Dr Thi (Alice) Ngo
PhD
Management School
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Full contact details
Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Alice formerly worked at the University of Manchester and University of Huddersfield before joining the University of Sheffield. She worked as an intern at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France in 2018 during her PhD journey. Her research has garnered recognition at international conferences, including the prestigious Best Developmental Paper Award in the Entrepreneurship Track at the BAM 2023 Conference; and the Early Career Prize Winner in the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE) Conference in 2018.
- Qualifications
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- PhD in Economics and Econometrics
- Research interests
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Alice's research is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating theories and insights from the economic geography of innovation, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business literature.
Currently, Alice's research interests include entrepreneurial learning, women entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial support organizations (accelerators/incubator), and AI in entrepreneurship.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Toward a person-centered approach to cross-cultural adjustment: comparing profiles between female and male expatriates. Journal of Business Research, 201, 115733-115733.
- How knowledge services clustered firms leverage different channels of local knowledge spillovers for service innovation. Management and Organization Review. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Is Innovativeness Gender-Neutral? A Configurational Analysis of the Owners of High-tech New Ventures. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2022(1)
- Toward a person-centered approach to cross-cultural adjustment: comparing profiles between female and male expatriates. Journal of Business Research, 201, 115733-115733.
- Research group
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- Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED)
- Grants
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- 2025 Regional Studies Association (worth of £10,000): “Tigress” or “Cat”? Women entrepreneurs in emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems
- 2022 BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (SG2122\210363 Round 2021-2022) (worth of £9,911): “The art of balance: two search dimensions of ambidexterity and spatiality”
- Teaching activities
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- MGT229: Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
- PhD Supervision
Dr Thi (Alice) Ngo supervises:
Alice welcomes PhD students who share her research interests and can demonstrate proficiency in mixed-methods, advanced text analysis, or quantitative research methodologies.
Are you interested in applying for a PhD?
