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The Penrose Lectures 2025/26
Key information
- Date
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- Time
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6:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS, University of London
- Room
- Senate House Alumni Lecture Theatre
- Event type
- Lecture & Event highlights
About this event
Christos Pitelis, Professor of Strategy and International Business, University of Southampton Business School will deliver two public lectures on the following topic.
The garden of Edith seventy years after: Penrose and the organisational market economy
- Lecture 1, 28 April: The firm, organisational economics, strategy and entrepreneurial management
- Lecture 2, 29 April: Middle East oil, multinational-state relations, public policy for sustainable development
Lectures will be followed by a drinks reception for attendees.
About the speaker
Christos Pitelis
Christos Pitelis is Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Southampton Business School, Life Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, Emeritus Professor at the University of Athens, and Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
His work spans the behavioural resource-based theory of the firm, multinational enterprise strategy, ecosystems and co-creation, open team production, value capture, and public entrepreneurship and policy. He has published in leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and Cambridge Journal of Economics, where he is co-editor. He has held senior leadership roles and advised global institutions, governments, and businesses.
About the Penrose Lectures
The Penrose Lectures were established in memory of Professor Edith Penrose who made an outstanding contribution to social science. Her work on innovation, international corporations, the theory of the firm, organisation and economic development have left a lasting legacy on the disciplines of economics and management.
Penrose was also an inspirational teacher of students at all levels – undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD, MBA – and a major contributor to important public policy issues and debates. In keeping with her legacy, the Penrose Lectures have been established to honour her contribution. The lectures are held each year on a subject in economics, management or political economy.
Edith Penrose was appointed to a Chair in Economics at SOAS in 1964 having previously held a joint Readership in Economics at LSE and SOAS. After retiring from SOAS in 1978 she was appointed Professor of Political Economy at INSEAD, Paris. As well as being a pioneer in the disciplines of economics and management, Penrose was also the first woman to hold a professorial position in economics at SOAS. In recognition of her work and legacy, the Penrose Lectures provide a platform for outstanding scholars to communicate their research work to faculty, students, practitioners and the wider public.
A biography of Edith Penrose has been published by Oxford University Press: Penrose, A (2017) No Ordinary Woman: The Life of Edith Penrose, OUP, Oxford.
