Kevin Mole
Associate Professor of Enterprise & Head of Group
Kevin's expertise ranges across a variety of qualitative and quantitative research techniques: on external advice to small firms, the diagnosis of firm problems, policy choices in business support, firm growth and the adoption of new working practices in SMEs.
Contact Details
| Email: | Kevin.Mole@wbs.ac.uk |
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| Telephone: | 024 765 23918 |
Research Themes
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Management and Leadership
Biography
Dr Kevin Mole is a Reader of Enterprise and Head of Group at Warwick Business School. His expertise ranges across a variety of qualitative and quantitative research techniques: on external advice to small firms, the diagnosis of firm problems, policy choices in business support, firm growth and the adoption of new working practices in SMEs. He has worked for the Advanced Institute of Management and client list includes BERR the Small Business Service and Business Link University. Kevin has held a number of grants as Principal Investigator from the Small Business Service (part of BIS) including “Augmenting labour productivity in SMEs”, resulting in a research report (URN 02/1386), “International Review of Business Support and Brokerage” resulting in a research report (URN 04/1974) and a journal article in Environment and Planning. Kevin worked with Professor Mark Hart and Stephen Roper on the last national evaluation of Business Link with a resulting report:”Economic Impact Study of Business Link Local Service” (URN 07/1169) and collaboration on three articles in reputable international journals: Environment and Planning , International Small Business Journal and Environment and Planning .
Estimating policy mix effects: Grants and tax credit complementarities for R&D and innovation outcomes
Published: 26 October 2023
ERC Research paper No 110
The less than 1% Club: Mapping net zero support for small businesses across England
Published: 26 September 2023
ERC Research report
Actionable Information enables SMEs to Journey towards Net Zero
Published: 21 September 2023
ERC Policy briefing
Actionable Information enables SMEs to Journey towards Net Zero
Published: 21 September 2023
ERC Research paper No 109
What do we know about the effectiveness of business advice?
Published: 17 April 2023
ERC SOTA Review No 57
Taking Small Steps: Business Priorities, Environmental and Social Responsibility in UK SMEs
Published: 28 July 2022
ERC Research Report
Skills, management practices and productivity in SMEs.
Published: 11 April 2019
ERC Research Paper No 75
(Seeking, Acting on and Appreciating) the Value of Business Advice.
Published: 24 May 2016
Previous evidence shows that business advice helps businesses and that more advice is generally better [1-4]. Most firms will take advice from outsiders at some point in their development but fewer firms take advice than seems warranted by the evidence [5]. The reasons for the reluctance to take advice are varied and have been relatively intractable; moreover our understanding of the ‘subtle processes’ within advice has been hampered by the few inductive investigations [6] with recent exceptions [7-9]. These ‘subtle processes’ imply that advice is not a single process but is made up of a series of sub-processes.
