Research Expertise E-Business
The following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Accounting And
Finance:
Pension fund investment performance; pricing of financial derivatives;
accounting for new financial instruments; non-linear dynamics in stock
market returns; market based accounting research; corporate finance; audit
regulation; critical accounting theory; corporate finance; audit regulation;
critical accounting theory; costs of capital; environmental accounting;
options and futures.
Advanced Information
Systems Developments:
Web based systems development; constraint satisfaction; scheduling systems;
application of artificial intelligence in resource and operations management;
high performance databases; intelligent information retrieval systems;
systems integration; natural language query systems; object oriented architectures
and systems; distributed information; classification of information (text,
video, sound, multimedia); information retrieval; digital libraries.
Business and Law:
International business development and strategy; industrial and economic
development policies; technology management; cross border mergers, acquisitions
and alliances; international market entry and development; customer led
CRM strategies; database marketing; international marketing; theory and
application of marketing strategy; marketing on the web; European and
private international law; private law; law and computer technology; socio-legal
studies; employment law.
Communications:
Mobile communication systems; broadband networks; network management,
control and design; performance analysis of communication systems; application
of programmable logic gate arrays; network management; radio technology;
adaptive systems and control; voice data and video transmission in fixed
and mobile networks; mobile computing technology; novel software systems
for video and database compression; semantic compression techniques; audio
and speech compression systems; telecommunications public policy; information
technology and worker democracy; digital communications for high speed
land transport; non-linear optimisation; real time signal processing (audio
engineering, noise cancellation); signal processing for telecommunications
Computers In Education:
Activity based around the development of Clyde Virtual University; computer
aided learning (CAL); development of undergraduate and postgraduate CAL
packages for a variety of engineering; science and business disciplines.
Economics:
Macroeconomic modelling of the UK economy; global economic institutions;
modelling exchange rates and exchange rate regimes; European economic
integration; European economic policy Deregulation of legal services;
economics of corporate strategy; Japanese economic system; studies on
trade, industrialisation and policy regimes; technology evaluation, indigenous
technological capacity and technology policy.
Industrial Relations:
Recruitment and selection practices; organisational training policies;
industrial conflict; technology and work reorganisation; employee participation.
Management Science:
Computer supported group decision support for senior managers; multicriteria
decision support; organisational strategy development; management of risk;
project management; impact of information systems on organisations; development
of information strategies; information flows; strategy and policy development;
business information on the Internet; supply chain management (procurement
policies; relationship management in the supply chain; global sourcing).
Network Automation
Enhancement and Management:
Broadband multiservice networks; ATM; tools and techniques for network
management; application of artificial intelligence and field programmable
gate arrays.
Optical Transmission
and Optoelectronic Technologies:
Optical fibre technology; optical architectures and protocols; optical
switching; guided wave optical devices and systems; ATM processing; tuneable
lasers.
Optoelectronics
for Communications and Instrumentation:
Guided wave optical devices and systems for ATM processing; distributed
fibre optic sensing for strain; temperature and corrosion tuneable lasers
for communication or gas monitoring optical network architectures and
protocols; optical fibre technology; optical switching systems.
Software Development
and Engineering:
Algorithms and architectures (algebraic methods, novel algorithms, adaptive
techniques); best practice in software engineering; use of languages such
as Java; development of information systems including distributed systems;
web developments; encryption and security; software development and process;
software testing and quality considerations; empirical foundations of
software engineering; tools utilisation; security considerations; high
integrity systems development.
Personnel & Human
Resource Management:
Business and human resource strategy; employee relations and involvement;
employee training and development; labour market studies; motivation,
leadership and organisational culture; ethics; organisational change in
the manufacturing industry.
Virtual Communication
Techniques:
Technology strategy development; re-engineering technology acquisition;
portfolio planning process; real options techniques; software for technology
management; development of telecommunications software, feature extraction
and related ideas; design and development of telepresence systems; novel
image compression technologies; image databases.
Departments and Specialist Centres:
These areas of research
described represent the activities of a number of University Departments
and Specialist Centres including:
Accounting
and Finance
Civil
Engineering
Computer
and Information Sciences
Design Manufacture and Engineering
Management
Economics
Electronic and Electrical
Engineering
Fraser
of Allander Institute
Human
Resource Management
Law
Management
Science
Marketing
Mechanical Engineering
Statistics
and Modelling Science
Strathclyde
Business School
