PhD Strategy, Operations and Leadership
Overview
This group comprises seven academics including experts in Quality Management, Business Performance, Project Management, Strategic Management, Management, Management and Business History, and International Management. Collectively, they are some of the most highly cited global leaders in their fields. The group represents a diverse range of research interests that include Policy and strategy development and organizational change with a particular interest in what people do in the development of strategy:
- Measuring and managing business performance with a view to understanding what makes high performing organisations different and how organisational controls could be optimised to underpin sustainable long term business performance
- Business process management and the use of Lean Six Sigma, quality management and wider business improvement approaches in a wide range of sectors and industries
- Management of strategic projects and strategic management and organisational controls in temporary organisations
- The international political economy of infrastructure systems
- Internet portals, website quality, social networks and the market reach of rural small firms
- Strategic and performance management of SMEs
- Origins, history and cultural practices of hospitality; and philosophical, ethical and cultural underpinnings of contemporary management practices.
Overview
This group comprises seven academics including experts in Quality Management, Business Performance, Project Management, Strategic Management, Management, Management and Business History, and International Management. Collectively, they are some of the most highly cited global leaders in their fields. The group represents a diverse range of research interests that include Policy and strategy development and organizational change with a particular interest in what people do in the development of strategy:
- Measuring and managing business performance with a view to understanding what makes high performing organisations different and how organisational controls could be optimised to underpin sustainable long term business performance
- Business process management and the use of Lean Six Sigma, quality management and wider business improvement approaches in a wide range of sectors and industries
- Management of strategic projects and strategic management and organisational controls in temporary organisations
- The international political economy of infrastructure systems
- Internet portals, website quality, social networks and the market reach of rural small firms
- Strategic and performance management of SMEs
- Origins, history and cultural practices of hospitality; and philosophical, ethical and cultural underpinnings of contemporary management practices.
