CBOS members
CBOS is made up of faculty members and PhD students from the School of Management, as well as affiliates from other departments and external associate members
Our responsibilities include research and teaching
Directors and Deputies
Professor Andrew Crane, Director
Research Interests: business ethics; corporate social responsibility, cross-sector partnerships, global business governance, CSR communication, business and modern slavery, responsible consumptionDr Johanne Grosvold, Deputy Director
Research Interests: corporate governance, executive diversity, leadership, strategy, CSR, performance, reputation, power, trust, risk and institutional theoryProfessor Vivek Soundararajan, Deputy Director
Research Interests: labour exploitation in global supply chains, labour and governance in global supply chains, multi-stakeholder initiatives, oppression in organisations, and fringe stakeholder value creation
CBOS Strategy and Engagement Team (SET)
MBS representative - Dr Sarah Glozer
Research Interests: corporate social responsibility, CSR communication, dialogue, organisational legitimacy, responsible consumption, social media marketing
IDO representative - Dr Joanne Hinds
Research Interests: cyber security, consumer psychology, behaviour change and digital ethics
S&O representative - Dr Anna Roberts
Research interests: new organisational forms, platforms, platform-dependent entrepreneurs, institutional theory, microfoundations of institutions
AFL representative - Dr Paul Baker
Research Interests: corporate governance, diversity and decoupling, corporate philanthropy and taxation
PhD representative - Archana Raghavan
Faculty members
- Dr Diletta Acuti
Research Interests: Corporate Social Responsibility communication and sustainable consumption. - Dr Pankhuri Agarwal, Research Associate
Research Interests: dignity in supply chains, the anthropology of the state and non-state institutions, informal work and labour rights, temporalities of the working lives, and dynamics of internal migration and mobility in India and beyond. - Dr Pardeep Attri
Research Interests: issues of equality, diversity, and the strategies of resistance employed by marginalized groups. - Dr Grace Augustine
Research Interests: Sustainability, social movements, professionalisation of social and environmental change efforts, imaginaries of sustainable futures - Professor Steve Brammer
Research Interests: corporate social responsibility, corporate reputation, stakeholder management, business and sustainability, business ethics - Dr Layla Branicki
Research Interests: business ethics; corporate social responsibility; extreme context research; high reliability organising; resilience; responsible crisis management. - Dr Rob Branston
Research Interests: governance, regulation, public utilities, tobacco, collective action, local economic development - Dr Deborah Brewis
Research Interests: (in)equalities, diversity, inclusion, digital labour, affect, business ethics, gender, anti-racism, feminisms, management learning - Dr Olivia Brown
Research Interests: understanding what digital data can tell us about individual and collective behaviour, digital ethics, teamwork in high-reliability organisations, multi-team systems Dr Mario Campana
Research Interests: consumer research including diversity and inclusion with a focus on LGBTQIA+ topics, materiality, and alternative economies.Professor Robin Canniford
Research Interests: consumer research, human-animal relationships, nature and marketsDr Melih Celik
Research Interests: applying operational research tools and techniques to supply chain management and logistics problems within areas like disaster relief, not-for-profit logistics, warehouse management, and material handlingDr Brit Davidson
Research Interests: using use digital traces to better understand people with applications in both security and health, in particular how we can understand how individuals negotiate and adapt their behaviour over time and across contexts, both on- and offline.Dr Chris Dawson
Research Interests: gender pay differentials, employment utility, incentives, temporary workers, migrant workers, work ethicDr Debra Desrochers
Research Interests: impact of marketing on society, food marketing and obesity, childhood obesity, food insecurity, nutritional information on menus, stigma of obesityProfessor Dimo Dimov
Research Interests: (social) entrepreneurship, (social) innovation, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, microfinance, design scienceSoheil Davari
Research Interests: rare earth minerals, renewable energies and supply chain resilienceFriederike (Fritzi) Döbbe
Research Interests: politics of responsibility/sustainability communications, global governance, responsible consumption, climate change and food systemsLisa Eckmann
Research Interests: consumer behaviour and consumer psychology with a particular focus on sustainable consumptionProfessor David Ellis
Research Interests: the data that digital technologies collect and how the resulting information can provide insights about individuals and their behaviour, delivering positive social, economic and industrial impactsDr Holly Fairbairn
Research Interests: corporate reputation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and experimental research methodsDr Richard Fairchild
Research Interests: behavioural and neuro-economics, behavioural game-theory and applications to organisations, social enterprise, financial contracting between (social) investors and (social) entrepreneurs, conflicts between organisations' economic and social incentives, international environmental agreementsDr George Ferns
Research Interests: natural environment, social change, organizational legitimacy, communication, and sustainabilityDr Stefanie Gustafsson
Research Interests: professions, careers and work in contemporary workplaces, organisational trust and qualitative, multimodal research methodsProfessor Haiming Hang
Research Interests: advertising to children, CSR perception and judgement, marketing ethics, ethical decision makingDr Stefan Hielscher
Research Interests: business and economic ethics, corporate social responsibility, history of CSR practice, sustainability of the sharing economy, discourse failureDr Timothy Hill
Research Interests: social movements, market change, ethnographic research methodsDr Rak Hitibandara
Research Interests: social and environmental accounting, Corporate Social Responsibility, human rights and accountability, contemporary issues in accounting, microfinance, SME’s financing, ethnic minority financing and social entrepreneurshipDr Kostas Iatridis
Research Interests: corporate responsibility, corporate sustainability, environmental management, responsible research and innovation, sustainability standards and implementation, small business social responsibilityProfessor Adam Joinson
Research Interests: privacy, surveillance and cybersecurity, behaviour change and the use of technology, e.g. travel mode, health behaviourDr Aliette Lambert
Research Interests: social issues related to (consumer) identity and subjectivity, digital culture, and sustainability from a critical, feminist perspectiveDr Tahiru Liedong
Research Interests: corporate political activity, business-government relations, corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, institutional entrepreneurshipProfessor Mairi Maclean
Research Interests: international business elites and elite power from a Bourdieusian perspective, entrepreneurial philanthropy, storytelling, and historical organisation studiesDr Thomas Mansell
Research Interests: consumer behaviour and sustainability marketing with a particular focus on social norms and behavioural interventions.Professor Pierre McDonagh
Research Interests: sustainability; sustainable communication, sustainable brands, sustainable consumption & production, transformative consumer researchDr Meng Meng
Research Interests: sustainable transportation planning, travel behaviour analysis, network modelling and logistics managementGabriela Miranda
Research Interests: corporate social responsibility, business and sustainability, accountability, global governance, standards, decoupling, institutional theoryProfessor Stephen Pavelin
Research Interests: corporate social responsibility, corporate social performance, corporate reputation; stakeholder managementDr Roman Pavlyuchenko
Research Interests: modern markets, consumption, brand strategy, sustainability, market dynamics and materialityDr Camilo Peña
Research Interests: sustainability, social movements and market development, consumer research, consumer culture theory, experts and cultural influencers, sustainability in artisanal/hedonic contexts (e.g., wine and fashion)Pietro Perotti
Research Interests: the capital market effects of accounting information, the determinants and consequences of financial reporting quality, empirical market microstructureDr Lynda Porter
Research Interests: CSR, corporate reputation, corporate philanthropy, international business strategy, policyDr Annayah Prosser
Research Interests: how identity and morality interact with social change, and how to promote societal transitions towards more sustainable futuresProfessor Bruce Rayton
Research Interests: corporate social performance and organisational commitment, employee engagement, job satisfaction, psychological contracts and CSP, executive pay, corporate governanceProfessor Yasin Rofcanin
Research Interests: interface between work/non-work, work-home resource model, conservation of resource theory and fairness theory in relation to HRM differentiation, employee well-being, job crafting, leisure crafting, work engagement, I-deals and diary studiesOlivier Sibai
Research Interests: social marketing, with a particular expertise in brand purpose, brand activism, social media violence, and consumption communitiesDr Yvetta Simonyan
Research Interests: charitable giving, marketing communications and willingness to ask and receive help, marketing promotions in a price-tag society, marketing ethicsMartyna Śliwa
Research Interests: influences on individual's work experience, organizational inequalities, power relations, hierarchiesDr Annie Snelson-Powell
Research Interests: institutional theory, decoupling, legitimacy, business schools and management education, sustainability strategy, governance, compliance and accountabilityDr Lorna Stevens
Research Interests: gender issues and feminist perspectives in marketing and consumer behaviourDr Hanwen Sun
Research Interests: corporate finance and corporate governance, with a special focus on the topics of insider trading, short selling, institutional investors, corporate innovation, and ESG issuesDr Joanna Syrda
Research Interests: governance, regulation, incentives, entertainment and information industries, gender differences in and outside the job market, quantitative methodsDivya Tyagi
Research Interests: social issues in management, particularly improving the working conditions and experiences of workers in the dirty work contextDr Baris Yalabik
Research Interests: corporate environmental responsibility, economic modellingDr Chenjian Zhang
Research Interests: strategic management, entrepreneurship, organisational change & innovation, trust research, neo-institutional theory, social networks, corporate social responsibility
PhD students
- Zena Al-Esia
- Paul Bedford
- Dessi Bocheva
- Hafize Celik
- Elif Nur Cogen
- Zaina Dkaidek
- Louise Flett
- Jordan Graham
- Millie Hill
- Jason Jonathan
- Martha Jordan
- Tina Kimfumu
- Jamie Powell
- Chang Qu
- Yiming Qin
- Jeremy Sha
- Harish Shetty
- Aaron Shine
- Fred Dunwoodie Stirton
- Johnny Swierczynski
- Qingqi Tao
- Shen Wang
- Amanda Willmott
- Ella Wilkinson
- Meng Xue
Affiliates and Associates
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