Research and impact
Our research is at the forefront of management knowledge and tackles key challenges faced by individuals, organisations and policymakers. We address key societal challenges using a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Our work centres on four main themes: workplace behaviour, strategy and innovation management, socio-technical approaches, and entrepreneurship.
Workplace behaviour
Helping organisations gain clarity and direction for how to grow their success and social impact.
Current projects
Completed projects
- Enhancing the value placed on diversity: from the international classroom to the global workplace
- NHS ethnic minorities colleagues wellbeing and culture competence training
- The future workplace
- Designing human resource management practices to improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers from BAME backgrounds in the context of COVID-19
- Lessons from the frontline: The impact of redeployment during Covid-19 on nurse well-being, engagement and retention
- Women leadership in Africa
- Assessing the relationship between perceptions of organisational support and wellbeing among NHS employees of BAME backgrounds
- Industry’s engagement with and response to the development of modern slavery acts in Australia, France, and the UK
- Awareness and attitude towards modern slavery acts by British and Australian small and medium sized enterprises
- Sustainable and productive?! Helping manufacturing SMEs to manage multiple goals
- raising the ceiling on diversity and inclusion: a corporate retail case study
- Organisational resilience: protecting and improving operational performance
- Future engineering system: data visualisation and usability evaluation
- Fire control information management project
Strategy and innovation management
Understanding and shaping how organisations innovate and adapt.
Current projects
Completed projects
- An Artificial Intelligence approach to financial vulnerability
- Developing corporate innovation capabilities
- A framework for digital strategy work: exploring inclusion and transparency in the strategy process
- Establishing the feasibility of using machine learning to investigate UK company strategy and performance
- Applying computer modelling, simulation and socio-technical systems analysis to improve NHS dementia care outcomes
- Complex and Open Innovation for Networked Society (COINS)
- Digital transformation of advanced engineering companies
- Collective ideation and innovation processes
- Solutions for future organisational needs of Rolls-Royce
- Managing Emergent Technologies for Economic and Social Impact (ManETEI)
- Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC)
- Advice behaviours: A social network approach
Socio-technical approaches
Designing systems and environments that support effective, human-centred work. Learn more about socio-technical systems theory.
Current projects
- Surgical Care Observatory (HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care)
- Understanding the value of internships
Completed projects
- Adapting offices for the future of work
- Compliance cascades in global value chains
- Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains
- Pulling a thread: unravelling the trail of modern slavery in the fashion and textile industry
- System Understanding and Sub-System Utopia through Design Project Design Integration and Optimisation (SUSSUDIO)
- EU Horizon 2020 IMPACT Project - Impact of Cultural Aspects in the Management of Emergencies in Public Transport
- Embedding design structures in engineering information
- Mainstreaming Assistive Living Technologies (MALT)
- Energy efficient behaviour change in schools
- Investigating job crafting from a prosocial perspective
Entrepreneurship
Examining the interaction of people, places and institutions and how this influences entrepreneurial activity.
Current projects
- Supporting tomorrow’s talent by exploring entrepreneurial activities and innovation in the Kenyan informal economy
- Constrained rural entrepreneurship
Completed projects
- Mind the gap: investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs
- Migrant women in business – a focus on West Yorkshire
- Exploring sustainable development in UK UNESCO designated sites
- Visualising and enhancing value chains in the Amazon - realising impact
- A Better Future - Understanding Refugee Entrepreneurship (BFURE)
- “Scholars don’t know about entrepreneurship; entrepreneurs do”
- Why the poor outcomes? An examination of motivations in a context of poverty entrepreneurship
- Examining the role of the diaspora in fostering entrepreneurship and institutional change