Professor Sharkey Scott recently joined Maynooth University School of Business, building on our existing teaching and research capabilities in the International Management field. Many of our graduates experience working in the global economy, whether employed in local small businesses or multi-national organizations, in Ireland or abroad. The opportunities and challenges of working in these diverse international contexts and environments and with culturally diversified people and practices can be explored through our degrees here at Maynooth University. Business, management and marketing students need to understand how firms manage teams, resources and value chains across borders, cultures and international networks. Management, marketing, communications, operations and information technology are all impacted by working within global firms and networks and our suite of international management modules offer insights into these and other internationalisation challenges.
Professor Sharkey Scott, working with other colleagues within the School of Business and the wider university, is playing an important role in the development of our undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs, building a distinct suite of international management modules for second and third year undergraduates and postgraduates. This work enables students across our degrees to take modules on a wide range of International Management topics, which are of interest to international and local students alike. Professor Sharkey Scott’s research in the domain of international management has been published in leading journals in the field, thus bringing research led insights on best practices to both our undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Professor Sharkey Scott obtained both her PhD (2006) and her Masters of Business Studies (1998) from University College Dublin, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) and also holds a BSc in Banking and Finance.
Professor Sharkey Scott’s research contributes to our understanding of international management, particularly in subsidiaries of multi-national corporations. Her work explores how middle managers engage in developing strategy and building capabilities, including capabilities for innovation. Her empirical work focuses not only on MNC subsidiaries here in Ireland but also in other European settings.
Professor Sharkey Scott has published in the world’s highest ranked journal in international management, Journal of International Business Studies and other leading international journals including Journal of World Business, Technovation (the international journal of technological innovation, entrepreneurship and technology management), Organization Studies, and Long Range Planning. She also has a wide range of book chapters and conference contributions. She has won the Best Overall Conference Paper at the Academy of Marketing (2013), been nominated for Best Paper at the world’s largest strategic management conference, the Strategic Management Society Conference on several occasions (2013; 2012; 2010), and won awards at the Irish Academy of Management (2014; 2012; 2011). She has graduated 7 PhD students to date (now with lecturing positions at University of Groningen, UCD, TCD and DCU), each recognised by nominations / awards from the world’s leading conferences in international management and strategy. Along with her co-authors, she has raised circa €370000 in external grants to support PhD and postdoc positions, ranking first in national funding competitions.
Professor Sharkey Scott has taught international management, entrepreneurship and innovation modules at Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. Prior to entering academia she was a senior corporate banker at a major national bank.