The Business Management department provides research expertise on a wide range of management topics and approaches.
Research programmes have been funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Nuffield, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Scottish Home and Health Department, DTI and by a range of industrial and commercial sponsors.
The Department is also home to The Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability research centre.
Research Expertise
- Strategic Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- International Management
- Corporate Governance
- Organisational Behaviour
- Technology and Work
- Gender, Work and Organisations
- Consumer Behaviour
- Operations Research and Business Data Analytics
- Critical Marketing
- Critical Management Studies
Study Management at PhD Level
An overview of our expert academic's research interests, PhD entry requirements and more.
Current Business Management PGRs
| PhD Student | Project Title | Supervisors |
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| Nourah Al Shoaebi | The Role of Institutional Support and Digital Technologies as Enablers of Business Model Innovation in Saudi Female Digital Startups | Professor Jie Wu Professor Zaheer Khan |
| Gareth Boswell | A Predistribution Solution to Economic Inequality | Mr Mark Whittington Dr John Lamb |
| Shuaichen Du | Dancing with Dynamism: The Choreography of Resource Orchestration and Entrepreneurial Alertness in Startup Performance | Professor Jie Wu Dr Xiaohui (Leo) Shi |
| Seyedeh Hosseini | Evaluating Green Supply Chains by Cross-Efficiency in Network Data Envelopment Analysis with Stochastic Data: A Chance-Constrained Programming Approach | Dr John Lamb Dr Ali Bayat |
| Junjie Kou | How Social Media Marketing Affect Consumer Behaviour: A Comparative Study of Generation Z Consumer Behaviour in China and the UK | Dr Youngsoo Kim Mr Russell Williams |
| Thinh Le Duc | Achieving Employee Commitment to Government Interests in State-owned Enterprises: A Comparative Study of Motivational Drivers and Strategies in the UK and Vietnam | Dr Yanghong (Alice) Hu Professor Jie Wu |
| Alex Mackrell | Exploring the Impact of Tailored Gamification on Academic Performance in Business Schools | Dr Murat Oztok Dr John Lamb |
| Mohammad Moradi | Employee Voice: Antecedents, Employee Well-being, and Strategic Performance | Dr Shainaz Firfiray Dr Elham Moonesirust |
| Olasunkanmi Osofero | The Impact of external factors (BREXIT and Covid-19) on turnover and retention in the NHS | Professor Donald Hislop Dr Karen Bilsland |
| Adam Smith | TBC | Dr Tim Stone Mr Russell Williams |
| Yufei Yang | Research on the Value of Customer Co-creation Experience in the Field of Social Media | Mr Russell Williams Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen |
| George Yeboah | Tracking the Changing Dynamics Corporate Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting: A Comparative Study of UK-Australian Extractive firms | Mr Mark Whittington Professor Audrey Paterson |
| Yiting Zhang | Constructing the Self through Companion Animals: A Cross-Cultural Interpretative Study of British and Chinese Pet Owners | Dr Tim Stone Dr Rachel Smith |
| Yahan Zhao | The Impact of Abusive Supervision on Employee Voice Behaviour | Professor Jie Wu Dr Varuni Wimalasiri |
| Tingting Zhou | Disrupting on Multiple Fronts: Dynamic Capabilities and Ecosystem Orchestration in Automotive Technological Transitions |
Dr Xiaohui (Leo) Shi |
Business Management Research Seminar Series
- External Guest Seminars
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Speaker Affiliation Topic Date Professor Stewart Miller & Professor Xiong Yu University of Durham & University of Surrey Emerging Market Multinational Firms: Building Capabilities in Global Value Chain and Supply Chain Sustainability
22/11/2024 Professor Dovev Lavie Bocconi University, Italy Orchestrating a Cooperative Economy Platform as a Solution to Economic Inequality 30/10/2024 Professor Jay Barney University of Utah Why GenAI is not likely to be a source of sustained competitive advantage 07/10/2024 Professor Rob van Tulder RSM Erasmus University. Netherlands Sustainable global supply chains: Teaching Principles of Sustainable Business. How to engage students in corporate action for the SDGs? 17/04/2023 Professor Rudolf Sinkovics University of Glasgow Meet the Editors session (Writing for high impact journals) 17/04/2023 Professor Marcus Larsen Copenhagen Business School Step by Step: The Entrepreneurial Pre-Entry Process in the Informal Economy 09/11/2022 Professor Amir Shoham Temple University, USA Corporate board gender diversity and innovation for environmental sustainability
02/03/2022 Dr Nilanjana Dutt Bocconi University, Italy Those who can search: Regulatory stringency and external R&D investment in the US Electricity Industry 26/01/2022 Professor Shameen Prashantham CEIBS, Shanghai Gorillas can dance: Lessons from Microsoft and other corportions on partnering with startups
08/12/2021 Professor Thanos Papdopoulos / Professor Donald Hislop University of Kent / University of Aberdeen Business School Meet the Editors Session 10/11/2021 Professor Geoffrey Wood Western University, Canada Theorizing Interconnectedness: Blowback from the natural world, corporate governance and firm level practice 26/05/2021 Professor Shlomo Tarba University of Birmingham Strategic agility in the age of disruption 08/03/2021 - Internal Seminars
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Speaker Topic Date Professor Kishore Gopalakrishna Pillai AI in Marketing, Organisations and Society 14/05/2025 Dr Tian Ma Tourist Satisfaction and Quality of Experience: A Perspective of Chinese Tourists 24/04/2025 Dr Nadia DeGama Beyond Know-Be-Do: The role of business management education in becoming a Sustainable Leader 16/04/2025 Dr Tim Stone Beyond self-fulfilling theory development in management 19/03/2025 Dr Zhipeng Xie (Visiting academic from Central China Normal University) Anthropomorphic Marketing 06/03/2025 Dr Zhipeng Xie (Visiting academic from Central China Normal University) Anthropomorphic Marketing 13/11/2024 Gareth Boswell (PGR) Optimising Inequality to Stabilise Growth 30/10/2024 Dr Shainaz Firfiray Theorising Legacy Creation in Family Businesses 09/10/2024 Dr Timothy Stone In Search of the Self Within Consumer Research 24/04/2024 Dr Scott M Allan 'Sticking them up on the wall': incompleteness, compromise and the assessment of 'performance' in professional service firms
13/03/2024 Mr Adam Smith The Role of Microgeneration renewable energy assets to energy independence 14/02/2024 Professor Simon Parker Women's Empowerment & Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a natural experiment in India
29/11/2023 Dr Nadia DeGama Experiencing and Negotiating (Ambivalent) Career Boundaries: A Study of Self-Initiated Expatriate Accountants in the UAE
25/10/2023 Dr Trevor Morrow Trust, trusting, trust building and restoring trust in collaborative relationships in Higher Education
27/09/2023 Dr John Lamb The mean value in big data - Some paradox shifts 31/05/2023 Professor Jie Wu How does Gender Diversity in the Top Management Team and Board of Directors affect Organizational Performance?
19/04/2023 Ms Georgia Brown Vivien Leigh: Introducing a Data-Driven Analysis of Vocal Performance 22/03/2023 Dr Tatiana Gladkikh & Mr Russell Williams Co-creating Luxury Customer Experiences in Tourism - Exploring the Superyacht Market 15/02/2023 Dr Elham Moonesirust Deconstructing the constitution of CSR within hegemonic masculinities 01/02/2023 Dr Iva Atanassova Organisational Learning and Dynamic Capabilities as Key Drivers of Organisational Survival and Growth During VUCA Times (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)
23/11/2022 Professor J. Ignacio Canales Human Towers (This is an informal presentation related to a developing research project)
26/10/2022 Dr Ali Bayat Between Scylla and Charybdis: CEO Political Ideology, Dividends and Downsizing During the Pandemic
27/01/2022