Silva,M., Bent,R., Seaman,C. and Falconer,P. (in press 2009) Measuring the Financial Capabilities of Business Owners from Non- Traditional Ethnic Minority Groups in Scotland. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Bent,R, Seaman, C., Silva, M [in press 2009] Minority Ethnic Businesses -So Are We – Really Saying That One Size Fits All? International Journal Of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Guest Editor (with C Seaman) (2007) of the International Journal of Consumer Studies Special Edition [2007] entitled ‘Ethnic Minorities: Diversity in Consumers and Business’

Emslie. L and Bent, R. Public Sector Business Support Providers: Marketing Business Support to the Ethnic Business Sector. Marketing Intelligence and Planning

Guest Editor (with C Seaman) (2007) of Special Edition of the International Journal Consumer Studies – Ethnic Minorities: Diversity in Consumers and Business

Dassler, T., Seaman, C., Bent, R., Lamb, L. and Mateer, N. (2007) Diversity,Mixed Embeddedness and the use of Baseline Data in a Scottish Context. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research

Lamb,L., Bent,R. and Seaman,C. [2007] Missed Opportunities? Reaching the Ethnic Consumer Market International Journal of onsumer Studies 31 2

Seaman, C. , Bent, R. , Ingram, A. , Welsh, R and Mederos, A (2005) Fissures in the marketing strategies of South Asian resturants in Edinburgh. Seaman, C Bent, R Ingram, A Welsh, R Menderos, A , 29/3, 193- 200, International Journal of Consumer Studies

Seaman,C., Bent,R., Ingram,A., and Campbell,G. [2004] The development of the Scottish Centre for Enterprise and Ethnic Business Research Hospitality Review July 2004 56-60

Welsh, R, Bent, R, Seaman, C and Ingram, A (2003) The challenge to c-stores: Edinburgh South Asian responses. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, vol.31 No.8, pp, 408 – 417

Seaman, C. , Bent, R. and Ingram, A. (2003)
Edinburgh South Asian Micro- Enterprise Research: Overview and Agenda. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management

Ingram, A. , Jamieson, R., Lynch, P. and Bent, R. (2000) Questioning the impact of 'graduatisation' of the managerial labour force upon the management of human resources in the Scottish hotel industry. The Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics , 24/4, 212- 222

Bent, R. , Seaman, C. , Ingram, A. and Forbes,C (2000)
Staff motivation in Small Food Manufacturing Enterprises (2) - The perceptions of owners and managers. British Food Journal , 102/10, 748- 760

Bent,R, Seaman, C. and Ingram, A (1999) Staff motivation in small food manufacturing enterprises, British Food Journal, vol 101,no9, pp, 654-667

Leighton, C and Bent, R (1997) Complaints handling and staff training by UK food retailer, British Food Journal, vol 99, no5, pp 159-167

Bent, R, Freathy, P (1997) Motivating the employee in the independent retail sector, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol 4, no3, pp, 201-208

Invited Keynotes

Bent,R and Seaman,C [2007] Herding Cats – Nobody Said Business Support Was Easy. Invited Key note Speaker. International Colloquium on Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Management and will have the theme of Changing Faces of Ethnic Entrepreneurship. Bradford University March 2007

Bent,R, Seaman,C and Ingram, A. Invited keynote speaker. 4 th Annual Ethnic

Minority Business Conference, 13 th/14 th September 2001, Paisley, Scotland. “Convenience Stores & Restaurants – The Pressures & Threats to Ethnic Businesses” Invited keynote speaker.