Our Research - Cultivation
The Department’s academics are not only committed to pursuing excellence in their own careers, but we are also dedicated to coaching, nurturing and developing future generations of researchers. We aim to recruit research students of the highest calibre who wish to work with us to extend current knowledge about the processes and practices of organisation and management.
The department has a range of opportunities for doctoral research and currently we have 20 PhD students, 6 DBA students and 5 students reading for a Master of Research degree. Topics being researched by these students include:
- The occupational identity and culture of elite chefs
- Work and management in the creative industries
- Organisational underlife: Ambiguity and powerlessness among middle managers in the hospitality sector
- Understanding the use of creativity in multicultural environments
- Born global and portfolio entrepreneurship
- The challenge of implementing strategic change for rapid organisational transformation
- The (re)integration of indigenous firms in the Post-Soviet Central Asian Republics into the global economy via global value chains
- Structure, agencies and networks in the international market for contemporary art
- The international medical tourism market of Greece
- Emerging market penetration: The use of institutional oriented network approach by travel service firms
