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Professor Andrew Burke

Chair of Business Studies (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 burkea18@tcd.ie

 3531896 3133


Biography

Professor Andrew Burke is Chair of Business Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He served two terms as Dean from 2015-2023 and during this time Trinity Business School tripled in size, secured Triple Accreditation (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS) placing the School in the top 1% of business schools in the world, built and self-financed a new €80 million eco-friendly building, moved into the top tier of Financial Times rankings as well as securing Athena Swan accreditation and was ranked in the top 4 business schools in the world by the Economist for gender diversity. Through extensive participation across the School's wider community he has overseen 2 strategic visions, encompassing an internationalisation strategy in 2016 and most recently the Transforming Business for Good Strategy: Strategy Horizon 2030. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and has served on the Board of the University and Audit Committee. He has also served on the Governing Body of UCD. He was Bettany Chair and the Founding Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield School of Management. He has held faculty positions at the universities of Warwick, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Balliol College Oxford and visiting professorships at UCLA and the Max Planck Institute of Economics. He delivered the first ever entrepreneurship courses at the University of Edinburgh. He was Conference Chair for EURAM's largest ever conference (which was hosted at Trinity in 2023) and co-Chair for EURAM's first ever online conference hosted during the Covid pandemic in 2020. He is an executive coach and holds a Certificate in Executive Coaching from the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely published in top ranked international journals including the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Small Business Economics. His work has been presented at the EU Commission, World Trade Organization, HM's Treasury, UK Houses of Commons and Lords as well as through media such as Forbes Magazine, the Financial Times, RTE and BBC television and radio. . Andrew is founding Editor of the International Review of Entrepreneurship, was an Associate Editor of Small Business Economics from 2015- 2022, a Guest Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. He graduated with a D.Phil (Oxford University), MSc (London School of Economics), MA (NUI) and an honorary MA (Dubl.). He is a former President and Ents Officer of UCD Students' Union hosting bands such as the Pogues, Dr Feelgood, the Damned, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Human League and Wilko Johnson during his time in these roles. During his student days he played in a number of indie bands which were commercially unsuccessful but enjoyable experiences for the band, if not the audience!
Thurik, R., Audretsch, D., Block, J., Burke, A., Carree, M., Dejardin, M., Rietveld, C., Sanders, M., Stephan, U., Wiklund, J., The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields, Small Business Economics, online first, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kgoroeadira, R., Burke A., Di Pietro, F. & van Stel, A., Determinants of firms' default on unsecured loans in the P2P crowdfunding market, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 89, 2023, p101882 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Parker, S., Åstebro, T., Audretsch, D.B., Blackburn, R., Burke A.E., Coad, A., Cowling, M., Davidsson, P., Fritsch, M., Greene, F., Reynolds, P.D., & Thurik, R., Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field, Small Business Economics. An Entrepreneurship Journal, 62, (4), 2023, p1 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Annelot Wismans, Peter van der Zwan, Karl Wennberg, Ingmar Franken, Jinia Mukerjee, Rui Baptista, Jorge Barrientos Marín, Andrew Burke, Marcus Dejardin, Frank Janssen, Srebrenka Letina, José María Millán, Enrico Santarelli, Olivier Torrès and Roy Thurik, Face mask use during the COVID"19 pandemic: how risk perception, experience with COVID"19, and attitude towards government interact with country"wide policy stringency , BMC Public Health, 22, (1622), 2022, p1 - 14, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Wismans, A., Letina, S., Wennberg, K., Thurik, R., Baptista, R., Burke, A., Dejardin, M., Janssen, F., Santarellij, E., Torrès, O., Franken, I., The role of impulsivity and delay discounting in student compliance with COVID-19 protective measures, Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Burke, A., Lyalkov, S., Millán, A., Millán, J.M., & Van Stel, A., How does country R&D change the allocation of self-employment across different types?, Small Business Economics, 56, 2021, p695 - 721, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Burke, A.E. , Cowling, M., The relationship between freelance workforce intensity, business performance and job creation, Small Business Economics, 55, (2), 2020, p399 - 413, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Burke, A.E., Zawwar, I and Hussels, S., Do freelance independent contractors promote entrepreneurship?, Small Business Economics, 55, (2), 2020, p415 - 427, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Burke, A.E, Cowling, M., On the critical role of freelancers in agile economies, Small Business Economics, 55, (2), 2020, p393 - 398, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Wismans, A., Letinac, S., Thurik, R., Wennberg, K., Franken, I., Baptista, R., Marín, J.B., Block, J., Burke, A., Dejardin, M., Janssen, F., Mukerjee, J., Santarelli, E., Millán, J.M., and Torrès, O., Hygiene and Social Distancing as Distinct Public Health Related Behaviours among University Students' during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(4), 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Burke, A., Fu, N., Sun, Y, & Sheehan, J., Ireland"s Project Economy 2023: A Barometer of independent professionals, Contractors and Solo Self-Employed, 2023, Report, IN_PRESS
Burke, A., Fu, N., Nguyen, Tam, & Sheehan, Jimmy, Ireland's Project Economy: A Barometer of Independent Professionals, Contractors, and Solo Self-Employed , Dublin, Ireland, 2021, Report, INPROGRESS
Burke, A.E., The freelance project and gig economies of the 21st century, London, CRSE, June, 2019, Notes: ["Through this new report as well as his 2012 research, Andrew Burke is turning a spotlight on this vital and positive side of self-employment. In 2012, Burke and his team showed how valuable skilled freelancers are to the UK's SMEs and large corporations. Now, they are shedding new and much-needed light on how exactly this growing and dynamic sector works. This exciting new report shows that not only is there enormous diversity across the self-employed sector; even within the highly skilled freelance sector, you find hugely different ways of working. More than ever, this shows that if the government wants to support one of its most productive and important sectors, it must adopt a segmented and tailored approach. There can be no more blunt, one-size-fits-all policies. Right now, freelancers and the self-employed need policies that cater to their varied ways of working: be it projects, gigs or a portfolio of different kinds of work. This vital research shows once and for all the need for a segmented, modern tax and employment system - not built for the telegraph era, but ready for the broadband age." Caroline Morgan, Chair of IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed), UK.], Report, PUBLISHED
Andrew Burke & Samuel Vigne, The Economic Role of Freelance Workers in the Construction Industry (3rd Edition), 3rd Edition, London, 2018, p1 - 75, Notes: [Relevant for industrial and labour market public policies. The value of freelancer workers to the construction industry in raising productivity and lowering the cost of homes and buildings for consumers. The financial wellbeing of freelance workers is also investigated. ], Report, PUBLISHED
Andrew Burke, The Role of Freelancers in the 21st Century British Economy, London, 2012, p1 - 66, Notes: [Presented to cross party policy working groups on two occasions at the UK Parliament in Westminster. Used as the main theoretical and empirical research source for by the UK cross party group DAVOS. Used to create a Charter for Freelancers by the UK Labour Party's Finance and Industry Group. Used as the main research source for the public policy manifesto of the industry group IPSE.], Report, PUBLISHED