University of Bath School of Management University of Bath School of Management

Faculty

We are a firmly established leading international centre for management research. This is reflected in our rating in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) which places us 5th in the UK, equal to Oxford and LSE. We have been consistently ranked in the top ten in Europe for research in the Financial Times MBA Rankings, and most recently rated 7th in Europe and 4th in the UK for research.

The School’s international reputation is supported by leading academics who inform policy at the highest levels of business and society. Our research meets the double challenge of proven scholarly quality while achieving an impact on policy and practice.

A-Z list of Faculty staff

A - C D - G H - K L - M N - S T - Z
Faculty A-C Area of research
Professor Michael B Adams Professor Michael Adams Risk management & strategic finance, corporate governance & risk, accounting issues in insurance, historical development of insurance markets, economic efficiency and market structure in insurance markets.
Professor Eric Arnould Professor Eric Arnould Sustainability, consumer culture theory, base-of-pyramid markets, services.
Professor Michael Beverland Professor Michael Beverland Authenticity, Branding, Consumer Culture, Design, Innovation, Sustainability
Dr David Bence Dr David Bence Accounting and Finance
Mr Anthony Birts Mr Anthony Birts Accounting and Finance 
Dr Krista Bondy Dr Krista Bondy Corporate Social Responsibility
Dr Mehdi Boussebaa Dr Mehdi Boussebaa Globalisation and its impact on organisations, particularly professional service firms; Comparative management
Dr Rob Branston Dr Rob Branston Utility companies, Strategic Decision-making, Governance, Stakeholders
Professor Rob Briner Professor Rob Briner Organisation Studies
Professor Andrew Brown Professor Andrew Brown Narrative, Sensemaking, Identity, Change
Dr Alan Butt Philip Dr Alan Butt Philip Business/Economics Planning/Policy, European Economic Integration, Industry
Jie Chen Dr Jie Chen supply chain risks, supply chain relationships, service innovation
Dr XiaoHua Chen Dr XiaoHua Chen Asset Pricing.  Financial market, Investment strategy.  Applied Econometrics.
Dr Katharina Chudzikowski Dr Katharina Chudzikowski Careers (especially in professional service and higher education sectors), cross-cultural perspectives on careers, representation of knowledge workers.
Dr Ian Colville Dr Ian Colville Behavioural, Social Studies, Services
Dr Steve Conway Dr Steve Conway Information, Decision and Operations
Dr Philip Cooper Dr Philip Cooper Accounting, Sustainability, Education
Mr Ian Crawford Mr Ian Crawford Accounting and Finance

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Faculty D - G Area of research
Dr Iain Davies Dr Iain Davies Fair Trade and Social Enterprise research; Ethical Luxury Markets; Key Account Management and Business Networks
Dr Chris Dawson Dr Chris Dawson Labour Economics; Behavioural Economics; Entrepreneurship; Self-Employment; Temporary Employment; Job Satisfaction; Incentive Pay; Optimism
Dr Simon Barend de Jong Dr Simon Barend de Jong Power and Dependence, Leadership, Top Management Teams
Professor Dimo Dimov Professor Dimo Dimov Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Professor Richard Elliott Professor Richard Elliott Symbolic meaning of brands, consumer culture and identity, and the dynamics of brand ecology.
Dr Felicia Fai Dr Felicia Fai Innovation Technology R&D, Asia Intellectual Property
Dr Richard Fairchild Dr Richard Fairchild Behavioural Corporate Finance; Venture Capital Contracting and Performance; Applications of Game-theoretic tools to Corporate Finance Decision-Making; the effects of agency problems and asymmetric information on corporate capital structure.
Professor Emeritus Steve Fineman Professor Emeritus Steve Fineman Age and aging in organizations; Emotion in organizations; Critical organizational theory; Qualitative/ethnographic approaches.
Professor Emeritus David Ford Professor Emeritus David Ford  
Dr Emmanuel Fragniere Dr Emmanuel Fragniere Auditing, Data Analysis, Statistics, Technology Planning/Policy
Professor Yiannis Gabriel Professor Yiannis Gabriel Leader-follower relations, leader pedagogy and leadership dysfunctions - Storytelling, narrative and folklore as means of studying organizational symbolism ...
Dr Simone Giansante Dr Simone Giansante Accounting & Finance
Professor Paul Goodwin Professor Paul Goodwin Forecasting, Decision Support, The role of management judgment in forecasting and decision making
Professor Andrew Graves Professor Andrew Graves Manufacturing & Engineering in the Aerospace, Automotive and Construction industries
Professor Emeritus Rod Green Professor Emeritus Rod Green My current research interests include data envelopment analysis; performance measurement in health services; computer-based modelling of manufacturing and service systems; multi criteria decision analysis.
Margaret Greenwood Dr Margaret Greenwood Accounting, financial management and governance in the NHS
Dr Judith de Groot Dr Judith de Groot Sustainable (consumption) behaviour; behaviour change; values; social norms; personal norms; social networks; interventions; policy acceptability and acceptance; message framing; (green) consumerism.
Dr Johanne Grosvold Dr Johanne Grosvold Business Society and Business Economics

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Faculty H - K Area of research
Dr Haiming Hang Dr Haiming Hang Consumer behaviour, advertising, international retailing
Professor Christine Harland Professor Christine Harland Supply strategy and policy in complex systems, Public procurement, International practice in public procurement.
Dr Robert Heath Dr Robert Heath Advertising, Emotion, Attention, Communication Psychology
Mr Stefan Hoejmose Dr Stefan Hoejmose Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Management in SMEs, The relationship between CSR and Strategy
Professor Veronica Hope-Hailey Professor Veronica Hope Hailey Strategic Change, HR Strategy, Trust and Trust Repair, Employee Engagement, the Employment Realetionship.
Dr Richard Kamm Dr Richard Kamm Information, Decision and Operations
Dr Zafeira Kastrinaki Dr Zafeira Kastrinaki Industrial Economics, Corporate Finance and Applied Econometrics
Professor Nick Kinnie Professor Nick Kinnie Managing People and Managing Knowledge in Professional Service Firms, Links between HR and Performance and Managing HRM in Outsourced Telephone Call Centres.
Dr Andreas Krause Dr Andreas Krause Market microstructure, Agent-based computational economics, Market design, Network formation
Dr Melanie Kreye Dr Melanie Kreye Uncertainty Management

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Faculty L - M Area of research
Dr Zoe Lee Dr Zoe Lee Social Desirability Bias, Rebranding, Charity Mergers, Brand Identity
Dr Gordon Liu Dr Gordon Liu Strategic Marketing; Cause-Related Marketing; Strategic Management; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge and Capabilities; Corporate Social Responsibility
Professor Mike Lewis Professor Mike Lewis Strategic benefits of operational and supply competence, Dis-benefits of operational and supply failure
Mrs Philippa Lynch Mrs Philippa Lynch  
Professor Michael Mayer Professor Michael Mayer Strategy, Institutions, Organizations, Comparative and International Business Organization and Management.
Dr Sheik Meeran Dr Sheik Meeran Production Process re-engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Productivity Improvement, Job-shop Scheduling, Use of Intelligent tools in Management.
Professor Andrew Millington Professor Andrew Millington Business and Society, Corporate Community Involvement
Ethical Supply Chain Management, Managing in China
Dr Eleanor Morgan Dr Eleanor Morgan EU competition policy; mergers; cartels; small firms
Dr Uta Morgenstern Dr Uta Morgenstern Strategic Management, Cognition, Strategy Practices, Resource-Based View of the Firm, Dynamic Capabilities, Cognitive Mapping
Dr Monia Mtar Dr Monia Mtar  

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Faculty N - S Area of research
Dr Rajani Naidoo Dr Rajani Naidoo Public sector markets, consumer culture, branding, higher education
Dr Rekha Rao Dr Rekha Nicolson (Rao) Economics of Innovation, Comparative Strategy and Business in Emerging Markets, BRICS
Dr Peter Nuttall Dr Peter Nuttall Consumer research, adolescents, identity, symbolic consumption
Mr Bruno Oliveira Mr Bruno Oliveira Entrepreneurship, Cognitions, Emotions, Strategic Management, Strategy-as-Practice, Strategy Tools
Dr Niki Panteli Dr Niki Panteli Virtuality, Virtual Teams, Computer-mediated Communication, IS implementation
Dr Niki Panteli Dr Dimitris Paraskevopoulos Metaheuristics, Mathematical programming, Network design, Scheduling, Vehicle routing
Professor Stephen Pavelin Professor Stephen Pavelin Corporate social responsibility, Corporate reputation, stakeholder management, business economics
Dr Lynda Porter Dr Lynda Porter Corporate social performance
Dr Melea Press Dr Melea Press Sustainable strategies for business management, energy use and agriculture; identification; transformation
Dr Jonathan Raelin Dr Jonathan Raelin Resistance to change, stakeholder management theory, emotions in organizations
Dr Bruce Rayton Dr Bruce Rayton Strategic Human Resource Management; Employee Commitment; Incentive Pay; Corporate Governance
Professor Peter Reason Professor Emeritus Peter Reason Human dimensions of sustainability
Mr Michael Redwood Mr Michael Redwood The development of business networks over time. 
Dr Anthony S Roath Dr Anthony S Roath International Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Dynamic Capabilities, Strategy
Dr Jens Roehrich Dr Jens Roehrich Governance of inter-organisational relationships, Procuring complex performance, Public procurement, Innovation management
Dr Julie Salaber Dr Julie Salaber Empirical asset pricing, sin stocks, behavioural finance, socially responsible investment. 
Dr Gregory Schwartz Dr Gregory Schwartz Sociology of work/organisation; antagonism; power; authority; community; collectivity; subjectivity; ethics; ethnography; discourse analysis; critical social theory.
Professor Avi Shankar Professor Avi Shankar Consumer research; Consumer Culture Theory
Professor Brian Squire Professor Brian Squire Supply Chain Risk Management, Behavioural Operations, Sustainable Supply Chains, Open Innovation
Dr Carolyn Strong Dr Carolyn Strong Marketing to young people and families
Professor Juani Swart Professor Juani Swart Managing Knowledge and Knowledge workers, Professional service firms, Intellectual capital, Knowledge mapping

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Faculty T-Z Area of research
Dr Svenja Tams Dr Svenja Tams Careers, Learning, Leadership, Social Change
Fanis Tsoligkas Fanis Tsoligkas Insider trading, financial reporting discretion
Professor Edmund Thompson Professor Edmund Thompson International competitiveness and strategy, international political economy and socio-psychological environments 
Dr Phil Tomlinson Dr Phil Tomlinson Globalisation, Governance, Development, Clusters
Professor Ian Tonks Professor Ian Tonks Pensions, Directors Trading
Dr Gareth Veal Dr Gareth Veal Sustainability
Elena Verprauskaite Elena Veprauskaite Financial Management and Accounting Issues in Insurance; Strategic Risk Management and Reinsurance; Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance
Professor Russ Vince Professor Russ Vince Organizational Learning, Leadership and Change
Professor Geoff Whitty Professor Geoff Whitty Education, Public Sector Policy and Management
Mr Michael Willis Mr Michael Willis Working Capital management, Corporate Growth and Economic value creation within organisations
Ms Janet Wilson-Ward Ms Janet Wilson-Ward Commercial and company law, and Employment law. Focus on International Trade Law, corporate liability, and compensation culture.
Dr Baris Yalabik Dr Baris Yalabik Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Economic Modelling
Dr Zeynep Yalabik Dr Zeynep Yalabik Organizational Commitment; Employee Engagement; Turnover; Satisfaction with HRM practices; Organizational Socialization; Mergers
Professor Ania Zalewska Professor Ania Zalewska Emerging markets, Regulation, Pension reforms, Corporate governance
Yan Zeng Dr Yan Zeng Market performance and reactions in emerging markets
Gang Zhao Dr Gang Zhao Finance

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