Anne Marguerite de Bruin is a socio-economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance at the Albany campus of Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social enterprises and women's entrepreneurship and innovation.

Anne de Bruin
Alma materUniversity of New England, Massey University
Scientific career
Thesis
Doctoral advisorRolf Cremer, Ian Shirley[1]

Academic career edit

After completing a Massey University PhD in 1997, titled Transformation of the welfare state in New Zealand with special reference to employment, de Bruin rose to full professor.[2][1]

De Bruin has published in leading journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) and the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ). She sits on six journal editorial boards: International Small Business Journal, Journal of Management and Organization, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Forum for Social Economics, Small Enterprise Research, and the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (having been on the editorial board since its founding in 2008).[2] She has also recently been guest co-editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics.[3]

De Bruin is the founding director of Massey University's New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre (SIERC) an interdisciplinary research centre on its Albany campus which opened on 19 July 2018.[4][5] The idea for SIERC came about in the mid-1990s, when de Bruin was working in Ōtara, South Auckland, and was developed further during her 2009 Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar fellowship, when she spent four months studying entrepreneurship at Babson College, Boston.[5][6] SIERC has a staff of 12 academics, and its first case study was of innovation and entrepreneurial activity at Wellington Zoo.[5]

De Bruin is also a leading member of the Diana International Network, which studies women entrepreneurs.[7]

Research edit

De Bruin's research is focussed on entrepreneurship and innovation, particularly by women, and how it can create employment in disadvantaged communities or regions. She also studies how social institutions and enterprises can support the community. Her recent work combines these two areas in the study of women social entrepreneurs, and their role in challenging and reshaping capitalism and producing progressive social change.[7] Her research area is interdisciplinary, and she has collaborated with researchers in areas ranging from sociology to marketing, finance, management, and property studies.[3]

De Bruin, in collaboration with sociologist Christine Read, studied the reaction of Ngāi Tahu's Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura to the devastating 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. Their work concluded that Māori social relationships form a support network that could be a source of resilience in times of crisis.[7]

With her PhD student Bruce Borquist she has studied the role of social enterprises in religious organisations. Traditionally, the work of churches and other religious groups has been funded by donations, but increasingly their social and community work relies on hybrid organisations that have both social and economic goals. De Bruin's research examines the relationship between this kind of entrepreneurship and an organisation's religious values.[7]

Selected works edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b de Bruin, Anne Marguerite (1997). Transformation of the welfare state in New Zealand with special reference to employment (PhD thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/2715.
  2. ^ a b "Prof Anne de Bruin". Massey University. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Anne de Bruin – Research Associate". New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre (SIERC). Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ^ Massey University (7 October 2010). "New research centre focuses on social innovation". Massey News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Koveshnikova, Kristina (11 July 2018). "NZ's first social innovation centre to open". NBR. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. ^ Massey University (11 August 2008). "Fulbright for finance professor". Massey News. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d Dickson, Anna (2018). "Can entrepreneurship create social change?". Rangahau: Research at Massey University. 2: 107–109.
  8. ^ Massey University (5 November 2003). "An entrepreneurial expert". Massey News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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