Dr Julie Bower

Senior Lecturer in Management

Email:: Julie.Bower@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Julie Bower鈥檚 teaching expertise is in Strategic Management. Her research interests are in the evolution of firm and industry structure and organisation, with specific focus on the alcoholic beverages industry.

Prior to academia Julie had a career in investment banking, where she was a director and team leader for UK and European alcoholic beverages industry investment analysis. She completed her PhD in the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick Business School, funded by an ESRC scholarship.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Articles (CABS ranked)

Bower, J., and Higgins, D. M. Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950-c1970. Business History (in press) (4*)
Bower, J., & Higgins, D. M. (2024). Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950鈥揷1970. Business History, 1鈥�26.聽
Bower, J., and Higgins, D. M. 2023. Litigation and Lobbying in Support of the Marque: The Scotch Whisky Association, c. 1945鈥揷. 1990. Enterprise & Society, 24(1), 286-316 (3*)
Bower, J. 2021. Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry. Business History, 63(8), 1393-1412 (4*)
Bower, J. 2018. Whitbread: Routines and resource building on the path from brewer to retailer. Management & Organizational History, 13(1), 1-23 (2*)
Bower, J. 2016. The Whitbread Umbrella: A structural response to shareholder activism. Enterprise & Society, 17(4), 874-903 (3*)
Bower, J. 2016. Vertical and financial ownership: Competition policy and the evolution of the UK pub market. Business History, 58(5), 647-666 (4*)
Bower, J., and Cox, H. 2012. How Scottish & Newcastle became the U.K.鈥檚 largest brewer: A case of regulatory capture? Business History Review, 86 (1), 43-68 (4*)

Chapters

Bower, J., and Higgins, D. M. 2024. Scotch whisky: Provenance, authenticity and ownership, in Place-Branding Experiences: 鈥� Perspectives from Intellectual Property Owners, Users and Lawyers, eds. Ng, C. W., Adebola, T., and Brown, A. E. L., Edward Elgar
Bower, J. 2018. Accounting history of the Scotch whisky industry: Managing consumption, production and maturation, in Accounting for Alcohol: An Accounting History of Brewing, Distilling and Viniculture, eds. Quinn, M. and Oliveira, J., Routledge
Bower, J. 2017. Vertical and financial ownership: Competition policy and the evolution of the UK pub market, in The History of the Beer and Brewing Industry, eds. Cabras, I. and Higgins, D. M., Routledge

Reviews

Bower, J. 2024. The Mystique of Running The Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840-1939, Gutzke, D. W. The Economic History Review (in press)
Bower, J. 2015. Redefining business models: strategies for a financialized world, Haslam, C., Andersson, T., Tsitsianis, N., and Yin, Y. P. Business History, 57(6), 947-949

Other

Bower, J. 2018. The evolution of the UK wine market: from niche to mass-market appeal. Beverages, 4(4), 87-99
Bower, J. 2016. Scotch whisky: History, heritage and the stock cycle. Beverages, 2 (2) 1-14
Bower, J., and Cox, H. 2013. Merger regulation, firms and the co-evolutionary process: An empirical study of internationalisation in the UK alcoholic beverages firms 1985-2005. Centre for Globalisation Research, QMUL, Working Paper 48

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