The Department has a strong research profile with a number of academics recognised at both national and international levels. There are three broad themes within which staff and the Department's group of research students are currently undertaking research:
Strategic Management
Our distinctive view of strategy research is understanding how day to day strategy work is done in organizations – and is in contrast with the more standard perspective that is rooted in economics and the theory of the firm. DoM currently has particular strengths in the Process of Strategy Making through Scenario Planning and Organizational Foresight, Competence Based Management, Strategy-as-Practice, the Ontology of Becoming and Stakeholder Management. In these areas staff engage regularly with managers and (to a lesser extent) policy makers in knowledge-exchange roles. Publications have been in journals such as Organization Studies, Organization Science and Journal of Management Studies. Topics suitable for current and prospective research students include: Understanding strategy processes and developing processes for facilitating strategy development and implementation; Developing and evaluating processes for scenario planning and future studies; Strategy as it is practiced; Discourse approaches of strategizing practices; Becoming Ontologies applied to Strategy.
Processes and Practices of Managing
One area of research that has strong interconnections with both Strategic Management and International Business relates to the management of inter-organizational relationships (IOR) such as partnerships, alliances and mergers. Other areas of concentration include Change Management, Identity Management, Organizational Knowledge and Learning, and Work and Society. Publications have been in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Review and Human Relations. Topics suitable for current and prospective research students include: Understanding and developing support for the management of inter-organizational collaboration, partnerships and alliances; Managing the dynamic processes of change, innovation and creativity; Tradition, culture, and structure in organisational and trans-organisational contexts; Constructed and emergent identities in organisations; Understanding dignity at work; Women in Management; The role of emotion in managerial work; Organizational Learning.
International Business
Research topics include knowledge and spillovers in multinational enterprises, institutional entrepreneurship in the international arena, international collaborations and cross cultural management. Strathclyde's International Business Unit (SIBU), is led and coordinated from the Department of Management. Recent years have seen publications in journals such as Management International Review, Academy of Management Review, Journal of World Business, and Small Business Economics as well as research contributing to a World Bank Policy Paper. Topics suitable for current and prospective research students include: Management of the multinational enterprise, including the management of knowledge and innovation, transfer of managerial practice, and institutional entrepreneurship; Internationalisation processes of MNEs, smaller organisations and entrepreneurial firms; Cross-cultural and comparative management.