The following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Accounting and Finance:
Activities of the accounting profession; critical accounting theory; accounting
for the environment, risk and regulation; perspectives on international
financial reporting; market based accounting; corporate governance; asset
pricing/pricing of derivatives; value at risk; empirical corporate finance;
empirical capital markets research/market microstructure; pension fund investment
performance; insider trading; accounting for new financial instruments.
Applied Macroeconomics:
Macroeconomic modelling of the UK economy; global economic institutions;
modelling exchange rates and exchange rate regimes; European economic integration;
European economic policy.
Behavioural Decision-Making:
Decision analysis.
Business Economics:
Deregulation of legal services; economics of corporate strategy; Japanese
economic system.
Changing Forms of
Work and Organisation:
Control, skill formation and high performance work systems in call centres;
aesthetic labour; software and other knowledge work.
Customer Relationship
Management:
Understanding how organisations interact with customers; customer relationship
management (CRM) and management of sales operations; CRM strategies; customer
value analysis; CRM performance; IT and CRM integration; assimilation of
CRM systems.
Development Economics:
Trade, industrialisation and policy regimes; technology evaluation;
indigenous technological capacity and technology policy; developing countries;
transition economies of Eastern Europe.
Disruption and Delay:
Modelling disruption and delay to support high value litigation claims.
Food Marketing:
Competitiveness in food supply chains; consumer food preferences and
choice; the relationship between marketing, innovation and competitiveness
in the UK food supply chain.
Health Economics:
Evaluation of health services; economics of day surgery and stroke rehabilitation;
measurement of health-related quality of life.
Industrial Relations,
Trade Union Organisation and Strategy:
Recruitment and selection practices; organisational training policies; industrial
conflict; technology and work reorganisation; employees participation; health
and safety; graphical and allied industries; union recruitment strategies.
International Business:
International business development and strategy; industrial and economic
development policies; technology management; cross border mergers; acquisitions
and alliances; international market entry and development; international
marketing; international entrepreneurship.
International Management
and Comparative Forms of Organisation:
Works councils and employee participation in the EU; dissemination and impact
of HRM initiatives across national and company boundaries.
Law:
Commercial Law- competition law, intellectual property, financial services
and debt; comparative law; constitutional law; employment and discrimination
law; environmental law; European and international law; human rights; IT
law; law, gender and sexuality; law, literature and film; legal services,
legal ethics and legal education; local government law; property law and
conveyancing; sentencing; social welfare and family law; socio-legal studies.
Leadership:
Cross-cultural similarities and differences; personality; leadership styles.
Management Science/Operational
Science:
Computer aided decision support for senior managers; multicriteria decision
support; organisational strategy development; management of risk (modelling
effects of delay and disruption in major projects); project management.
Managerial Cognition:
How middle managers make sense of and enact top management decisions
and the unexpected outcomes that result; how thinking, feeling and behaviour
are linked at top management level.
Managing Partnerships
and Alliances:
Links to government policies promoting partnership and commercial sector
thrust on strategic alliances and joint ventures; understanding why collaborative
advantage is so rarely achieved in practice - and collaborative inertia
is so often the practical outcome; developing ways to support those involved.
Manufacturing Management:
Benchmarking and business performance measurement; business improvement;
business process management, including modelling and elimination of waste;
complex systems design and development; e-business modelling; enterprise
modelling and integration; enterprise resource planning (ERP); lean and
just-in-time manufacturing management of teams; management of people performance;
managing complex systems; modelling and simulation; operations management,
planning and control; strategy management; performance measurement; plant
layout and factory organisation; supply chain management; technology management
and implementation; total quality management.
Marketing:
Services marketing; marketing strategy and innovation; customer satisfaction;
consumer behaviour; integration of marketing and corporate strategy; new
product development; start-up enterprises; small business development; marketing
orientation and measurement; marketing information and learning; marketing
research.
Modelling Projects:
Delay and disruption in large projects; learning curves; measuring risk;
project management; risk analysis; simulation; system dynamics.
Modelling Uncertainty:
Data mining; eliciting beliefs; forecasting; measuring risk; reliability
and dependability; risk analysis; simulation; stochastic thinking.
Natural Resource
and Environmental Economics:
Environmental policy analysis; applied econometric investigations into
environmental issues; economic environmental modelling (Jersey, Scotland)
Organisational Behaviour:
Motivation; leadership and organisational culture; ethics; organisational
change; innovation and restructuring; nature and impact of information and
communication technologies; public sector management; supply chains; networks
and hierarchies.
Organisational Implications
of Information Systems:
Business implications of information and computing technology; business
process improvement/ reengineering; computer networking as a source of managerial
innovation; electronic commerce; interorganisational networks; nature of
organisational change; the information economy.
Organisational Knowledge/Knowledge
Management:
What is organisational knowledge - how is it created, preserved and used?
People and Relationships: Why is it that good practice and good intention
go wrong? (and what should be done in that or other future situations?);
how people come to understand their situations through learning and knowledge;
how people gain transfer and act into identities.
Performance Measurement
and Management:
Benchmarking; data envelopment analysis; measuring risk; operations
management; productivity management; quality management.
Personnel and Human
Resource Management:
Business and human resource strategy; employee relations and involvement;
employee training and development; labour market studies; assessment and
relation; equal opportunity and pay issues.
Risk Management:
Reliability; reliability growth; safety analysis; modelling uncertainty;
risk analysis and management; project risk management.
Scenario Planning
and Future Studies:
Rehearsing the future - understanding how to explore environmental uncertainties
and develop robust strategy; the nature of anticipation.
Social Marketing:
Marketing of social issues; health topics (tobacco, AIDS, health education)
Statistics and Modelling
Science:
Time series analysis and modelling. Strategy Development and Implementation:
Methods for developing and implementing strategy; operations strategy; scenario
development using cognitive mapping; telecommunications policy; working
with multi-organisations.
Strategy Processes:
Understanding strategy processes as they happen; developing processes
for facilitating strategy development and implementation.
Supply Chain Management:
Supply chain management in industrial and distribution sectors; procurement
policies; global sourcing; business-to-business relationships.
Telecommunications
Management:
Analysis of the telecommunications market; telecommunication regulation
policy.
The Scottish Economy
and Regional Economics:
Modelling of the Scottish and other regional economies; input-output
analysis; business surveys; regional economic development; enterprise and
industrial policy; labour market analysis; short and medium term forecasting
of the Scottish economy; local economic policy.
The Structure of
Teams in the Workplace:
Individuals' secondary team roles; the clustering of team roles; the
forecasting of team role preferences; validation of the Belbin team construct.
Tourism and Hospitality:
Human resource management in hospitality and tourism; Scottish tourism;
small business management and entrepreneurship; tourism in developing countries;
strategy and marketing in hospitality and tourism; food and beverage management;
tourism and peripheral/ small island destinations; international tourism;
information and communication technologies management and applications in
hospitality and tourism; organisation performance and competitiveness; facilities
management; the internet and tourism; tourism and the natural environment.
Understanding Managerial
Problem Solving:
Behaviour of senior management teams working with complex problems;
decision making in SMEs; nature of organisational change; working with multiorganisations.
Understanding the
Workplace:
Exploring the interface between the physical, social and organisational
environment
Departments and Specialist Centres
The areas of research
described in the above section represent the activities of a number of University
departments and specialist centres including:
Accounting
and Finance
Design
Manufacture and Engineering Management
Economics
Fraser of Allander
Institute
Human Resource Management
Law
Management
Science
Marketing
Environmental
Planning
Strathclyde
Graduate Business School
The
Scottish Hotel School
Statistics
and Modelling Science
Strathclyde
International Business Unit
Interface Studies
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