Management

Research groups

The Department of Management's research is organised along two dimensions:

• Management Theory and Research Practice
  The department's research approach incorporates:
  • Critical Management
  • Operational Research (OR)
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Stakeholder Theory
• Management Domain
  The department's areas of application include:
  • Organisation Studies
  • Professional Associations
  • The Public Sector

There are six research groups:

ARCIO brings together a number of strands of research and teaching in the Department of Management at the University of Bristol and beyond. The Centre is committed to researching in participative and capacity-building ways in organisations and communities, and is interested in projects which focus on sustainability, social justice, gender, and inclusivity. It is also committed to using arts-based, narrative, and feminist methods in its research and scholarship, and to working with groups and organisations who are interested in taking a critical stand on research and development projects. The Centre’s activities include research, scholarship and practice around the areas mentioned above.

For details of staff working in this research group, please visit the Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organisation web pages.

The Marketing and Strategy group is very new in the department with plans for significant growth in 2017-18. Currently, research is interdisciplinary and focuses on strategy, values and identity, with ideas from psychology and organisation studies. Other work looks at marketing in the context of national politics and service delivery from an operations perspective. The group is committed to research that integrates diverse perspectives, especially from the social sciences.

For details of staff working in this research group, please visit the Marketing and Strategy Group web pages.

The Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management group is the most established in the department and combines staff interests from a variety of social sciences perspectives (eg sociology, labour economics, politics and feminism). Its research seeks to challenge mainstream assumptions and to bring society and globalisation into an understanding of organisations and employment. Thus, interests cover power, identity, materiality and institutional and organisational change as well as different groups engaging with work organisations such as the professions, unions and other employee groups. The group contributes to the University's ESRC South West Doctoral Training Partnership and its work engages with local communities and debates about the role of experts and occupational groups.

For details of staff working in this research group, please visit the Department Organisation Studies/HRM Group web pages.

The Operations/Management Science group carries out research into supply chain management, sustainability and resilience, healthcare operations, big data analytics, social media research and low carbon manufacturing. The group is committed to using empirical methods in operations management research and applied operational research methods in tackling real-world problems that have high economic, societal and environmental impacts, attracting funding from NERC, ESRC, the Royal Society, the Newton Fund, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

For details of staff working in this research group, please visit the Operations/Management Science Group web pages.

The Global Political Economy and International Business Management group brings together staff interested in a wide range of questions that span disciplines and fields, such as economic sociology, economic geography, global studies, migration and political economy of globalisation.

Members are engaged in researching a range of problems, including: changes in labour and employment, global commodity chains and transnational corporations, the rise of global managerialism, the financialisation of management, and the transformation of professions and global professional service firms.

The group aims to address analytically the transformations brought about by the globalisation of economy and management and, through their work, to underscore the need for the current disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries in the social sciences to be transcended. The group contributes to the University's ESRC South West Doctoral Training Partnership interdisciplinary pathway in Global Political Economy.

For details of staff working in this research group, please visit the Global Political Economy and International Business Management Group web pages.

Careers

Previous graduates have gone on to work at a variety of employers all over the world. These include Lloyds Bank, L’Oreal, Prominvest SA, Moscow, Deutsche Bank, LG Electronics, WHO-US, Hangzhou, Abercrombie & Fitch and Marks & Spencer. Another popular route for graduates is to pursue specific research interests or academia.