Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation
Director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation Programme
Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation
Professorial Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College
BA (Bradford University), PG Cert (Anglia Ruskin University), MSt (University of Cambridge), DProf (Middlesex University)
Research interests
Social and community innovation; organisational socialisation; organisation and institutions; social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and extrapreneurship.
Subject group: Organisational Theory & Information Systems
Professional experience
Neil Stott was Chief Executive of Keystone Development Trust until April 2015. Keystone is one of the largest development trusts in the country delivering community development, social enterprises and property development.
Neil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a Fellow in Clayton State University’s Center for Social Innovation & Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Previous appointments
Previously Neil was Head of Community Development at Canterbury City Council, Principal Officer (Community) at Cambridge City Council, a Senior Associate of Locality’s consultancy, and a youth and community worker for a number of children’s charities including Mencap, Elfrida Rathbone and Contact-a-Family in London.
Neil has managed a wide variety of public and social sector services including community safety, racial harassment investigations, race equality, grants, tenant participation and children, youth and community projects.
Neil has been a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Place Management (SFIPM), and a Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.
Awards & honours
- University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award, 2017
Selected publications
Here are a selection of Neil Stott’s publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.
Stott, N., Darlington, M., Brenton, J. and Slawinski, N. (2022) “Partnerships and place: the role of community enterprise in cross-sector work for sustainability.” In: George, G., Haas, M.R., Joshi, H., McGahan, A.M. and Tracey, P. (eds.) (2022) Handbook on the business of sustainability: the organization, implementation, and practice of sustainable growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.118-136
Prieto, L.C., Phipps, S.T.A., Giugni, L. and Stott, N. (2021) “Teaching (cooperative) business: the ‘Bluefield experiment’ and the future of Black business schools.” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 20(3): 320-341 (DOI: 10.5465/amle.2020.0127)
Stott, N. and Fava, M. (2020) “Challenging racialized institutions: a history of black and minority ethnic housing associations in England between 1948 and 2018.” Journal of Management History, 26(3): 315-333 (DOI: 10.1108/JMH-08-2019-0053)
Stott, N., Fava, M. and Slawinski, N. (2019) “Community social innovation: taking a long view on community enterprise.” In: George, G., Baker, T., Tracey, P. and Joshi, H. (eds.) Handbook of inclusive innovation: the role of organizations, markets and communities in social innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.145-166
Stott, N. and Tracey, P. (2018) “Organizing and innovating in poor places.” Innovation: Organization and Management, 20(1): 1-17 (DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2017.1358093)
Tracey, P. and Stott, N. (2017) “Social innovation: a window on alternative ways of organizing and innovating.” Innovation: Organization and Management, 19(1): 51-60 (DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2016.1268924)
Journal articles
Stott, N. and Tracey, P. (2007) “Between a rock and a hard place? Exploring the strategic tensions experienced by development trusts.” Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services, 6(3): 45-56
Tracey, P. and Stott, N. (2017) “Social innovation: a window on alternative ways of organizing and innovating.” Innovation: Organization and Management, 19(1): 51-60 (DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2016.1268924)
Stott, N. and Tracey, P. (2018) “Organizing and innovating in poor places.” Innovation: Organization and Management, 20(1): 1-17 (DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2017.1358093)
Stott, N. and Fava, M. (2020) “Challenging racialized institutions: a history of black and minority ethnic housing associations in England between 1948 and 2018.” Journal of Management History, 26(3): 315-333 (DOI: 10.1108/JMH-08-2019-0053)
Phipps, S., Prieto, L., Giugni, L. and Stott, N. (2021) “The Bluefield experiment in co-op economics: why it matters for HBCUs today.” Nonprofit Quarterly, 3 November 2021
Prieto, L.C., Phipps, S.T.A., Giugni, L. and Stott, N. (2021) “Teaching (cooperative) business: the ‘Bluefield experiment’ and the future of Black business schools.” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 20(3): 320-341 (DOI: 10.5465/amle.2020.0127)
Books, monographs, reports & case studies
Wiles, C., Stott, N., Holman, D., Schneider, C. and Collis, A. (2008) Migrants on the move: migrant workers, growth and housing in the eastern region. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust.
Stott, M., Stott, N. and Wiles, C. (2009) Learning from the past? Building community in new towns and growth areas. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust.
Collis, A., Stott, N. and Ross, D. (2010) Workers on the move 2: European migrant workers and health in the UK: a review of the issues. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust.
Collis, A., Stott, N. and Ross, D. (2010) Workers on the move 3: European migrant workers and health in the UK. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust Publications.
Collis, A., Stott, N., Crozier R. and Martin, K. (2011) Work matters: work, worklessness and community: a review of the issues. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust Publications.
Stott, N. and Longhurst, N. (2011) “Big society and poor places.” In: Stott, M. (ed.) The big society challenge. Thetford: Keystone Development Trust Publications, pp.100-111
Book chapters
Stott, N., Fava, M. and Slawinski, N. (2019) “Community social innovation: taking a long view on community enterprise.” In: George, G., Baker, T., Tracey, P. and Joshi, H. (eds.) Handbook of inclusive innovation: the role of organizations, markets and communities in social innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.145-166
Stott, N., Darlington, M., Brenton, J. and Slawinski, N. (2022) “Partnerships and place: the role of community enterprise in cross-sector work for sustainability.” In: George, G., Haas, M.R., Joshi, H., McGahan, A.M. and Tracey, P. (eds.) (2022) Handbook on the business of sustainability: the organization, implementation, and practice of sustainable growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.118-136
Conference papers
Stott, N. (2010) “Anticipating military work: digital games as a source of anticipatory socialization?” In: Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association Working Group on US Foreign Policy (5th), 14-15 September 2010, Leeds University, Leeds, UK.
Stott, N., Fava, M., Tracey, P. and Claus, L. (2018) “Playing well with others? Community cross-sector work in poor places.” In: Re-thinking Cross-Sector Social Innovation Conference, 6-7 April 2018, Social Innovation and Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Giugni, L., Stott, N. and Vona, R. (2018) “A social enterprise in Gomorrah-land: a tale of radical cultural entrepreneurship and social innovation management.” In: Transformative business strategies and new patterns for value creation: Sinergie-SIMA Conference, 14-15 June 2018, Venice, Italy.
Stott, N., Fava, M., Tracey, P. and Claus, L. (2018) “Leading urgent acts of categorisation: the construction of ‘community anchor organizations’.” In: Leading Social Innovation Symposium, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 10-14 August 2018, Chicago, IL, USA.
Stott, N. and Fava, M. (2018) “Researching community social organizing.” In: Development Trust Association Scotland Conference, 2-3 September 2018, Aberdeen, UK.
Stewart, J., Giugni, L. and Stott, N. (2019) “Equality in the US military: men may be sensitive after all.” In: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society Biennial Conference, 8-10 November 2019, Reston, VA, USA.
Prieto, L., Phipps, S., Stott, N. and Giugni, L. (2021) “Teaching cooperative entrepreneurship: insights from Black history.” In: United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) conference, 5-8 January 2021, Online.
Saravanos, A., Zervoudakis, S., Zheng, D., Stott, N., Hawrluk, B. and Delfino, D. (2021) “The hidden cost of using Amazon Mechanical Turk for research.” In: Stephanidis, C. et al (eds.) HCI International 2021 – late breaking papers: design and user experience, 24-29 June 2021, Washington, DC, USA. Champaign: Springer, pp.147-164 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90238-4_12)
Lardner, Y. and Stott, N. (2022) “Leadership, identity and race: exploring the Black experience.” In: Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory Conference (NIW) (17th), 24-25 March 2022, IE University, Madrid, Spain.
Lardner, Y. and Stott, N. (2022) “Leadership, identity and race: exploring the Black experience.” In: Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection, EGOS Colloquium (38th), 7-9 July 2022, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Vienna, Austria.
