Corvinus University of Budapest

Personal data

Gittins Timothy Benjamin

Professor of Practice II

Rektori szervezet / Vállalkozás és Innováció Intézet

Rektori szervezet / Vállalkozás és Innováció Intézet / Vállalkozásfejlesztés és -menedzsment Tanszék

Year of birth: 1961

Qualifications, scientific degrees

Higher education qualifications

1987 - 1990
University of Reading, UK, BSc (Hons) Agricultural Economics (főiskolai)
1998 - 2001
Henley Management College UK, MBA (főiskolai)
1991 - 1992
University of Cardiff, UK, PGCE (Teacher Training) (főiskolai)

Scientific degrees and awards

2018, PhD
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

MTA membership

, Regular member

Career

Workplaces

2000 - 2021
TransCulture Kft, Hungary, Self-employed business consultant
2010 - 2020
University of Liverpool, UK, Online Instructor in Management Studies
2009 - 2009
University of Birmingham, UK, Tutor on pre-sessional masters in management programme
1992 - 1996
Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff, UK, Teacher in Business Studies
1990 - 1991
Ministry of Agriculture, Reading, UK, Administrative Officer

Public activities in the university (memberships in university bodies)

2019 - 2019
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Important study tours, delegacies

2019, Autumn Semester
University of Porto, Portugal

Language skills

Language

Speaking

Writing

Reading

Media appearance

English

Native

Hungarian

Intermediate

Basic

Intermediate

German

Advanced

Intermediate

Language skills

Language: English

Speaking: Native

Writing: Native

Reading: Native

Media appearance:
Language: Hungarian

Speaking: Intermediate

Writing: Basic

Reading: Intermediate

Media appearance:
Language: German

Speaking: Advanced

Writing: Intermediate

Reading: Intermediate

Media appearance:

Research, professional activity

Major taught courses or fields of education:
Entrepreneurship

Field of science and discipline:
economics

Current fields of research:
Informal Entrepreneurship, Covid 19 and SMEs, Organizational learning in SMEss

Major research projects

2020 - 2020, Development of an entrepreneurship typology for integration of Roma informal Waste collection practices into environmental policy in the CEE region.
Form of participation: leader of the research team
Moneylender:
Further info about research: CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AIB-CEE, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2017. European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2019. Department of Small Business, International Symposium, Kingston University, London, 2020.
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Form of participation:
Moneylender:
Further info about research:

Membership in scientific or professional bodies/organizations

2021 - , Reviewer, member
Journal for Technological Forecasting & Social Change, international

Publications

Gittins, T., Fink, M. (2015) Return migration, informal learning, human capital development and SME internationalization in the CEE region: A systematic literature review. Journal of Eastern European Management Studies 20(3) 279-303
Gittins, T., Lang, R., Sass., M (2015), The effect of return migration driven social capital on SME internationalisation: a comparative case study of IT sector entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, Review of Managerial Science, Vol 9 (2): 385-409
Gittins, T, (2020), Towards a framework for evaluation of organisational learning in European SMEs, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice: Present and Future, Conference Proceedings, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2019.
Huszák, L., Gittins, T., (2020), Urban start-up ecosystem development in university-business co-operation, Innovation, Management, Entrepreneurship, 2020, Proceedings of the 8th IMES Conference, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic.
Gittins, T., (2020), Development of an entrepreneurship typology for integration of Roma informal Waste collection practices into environmental policy in the CEE region., Small Enterprise Research, 27 (3): 289-305.
Huszák, L., Gittins, T., (2022), Understanding the Budapest Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Human Capital Flows and Social Capital Ties, Central European Business Review, Vol 11.
Gittins, T., Freész G., Huszák L., (2022), The response of Hungarian SMEs to the Covid 19 pandemic: a Resilience Adaption Model, in Challenges of Management in the COVID-19 Reality, (Eds. Gurkov, I, Steger, T., Wieczorek-Kosmala, M.), Journal of Eastern European Management Studies. Special Issue, 49-70.
Gittins, T., Letenyei, L., (2023), Informal entrepreneurship and the circular economy in Hungary: entrepreneurial practices of informal Roma municipal waste collectors, Eastern Journal of European Studies, 14, (2), 133-161.
Gittins, T., Letenyei, L., (2024), Informal Waste Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Roma Municipal Waste Collection in Hungary, in Trash or Treasure, Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Waste Management. (Eds., Singh, P., Borthakur, A.) Springer, pp. 25-55
Gittins, T., Letenyei, L., (2025), Informal waste collection and municipal waste management in Hungary: A pilot project featuring smartphones to estimate the extent of informally retrieved bulky waste, Waste Management, 200, 114757

Contacts

Location at the university

Building: E épület
Room number: 246.1
Extension: 5116
Main line: +36 1 482 5116
Fax:
Internal fax:

E-mail address: tim.gittins@uni-corvinus.hu

Other professional profiles

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/transculture/

MTMT: https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/author/10067332

Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L13RRFYAAAAJ&hl=en

CV - Gittins Timothy Benjamin

Gittins Timothy Benjamin