Dr Leandro Sepulveda Ramirez

Academic Refereed Journal Articles and Book chapters

• Scarponetti, P., Sepulveda, L. and Martin-Artiles, A. (2021) Pension systems compared: A polarised perspective, a diverse reality. In López-Roldán, P. and Fachelli, S. (Eds) Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America, Springer, pp 419-451.

• Sepulveda, Leandro, Lyon, Fergus and Vickers, Ian (2020) Implementing democratic governance and ownership: the interplay of structure and culture in public service social enterprises. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. ISSN 0957-8765 (Accepted/In press)

• Morretta, Valentina, Syrett, Stephen and Sepulveda, Leandro (2019) Territorial capital as a source of firm competitive advantage: evidence from the North and South of Italy. European Planning Studies. ISSN 0965-4313 (Accepted/In press) (doi:10.1080/09654313.2020.1722067)

• Poy, S. and Sepulveda, L. (2018) Inequality and Poverty Reduction and the Limits of Social Protection Systems: The Case of Argentina during the Stage of Economic Expansion 2003-2014. H2020-INCASI Working Paper Series 2018, number 5. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/199391

• Haddock-Millar, J., Sanyal, C., Kaye, N., Sepulveda, L., Owen, R. and Syrett, S. (2018) Monitoring and Evaluating Business Mentoring: Towards a Research and Evaluation Toolkit to Measure Impact, International Journal of HRD Practice Policy and Research, 3 (2) 35:47. ISSN 2397-4583

• Sepulveda, L., Lyon, F. and Vickers, I. (2018) Social Enterprise Spinouts: An institutional analysis of their emergence and potential. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, DOI 10.1080/09537325.2018.1431391.

• Ayakwah, A., Sepulveda, L. and Lyon, F. (2018) Competitive or cooperative relationships in clusters: A comparative study of two internationalising agro-processing clusters in Ghana, Critical Perspectives on International Business. DOI10.1108/cpoib-12-2016-0063.

• Vickers, I., Lyon, F., Sepulveda, L. and McMullin, C. (2017) Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprises providers of health and wellbeing. Research Policy. Doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.08.003.

• Sepulveda, L. (2015) Social Enterprise - A new phenomenon in the field of economic and social welfare? Social Policy & Administration. 49 (7): 842-861. 

• Sepulveda, L, Lyon, F, Stevenson, N and Fitzhugh, H. (2013) Changing funding realities for charities and social enterprises: Responses to the Big Society agenda and austerity in the East of England, ISBE RAKE FUND and Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development research (CEEDR) Middlesex University London.
• Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Calvo, S. (2013) Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities: Exploring the consequences of the evolving British policy agenda, Environment and Planning C (Government and Policy), vol 31:4, pp633-648
• Lyon, F. and Sepulveda, L. (2012) Social Enterprise Support Policies: distinctions and challenges, In Michael Schaper and Robert Blackburn (Eds) Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development: Policy, Practice and Challenges, Farnham: Gower Publishing Limited 225-238.
• Syrett, S. and Sepulveda, L. (2012) Diversity and urban governance: economic development in the global city, European Urban and Regional Studies.vol 19:3, pp 75-90
• Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Lyon, F. (2011) Population Superdiversity and New Migrant Enterprise: The case of London, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol 23 (7-8): 469-497.
• Syrett, S. and Sepulveda, L. (2011) Realising the diversity dividend: Population diversity and urban economic development, Environment and Planning A. vol 43:487-504.
• Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Calvo, S. (2010) Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities. Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), Working Paper 48. http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/Publications/tabid/500/Default.aspx
• Sepulveda, L. (2009) Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector, Third Sector Research Centre, Working Paper No 15.
• Lyon, F. and Sepulveda, L. (2009) Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions, Social Enterprise Journal, Vol 5:1, pp. 83-94.
• Sepulveda, L. (2008) 'Spatialising industrial policies: A view from the South, Regional Studies, Vol 42:10, pp. 1385-1397.
• Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Lyon, F. (2008) New Ethnic Minority Business Communities in Britain: Challenges of diversity and informality for the UK business and policy frameworks, Working Paper Series No 1, Social Policy Research Centre, Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University.
• Lyon, F., Sepulveda, L., and Syrett, S. (2007) Enterprising refugees: contributions and challenges in deprived urban areas, Local Economy. vol. 22, no.4, pp.362-375.
• Sepulveda, L. and Syrett, S. (2007) Out of the Shadows? Formalisation Approaches to Informal Economic Activity, Policy & Politics, Vol 35, number 1, pp. 87-104.
• Sepulveda, L. and Amin, A. (2006) Decentralising Industrial Policies: Threat or Opportunity in Developing Countries? In Patrizio Bianchi and Sandrine Labory (Eds) International Handbook of Industrial Policy, Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 321-341.
• Sepúlveda, L. (2001) Construcción regional y desarrollo productivo en la economía de la globalidad [Region building and productive development in the global economy], Estudios y Perspectivas N°3, Economic Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) United Nations, Argentina, pp.1-84. Available on the Internet www.eclac.cl/argentina

Official Reports and consultancy work:

• 2021-2021 Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority social/community enterprise support and social investment study, commissioned by Power To Change (PTC). The study aims to improve our understanding of how well support programmes serve the needs of BAME communities.

• 2015-2018 Evaluation of the Volunteer Business Mentoring Programme of Youth Business International (YBI). 'Exploring the impacts of Volunteer Mentoring on young entrepreneurs'.
• 2013-2017 Evaluation of the School of Social Entrepreneurs (SSE), commissioned by School for Social Entrepreneurs.
• 2011-2013 Social Enterprise and the Big Society, funded by ESRC, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE)/Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund (RAKE), Barclays and BIS, with The Guild. Report by Sepulveda, L, Lyon, F, Stevenson, N and Fitzhugh, H. (2013) entitled: Changing funding realities for charities and social enterprises: Responses to the Big Society agenda and austerity in the East of England.
• 2011 External evaluation of the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) Right to Request Programme, commissioned by the SSE and Department of Health.
• 2010The impact of the minimum wages on the youth labour market: An international literature review for the Low Pay. Commission, commissioned by the Low Pay Commission (LPC) and led by Professors Richard Croucher (Middlesex University) and Geoffrey White (University of Greenwich).
• 2009-2010Innovation Exchange Brokerage Model Evaluation, funded by Cabinet Office.
• 2009-2011Social Enterprise Investment Fund Evaluation, funded by the Department of Health. With University of Birmingham, University of Oxford and Shared Intelligence.
• 2008-2013Social Enterprise Research Capacity Building Cluster, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Office of the Third Sector.
• 2008-2013 Third Sector Research Centre with University of Birmingham – programme of work on social enterprise.
• 2008 Review of research and data on SMEs and public service contracts (H.M. Treasury and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) (currently BIS)
• 2008'Mapping the regional social enterprise sector', commissioned by the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA). Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research and Shared Intelligence.
• 2007 'Access to employment and enterprise opportunities for newly arrived Latin Americans in London: Assessing needs and skills', commissioned by Celebrating Enterprise – City University and Carnaval del Pueblo Association through the European Social Fund Equal Programme, October 2007. Available on the Internet:https://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr
• 2007'Formalising new arrival enterprises: Challenges of new ethnic entrepreneurship for business support policy', commissioned by Business Link For London through the European Social Fund Equal Programme, with Stephen Syrett and Fergus Lyon, June 2007. https://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr
• 2006'Refugee, new arrivals and enterprise: their contributions and constraints', commissioned by Small Business Service (Stage I – 2005) and Business Link For London through the European Social Fund Equal Programme (Stage II- 2006), with Fergus Lyon, Stephen Syrett and Andrea Botero-J, June 2006. https://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr

Refereed and published conference proceedings

• 2018 British Academy of Management Conference, 4th-6th September, Bristol, UK. Paper entitled: 'Faith Based Organisations and Social Enterprise: An Exploratory Study in England (with Amoako, I.)
• 2017   The annual Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit – Making Cens Conference, September, Washington, USA. Paper entitled: ‘Evaluation of YBI Voluntary Business Mentoring programme’ (with Haddock-Millar, J., Sanyal, C. and Owen, R.)
• 2017 Institute of Small Business and Enterprise (ISBE) Conference, 8^th-9^th , November, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Paper entitled: ‘The Role of Mentoring in Youth Entrepreneurship Finance: A Global Perspective’ (with Owen, R., Haddock-Millar, J. and Sanyal, C.)
• 2015 5th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, 30th June-3rd July, Helsinki, Finland. Paper entitled: 'The social enterprisation of public services: To what extent different and an alternative to outright privatisation?
• 2014 30th EGOS Colloquium, 3–5 July, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Paper entitled:  'Organisational cultures and innovation in hybrids: The case of public service spin-outs' (Lyon F, Vickers I, Sepulveda L)
• 2014 Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, 5-6 November, Manchester. Paper entitled: 'Innovation in Hybrid Public Service Organisations: Influences on Creativity and Selection Processes' (Vickers, I., Lyon, F., Sepulveda, S., McMullin, C)
• 2014 Policy & Politics Conference, Bristol, 16^th Sept 2014. Paper entitled: 'User engagement and hybridity: The case of public service social enterprises' (McMullin M, Lyon F, Sepulveda L, Vickers I)
• 2013 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)  Conference, 'Social Frontiers: The Next Edge of Social Innovation Research', 14th and 15th November 2013, London. Paper title:  'Processes of social innovation in mutual organisations: the case of social enterprises leaving the public sector'
• 2013 36th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference, Cardiff, Wales 11th to 13th November 2013. Paper title: 'Processes of social innovation in mutual organisations: the case of social enterprises leaving the public sector'
• 2013 4th EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, 1-4th July. Paper entitled: 'Public sector spin-outs: A pathway for the development of social enterprises?'
• 201235th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference, Dublin, Ireland 7th and 8th November 2012. Paper title: 'Are voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises engaging with the 'Big Society' agenda? Some preliminary findings from the East of England'
• 2012International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), University of Birmingham, 12th to 14th September 2012. Paper title: 'Processes of innovation in mutual forms: the case of public sector mutual spin outs'
• 2011 International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), London South bank University, 12^th to 13^th September 201, London, UK. Paper title: 'Social enterprise and ethnic minorities: Rhetoric and realities'
• 2011 Third Global Conference on Economic Geography, 28^th June to 1^st July, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Paper title: 'Social enterprise and alternative economic futures: from vanguard to guards van'
• 2010 OLMEC-CLG Inspiring Change Conference 2010: Big Society and localism through successful social enterprise. Paper entitled: 'Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities: reflections on the research agenda, London, UK, 29^th November
• 2010 AURIL and TSRC Using Knowledge For Social Good: The ethics of knowledge exchange in the third sector. Paper entitled: 'The ethics of knowledge creation and exchange in the social enterprise context, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 27^th October
• 2010 International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) 9^th International Conference. Paper entitled: 'Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-10 July
• 2010 Centre for Research on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) 6^th Annual Conference 'Living Together: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Paper entitled: 'Social Enterprises: New Forms of Engagement or Exclusion for Ethnic Minorities? University of Surrey, UK, 29-30 June
• 2010 Migrant Organisations' Development Agency (MODA) and Social Policy Research Centre (Middlesex University) event on Migrant and minority community organisations: funding, sustainability and ways forward. Paper entitled: 'Social Enterprises: New forms of inclusion or exclusion for ethnic minorities', London, UK, 8^th June
• 2010 Regional Studies Annual International Conference. Paper entitled: 'Realising the Diversity Dividend: Population Diversity and City Competitiveness, Pécs, Hungary, 24-26 May 2010.
• 2009 15th NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference. Presentation entitled: 'Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector', University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 7-8 September 2009.
• 2008 5^th UK Social Enterprise Research Conference SERC 2008. Presentation entitled: 'Mapping social enterprises: Past approaches, challenges and future directions' (with Fergus Lyon), Oxford Said Business School, Oxford, UK, 26-27 June.
• 2008 International Workshop 'Migrant Entrepreneurship / Self-employment: Aspects with Regard to Sustainability'. Presentation entitled: 'Migrant Entrepreneurship, super diversity and competitiveness in global London'. Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Hamburg, Germany, 10-11^th April.
• 2007 Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship 30th Conference 'International Entrepreneurship: stimulating smarter successful small businesses world-wide'. Presentation entitled: 'Minority Businesses Diaspora Interchange'. Glasgow, Scotland, 7-9 November.
• 2007 European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10^th Anniversary Conference 2007 'The Vital City'. Presentation entitled 'Enterprise and Diversity: Competitiveness and Cohesion in the Global City' (with Stephen Syrett), University of Glasgow, Scotland, 12-14 September.
• 2007 First International Colloquium on Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Management. Presentation entitled 'New Ethnic Minority Business Communities in Britain: Challenges of diversity for business support policy', University of Bradford, UK, 22-23 March.
• 2006 European Urban and Regional Studies (EURS) 6^th Annual Conference. Presentation entitled 'Refugees and enterprise: Tracking diverse economies and socio-economic inclusion underneath the global city', University of Roskilde, Denmark, 21-24 September.
• 2006 Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2006. Presentation entitled 'Refugees, enterprise and cohesion underneath the global city', Royal Geographical Society, London, 30th Aug- 1st September.
• 2006 'Refugee and Employment: Challenging barriers and exploring pathways' Conference, London Metropolitan University, WorkingLives Research Institute, London, 6th July.
• 2006 EUNIP (European Network of Industrial Policy) 2006 International Conference. Presentation entitled 'Spatialising industrial policies: a view from the South', Limerick University, Limerick, Republic of Ireland, 20-22 June.
• 2006-2005 Small Business Service & Business Link For London. Presentations of research project 'Refugee, New Arrivals and Enterprise: their contributions and constraints' (June and Dec 2005; April and July 2006).

Research Interests:

• Social enterprise, third sector and the social economy
• Social innovation
• Cultural diversity, enterprise and socio-economic development
• Informal economy, cultures of informality and enterprise development
• Small business and SME clusters
• Industrial development policies

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