Professor Gary Akehurst 

Research Professor  

Business Law and Sport  

Email:

Gary.Akehurst@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827538 

Address:

Expertise

Professor Gary P. Akehurst, BSc.Econ, MSc.Econ, PhD specialises in: 

•  Marketing
•  Sales Management
•  Strategy Management.

In his business career he has specialised in recovering failing service businesses.

Gary teaches part -time at Winchester Business School as well as running his management consulting business.

He was until December 2011 managing editor of The Service Industries Journal, founded in 1981 as the first peer reviewed journal in the world (ISI Thomson Reuters rated) for the study of services and service businesses.

Gary is an emeritus professor of marketing of Aberystwyth University and in recent years a visiting professor at a number of universities. Until the end of 2011 he was Chair of Examiners at the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

He is currently a judge for the British Excellence in Sales Awards.

Publications

2012: Women entrepreneurship in small service business (with Enrique Simarro and Alicia Mas-Tur, University of Valencia, Spain), Service Industries Journal, volume 32, (forthcoming)

2012: Re-examining green purchase behaviour and the green consumer profile: New evidences (with Carolina Afonso and Helena Martins Goncalves, Asus Portugal and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal), Management Decision, volume 50 (forthcoming).

2011 Ontological supports of knowledge: Knowledge creation and analytical knowledge (with Carlos Rueda Armengot, Salvador Vivas-Lopez and Daniel Palacios, Management Decision, 49(2), pp.183-194

2009 User generated content: The use of blogs for tourism organisations and tourism consumers, Service Business, 3(1), pp.51-61.

2009 Job satisfaction and commitment in the entrepreneurial SME (with Jose Manuel Comeche and Miguel-Angel Galindo), Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, 32(3), pp.277-289

2008 What do we really know about services? Service Business, 2(1), pp.1-15.