Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP)
The Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP) straddles the Schools of Economics Economics and Management, within Henley Business School at the University of Reading. Led by Mark Casson, it focuses on assessing institutional arrangements between markets (firms, industries and regulation), governments, and non-governmental organisations (non-profit institutions such as charity and pressure groups).
The Centre's aims
Our members have been involved in a number of collaborative projects with leading organisations and government departments including the Department for Trade and Industry, the Department for International Development, HM Treasury, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the European Commission, UNCTAD, UN-ECLAC, and the World Bank. Our aims include to:
- Support policy makers in understanding how policies (from deregulations to new forms of partnerships between for- profit and non for profit actors) translate into institutional arrangements.
- Help manages in the business, public, and charity sector assessing and improving the performance of their organisation.
- Contribute to a broader research agenda, addressing issues including the economics of trust, and how to engineer trust in institutions and society at large, the responses of households, firms and communities within developing countries to institutional change at the national and international level, the managements and regulation of financial institutions, deregulation of public utilities and the health sector.
Members of the Centre
- Mark Casson – Centre Director
- Professor John Hendry
- Professor Jim Pemberton
- Dr Kleio Akrivou
- Dr Niaz Asadullah
- Dr Ismael Al-Amoudi
- Professor Uma Kambhampati
- Dr Marina Della Giusta
- Dr Simon Burke
- Dr Simon Booth
- Dr Ken Dark
- Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
- Dr James Walker
- Dr Antonio Savoia
- Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova
- Dr Zella King
- Dr Nigel Wadeson
- Dr Christine Phillips
- Dr Lynda Porter
- Mr Matt McQueen
- Dr Alessandra Ferrari
Affiliate members of the Centre
- Peter Buckley, Professor of International Business and Director of CIBUL, Leeds University Business School, UK. pjb@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
- Simona Iammarino, Reader, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK. s.iammarino@sussex.ac.uk
- Odile Janne, Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. o.janne@bbk.ac.uk
- Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Department of Economics, University of Turin, Italy. marialaura.ditommaso@unito.it
- Paul Kattuman, Senior Lecturer, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UK. P.Kattuman@jbs.cam.ac.uk
- Teresa da Silva Lopes, Reader in International Business and Business History and Co-Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research, School of Business and Management Queen Mary University. t.lopes@qmul.ac.uk
- Ray Loveridge, Professor Emeritus of Aston University and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Saïd Business School. ray.loveridge@sbs.ox.ac.uk
- Ian Jones, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. i.jones@cbr.cam.ac.uk
- James Foremank-Peck. Foreman-PeckJ@Cardiff.ac.uk
- George Tridimas, Professor of Political Economy School of Economics and Politics University of Ulster. g.Tridimas@ulster.ac.uk
- Simon Deakin, Senior Research Associate in Corporate Governance, Judge Business School. s.deakin@jims.cam.ac.uk
- Dr John Singleton, Reader, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. john.singleton@vuw.ac.nz
PhD opportunities
Please see further information on postgraduate research opportunities.