Strategy, International Management & Business, and Entrepreneurship

This academic group addresses global challenges faced by organisations of all shapes and sizes, we focus on the understanding and application of strategic management, international business and entrepreneurship in the context of social, political and economic factors within business and society. Our group researches issues at the intersection of people, responsible business and the planet.

News and forthcoming events

Dr Zhengyao Kang from the SIMBE academic group has been honoured with the Best Paper award by the Strategic Management Special Interest Group (SIG) of EURAM (European Academy of Management) 2024, held at the University of Bath, from 24 to 28 June 2024. This paper, titled "United We Stand: Towards an Ecosystem Approach to Reconciling the Integration-Autonomy Dilemma in Post-merger Integration", has also been selected as a finalist for the EURAM 2024 Best Paper award.

Research themes

Business, organisations, and society

  • Organisational values, reputation, and identity
  • Modern slavery
  • Gender studies, intersectionality and social justice
  • Pluralistic approaches to management studies
  • Global challenges and sustainable development goals

Entrepreneurship

  • The survival and exit of entrepreneurial firms
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Refugee entrepreneurship

International business, management, and sustainability

  • The rise of global managerialism and business elites
  • Digitalisation of international organisations
  • Regenerative and distributive supply chains and global commodity chains
  • Uneven development and global production networks
  • Multinational corporations and enterprises
  • Social sustainability

Microfoundations of strategy and organisation

  • Strategy-as-practice
  • Practice view of organisational epistemology
  • Microfoundations of strategising for grand challenges
  • Social movements and organisation

Programmes

  • BSc International Business Management - Our international business management degrees combine rigorous theory and real-world relevance with a strong international dimension.
  • MSc International Business and Strategy: Global Challenges - The programme will equip students with a competitive advantage in the graduate jobs market by giving them the tools to deal with the new 'mega-forces' of globalisation driven by technological advancement, climate change, global health crises and geopolitical events.
  • MSc Management - including the 8 different alternative pathways for this programme, MSc Management (CSR and Sustainability), MSc Management (Digitalisation and Big Data), MSc Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), MSc Management (International Business), MSc Management (International HRM), MSc Management (Marketing) and MSc Management (Project Management).

Latest publications

Pilato, V. & Voss H. 2024 A systems thinking approach to international business education Critical Perspectives on International Business 10.1108/cpoib-06-2022-0072

Johns, J. L., Yates, E., Charnock, G. 2024 Coworking Spaces and Workplaces of the Future: Critical Perspectives on Community, Context and Change European Management Review 10.1111/emre.12654

Gordano, S., Bauer, F. & King, D. 2024 Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) acquisitions: Deal structure and outcome Business Strategy and the Environment. p.19 10.1002/bse.3791

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News Archive

June

On Monday evening, 24 June 2024, the 2nd Business School Dean's Awards for Education were held at the Avon Gorge hotel, to celebrate the hard work of staff across the Business School throughout the academic year 2023/24. Congratulations to Dr Antony Beckett for receiving the Outstanding Lecturer Award for the SIMBE academic group.