Professor David Bailey PhD, FeRSA

Professor David Bailey

Department of Management
Professor of Business Economics

Contact details

Address
Department of Management
Birmingham Business School
University House
Birmingham
B15 2TT

David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has been involved in a number of recent major projects including the recent Horizon2020 RISE project MAKERS where he led the Work Package on Industrial Policy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Regional Studies and Chair of the RSA Europe Think-Tank and policy forum.  His latest co-edited book ‘Keeping the Wheels on the Road. UK Auto after Brexit’ has recently been published by Bite-Sized Books. David is a regular media commenter and newspaper columnist. Tweet him @dgbailey

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Birmingham Business School. 2003
  • M.Soc.Sc. Russian and East European Studies / Economics. University of Birmingham. (Funded by an ESRC Competition Award). 1990
  • B.Soc.Sc. Economics. First Class Honours. University of Birmingham. 1988

Teaching

David teaches on a number of modules including:

  • Employment, Business Development and Policy in the EU (final year BSc undergraduate module)
  • Issues in Management (MSc International Business module)
  • Intermediate Business Economics (2nd year undergraduate module delivered in Singapore)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ruyter, AD, Bentley, G, Hearne, D, Bailey, D & Nielsen, B 2024, 'A ‘just transition’ for workers in the automotive sector? Survey evidence from the West Midlands', Contemporary Social Science, vol. 19, no. 1-3, pp. 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2353684

Bailey, D, De propris, L, De ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-Argilés, R 2023, 'Brexit, trade and UK advanced manufacturing sectors: a Midlands’ perspective', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2192700

Hildreth, P & Bailey, D 2023, 'Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate?', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2233931

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Macrae, C, Mcneill, J & Roberts, J 2022, 'Perceiving and managing Brexit risk in UK manufacturing: evidence from the midlands', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2022.2073386

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-argilés, R 2022, 'Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions', Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2071421

De Propris, L & Bailey, D 2021, 'Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0', Regional Studies, vol. 55, no. 10-11, pp. 1617-1629. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1960962

Harrison, J, Delgado, M, Derudder, B, Anguelovski, I, Montero, S, Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2019, 'Pushing regional studies beyond its borders', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1672146

Bailey, D, Clark, J, De Propris, L, Colombelli, A, Corradini, C, Derudder, B, Fratesi, U, Fritsch, M, Harrison, J, Hatfield, M, Kemeny, T, Kogler, D, Lagendijk, A, Lawton, P, Ortega Argiles, R & Usai, S 2019, 'Rethinking regions in turbulent times', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 1, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1698837

Bailey, D, Pitelis, C & Tomlinson, PR 2018, 'A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1521–1542. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bey019

Bailey, D, Corradini, C & De Propris, L 2018, '‘Home-sourcing’ and closer value chains in mature economies: the case of Spanish manufacturing', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1567-1584. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bey020

Clark, J & Bailey, DG 2018, 'Labour, work and regional resilience', Regional Studies, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 741-744. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1448621

Bailey, DG, Berkeley, N, Jones, A & Jarvis, D 2017, 'Assessing the transition towards battery electric vehicles: a multi-level perspective on drivers of, and barriers to, take up', Transportation Research. Part A: Policy & Practice: an international journal, vol. 106, pp. 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.10.004

Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2017, 'Brexit and the UK automotive industry', National Institute Economic Review, vol. 242, no. 1, pp. R51-R59. https://doi.org/10.1177/002795011724200114

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

De Propris, L & Bailey, D 2018, Manufacturing Reshoring: a UK Perspective. in R Hira, J Eatie & D Siegel (eds), Engineering Globalization Reshoring & Nearshoring: Management & Policy Issues. World Scientific, Singapore . <http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10209>

Chapter

Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2018, Manufacturing reshoring: A U.K. perspective. in World Scientific Reference On Innovation. vol. 2, World Scientific, pp. 41-66. https://doi.org/10.1142/10209

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