Professor Javed Hussain

Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance

Email:: javed.hussain@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 5690

Professor Javed Hussain is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Birmingham City University where he currently leads the Accounting and Finance Group. Professor Hussain completed his PhD (1996) and M. Soc. Sci (1987) in Money, Banking and Finance from the University of Birmingham and a first degree in Economics, BA (Hons) From Birmingham Polytechnic (1985).

Currently, Professor Hussain supervises a number of PhDs in the areas of corporate, micro and small business finance. He also takes postgraduate courses on Research Methods and International Financial Strategy.

Prior to joining Birmingham City University Professor Hussain held posts in finance within public and private sector organisations. He was financial analyst with the Forward Trust Group (now a subsidiary of HSBC bank) and prior to that he worked for Birmingham City Council. He has collaborated on a number of research projects funded by public sector clients. He has published extensively on issues of bank finance for SMEs with a particular focus on ethnic firms and has co-authored papers and chapters in a number of journals and books. He is currently co-editing Reading in Entrepreneurial Finance book with Dr Jonathan Scott. Furthermore, he is conducting collaborative research on differences in entrepreneurship and SME financing between developed and developing countries. In particular, considering the issues of SMEs within the Malaysian context.

Professor Hussain regularly presents papers at national and international conferences, engages in research with colleagues from a number of other UK institutions, Professor Paul Mosley on micro finance; Dr. Paul Stuart, University of West of Scotland, on presence of venture capital amongst ethnic minorities and Dr. Jonathan Scott, Teesside University on entrepreneurship. He is a peer referee for a number of international journal publications. You may contact Professor Javed Hussain informally to explore your research interests or possible collaborative projects within his specialist area of interest.

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Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Shah, S., El-Gohary, H., and Hussain, J., (2015), an investigation of Market Orientation and Tourism SMEs Performance in Developing Countries: A review of the literature, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing.
Hussain, J. G., Scott, J.M., Matlay, H. (2015). Ethnic entrepreneurship in reverse in the UK: 1s there gender bias in access to finance for South Asian women entrepreneurs? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Forthcoming in end of 13/4
Scott, J. M., Harrison, R.T., Hussain, J. and Millman, C. (2014). ‘The role of guanxi networks in the performance of women-led firms in China’, invited submission to special issue of International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 6 (1): 68-82.
Mahmood, S., Hussain, G.H., and Matlay. H. (2014). ‘Optimal microfinance loan size and poverty reduction amongst female entrepreneurs in Pakistan’ International Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 21, No. 2. Pp.231 – 249
Hussain, J. G., Scott, J.M., and Matlay, H. (2014). Ethnic entrepreneurship in reverse in the UK: 1s there gender bias in access to finance for South Asian women entrepreneurs? International Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Forthcoming in end of 14/15,
Scott, J.M., Harrison, R.T., Hussain, J. and Millman, C. (2013) 'The role of guanxi networks in the performance of women-led firms in China', invited submission to special issue of International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
Matlay, H. and Hussain, J.G. (2012) ‘The future of entrepreneurship education in the UK’s ‘Big Society’ Industry and Higher Education, 26 (6 6): 521-530.
Navjot, S., Hussain, J. G. and Matlay, H. (2012) "Entrepreneurship education and training needs of family businesses operating in the agricultural sector of India", Education + Training, Vol. 54 Iss: 8/9, pp.727 – 743
Sandhu, N., Hussain, J.G. and Matlay, H. (2012) "Barriers to finance experienced by female owner/managers of marginal farms in India", Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 19 Iss: 4, pp.640 – 655
Demirbas, D., Hussain, J.G., & Matlay, H., (2011), “Owner-Managers' Perceptions of Barriers to Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Turkish SMEs”, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 18 (4): 764-780
Hussain, Javed G. and Scott, Jonathan M. and Harrison, Richard T. and Millman, Cindy (2010) “Enter the dragoness”: firm growth, finance, guanxi, and gender in China. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 25 (2). pp. 137-156. ISSN 1754-2413
Matlay, Harry and Hussain, Javed G. and Scott, Jonathan M. and Matlay, Harry (2010) The impact of entrepreneurship education on succession in ethnic minority family firms. Education + Training, 52 (8/9). pp. 643-659. ISSN 0040-0912
Hussain, J. and Matlay, H. and Scott, J.M. (2008) Financial education in small ethnic minority businesses in the UK. Education and Training, 50 (8-9). pp. 737-747. ISSN 00400912