University of Bath School of Management

• Accounting and Finance
• Business, Society, and Business Economics
• Information, Decision and Operations
• Marketing
• Organisational Studies
• Strategic and International Management Group

Accounting and Finance

The Accounting and Finance Group at the University of Bath Management School is one of the UK’s leading research groups and is ranked as the top department to study Accounting and Finance in the UK in the prestigious Times Good University Guide 2010.

The members of the group publish their research in top journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and regularly present at leading the international conferences of the American Accounting Association, the European Accounting Association, the European Financial Association, and the Financial Management Association), advise major governmental bodies (e.g., Financial Services Authority, Competition Commission), work closely with leading consultancy firms, and maintain close links with the business community. Several members of the School’s Centre of Governance and Regulation (including the Director) come from the Accounting and Finance Group. The Group runs an active internal and external speaker seminar series, which brings international researchers to the School to talk to staff and PhD students.

Currently the Accounting and Finance Group has over a dozen PhD students from around the world. To extend its research strength the Group actively seeks PhD candidates of the highest international standards who already have a strong postgraduate degree in Accounting, Economics, Econometrics or Finance. In particular, members of the Group are interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:

Accounting:

• Auditing
• Capital markets based research
• Financial and Management Accounting
• Corporate governance
• Performance measurement and management in profit and non for profit entities
• Accounting and Regulation
• Accounting education

Empirical Finance:

• Corporate Finance
• Development of financial markets
• Financial markets and regulation
• Microstructure
• Pension reform
• Emerging markets
• Behavioural finance
• Corporate governance

Business, Society, and Business Economics

The Business, Society and Business Economics (BSBE) Group is seeking outstanding PhD students who want a thorough and systematic research training in order to pursue successful careers as professional scholars.

The group currently has an active and sociable group of twelve PhD students who are usually located in BSBE or one of its associated research centres. Recent students are currently working in universities in the UK and Canada. In addition to research training, students are offered teaching opportunities within the group whenever possible and appropriate.

Members of the Group have research interests in corporate social and environmental responsibility, corporate governance and regulation. BSBE has strong links with the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) and the Centre for Governance and Regulation (CGR). Applicants are strongly advised to view the research centre websites and faculty members web pages to familiarise themselves with the areas of research and publishing currently being undertaken in the Group.

Information, Decision and Operations

The Information, Decisions and Operations (IDO) Group within the School – which includes three research centres, the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply Management (CRiSPS), the Lean and Agile Research Group (LARG) and the Centre for Information Management (CIM) - is actively looking to recruit outstanding PhD candidates.

The Group welcomes applications from candidates from any discipline and from any national or occupational background. In addition to offering a thorough and systematic research training, the group offers a supportive, multi-disciplinary and strongly practice-centred environment for personal and professional development.

Applications are invited in any area of research related to Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Operations and Supply Management but specific research interests of the group, where applications would be particularly welcome, include:

• Globally distributed work teams
• Globally dispersed product development
• Social and organisational implications of ICT
• Technology, privacy and security
• Productivity of professional service operations
• Purchasing of complex performance outcomes
• The Design/Procurement Interface
• Inter-organisational governance
• Forecasting in Product and Services
• Environmental innovation and capacity decisions in dirty industries.
• Customer-centric service design and the marketing-operations interface
• Operations and supply strategy and leadership processes
• Sustainability in Operations and Supply

PhD applicants wishing to work on research relating jointly to these fields and to the disciplines of other Groups in the School of Management are also welcomed.

Applicants are strongly advised to view Group members’ web pages to familiarise themselves with the areas of research and publishing currently being undertaken in the IDO Group.

Marketing

The Marketing Group supervises and actively seeks excellent PhD candidates who want a thorough and systematic research training in order to pursue successful careers as professional marketing scholars.

The Group welcomes applications from candidates from any discipline and from any national or occupational background.  The Group particularly welcomes applications from those with a relevant Masters degree.

Members of the Group supervise or are interested in PhD research in the following areas:

• Consumer Behaviour
• Consumer Culture Theory
• Advertising
• Branding and Brand Management
• Sustainability, Ethics and Socially Responsible Marketing

PhD applicants wishing to work on research relating jointly to these fields and to the disciplines of other Groups in the School of Management are also welcomed by the Group.

Organisational Studies

The Organisation Studies Group supervises and actively seeks excellent PhD candidates who want a thorough and systematic research training in order to pursue successful careers as professional business scholars.

The Group welcomes applications from candidates from any discipline and from any national or occupational background.  The Group particularly welcomes applications from those who wish to pursue scholarly careers.

Members of the Group supervise PhD research in the below fields and cognate areas:

• Organisational change
• Leadership
• Leadership related to business/society interfaces, responsible business and sustainability
• Storytelling and narratives
• Identity (Individual and Collective)
• Managing knowledge workers
• Intellectual capital
• Knowledge management and mapping
• Knowledge renewal in networks
• Creativity
• Ethics
• Intuition
• Emotion in organisations
• Management & organisational learning
• Economic sociology
• Institutional theory
• Social networks
• Social movements and organisations
• Social Studies of Finance
• Management and organisation in Russia and Eastern Europe
• National security issues
• Processual analysis
• The psychodynamic study of organisations
• Contemporary careers and career movements
• Responsible management practice
• Management education
• Organisational mythology and folklore
• Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories of organisations and groups
• Organisations and their consumers
• Alternative consumption
• Unemployed workers, managers and professionals
• Putting care back into healthcare and the caring professions
• Higher education policy, governance and management
• Europeanism/internationalisation of higher education
• HR practices and organisational performance
• HR practices in customer contact centres
• Comparative management (particularly Anglo-French)
• Globalization and its impact on organisations and employees
• The management and organisation of multinational enterprises, particularly professional service firms.

PhD applicants wishing to work on research relating jointly to these fields and to the disciplines of other Groups in the School of Management are also welcomed by the Group.

Strategic and International Management Group

We supervise and actively seek excellent PhD candidates who want a thorough and systematic research training in order to pursue successful careers as professional business scholars.

We welcome applications from candidates from any discipline and from any national or occupational background.

We particularly welcome applications from those with high scores in GMAT and GRE, or those with strong backgrounds in quantitative methods, whether from sciences or social sciences, or those keen to learn such methods as part of their broader training with us to be management scientists.

Members of the Group supervise PhD research in the below fields and cognate areas:

• Competitive and corporate strategy
• Cross-cultural issues in business
• Entrepreneurship
• Firm and national competitiveness
• International business
• International innovation and technology transfer
• Measurement and metrics in business
• Psychological aspects of business and management

PhD applicants wishing to work on research relating jointly to these fields and to the disciplines of other Groups in the School of Management are also welcomed by the Group.