Current Research
Academic staff from the School undertake extensive research activities. Some of their areas of interest are outlined below. The list provides a brief insight into the range of issues being researched within the School.
Associate Professor Sajid Anwar
- International trade
- Foreign investment
- Asian Economic Growth
- Employee commitment to the organisation in the Chinese context
- Transnational MBA students learning mode preferences
- Employee perceptions and their influence on organisational commitment
- commercialisation and marketing of new technologies
- adoption and diffusion of innovations and of new technology
- the pace of the Diffusion of Innovations across Asian countries
- the uptake of new clinical practices in hospitals in Asia
- valuation of global wine brands
- e-commerce in the global wine industry
Associate Professor Bruce Gurd
- impact of new management control systems on organisations, especially in Asia
- management control systems in family business in China
- management control systems in not-for-profit, public sector, local government
- the issues of adaptation of the balanced scorecard in the Asian environment
- strategic congruence during the internationalisation process of firms
- comparative management
- Quantitative Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Investments
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Markets
- organisational change
- HRM
- cross-cultural management & Asian business
- performance management
- organisational culture, leadership and commitment
- Strategy and Change Management, Strategy and Managing Information Systems for organisational performance, eCommerce & Business models, Leadership and Performance Management.
- The effects of key determinants on organizational performance for foreign firms implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in China. Our linkage partner is Baodao Optical, Shanghai, China and No.7 Shanghai Construction, China.
- Strategic management accounting practices in Singapore: The role of contingency factors
- The influence of the cognitive style of entrepreneurs on management practices in Hong Kong
- Management Control
- the relationship between strategy and management control systems
- the Not-for-Profit Sector
- Structural Equation Modelling
- Consumer behaviour under the influence of Chinese cultural value
- Salespeople motivation and sales management in China
- Business performance in Asian countries
- Modelling and computer simulation in marketing