MBS School of business

WATERWORTH Alec

Position Associate Professor
Academic department People & Organizations
Contact a.waterworth@mbs-education.com
Short Bio

Dr Alec Waterworth is an Associate Professor in Project Management, having joined Montpellier Business School in September 2022. He previously worked as a lecturer and Director of Executive Educations Programmes at the Alliance Manchester Business School, delivering teaching to organisations such as BAE Systems, BP, the UK Department for International Trade, and the NHS. His teaching is focussed on addressing complex organisational challenges across a wide range of sectors and contexts. His research interests include the ongoing clean energy transition (and the role of project management therein) and academic entrepreneurship. Before entering academia, Alec worked in the oil and gas industry as a Quality Assurance Engineer on several multi-billion US$ projects.

Selected intellectual contributions

WATERWORTH, A., C. CARL GAVIN - "Managing Projects" - 2024, Routledge, London, Great Britain

BRADSHAW, M., A. WATERWORTH, "China’s dash for gas: local challenges and global consequences.", Eurasian Geography & Economics, December 2020, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 266-304

WATERWORTH, A., B. BRADSHAW - "The Future of Natural Gas in China. International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)." - 2020

WATERWORTH, A., M. BRADSHAW, "Unconventional trade-offs? National oil companies, foreign investment and oil and gas development in Argentina and Brazil.", Energy Policy, November 2018, vol. 122, no. November 2018, pp. 7-16

WATERWORTH, A., B. BRADSHAW - "Unconventional Trade- offs: the future of the oil and gas industries of Argentina and Brazil. Latin American Energy Economics Meeting." - 2017

GÖK, A., A. WATERWORTH, P. SHAPIRA, "Use of web mining in studying innovation.", Scientometrics, January 2015, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 653-671

WATERWORTH, A., A. GÖK, P. SHAPIRA - "The art of capturing data from Alibaba. Manchester Forum on Data Science, Tech Mining and Innovation." - 2015

WATERWORTH, A. - "Policy and Funding Decisions in Brazil's Oil And Gas Sector. EU-SPRI Conference innovation policies for economic and social transitions: Developing strategies for knowledge, practice and institutions." - 2015

WATERWORTH, A. - "Innovation of technology, policy and industry: the case of disruptive innovation in Brazilian petroleum. EU-SPRI Conference Science and Innovation Policy: Dynamics, Challenges, Responsibility and Practice." - 2014

GÖK, A., A. WATERWORTH - "Using unstructured data – web scraping for enterprise strategy analysis. RADMA Pre-Conference Academic Workshop Sustaining Growth for Innovative New Enterprises, June 26-28, Manchester, England." - 2013, Manchester

Research themes

Cohésion d'équipe, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Project management, Social entrepreneurship - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Teaching disciplines

Management and organisation, Organizations

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