Management Research

The Entrepreneurship group at Bayes is lead by Professor Vangelis Souitaris. It has recently undergone substantial expansion and it currently includes 4 faculty members (Costas Andriopoulos, Susan Hill, Vangelis Souitaris and Stefania Zerbinati) and 4 PhD students.

Its members conduct research in a variety of topics within the entrepreneurship realm including technology entrepreneurship, university spinoffs, entrepreneurship education, corporate venture capital, angel investing, and biological drivers of entrepreneurship.

The group has a reputation of international excellence and its members publish regularly in the top mainstream management and disciplinary journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Harvard Business Review. Moreover, research output is published in the top international journals in the entrepreneurship field: Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.

The group is interlinked and collaborating with The Peter Cullum Centre for Entrepreneurship where it provides academic expertise to young entrepreneurs through training and consulting.

The group delivers Entrepreneurship courses across all programmes at undergraduates, MScs and MBAs. It has a dedicated stream in Entrepreneurship as part of the Management programme.

Apart from the core group with primary interest in entrepreneurship, there are faculty members in other subject areas who regularly contribute to entrepreneurship research (Charles Baden-Fuller, Ajay Bhalla,Sam Kamuriwo, Gianvito Lanzolla).

The Bayes Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management group (OBHRM) is one of the largest in the UK.  Our research environment is wide-ranging, inclusive, and collaborative, embracing diverse approaches, themes, and research contexts.

Most of our research within the area of Organizational Behaviour is empirically-based and qualitative in orientation, though we also have a strong track record of impactful theoretical research.  We have a substantial group of Organizational scholars researching the changing nature of occupations and professional work, encompassing a wide-range of organizational themes, including: leadership, governance, culture, politics, identity, diversity, regulation and ethics, careers, new organizational forms, and organizational change more generally.

Within the area of Human Resource Management we conduct quantitative research of nationally-representative data to examine the impact of human resource practices and government legislation on labour market, organizational, and employee outcomes. Our studies explore the adoption and impact of a variety of human resource practices and legislation related to high-performance work systems, diversity and inclusion, flexible working, pay, employee participation and industrial relations.

We study organizations with different forms of ownership, from the largest global corporations, partnerships and private equity owned firms, to small firms and the unionised public sector organizations.  We have a particular focus on professional organizations and knowledge-intensive firms more generally, with multiple scholars conducting research in the medical, accounting, consulting, legal, financial services, university, and high-tech sectors.

Our research is funded by a range of prestigious research funders, including the European Union, the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain, the British Academy, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, as well as corporate sponsors.

Collectively group members have published in all of the leading journals in our field and, at various times, have served on the editorial boards of many of them, holding distinguished positions within the Academy of Management and the British Academy.

Alongside our emphasise on academic scholarship, group members have a particular focus on research impact and engagement with policy makers. We maintain a strong external profile through our practitioner publications and media commentary.

Located in the heart of the City of London, Bayes Business School is where the future of marketing is taking shape. Its Marketing Group is the centre of a vibrant community of students, alumni, marketing practitioners, and policy makers. At Bayes, they meet and converse about daringly novel concepts and robust research initiatives. The Bayes Marketing Group embraces a variety of research traditions that underpin marketing as a discipline, including psychology, sociology, linguistics, and management science in order to generate thought-leading as well as actionable insights into the behaviour of consumers and its implications for contemporary marketing practice.

The expertise of the Marketing Group is as diverse as the realm of consumer behaviour itself, making valuable scholarly contributions to branding, consumer culture theory, consumer decision-making, consumer psychology, marketing communications, risk perceptions, social media, and socially responsible behaviour.

The Group is furthermore renowned for its teaching quality and its innovative curricular offerings. For undergraduate, MSc, MBA, and PhD students who have a special interest in the fascinating field of marketing, the marketing faculty’s commitment to teaching excellence ensures a wide mix of formats, such as lectures, business-led challenges, case studies, computer simulations, and readings that guarantee an engaging, hands-on, and real-world learning experience, underpinned by the latest scholarly thinking.

The Marketing Group’s primary aim is to develop analytically strong, creatively skilled, inter-culturally savvy, and ethically sensitive marketers who possess the experience, knowledge, skills, and network to stand out in a crowded job market and do well in today’s business and social environments.

Centre for Charity Effectiveness (CCE) is the leading non-profit and philanthropy centre in the UK and has significantly enhanced the performance of hundreds of organisations and thousands of individuals across the nonprofit sector over the past twenty years. Its services include academic research, postgraduate programmes, and talent development and consultancy.

The Centre has a vision of a voluntary, community and social enterprise sector constantly extending its own knowledge boundaries and driving performance excellence.

They enable individuals and organisations to transform in ways that surpass their expectations. They believe that the best way to do this is through research and scholarship; teaching through their courses and programmes; and offering consultancy support and knowledge exchange services.

The academic research team is led by Professor Paul Palmer and Professor Jenny Harrow. The consultancy practice is led by Denise Fellows.

The Operations and Supply Chain Management Group group specialises in supply chain management, including risk, sustainability and partnerships, as well as the integration of human resource management with operations management, and business models for social enterprise. Analytical and empirical modelling techniques are applied to a range of management problems, e.g., in different aspects of supply chain management, in the operation of electricity and gas markets, and in healthcare. Common themes in their work are: risk, volatility, sustainability, supply chain partnerships, procurement, flexibility, quality, and performance.

Their publications include articles in: Journal of Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Neural Networks, European Journal of Operational Research, Human Relations, International Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of HRM, International Journal of Operations and Production Management and International Journal of Production Economics.

The Group collaborates with academics and practitioners in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Its research is interdisciplinary and links are also established with other researchers in the UK, including at Bayes. At present industrial collaborations are mainly within the chemicals, FMCG, financial, energy, manufacturing, and wholesale-retail sectors. Doctoral research is being undertaken on supply chain management, lean management, sustainability, bottom-of-pyramid business models, and time-series and econometric models in energy markets.

Full-time faculty members

Dr Canan Kocabasoglu Hillmer, Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Lilian M. de Menezes, Professor of Decision Sciences
Mohan Sodhi, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Dr Byung-Gak Son, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
Dr Joerg Ries, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Management
Dr Navid Izady, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Dr Florian Lücker Lecturer in Supply Chain Management

Strategy at Bayes is one of the strongest research groups in this field in Europe with substantial international visibility, collaborations and success in academic and practice circles. The group includes

• Professors Charles Baden-Fuller (Group Leader)
• Stefan Haefliger
• Paula Jarzabkowski
• Gianvito Lanzolla
• Elena Novelli
• Santi Furnari
• Eugenia Cacciatori
• Hans Frankort
• Amanda Goodall
• Andres Hervas-Drane
• Sam Kamuriwo
• Alessandro Giudici
• Simone Santoni
• Konstantinos Chalkias

Professors Simone Ferriani, Robert Grant, Vincent Mangematin and Paul Nightingale as regular visitors. It also includes many doctoral students.

The group’s core research themes include:

• technology strategy
• strategy as practice
• governance and leadership
• strategy and organization
• business models and modelling.

These research themes have been applied over a wide range of sectors including digital economy; biotechnology; insurance; design and telecommunication industries. The members of the group publish regularly in top international management journals such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal as well as achieving impact in industry circles and in the media.

The group has achieved an outstanding performance in the REF 2014 with more than 80% of the publications submitted benchmarked as 4* publications. Its research is supported by the recent EPSRC grant (Charles Baden-Fuller, EP/K039695/1, “Building better business models”, £1.3 million), the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships (Paula Jarzabkowski, Ethnography Of Risk, “Interdisciplinary advances on behavioural theories of financial risk-taking”, EUR 313 K), the ESRC Future Research Leaders Grant (Elena Novelli, ES/K001388/1, “Understanding firm boundaries”, GBP 212 K), the Marie-Curie Intra-European fellowships for career development (Paolo Aversa, AJ86RH5GYM “Driving innovation”, EUR 200K).

The strategy group organises its work individually, in teams and through the multi-disciplinary Business Models Technology Research Centre. Our workshops feature international scholars; and we host an international junior faculty training workshop. The strategy research group is highly active in presenting at the major international conferences and its members’ leadership in research is recognised with various editorial positions in the top management journals.

We are a multidisciplinary group of globally recognised scholars with core expertise in digital and other technology-based innovations. The group’s work is underpinned by the long established Bayes (formerly Cass) Learning Laboratory (Professor Clive Holtham), Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (Professor Sara Jones) and the newly established Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research (Professor Harry Scarbrough).

Members from the group have consistently published in highly ranked journals and attracted multi-million pounds external research funding from the UK Research Councils (ESRC, EPSRC and AHRC), Innovate UK, the EU and the private sectors.  We also engage in thought-leadership research with industry leaders both in the UK and internationally.  Our research informs our teaching. Our group has contributed to the development of innovative and successful Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership, and our members teach courses across all levels including digital technologies and business innovation, creativity, design thinking, and technology and innovation management.

We welcome PhD applications both in the full-time and executive programmes.  Interested candidates are encouraged to contact members of the group for an informal discussion.

Our experts include:

• Dr Aneesh Banerjee, Lecturer in Technology & Innovation Management
• Professor Ajay Bhalla, Professor of Global Innovation & Family Business
• Dr Eugenia Cacciatori, Senior Lecturer in Management
• Dr Andres Hervas-Drane, Senior Lecturer in Management
• Professor Clive Holtham, Chair of Information Management
• Dr Sara Jones, Senior Lecturer in Creative Interactive System Design
• Professor Feng Li, Head of Technology & Innovation Group; Chair of Information Management
• Professor Stefan Haefliger, Professor of Strategic Management & Innovation
• Professor Neil Maiden, Professor of Digital Creativity
• Dr Martin Rich, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
• Professor Harry Scarbrough, Professor in Information Systems & Management
• Dr James Lockerbie, Research Fellow
• Dr Luigi Mosca, Research Fellow
• Dr Konstantinos Zachos, Research Fellow
• Dr Max Schubmann, KTP Associate
• Stuart Miller, KTP Associate

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