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Enterprise and Value

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Our vision is to identify and facilitate value creation between enterprises (including social ventures) and their customers.

In the Enterprise and Value research group at the Hertfordshire Business School, we use multi-disciplinary approaches to understand how value is (co-)created, where and how it is captured, used, and re-configured, in a number of different contexts. We also use conceptual frameworks and new methodological approaches to examine financial leverage, systems and sustainability. Our research also covers other areas where value can be examined such as accounting and finance.

We produce internationally excellent research by bringing together academics from areas with a broad interest in the value proposition including:

Marketing and Enterprise
Business Value and Analytics
The Visitor Economy (which includes contributions from Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management - THEM)

In Marketing and Enterprise, we consider the value creation process in a number of organizational contexts, including business to business, business to consumer, government and social ventures.

In Business Value and Analytics, we focus on financial perspectives of value, and through business analytics provide insights to help optimize value streams.

We consider the basic essence of the Visitor Economy to be value creation between businesses and consumers in leisure settings.

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The Visitor Economy

Marketing and Enterprise

Business Value and Analytics

Developing a dementia-friendly visitor economy

Food provision in later life

Anna Watson

Dr Anna Watson is a Reader in Marketing, with research interests in franchising, entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

Anna is one the UK’s leading academics in franchising, having published widely in the area, and has undertaken a number of projects on behalf of the British Franchise Association. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes, where she contributes to their Franchising Master’s programmes.

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Doctoral students

PhD students are valued members of our research community. We encourage potential applicants to browse the list of the group members to get more information about their areas of expertise.

Current PhD students include:

Student	Field of research	Programme
Mir Baloch	Social Marketing for Health Intervention in Baluchistan, Pakistan	PhD
Katie Burke	Co-Creation and Co-Destruction of Value at Music Festivals: A Practice Theory Approach	PhD
Jennifer Ford	Tourism impacts on residents’ and visitors’ quality of life: a study of two communities in Canada	PhD
Stelina Kakani	Using a mobile application to make healthier food choices: the role of emotions and body type in food decision making	PhD
Jefferson Papis	A Phenomenological study on the Meaning of Events	PhD
Suket Parihar	Privacy-public paradox in consuming digital social technology	PhD
Barbara Wood	Authenticity, integrity and sharing knowledge or manipulation of experience, restricting access and managing information? Who holds ownership and authority in the heritage sector and who controls user experiences?	DHeritage

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