My profile

Biography

Other academic service (administration and management)

I have been teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School since 2003.

I have held a number of positions within the Business School.

My current role is Faculty Head of Employability; helping to shape the Employability Strategy of the Faculty to achieve excellent outcomes for students.

My research spans the areas of Employee Voice, Equality & Diversity and Comparative Institutions and I have published in world leading journals. 

Teaching

Current Teaching:

Research Methods - MBA

Current PhD Students:

Samuel Boyce

Kerry Patton

Omoniyi Temitope Edwards

Michael Tapiwa Mubaiwa

I am interested in supervising students in the areas of Employee Voice, Comparative HRM and Equality and Diversity in the workplace.

Research outputs

Employee Voice

Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management

Institutions

  • Chapters in books

    Allen, M. (2021) 'Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes.' Decent Work: Opportunities and Challenges. Emerald,

    Allen, M. (2021) 'Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes.' Decent Work: Opportunities and Challenges. pp. 53-67.

    Allen, M.M., Allen, M.L. (2015) 'Institutions and Investments by Emerging Economy Multinationals in Developed Economies: Solar PV Firms and the Role of Political Authorities in Germany.' In Konara, H., Ha, Y., McDonald, F., Wei, Y., McDonald, F. (ed.) The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Economies Achieving a New Balance. Springer,

    Allen, M.M.C., Allen, M.L. (2015) 'Institutions and Investments by Emerging-Economy Multinationals in Developed Economies.' The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Economies: Achieving a New Balance, Palitha Konara, Yoo Jung Ha, Frank McDonald, Yingqi Wei (eds). Palgrave Macmillan,

    Allen, M.M.C., Allen, M.L. (2013) 'The Impact of Institutions on Economic Growth in Central and Eastern Europe.' The Changing Geography of International Business. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-54.

    Allen, M.M.C., Aldred, M.L. (2012) 'Internationalization, institutions and economic growth: A fuzzy-set analysis of the new EU member states.' Handbook of Institutional Approaches to International Business. pp. 382-407.

  • Journal articles

    Saqib, S.I., Lucio, M.M., Allen, M.L., Allen, M. (2023) 'Sustaining solidarity through social media? Employee social media groups as an emerging platform for collectivism in Pakistan.' Work, Employment and Society,

    Allen, M.M.C., Allen, M., Saqib, S.I., Liu, J. (2020) 'State-Permeated Capitalism and the Solar PV Industry in China and India.' New Political Economy, 26(4) pp. 527-539.

    Allen, M., Allen, M., Cumming, D., Johan, S. (2020) 'Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union.' British Journal of Management, 32(3) pp. 611-629.

    Wood, G., Finnegan, J.J., Allen, M.L., Allen, M.M.C., Cumming, D., Johan, S., Nicklich, M., Endo, T., Lim, S., Tanaka, S. (2019) 'The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions.' Socio-Economic Review, 18(1) pp. 257-294.

    Becker-Ritterspach, F., Allen, M., Lange, K., Allen, M. (2019) 'Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: Variation and consequences.' Transnational Corporations, 26(1) pp. 61-85.

    Allen, M., Allen, M., Lange, K. (2018) 'Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge-Augmenting Subsidiaries.' British Journal of Management, 29(3) pp. 483-496.

    Allen, M.M.C., Liu, J., Allen, M.L., Imran Saqib, S. (2016) 'Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies.' International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(18) pp. 2570-2593.

    Allen, M.M.C., Allen, M.L. (2015) 'Companies' Access to Finance, Co-operative Industrial Relations, and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the States of South Eastern Europe.' Research in International Business and Finance, 33pp. 167-177.

    Allen, M.M.C., Aldred, M.L. (2013) 'Business regulation, inward foreign direct investment, and economic growth in the new European Union member states.' Critical Perspectives on International Business, 9(3) pp. 301-321.

    Allen, M.M.C., Tüselmann, H.J., Aldred, M.L. (2011) 'Institutional frameworks and radical innovation: An analysis of high- and medium-high-technology industries in Germany.' International Journal of Public Policy, 7(4-6) pp. 265-281.

    Allen, M.M.C., Aldred, M.L. (2011) 'Varieties of capitalism, governance, and high-tech export performance: A fuzzy-set analysis of the new EU member states.' Employee Relations, 33(4) pp. 334-355.

    Allen, M.M.C., Tuselmann, H.J., Allen, M.L. (2009) 'Business Systems and the Open Method of Co-ordination: The EU and Employee Share Ownership in Germany and the UK.' Arbeit Zeitschrift fur Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, 18(1) pp. 33-45.

    Allen, M.M.C., Allen, M.L. (2009) 'Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Innovation? A Comparison of Old and New EU Member States.' Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5(4) pp. 581-596.

  • Conference papers

    Allen, M., Christie, F. (2021) 'How Students’ Self-Perception Impacts on Themes of Graduate Employability.' In SRHE 2021. On-line, 6/12/2021 - 10/12/2021.

    Allen, M., Dearden, N. (2020) 'Compulsory career coaching for final year undergraduates.' In Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning and Teaching Conference. On-Line,

    Allen, M., Allen, M. (2020) 'Institutions and Non-Market Strategies.' In Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. On-line, 18/7/2020 - 21/7/2020.

    Christie, F., Allen, M. (2019) 'A research evaluation of the impact of compulsory career coaching for final year undergraduates of Business Management and Accounting.' In Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference 2019. Celtic Manor, Newport, 11/12/2019 - 13/12/2019. SRHE,

    Allen, M., Allen, M. (2019) 'Comparative Capitalisms and New Technology: Renewable Energy in Europe.' In Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. The New School, New York City, USA, 27/6/2019 - 29/6/2019.

    Allen, M., Allen, M., Johns, J. (2018) 'Types of Knowledge, Innovation and R&D FDI.' Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 23/6/2018 - 25/6/2018.