Faculty Research Interests Accounting and Finance

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of Research

Current Interest Target Area of Research

Abhay Abhyankar Finance Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing

Andrew Adams Finance Pricing and risk assessment of closed-end fund shares. Market Efficiency. Insurance companies. Direct and indirect property investment.

Seth Armitage Corporate finance Financial markets and institutions. Equity offers by listed companies. The role of banks in funding companies. A value-based measure of the performance of managed funds. Mutual financial institutions. Cost of Capital.

Iris Bosa Accounting Healthcare and social care sector Professional accountability

Tom Brown Accounting Financial statement analysis; Accounting history; Auditing, accounting history; Public sector information system development.

Yew-Ming Chia Accounting Public Sector Accounting; Accounting education; Behavioural accounting; Management Accounting Systems and Designs

Angelica Gonzalez Finance Asset Pricing, Theoretical and applied financial econometrics, Non-Parametric Likelihood,

Bootstrap and related sampling techniques.

Ingrid Jeacle Accounting and everyday life

‘Alternate’ sites of management accounting practice (both historical and contemporary) such as the role of accounting in the areas of architecture, furniture design, tea drinking, shopping and cinema

Gavin Kretzschmar CA (SA) Finance and Natural Resources

Market, liquidity and Credit risks Financial Fraud Detection Basel II Energy Sector: Global Resource Ownership Commodity Market Structures Asset pricing Oil price volatility Real options

Irvine Lapsley Accounting Public sector accounting and not-for-profit organisations

Maria Michou Finance - Market efficiency and Equity Return Predictability, Market Anomalies, Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance, Cost of Capital

Falconer Mitchell Managerial accounting

Cost-management and Japanese practice; Practice in high technology companies; Activity Based Costing; Management accounting change processes and Management Accounting in SMEs.

Peter Moles Finance Risk; Financial risk management and risk management; Asset valuation; Financial reconstruction; Foreign exchange management.

William Rees Financial Analysis Accounting based valuation models, international

accounting and international financial management.

Pauline Weetman Accounting Corporate communication, Comparative international accounting

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of Research

Current Interest Target Area of Research

Sarah Cooper Entrepreneurship and new venture creation

Entrepreneurship, innovation and growth in technology businesses and influences on individual motivation and capability to engage in entrepreneurial behaviour. Learning and knowledge transfer in regional technology clusters. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intent.

Ian Graham Sociology of technology

IT standardisation; sociology of operations management.

Geoff Gregson Technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship

Creation and development of intellectual capital; Research-patent-innovation relationship in university systems; Patent regime effects on public science; Commercialisation processes of high-growth firms; Knowledge and support networks; Evaluation methodologies for market intervention programmes.

Ashley Lloyd Application of advanced technologies to business processes in order to improve competitiveness

Grid Computing, Consumer Behaviour Modelling, Customer Relationship Management, Model-driven Innovation in New Product/Service Development, eBusiness in

Sychronous Electronic Markets and Virtual (Synchronous) Industry Clusters.

Craig Mackenzie Business and Climate Change

The drivers and barriers of corporate climate change performance Benchmarking corporate climate change performance Corporate accounting and reporting on climate change Investment and climate change

Nick Oliver Manufacturing performance and product development

Competitiveness in the automotive industry, the application of lean business principles to sectors outside of the manufacturing sector and the relationship between lean principles and brand identity

Neil Pollock Sociology of technology

Information and communication technologies (ICT) and their social and organisational implications; Design and use of Generic Software Packages Virtual universities; Virtual organisations; e-commerce; e-government; consultancy organisations;

Peter Rosa Entrepreneurship and economic development

Developing economies; Entrepreneurship and the black economy in Africa; Habitual entrepreneurship and the formation of business groups; Female entrepreneurship particularly the supply of female academic entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship and family businesses.

Strategy and International Business

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of Research

Current Interest Target Area of Research

Chris Carr Global strategies in the context of globalisation;

Issues of market power versus resource-based approaches; Role of national of European champions; Role of international strategic alliances and acquisitions; World best practice benchmarks in manufacturing.

Simon Harris The different ways that CEOs internationally develop strategies for their firms, and develop their operations in other countries.

Who is involved in international strategic development: the CEO’s relationships with others.

Ling Liu Strategic international management

Emerging markets, Regional economic integration in East Asia, Big business and global business revolution, Industrial and competitive policies in China Development strategy in developing economies. Outward FDI from emerging markets.

Brad MacKay Strategic phenomenon.

Competitive strategy, green strategy, scenario planning and strategy, strategic foresight, strategy and risk and strategic futures planning.

Monia Mtar Strategic and organisational aspects of managing multinational firms

Globalization vs. localisation; international expansion; design of corporate structures and control; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; cross-border transfer of practices; global learning; change management. Impact of national identity

on multinationals' competitiveness.

Xiaobai Shen Socio-technical analysis of biotechnology and ICT in China, focusing on.

The issues of policy, governance and strategies

Richard Woodward Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship in new EU member states

Enterprise networks, knowledge transfer and innovation Employee ownership and other forms of financial and non-financial participation

Management Science and Business Economics

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of Research

Current Interest Target Area of Research

Galina Andreeva Management Science Credit scoring and retail credit risk assessment, legislative environment of credit scoring models, generic scoring models in EU, cross-country differences in retail credit risk patterns, purchase propensity modelling, small business risk assessment.

Thomas Archibald Management Science Operations management policies for start-up companies; Parallel computing and the application of stochastic dynamic programming to reservoir operation; Portfolio management; Management of multilocation inventory systems; Models for inventories of perishable goods; Operation of networks of water

reservoirs; Maintenance models for roads, bridges and buildings.

John Banasik Management Science Multi-sectoral macroeconometric analysis of the inter-war British economy and related issues of historical national income accounting; Business forecasting and credit scoring models.

Jonathan Crook Business Economics Acquisitions and mergers; Economics of the consumer credit industry; Demand and supply of credit; Credit constraints; Credit scoring and credit control.

John Glen Management Science Mathematical programming models for livestock production; Models for manpower planning; Models of agricultural systems; Location of facilities; Models for fisheries managementMathematical programming; Models for discriminant analysis; Portfolio selection.

Jamal Ouenniche Management Science Design & operational management of production and distribution systems; Production planning & scheduling; Inventory management; Routing & scheduling of vehicles and crews; Co-ordination of decisions along the supply chain; Forecasting; Design & implementation of flexibility in uncertain environments; Performance

Measurement and Evaluation; Operations research & its applications to business.

Marketing

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of ResearchCurrent Interest Target Area of Research

Jake Ansell Risk Management Economic statistics and indices; Housing market research; Reliability; Expert systems; Risk management and assessment.

Tina Harrison Marketing Financial services marketing: market segmentation; Consumer behaviour and loyalty; the internet; pensions.

Essam Ibrahim Marketing strategy Market orientation, strategy formulation, implementation and performance measurement. Competitive behaviour modelling; International marketing. Online-based marketing strategy in the UK banking industry.

David Marshall Consumer behaviour and marketing

food industry, health issues and change, marketing to children, consumption and music.

Stephanie O'Donohoe Advertising production and consumption

Theories and practices of advertising consumption, particularly in relation to young people's advertising literacy and views of advertising as texts to be read.

Children's relationship with advertising and marketing communications. Consumers' interactions with the marketplace as their family circumstances change.

Angela Tregear Marketing in small businesses

Market orientation and behaviour in small firms (particularly in craft firms; co-operation and collective action). Marketing in agrifood and rural contexts. Origin as a marketing resource.

Organisation Studies

Potential Supervisor Broad Area of ResearchCurrent Interest Target Area of Research

Colin Duncan Employment Relations Wage determination; Pay systems Low pay; Age discrimination, ageism; equal opportunitism; "Fattism" and discrimination on grounds of personal appearance Payment systems; IR development in the public sector.

James Hine Business and Organizational Ethics

Ethical theory, managerial ethics and the impact of corporate social responsibility.

Tony Kinder Public Sector Management Service innovation and learning Innovation in China Product and service

innovation (especially e-Services) Lean services Public Administration mangement and modernisation Learning organisations, learning regions and value flows in supply chains

Wendy Loretto Industrial Relations/Organisation Studies

The effects of organisational change on employee health and wellbeing; investigation of age-based discrimination in employment, and changing approaches to managing diversity and equal opportunities.

Brian Main Business Economics Top Executive Pay; New Economics of Personnel; Corporate Governance.

Sandra Nutley Public Management The use of research, evidence-based policy and practice, public service audit and inspection, public management reform, managing change and human resource management.

Stephen Osborne International Public Management

Partnership, Public Management Reform, Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations, Services Management, Public Policy

Jill Schofield Health Care Management Management of Public Services, specifically in respect of Health Care and particularly with reference to how Government strategic policies impact upon the operational lives of

public sector workers.