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 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	Sustainability, consumer culture theory, base-of-pyramid markets, services.
	Professor Michael Beverland	Authenticity, Branding, Consumer Culture, Design, Innovation, Sustainability
	Dr David Bence	Accounting and Finance
	Mr Anthony Birts	Accounting and Finance
	Dr Krista Bondy	Corporate Social Responsibility
	Dr Mehdi Boussebaa	Globalisation and its impact on organisations, particularly professional service firms; Comparative management
	Dr Alistair Brandon-Jones	E-enabled supply chains, Electronic procurement, service failure and recovery.
	Dr Rob Branston	Utility companies, Strategic Decision-making, Governance, Stakeholders
	Professor Rob Briner	Organisation Studies
	Professor Andrew Brown	Narrative, Sensemaking, Identity, Change
	Dr Alan Butt Philip	Business/Economics Planning/Policy, European Economic Integration, Industry
	Dr Nigel Caldwell	Complex product service systems
	Dr XiaoHua Chen	Asset Pricing.  Financial market, Investment strategy.  Applied Econometrics.
	Dr Ian Colville	Behavioral, Social Studies, Services
	Dr Steve Conway	Information, Decision and Operations
	Dr Philip Cooper	Accounting, Sustainability, Education
	Mr Ian Crawford	Accounting and Finance

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Faculty D - G		Area of research
	Dr Iain Davies	Fair Trade and Social Enterprise research; Ethical Luxury Markets; Key Account Management and Business Networks
	Professor Richard Elliott	Symbolic meaning of brands, consumer culture and identity, and the dynamics of brand ecology.
	Dr Felicia Fai	Innovation Technology R&D, Asia Intellectual Property
	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	Age and aging in organizations; Emotion in organizations; Critical organizational theory; Qualitative/ethnographic approaches.
	Professor Emeritus David Ford
	Professor John Forker	Financial accounting and reporting; Earnings quality; Equity pricing; Corporate governance; NHS Trusts
	Dr Emmanuel Fragniere	Auditing, Data Analysis, Statistics, Technology Planning/Policy
	Professor Yiannis Gabriel	Leader-follower relations, leader pedagogy and leadership dysfunctions - Storytelling, narrative and folklore as means of studying organizational symbolism ...
	Dr Simone Giansante
	Professor Paul Goodwin	Forecasting, Decision Support, The role of management judgment in forecasting and decision making
	Professor Andrew Graves	Manufacturing & Engineering in the Aerospace, Automotive and Construction industries
	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.
	Dr Margaret Greenwood	Accounting, financial management and governance in the NHS
	Dr Johanne Grosvold	Business Society and Business Economics

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Faculty H - K		Area of research
	Dr Haiming Hang	Consumer behaviour, advertising, international retailing
	Professor Christine Harland	Supply strategy and policy in complex systems, Public procurement, International practice in public procurement.
	Dr Robert Heath	Advertising, Emotion, Attention, Communication Psychology
	Dr Stefan Hoejmose	Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Management in SMEs, The relationship between CSR and Strategy
	Professor Jeroen Huisman	Organizational change, Governance, Internationalisation and Europeanisation, Leadership and management
	Dr Adam Joinson	Privacy, Trust and Information Disclosure. Computer-mediated communication. Social software. E-learning. Survey methodology. E-Social Science.
	Dr Richard Kamm	Information, Decision and Operations
	Dr Edward Kasabov	Bulgarian and Russian privatisation, Marketing (Relationship marketing, consumption negativity), Strategy (community analysis, life science and biotechnology
	Dr 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	Market microstructure, Agent-based computational economics, Market design, Network formation

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

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Faculty N - S		Area of research
	Dr Rajani Naidoo	Public sector markets, consumer culture, branding, higher education
	Dr Elena Novelli	Strategy, Technology, Innovation, Knowledge
	Dr Peter Nuttall	Consumer research, adolescents, identity, symbolic consumption
	Dr Adunola Oke	Human Resource Management, Organisational Change
	Dr Niki Panteli	Virtuality, Virtual Teams, Computer-mediated Communication, IS implementation
	Professor Stephen Pavelin	Corporate social responsibility, Corporate reputation, stakeholder management, business economics
	Dr Niall Piercy	Lean Thinking, Marketing, Strategy
	Dr Melea Press	sustainable strategies for business management, energy use and agriculture; identification; transformation
	Dr Jonathan Raelin	Resistance to change, stakeholder management theory, emotions in organizations
	Dr Rekha Rao	Economics of Innovation, Comparative Strategy and Business in Emerging Markets, BRICS
	Dr Bruce Rayton	Strategic Human Resource Management; Employee Commitment; Incentive Pay; Corporate Governance
	Professor Peter Reason	Human dimensions of sustainability
	Mr Michael Redwood	The development of business networks over time.
	Dr Anthony S Roath	International Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Dynamic Capabilities, Strategy
	Dr Sinéad Roden (Carey)	Information, Decision and Operations
	Dr Jens Roehrich	Governance of inter-organisational relationships, Procuring complex performance, Public procurement, Innovation management
	Dr Julie Salaber	Empirical asset pricing, sin stocks, behavioural finance, socially responsible investment.
	Dr Gregory Schwartz	Sociology of work/organisation; antagonism; power; authority; community; collectivity; subjectivity; ethics; ethnography; discourse analysis; critical social theory.
	Professor Avi Shankar	Consumer research; Consumer Culture Theory
	Dr Yun Shen	Market-based accounting research, Corporate valuation models, Value relevance studies, Scale and scale effects
	Dr Brian Squire	Supply Chain Risk Management, Behavioural Operations, Sustainable Supply Chains, Open Innovation
	Dr Carolyn Strong	Environmental Education and its impact on environmental consumerism, Marketing to families.
	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	Careers, Learning, Leadership, Social Change
	Professor Edmund Thompson	International competitiveness and strategy, international political economy and socio-psychological environments
	Dr Phil Tomlinson	Globalisation, Governance, Development, Clusters
	Professor Ian Tonks	Pensions, Directors Trading
	Professor Russ Vince	Organizational Learning, Leadership and Change
	Professor Geoff Whitty	Education, Public Sector Policy and Management
	Mr Michael Willis	Working Capital management, Corporate Growth and Economic value creation within organisations
	Ms Janet Wilson-Ward	Commercial and company law, and Employment law. Focus on International Trade Law, corporate liability, and compensation culture.
	Dr Helen (Tianjiao) Xia	Innovation, Entrepreneurship, New Industries, Industrial policy.
	Dr Baris Yalabik	Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Economic Modelling
	Dr Zeynep Yalabik	Organizational Commitment; Employee Engagement; Turnover; Satisfaction with HRM practices; Organizational Socialization; Mergers
	Professor Ania Zalewska	Emerging markets, Regulation, Pension reforms, Corporate governance
	Dr Yan Zeng	market performance and reactions in emerging markets

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