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Dr Sergey Sosnovskikh PhD, CMBE, PGCert, FHEA

Lecturer in International Business

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Biography

I am a Lecturer in In International Business within the Marketing, International Business and Tourism Department. Before joining Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, I worked at the University of Salford (Manchester, UK), De Montfort University (Leicester, UK), the University of Greenwich (London, UK) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia), teaching various undergraduate and postgraduate modules. I am a Certified Management and Business Educator by the Chartered Association of Business Schools. I have diverse experience working in leading companies in different industry sectors, including banking, maritime transport, investor relations, construction, and public services. I conducted consultancy projects for the government and private companies in the UK and Russia. I regularly participate in international conferences and review articles in reputable academic journals. My research interests are political economy, state-business relations and corruption, industrial clusters, institutional economics, entrepreneurship, and macroeconomics.

Qualifications:
- PhD in International Business and Economics (University of Greenwich), 2018
- PGCert in Academic Practice in Higher Education (De Montfort University), 2021
- MSc in International Management (University of Roehampton), 2010
- BSc in International Economics (Ural Federal University), 2009
- BA in Teaching Foreign Languages (Ural State Pedagogical University), 2009

Memberships:
- Fellowship teaching qualification recognised by the Higher Education Academy
- Certified Management and Business Educator (2022 – present) 
- Member of the Regional Studies Association (2022 – Present)
- Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (2018 – Present)
- Member of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (2019 – Present)

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Business School

Teaching

Business ethics, business management, economics, emerging markets, entrepreneurship, international business and trade, political economy, research methods. 

Supervision

I’m actively accepting PhD students.

Research outputs

  • Sosnovskikh, S. (2023). ‘Environmental policies in Russia: Problems of State Funding and Implementation’. In: S. Sosnovskikh & S. Alam, eds. Environmental Finance and Green Banking: Contemporary and Emerging Issues. London: Routledge, pp. 169–208. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003206194-10
  • Sosnovskikh, S., & Samsul, A. (Eds.). (2023). Environmental Finance and Green Banking: Contemporary and Emerging Issues. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003206194
  • Thein, H. H., Klarin, A., Sosnovskikh, S., & Grosman, A. (2023). ‘Responsible Exit Dilemmas under Sanctions: Multinationals’ Divestment Complexities in Myanmar’. Academy of Management Proceedings, (1), 18944. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.18944abstract
  • Sosnovskikh, S. (2022). Implementation of the Territories with Special Economic Regimes in the Far East of Russia. International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 16(2/3/4), 344–367. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEPEE.2021.10035916
  • Skhvediani, A., Sosnovskikh, S., Rudskaia, I., & Kudryavtseva, T. (2022). Identification and comparative analysis of the skills structure of the data analyst profession in Russia. Journal of Education for Business, 97(5), 295–304. https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2021.1937018
  • Sosnovskikh S., & Cronin B., (2021) ‘The effects of culture, attitudes and perceptions on industrial cluster policy: The case of Russia’, Competition & Change, 25(3-4), 350-381.https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529420949491
  • Sosnovskikh S., (2021) ‘A new form of parallel trading within economics relations between Russia and China’, Post-Communist Economies, 33(1), 94-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2020.1745562
  • Sosnovskikh, S., & Cherkasova, O. (2021). ‘Reasonable Entrepreneurial Risk: Behavioural Criteria for Corporate Managers’. Russian Law Journal, 9(1), 58–80. https://doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2021-9-1-58-80
  • Skhvediani, A., & Sosnovskikh, S. (2020), ‘What Agglomeration Externalities Impact the Development of the Hi-tech Industry Sector? Evidence from the Russian Regions’, International Journal of Technology, 11(6), 1091–1102. https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i6.4423
  • Cherkasova, O., & Sosnovskikh, S. (2020), ‘Legal and social aspects of the state participation in the governance of the large corporations in Russia’, E3S Web of Conferences, 222(06004), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202022206004
  • Sosnovskikh S., (2017), ‘Industrial Clusters in Russia: The Development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks’, Russian Journal of Economics, 3(2), 174-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruje.2017.06.004
  • Sosnovskikh S., (2017), ‘Peculiarities in the Development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks in Russia’, European Journal of Geography, 8(4), 82-102.
  • Sosnovskikh S., (2017), ‘Role of the Government in the Development of the Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks in Russia’, The 11th International Days of Statistics and Economics, Prague, Czech Republic: September 14-17, 2017