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Mary Rose is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Research Director in the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
Development in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director of the Pasold Research Fund,
a charitable trust which provides grants for all aspects of textile history and funds and organises conferences and
lectures. She was a founder member of the ABH Council and has twice been President in 1993-4 and 2001-2. She is President
of the European Business History Association 2003-5.
Mary Rose specialises in business history, especially international perspectives on family business and the history of
textiles and of sport and leisure. She has published widely on the evolution of business values, networking behaviour by
family firms and the problem of leadership succession, this has included numerous articles in refereed journals whilst
she has authored and co-authored 3 books and edited 9. Firms, networks and business values : The British and American
Cotton Industries since 1750, was published in 2000. She has recently collaborated with Mike Parsons, past owner of
Karrimor and Entrepreneurial Fellow of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, on a book entitled
Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers, which was published in 2003. The pair are currently designing a
course on innovation based heavily on business history.
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