Strategy & Organisational Behaviour
Five to six years
Fully funded
London, UK
Work with renowned faculty and conduct innovative research
Faculty and PhD students in Strategy or Organisational Behaviour are part of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. The department welcomes doctoral applicants from a wide variety of academic disciplines who are united by a desire to conduct innovative research.
Researchers in this area are considering a variety of questions on what constitutes effective organisations across a range of different contexts. Some of these questions include understanding the link between senior managerial style and firm strategy, and the effect of team selection processes on success, how organisational contexts affect how we construe, and therefore facilitate, morally problematic behaviour and how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence.
You may also be co-supervised by faculty in other departments in the School, depending on your research interests.

Research and partnerships
The Business School is home to several research centres and institutes, offering a diverse range of activities that bring together academics and specialists.

Leonardo Centre
Exploring and experimenting with new ways of doing business in order to regenerate economies, communities and natural environments around the world.

Centre for Responsible Leadership
Using evidence-based research to create a focus on generating meaningful change in businesses and organisations.

Gandhi Centre for Inclusive Innovation
Linking innovation and entrepreneurship in companies and institutions globally, through thought leadership, research, technology and next-generation innovation models.

Teaching experience
PhD students on the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) scholarship will undertake 150 hours of teaching assistant duties from year three of the programme. There will be opportunities for PhD students to engage in teaching activities within the Business School’s programmes such as MSc Management and MSc Economics & Strategy for Businesses, as well as on our MBA suite.
Doctoral theses in Strategy & Organisational Behaviour
Name |
Thesis |
Supervisor |
Eva Kirchberger |
Lessons from the Creative Industries: Recurrent Change, Institutions and Advantage |
Dr Mark Kennedy |
Xuchang Zheng |
Intention and capability for the development and damage of trust |
Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi and Dr Jonathan Pinto |
Meet your faculty
Our PhD programme fosters close collaboration between leading Strategy & Organisational Behaviour faculty and doctoral students, developing their research interests and providing continuous support and guidance throughout the programme.

Celia Moore

Christopher Tucci

Markus Perkmann

Michelle Rogan


