Academic areas

Our academics do research in the areas of business analytics and the design and management of processes across the manufacturing and services sectors.

Our research covers a diverse range of topics including the effect of government climate change policies on business and the contribution of knowledge assets to economic growth.

Our world-class research in finance is split aross four core themes: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, and Financial Technology.

The advent of new technologies as well as ongoing social, environmental and organisational changes mean new approaches to innovation and entrepreneurship are needed and their effectiveness needs to be researched and validated.

Our marketing projects examine a number of key challenges, from the differing notion of brand attachment to managing employee and customer behaviour.

Researchers in this area are considering a variety of questions about what constitutes success across a range of different industries.