Pikay Richardson

Dr Pikay Richardson is Fellow, Business Economics and Strategy, and Director, India Research and Development Unit of Manchester Business School in UK. He is an experienced graduate management school lecturer and educator, with over 16 years of teaching and supervising MBA and PhD students in the UK, USA, Germany, India, China and Ghana. On top of this, he has many years of experience in the design and delivery of executive development programmes for different classes of managers and executives. Since 1991, he has run and co-run a large number of short executive development programmes in the Manchester Business School and overseas. For 18 months between 2000 and 2002, he was Research Professor and Academic Director for Executive Programmes at the New Jersey institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Dr Richardson is a first class lecturer and presenter, is well-traveled and has lived and worked in many countries.

Academic Qualifications:
BSc (Hons) Engineering, 1977;
MSc (Management Sciences), 1987;
PhD (Business Management), 1989.

As an MBA and PhD professor, Dr Richardson specializes in:
Business Economics (Micro- and Macro-economics)
The Economic Environment of Business;
Macroeconomic Policy;
Leadership and Management of Change;
Strategic Management;
Industrial Market Analysis;
International Business;
Technology Management; and
Globalization and Business Implications.

Visiting Positions:
Visiting Professor of International Business, ESC, St Etienne, France.
Visiting Professor of Strategic Management, GIMPA, Ghana;
Visiting Fellow of Economics, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany;
Visiting Professor, International Management Institute, New Delhi, India.

International Experience:
Dr Richardson has taught in many countries including China, India, Bangladesh, the US, France, Germany, Finland, Ghana the Cameroon and Nigeria. He has also presented papers at many international conferences and conducted many public/open lectures on various management issues in the UK, India, Bangladesh, the US, Canada, the Cameroon and Ghana.

Sample Publications:
Richardson, P. K (1998) "The Road the Privatisation: Turnaround under Public Ownership" in Jayachandran, C. et al, (eds) Managing Economic Liberalisation in South Asia, Macmillan, Chennai, India.
Richardson, P K. (1998) Steel Price Determination in the European Community, Journal of Product and Brand Management, vol. 7, no. 1.
Richardson, P K (1999) EC Steel Prices and Imports: Impact of Imports from Central and Eastern European Countries, Journal of Product and Brand Management, vol. 8, no. 5.
Richardson, P K (1999) Introduction of New Technology and Efficiency and Cost Implications: The Case of Paging Technology in the Ratlam Division of Indian Railways, Innovation and Creativity Management, vol. 2, no. 4.
Richardson, P. K (2000) "Management in Nigeria", in Warner, M (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management, Thomson Press.
Richardson, P K (2000) Globalisation, Socio-economic Development and Employability: the Role of Education and Training, in Powar, K B (ed) Education for Human Development, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi.
Bowonder, B and Richardson P K (2000) Liberalisation and the Growth of Business-led R&D: the Case of India, R&D Management, Manchester, UK.
Richardson, P K (2000) Meeting the Economic Imperatives of Industrial Adjustment: The Case of the British Steel Industry, in Kantarelis, D (ed), Global Business and Economic Review – Anthology 2000, BESI, Worcester, MA.
Richardson, P K (2000) Employability in a Globalising Economy: Implications for Engineering Training, Engineering Science and Education Journal, IEE, vol 8 no. 6, October.
Richardson, P (2002) Science and Technology Policy and the Development of Technology Capability: The Case of India, in Kantarelis, D (ed) Global Business and Economics Review – Anthology 2002, Business and Economics Society International, Worcester, MA, ISBN 0-9659831-5-3.
Richardson, P (2003) New Science, Technology and Innovation Developments in India, Science and Technology Policies in Europe: New Challenges and New Responses, European Commission, Brussels.
Richardson, P (2005) Managing Cultural Diversity for Competitive Success, Engineering Management, IEE, April/May.

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