
Entrepreneurship and local economic resilience
This article examines how the legacies of the past in peripheral post-industrial places serve to shape current and future entrepreneurial activity, and with it local economic resilience. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with key regional stakeholders, the article reveals how peripheral post-industrial places are constrained by their histories. This is found to be manifest in different ways, such as low aspirations, generational unemploy…
Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment
This paper examines the development of policies which seek to mobilise and maximise the potential of diaspora investment in their home countries. While a great deal of migrant entrepreneurship literature focuses on impacts in the host country, less is known about the impacts of diasporans on home countries. The paper focuses on the three post-conflict Balkan economies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, each of which has large diasp…
Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Spatial approaches to examining entrepreneurship have increasingly built on theories of social capital. However, the nature and extent of local social capital in less successful deprived communities remains under researched and inadequately understood. This article examines the association between social capital and entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood in the city of Leeds, UK as a means of contributing to an improved theoretical un…
The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship
This book analyses the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Returnee entrepreneurs are defined as individuals who have moved away from their home country and lived as part of the diaspora, and have later returned home to live, invest, or both. With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant, yet little is still understood a…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Entrepreneurship (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works)