Publications
Selected publications are available to download from Research Gate, SSRN and Academia.edu
Articles
- Littlewood, D. & Khan, Z. (2018). Insights from a systematic review of literature on social enterprise and networks: Where, how and what next? Social Enterprise Journal, 14(4) 390-409
- Littlewood, D. Rodgers, P & Williams, CC. (Accepted). Experiences, causes, and measures to tackle institutional incongruence and informal economic activity in South-East Europe. Current Sociology.
- Littlewood, D., Decelis, R., Hillenbrand, C. & Holt, D. (Accepted). Examining the Drivers and Outcomes of Corporate Commitment to Climate Change Action in European High Emitting Industry, Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8) 1437-1449.
- Littlewood, D., Rogers, P & Junhong, Y. (2018). “The price is different depending on whether you want a receipt or not”: Examining the Purchasing of Goods and Services from the Informal Economy in South-East Europe. The Service Industries Journal. 38(11-12) 688-707.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2018). Social Enterprise Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa. Business Strategy and Development, 1(1) 53-63 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsd2.11/abstract
- Littlewood, D. & Kiyumbu, W. (2018) “Hub” Organisations in Kenya: What are they? What do they do? And what is their potential? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 131 276-285 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517313173
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2018) Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Exploring the Influence of Environment. Business & Society, 57(3): 525-561. DOI: 10.1177/0007650315613293. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272349900_Social_Entrepreneurship_in_South_Africa_Exploring_the_Influence_of_Environment
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2017) Waste livelihoods amongst the poor - through the lens of bricolage. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(2): 253-264. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.1914/abstract
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2015) Identifying, Mapping and Monitoring the Impact of Hybrid Firms, California Management Review, 57(3): 107-125 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272088832_Identifying_Mapping_and_Monitoring_the_Impact_of_Hybrid_Firms
- Rivera-Santos, M., Holt, D., Littlewood, D. & Kolk, A. (2015). Social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. Academy of Management Perspectives
29 :72-91 DOI: 10.5465/amp.2013.0128 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/266969714_Social_entrepreneurship_in_sub-Saharan_Africa - Littlewood, D. (2015) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mining and Sustainable Development in Namibia: Critical Reflections through a Relational Lens. Development Southern Africa, 32(2), pp.240-257. DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2014.984833. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/269092206_Corporate_social_responsibility_mining_and_sustainable_development_in_Namibia_Critical_reflections_through_a_relational_lens
- Littlewood, D. (2014) 'Cursed' Communities? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Company Towns and the Mining Industry in Namibia. Journal of Business Ethics. 120: 39-63. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/257542112_Cursed_Communities_Corporate_Social_Responsibility_%28CSR%29_Company_Towns_and_the_Mining_Industry_in_Namibia
Book Contributions
- Littlewood D. & Holt D. (2018), How social enterprises can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – A conceptual framework, in Apostolopoulos N, Al-Dajani H, Holt D, Jones P, & Newbery R., Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2018), “Social Entrepreneurship and CSR Theory: Insights, Application and Value”, in Spence, L.J., Frynas, J.G., Muthuri, J. and Navare, J. A, Handbook of Research on Small Business Social Responsibility: Global Perspectives, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-small-business-social-responsibility
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2017), “Hybrid Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights for Research, Policy and Practice”, in Billis, D. & Rochester, C., Handbook on Hybrid Organisations, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2017), “Social Entrepreneurship and Africapitalism–Exploring the Connections”, in Amaeshi, K., Idemudia, U., & Okupe, A., Africapitalism: Rethinking the Role of Business in Africa, Cambridge University Press.
- Littlewood, D. & Russon, J. (2015) CSR, Mining and Development in Namibia. In Development Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility, Volume 1: Multinational Corporations and the Global Context, Greenleaf Publishing. Edited by Dima Jamali, Charlotte Karam, and Michael Blowfield. Greenleaf Publishing. http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=4083
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2015) Social and Environmental Enterprises in Africa: Context, Convergence and Characteristics. In The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation. Springer. Hamann, R., Nwosu, E., and Hall, M. (Ed.). http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-04051-6_2
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2014) The informal economy as a route to market in Sub-Saharan Africa – observations amongst Kenyan informal economy entrepreneurs, The Routledge Companion to Business in Africa. Nwankwo, S and Ibeh, K. (Ed.).http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635455/
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2014) Addressing rural social exclusion in the developing world - exploring the role of African social purpose ventures. Exploring Rural Enterprise: New Perspectives on research, policy and practice. Henry, C. & McElwee, G. (Ed.). http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S2040-724620144
Online Articles
- African data can bring fresh insights to management and social entrepreneurship studies, Littlewood. D. Holt, D. Kolk, A. & Rivera-Santos, M. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2015/12/14/african-data-can-bring-fresh-insights-to-management-and-social-entrepreneurship-studies/
- ISBE e-magazine Enterprising Matters Social Purpose Ventures, BoP Communities and Rural Exclusion in the Developing World, Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. http://www.isbe.org.uk/Social-Purpose-Ventures-BoP-Communities-and-Rural-Exclusion-in-the-Developing-World
Working Papers
- Working Paper 1: Defining Social and Environmental Entrepreneurial Activity at the Individual/ Business Model and Concept Level. Trickle Out Working Paper Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/workingpapersresources
- Working Paper 2 Development through Enterprise– A Pilot Study of Social and Environmental Enterprises in Namibia. Trickle Out Working Paper Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/workingpapersresources
- Working Paper 3 The Jua Kali and the Mali-Mali The Informal Formal Nexus amongst Kenyan Micro Enterprises. Trickle Out Working Paper Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/workingpapersresources
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2015) “Social Enterprise in South Africa”, ICSEM Working Papers,No. 2015-02, Liege: The International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project. http://iap-socent.be/icsem-working-papers
Conference Contributions
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2018). Exploring Regional Activity by Social Enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa ARNOVA-Africa/AROCSA Annual Conference.
- Littlewood, D. (2017). A Study of the Informal Economy in Windhoek Namibia Informal Economy Summit, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2017). Tourism Hybrid Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring their Institutional Work and Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation Impacts IABS Conference.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2017). An Actor-Network Theory Perspective on Social Innovation and Hybrid Organising, 9th International Social Innovation Research Conference, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2017). The Informal Economy in Windhoek Namibia Institutions, Resources and Linkages with the Formal Economy, Informal Economy Summit, Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2017). From imitative to innovative – what makes the difference in informal economy business models? Informal Economy Summit, Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2017). Growing micro enterprises - perspectives and practices of African informal economy entrepreneurs. IABS Conference, Amsterdam, June 29th -2nd July.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt. D. (2017). Tourism Hybrid Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring their Institutional Work and Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation Impacts, IABS Conference, Amsterdam, June 29th -2nd July
Littlewood, D. & Holt. D. (2016) Social Enterprise and the Sustainable Development Goals, Symposium, “We the Entrepreneurs – The Role of Entrepreneurship in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals”, British Academy of Management Conference, Newcastle 6-8th September. - Holt, D, Littlewood, D. Crotty, J. & Ljubownikow, S. (2016) Resources in context: Organisational forms and resource profiles of African third sector organisations, ISTR's 12th International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden 28 June - 1 July 2016
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2015) Tourism Hybrid Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa Explored through a Lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, 38th ISBE Conference, Glasgow 11th-12th November.
- Gomez, I. G., Littlewood, D. & Money, K. (2015) Understanding the Identity and Motivations of Sustainable Consumers: A Conceptual Framework, British Academy of Management Conference, Portsmouth 8-10th September.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2015) Social Entrepreneurship, Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa, British Academy of Management Conference, Portsmouth 8-10th September.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2015) Conceptualising Resilience & Social Entrepreneurship Relationships In Complex & Chaotic Environments, 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 7-11, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2014) Conceptualising Social Entrepreneurship and Resilience: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa, 37th ISBE Conference, Manchester 5-6th November.
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2014) Waste Livelihoods - Innovation, Bricolage and Poverty Alleviation in Low-Income Economies, 37th ISBE Conference, Manchester 5-6th November.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2014) ICSEM Working Paper - Social Enterprise in South Africa, International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Western Symposium, La-Roche-en-Ardenne, October 9-10th.
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2014) Reaching the underbanked and unbanked in subsistence markets at the nexus of the formal and informal economy, British Academy of Management Conference, Belfast 9th-11th September.
- Holt, D & Littlewood, D. (2014) Financial services for the poor within the formal/informal nexus in sub-Saharan Africa, 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia 1-5th August.
- Holt, D & Littlewood, D. (2014) Entrepreneurship in the Informal/Formal Economy Nexus-a comparative evaluation of street sellers in Kenya and South Africa, the Fifth Subsistence Marketplaces Conference, June 13th-15th Champaign, Illinois.
- Littlewood, D & Holt, D. (2013). Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa through an Institutional Lens. 36th ISBE Conference, Cardiff 12-13th November.
- Littlewood, D & Holt, D. (2013). Addressing Rural Social Exclusion through African Social Purpose Ventures. 36th ISBE Conference, Cardiff 12-13th November.
- Littlewood, D & Holt, D. (2013). Impact evaluation of a Kenyan Eco-Business: A Pilot Study. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando Florida, August 9-13.
- Littlewood, D & Holt, D. (2013). The Jua Kali and the Mali-Mali: The Informal/Formal Nexus amongst Kenyan Micro Enterprises. The Academy of Management Africa Conference, 7-10th January
- Meldrum, B., Simpson, A., Willington, L., Holt., D & Littlewood, D. (2012). Support needs of South African Social Entrepreneurs. Business and Social Innovation Conference, University of Cape Town South Africa 14-16 November
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2012). Imitation, Entrepreneurship and the Informal/Formal Economy Nexus – An African Perspective. 35th ISBE Conference, Dublin 7-8th November.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2012). Mapping the Trickle Out Benefits of Social and Environmental Enterprises - A Pilot Study of an East African Ecobusiness. 35th ISBE Conference, Dublin 7-8th November.
- Littlewood, D. & Holt, D. (2011). Social and environment enterprise in 2011 Namibia - Sector mapping and a review of public policy responses. Conference paper presented at Business and Social Innovation Conference, University of Cape Town South Africa 14-16 November
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2011). Developing a taxonomy of social and environmental enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa – an initial analysis. Conference paper presented at Business and Social Innovation Conference, University of Cape Town South Africa 14-16 November.
- Holt, D., Littlewood, D. & Harrison, R. (2011), Defining social and environmental entrepreneurial activity at the individual, business model and concept level. Conference paper presented at 8th Annual NYU-Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, New York 2-4th November
- Littlewood, D. (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Development and the Mining Industry in Namibia: Critical Reflections through a Relational Lens. Conference paper presented at Corporate Responsibility Research Conference (CRR), University of Leeds 12th-14th September
- Holt, D. & Littlewood, D. (2011). Trade not Aid’- Social and environmental enterprises in Sub-Saharan. Conference paper presented at the EABIS (The Academy of Business in Society) 10th Annual Colloquium 2011 26-28 October - INSEAD Europe campus, Fontainebleau, France
Other Presentations
- ESRC Seminar Series - Corporate Responsibility among SMEs from emerging/developing economies www.sbsr-global.net - Understanding Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa through a Framework of Resilience - (Small) social enterprises and CSR in Emerging/ Developing Countries, Royal Holloway, University of London, 16th June 2015.
- Invited lecture, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ALTIS – Postgraduate School Business & Society - Business and society research in complex institutional environments.
Case Studies
- Case Study No. 1: Cookswell Enterprises "Save Money, Save Energy, Save our Forests and Eat Well" Littlewood and Holt. Trickle Out Africa Project Case Study Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/resourcesmenucasestudies
- Case Study No. 2: The Book Bus “Improving children’s lives one book at a time” Holt and Littlewood. Trickle Out Africa Project Case Study Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/resourcesmenucasestudies
- Case Study No. 3: The Mumwa Crafts Association “Community development through craft production” Littlewood and Holt. Trickle Out Africa Project Case Study Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/resourcesmenucasestudies
- Case Study No. 4: The Khayelitsha Cookie Company - “Creating opportunity one bite at a time”. Littlewood and Holt.Trickle Out Africa Project Case Study Series. Available: http://www.trickleout.net/index.php/resourcesandfaqs/resourcesmenucasestudies
Videos and Podcasts
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Public lecture given by Dr Diane Holt (Principal Investigator on the Trickle Out Africa Project) as part of Queen's University Belfast Local Talent Global Impact Research in Action Lecture Series, Tuesday 29 May, 12-2pm
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Presentation by Dr David Littlewood, Queen's University Belfast, Research Fellow the Trickle Out Africa Project. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference 2012, Dublin 7-8th November.
Paper Title: "Mapping the Trickle Out Benefits of Social and Environmental Enterprises- A Pilot Study of an East African Ecobusiness". |
Presentation by Dr Diane Holt, Queen's University Belfast, Principal Investigator the Trickle Out Africa Project. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference 2012, Dublin 7-8th November.
Paper Title: "Imitation, Entrepreneurship and the Informal/ Formal Economy Nexus- An African Perspective" |