Dr Michael Andrew Pearson
Reader, Operational Research and Statistics
School of Accounting, Financial Services and Law
Contact details
Room: 3/37, Craiglockhart Campus
Tel: +44 (0) 131 455 4361
Email: m.pearson@napier.ac.uk
Qualifications
PhD MA (Oxon), MSc BA.
Areas of Expertise
Operational Research and Applied Statistics
Brief Biography
Michael Pearson is a Reader in the School of Accounting, Financial Services and Law at Edinburgh Napier University Business School. Research interests are in the fields of Supply Chain Management and Networks and Social Network Analysis. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford where he gained an MA in Mathematics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne University (BA Philosophy and MSc Applicable Mathematics) and a PhD by publication at Edinburgh Napier University.
He has a background as an Operational Research Analyst. His work on Supply Chain Networks began as a result of a major consultancy programme for a large commercial newspaper distributor where he developed software for the distribution of newspapers and magazines across a retail network in the UK. Currently interests include research project manager for the Interregional SME Supply Chains along the Northeast Corridor.
He is also collaborating with leading researchers in social network analysis, and has presented regularly at the International Network for Social Network Analysis, as well as engaged in consultancy for the medical research council. He has also been an invited speaker at three symposia. He is chairman of the Operational Research Group of Scotland.
Key Research Activities
Recent Publications
M.Pearson ‘An Equilibrium Solution to Supply Chain Synchronization’, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 14(3) 165-185, 2003.
M.Pearson ‘The Application of Prediction Capability and Adaptive Target Control to the Newspaper Business’, European Journal of Operational Research, 168(2), 475-491, 2006.
C. Steglich, T. Snijders and M.A.Pearson. ‘Dynamic Networks and Behaviour: Separating Selection from Influence’ Working Paper, Groningen University, http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/siena.html , 2007 (Under review in Sociological Methodology)
M.Pearson ‘Goodwill Hunting and Profit Sharing: Decision-Making in a Newspaper Chain’ European Journal of Operational Research, 181(3), 1593-1606, 2007.
M.Pearson, Fractals, Complexity and Chaos in Supply Chain Networks. Chapter in Complexus Mundi: Emergent Patterns in Nature. M.Novak (Ed.) World Scientific, 2006.
M.Pearson, C. Steglich and T. Snijders. Homophily and assimilation among sport-active adolescent substance users. Connections 27 (1) 47-63, 2006.
M.Pearson, H. Sweeting, P. West, R. Young, J. Gordon and K. Turner. ‘Adolescent substance use in different social and peer contexts: A Social Network Analysis’. Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy, 2006,13(6), 519-536.
M. Pearson ‘Prioritising Edge over Node: Process Control in Supply Chain Networks and Push-Pull Strategies’ Journal of Operational Research Society, 59, 494-502, 2008.
M. Pearson ‘Decision Frontiers in Supply Chain Networks’ Chapter in “Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management - Integrating Critical Perspectives in Theory and Practice” Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
M. Pearson, R.Masson, A.Swain. ‘Process Control in Agile Supply Chain Networks’ International Journal of Production Economics (Under Review in International Journal of Production Economics).
Knowledge Transfer Projects
Mike is a leader for the research aspect for the project involving Interregional SME Supply Chains along the Northeast Corridor/North Sea Supply Connect. This project is led by Groningen Municipality and is planned to work together with the Baltic Sea Region project. The project will provide better access to supply chains in both regions by increasing business opportunities, setting up interregional SME supply clusters, organising SME cooperation and innovation projects as well as other targets.