A-Z of research interests

The areas of expertise of our academics span a wide variety of topics from accounting to work design.

Accountability	Bill Lee
Accountability	Sharif Khalid
Accountability of NGOs	Ataur Belal
Accountability of Nonprofit organisations	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Accounting and culture	Naoko Komori
Accounting and implementation of sustainable development goals	Ataur Belal
Accounting and local community	Jim Haslam
Accounting and local community	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Accounting education	Olga Cam
Accounting literature	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Accounting literature, analysis of	Jim Haslam
Accounting profession	Ataur Belal
Acculturation	Lien Monkhouse
Action research	Malcolm Patterson
Activity-based costing	Wael Hadid
Ageing and organisation	Diane Burns
Agent based modelling	Dermot Breslin
Agri-food supply chain	Sonal Choudhary
Alternative dispute resolution	Paul Latreille
Analysis of corporate disclosures	Jim Haslam
Analysis of corporate disclosures	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Anti- and pro-social employee behaviours	Malcolm Patterson
Anti-corporate campaigns	Jon Burchell
Application of Blockchain to accounting	Richard Bruce
Applications to management	Francesco Ciardiello
Art markets	Marta Herrero
Art museums	Marta Herrero
Arts and cultural management	Marta Herrero
Arts marketing	Marta Herrero
Asset management	Andrew Brint
Audience Management	Claire Burdfield
Audit firms	Naoko Komori
Auditing	Mostafa Abuzeid
Auditing expectations gap	Jim Haslam
Banking and financial markets	Lei Chen
Banks and financial markets	Sumon Bhaumik
Barriers and Enablers to the Adoption of New Technologies	Fraser Mcleay
Behavioural Finance	Junhong Yang
Big data analytics	Lien Monkhouse
Bogus self-employment	Jason Heyes
Brand Communities	Fraser Mcleay
Brand Communities	Claire Burdfield
Brand Management	Claire Burdfield
Branding	Panayiota Alevizou
Branding	Ranis Cheng
Branding and sustainability	Panayiota Alevizou
Business and international development	David Littlewood
Business continuity	Martina McGuinness
Business models	Tim Vorley
Capabilities	Marian Jones
Capital allocation practices	Mirna Jabbour
Capital marketing	Shuxing Yin
Capital structure	Jonathan Jeffrey
Care cultures	Diane Burns
Care quality and job quality	Diane Burns
Career development	Laura Dean
Change and interventions	Diane Burns
Children and marketing	Caroline Oates
Circular economy	Sonal Choudhary
Civil society and accounting	Jim Haslam
Civil society and accounting	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Climate change	Hossein Olya
Cognition	Marian Jones
Collaboration	Kamal Birdi
Commemoration	Chris Stride
Communication	Alex Wright
Communication	Sarah Brooks
Communities of Consumption	Fraser Mcleay
Community festivals	Elizabeth Carnegie
Community studies	Colin Williams
Conflict and workplace resistance	Kirsty Newsome
Conflict management	Paul Latreille
Consulting	Andrea Ward
Consumer buying behaviour	Lien Monkhouse
Consumer perception	Lien Monkhouse
Consumer's perceptions of Robots and Artifical Intelligence	Fraser Mcleay
Control systems	Wael Hadid
Corporate failure	John Brierley
Corporate finance	Junhong Yang
Corporate finance	Shuxing Yin
Corporate finance	Tunyi Abongeh
Corporate finance and governance	Jiao Ji
Corporate governance	Sharif Khalid
Corporate responsibility	Stephen Allen
Corporate responsibility	Wael Hadid
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	David Littlewood
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	Jiao Ji
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	Sergej Ljubownikow
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	Sharif Khalid
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	Sonal Choudhary
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability	Lei Chen
Corporate success	John Brierley
Corporate/business community engagement	Sergej Ljubownikow
Corruption	Martina McGuinness
Cost accounting	Juliana Meira
Council planning	Kevin Burrows
Counter and shadow accounting	Jim Haslam
Creative and cultural industries	Marta Herrero
Creative entrepreneurship	Marta Herrero
Creative Industries	Claire Burdfield
Creative leadership	Marta Herrero
Creativity	Dermot Breslin
Creativity	Kamal Birdi
Credit unions	Bill Lee
Critical accounting	Adam Leaver
Critical management	Diane Burns
Critical management	Penny Dick
Critical psychology	Penny Dick
Critical theory	Bill Lee
Cross cultural research in accounting	Naoko Komori
Cross cultural research in accounting	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions	Melanie Hassett
Crowd management	Rose Shepherd
Cultural differences	Junzhe Ji
Cultural identity	Elizabeth Carnegie
Cultural Industries	Claire Burdfield
Cultural studies	Lien Monkhouse
Culture change	Malcolm Patterson
Curiosity and serendipity in information systems	Elaine Toms
Customer Experience	John Wilson
Decision sciences	Antonino Sgalambro
Decision support	Jonathan Linton
Decision support systems for complex logistics and supply chain management problem	Andrea Genovese
Decision-marking	Chantal Cantarelli
Development	Kamal Birdi
Development of new measures/metrics	Elaine Toms
Deviance and ethical behaviour	Malcolm Patterson
Digital and social media marketing	Navdeep Athwal
Digital Marketing	Fraser Mcleay
Disability	Paul Latreille
Disability	Pauline Dibben
Discourse	Penny Dick
Diversity	Jeremy Dawson
Drought	Martina McGuinness
E-Business	Lenny Koh
E-learning	Paul Latreille
E-Organisations	Lenny Koh
Earnings management	Tunyi Abongeh
East Asian consumers	Lien Monkhouse
Eco-civilisation	Frank Birkin
Economic development	Colin Williams
Economic development	Junhong Yang
Economic restructuring	Colin Williams
Economics of transition in China	Junhong Yang
Education	John Wilson
Education and sustainability	Panayiota Alevizou
Emerging market economies	Jiao Ji
Emerging Market Economies	Junhong Yang
Emerging market multinationals	Sumon Bhaumik
Emotion at work	Malcolm Patterson
Empirical finance	Jiao Ji
Empirical finance	Tunyi Abongeh
Employability	Paul Latreille
Employee wellbeing	Carolyn Axtell
Employee wellbeing and motivation	Malcolm Patterson
Employees of one-child generation in China	Huiping Xian
Employment protection legislation	Jason Heyes
Employment relations	Kirsty Newsome
Employment rights	Dragos Adascalitei
Employment rights	Jason Heyes
Employment tribunals	Paul Latreille
Energy industry	Andrew Brint
Enterprise risk management (ERM)	Mirna Jabbour
Enterprise search	Elaine Toms
Entrepreneurial behaviour	Dermot Breslin
Entrepreneurial economies	Tim Vorley
Entrepreneurship	Abbi Kedir
Entrepreneurship	Andreana Drencheva
Entrepreneurship	Chay Brooks
Entrepreneurship	Marian Jones
Entrepreneurship	Robert Wapshott
Entrepreneurship	Vasilios Theoharakis
Entry mode choice	Junzhe Ji
Environmental accounting	Frank Birkin
Environmental economics	Junhong Yang
Environmental issues in SMEs	Mike Simpson
Environmental management systems	Panayiota Alevizou
Environmental performance	Mirna Jabbour
Environmental strategy	Jon Burchell
Equality at work	Laura Dean
Escalation of commitment	Chantal Cantarelli
European Union social policy	Michael Frize
Evaluation	Kamal Birdi
Evaluation of information systems	Elaine Toms
Experiential Marketing	Panayiota Alevizou
Extraction sector	Sharif Khalid
Factory work	Kirsty Newsome
Family business	Naoko Komori
Family business	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Family supportive supervisor behaviours	Ciara Kelly
Fashion Marketing	Panayiota Alevizou
Fashion Marketing	Ranis Cheng
Fashion marketing and the circular economy	Navdeep Athwal
Financial crisis	Adam Leaver
Financial disclosure using text analysis	Jiao Ji
Financial Inclusion	Junhong Yang
Financial Intermediation	Junhong Yang
Financial Technology	Junhong Yang
Financialisation	Kevin Burrows
Financialisation of care	Diane Burns
Financialization	Adam Leaver
Firm behaviour under imperfect capital markets	Junhong Yang
Firm or company performance	Abbi Kedir
Flexicurity	Jason Heyes
Flooding	Martina McGuinness
Followership	Anna Topakas
Forecasting	Andrew Brint
Foreign direct investment	Abbi Kedir
Foreign direct investment (FDI)	Shuxing Yin
Formality	Sarah Brooks
Freight fleet operator recognition schemes	Erica Ballantyne
Game theory	Francesco Ciardiello
Gender	Naoko Komori
Gender	Penny Dick
Gender and creative labour	Marta Herrero
Gender in accounting education or profession	Olga Cam
Generally quantitative dissertations on international business or entrepreneurship	Abbi Kedir
Gentrification	Kevin Burrows
Global value Chains and labour	Kirsty Newsome
Governance case study on Tesla or Snap	Jonathan Jeffrey
Government funded or endorsed cultural spaces	Elizabeth Carnegie
Green Bonds	Jonathan Jeffrey
Group behaviour	Dermot Breslin
Habitus	Naoko Komori
Health and social care organising	Diane Burns
Health organisations	Malcolm Patterson
Healthcare (re) organisation - quality, teamwork, leadership, patient and public involvement	Rachael Finn
Healthcare management	Jeremy Dawson
History - accounting/administrative	Jim Haslam
History - accounting/administrative	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Household accounting practices	Naoko Komori
Household saving and consumption decisions	Junhong Yang
Housing market	Andrew Brint
HR strategy	Andrea Ward
Human factors/systems thinking	Rose Shepherd
Human resource management in China	Huiping Xian
Human resources and innovation of Chinese firms	Huiping Xian
Hybrid organisations	Andreana Drencheva
Hybrid organisations	Maddy Powell
Hybrid organisations	Sergej Ljubownikow
Hybrid organising	Andreana Drencheva
Identity	Penny Dick
Illegitimate work tasks	Ciara Kelly
Imagination	John Wilson
Industrial relations and the law	Michael Frize
Inequalities	Penny Dick
Informal economy	Colin Williams
Informal economy	David Littlewood
Information goods	Francesco Ciardiello
Information systems and management	Shuyang Li
Informational interfaces	Elaine Toms
Innovation	Chay Brooks
Innovation	Kamal Birdi
Innovation	Naoko Komori
Innovation	Tim Vorley
Innovation in social care systems and local provision	Diane Burns
Innovation process	Jonathan Linton
Innovations	Junhong Yang
Institutional abuse and mistreatment	Diane Burns
Institutional change and maintenance	Penny Dick
Institutional theory	Penny Dick
Institutional theory applications into management accounting and risk management	Mirna Jabbour
Institutions	Chay Brooks
Institutions	Tim Vorley
Institutions and political economy	Sumon Bhaumik
Insurance and disaster	Martina McGuinness
International decision-making	Junzhe Ji
International development	Emanuela Girei
International marketing	Lien Monkhouse
International trade	Abbi Kedir
Internationalisation	Marian Jones
Internationalisation of Chinese firms	Junzhe Ji
Internationalisation strategies	Melanie Hassett
Internet of things	Francesco Ciardiello
Interventionist research	John Cullen
Italian Business Economics	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Japan	Naoko Komori
Job design	Carolyn Axtell
Job quality	Dragos Adascalitei
Job quality	Kirsty Newsome
Knowledge Management	John Wilson
Knowledge management	Lenny Koh
Knowledge sharing	Kamal Birdi
Labour administration	Jason Heyes
Labour inspection	Jason Heyes
Labour markets	Dragos Adascalitei
Labour markets	Jason Heyes
Labour process theory	Kirsty Newsome
Language and translation	Huiping Xian
Leader development	Anna Topakas
Leader humour	Anna Topakas
Leader identity	Anna Topakas
Leadership	Anna Topakas
Leadership	Malcolm Patterson
Leadership	Stephen Allen
Lean	Andrew Simpson
Lean accounting	Wael Hadid
Lean in service environments	Andrew Simpson
Lean production (service)	Wael Hadid
Lean Six Sigma	Sonal Choudhary
Learning	John Wilson
Learning	Kamal Birdi
Learning and reflection	Stephen Allen
Location models and problems	Andrea Genovese
Logistics	Antonino Sgalambro
Logistics	Lenny Koh
Logistics and reverse logistics	Juliana Meira
Logistics workers and labour process	Kirsty Newsome
Low carbon supply chain innovation	Andrea Genovese
Luxury fashion and sustainability	Panayiota Alevizou
Luxury goods	Lien Monkhouse
Luxury marketing and consumption	Navdeep Athwal
Management & Leadership	Andrea Ward
Management accounting and change	Bill Lee
Management accounting in modern operational environments	Wael Hadid
Management and social change	Emanuela Girei
Management Education	Andrea Ward
Management of public leisure facilites	Geoff Nichols
Managing absence	Pauline Dibben
Managing diversity	Pauline Dibben
Manual work	Kirsty Newsome
Market efficiency	Shuxing Yin
Market-based accounting	Tunyi Abongeh
Marketing to children	Caroline Oates
Measurement and management of intangible assets	Lei Chen
Media Industries	Claire Burdfield
Media Management	Claire Burdfield
Mediation	Paul Latreille
Melas events	Elizabeth Carnegie
Mergers & Acquisitions	Tunyi Abongeh
Mergers and acquisitions	Junhong Yang
Mission-driven arts organisations	Andreana Drencheva
Mission-driven organisations	Andreana Drencheva
Multi-criteria decision making problems	Andrea Genovese
Multinational corporations	Tim Vorley
Museums in Eastern and Central Europe	Elizabeth Carnegie
Museums management	Elizabeth Carnegie
Natural resource extraction	David Littlewood
Natural resource management (water, land)	Sonal Choudhary
Network design	Antonino Sgalambro
New ventures	Marian Jones
Non-governmental organisations and sustainability	Panayiota Alevizou
Nonprofit organisations	Sergej Ljubownikow
Nostalgia	Chris Stride
Occupational psychology	Kamal Birdi
On-line reviews/EWOM	Fraser Mcleay
Online auctions	Andrew Brint
Open book accounting	Richard Bruce
Operations management	Andrew Simpson
Operations management	Mike Simpson
Operations research	Antonino Sgalambro
Operations strategy	Andrew Simpson
Optimisation	Andrew Brint
Optimisation	Antonino Sgalambro
Oral history	Naoko Komori
Organisational adaptation	Dermot Breslin
Organisational ambidexterity	Dermot Breslin
Organisational change	Malcolm Patterson
Organisational change	Tim Vorley
Organisational climate	Malcolm Patterson
Organisational co-evolution	Dermot Breslin
Organisational communication	Sarah Brooks
Organisational culture	Malcolm Patterson
Organisational culture and change	Diane Burns
Organisational interventions	Karina Nielsen
Organisational learning	Kamal Birdi
Organisational routines	Dermot Breslin
Organisational safety	Rose Shepherd
Organisational sociology	Adam Leaver
Organisations	Andrea Ward
Organization theory	Penny Dick
Ownership, organisational structure and corporate governance	Sumon Bhaumik
Participatory organisational research methodologies	Diane Burns
Patient care	Malcolm Patterson
Pedagogy	Paul Latreille
People and Organisation Development	Andrea Ward
Perceived positive work impact	Andreana Drencheva
Perfectionism	Chris Stride
Performance appraisal	Pauline Dibben
Performance management	Juliana Meira
Performance measurement	John Brierley
Performance measurement	Jo Padmore
Performance related pay	Pauline Dibben
Philanthropy	Chay Brooks
Philanthropy	Marta Herrero
Police studies	Penny Dick
Policing	Kamal Birdi
Policy and practice	Tim Vorley
Political economy of financial services	Adam Leaver
Political violence and commerce	Martina McGuinness
Portfolio analysis	Tunyi Abongeh
Portfolio management	Jonathan Linton
Post-industrial museum	Elizabeth Carnegie
Post-socialist societies	Sergej Ljubownikow
Post-socialist society	Colin Williams
Power and politics	Penny Dick
Precarious work	Kirsty Newsome
Price prediction	Andrew Brint
Pro- and anti-social employee behaviours	Malcolm Patterson
Production planning and control (MRP, MRPII, ERP, ERPII)	Lenny Koh
Professional development in accounting and finance	Olga Cam
Project performance	Chantal Cantarelli
Property	Kevin Burrows
Property developers	Kevin Burrows
Property Investment	Kevin Burrows
Prosocial motivation	Andreana Drencheva
Psychological well-being	Malcolm Patterson
Public accountability	Elizabeth Carnegie
Public accountability	Jim Haslam
Public management	Maddy Powell
Public policy	Colin Williams
Public private partnerships (PPPs)	Chantal Cantarelli
Public sector accounting and new public management	Bill Lee
Public sector effectiveness	Chantal Cantarelli
Public sector research establishments	Tim Vorley
Public service delivery and organisation	Diane Burns
Qualitative methods	Alex Wright
Qualitative research	Rose Shepherd
Qualitative research methods	Bill Lee
Qualitative research methods	Diane Burns
Qualitative research methods	Huiping Xian
Qualitative research methods	Marian Jones
Qualitative research methods	Panayiota Alevizou
Quantitative research methods	Jo Padmore
Quantitative research methods	Lien Monkhouse
Quantitative research methods and statistics	Jeremy Dawson
Real Estate	Kevin Burrows
Real options	Jonathan Linton
Reflexivity	Naoko Komori
Regional development	Chay Brooks
Regional development	Colin Williams
Regional economic eevelopment	Tim Vorley
Regional economy	Colin Williams
Relationship marketing	Maddy Powell
Religious identity	Elizabeth Carnegie
Representation of peoples and cultures	Elizabeth Carnegie
Research practice	Bill Lee
Resilience	Martina McGuinness
Resilience	Sonal Choudhary
Resistance	Emanuela Girei
Resistance, power and identity	Stephen Allen
Responsible investment	Sharif Khalid
Restructuring and well-being	Karina Nielsen
Retail marketing	Panayiota Alevizou
Retail returns	Erica Ballantyne
Return-to-work	Karina Nielsen
Reverse logistics	Erica Ballantyne
Reverse logistics	John Cullen
Risk governance	Martina McGuinness
Risk Management	Jonathan Jeffrey
Routines	Alex Wright
Scale development and psychometrics	Jeremy Dawson
Selection and assessment	Laura Dean
Self-employment	Andreana Drencheva
Sensory marketing	Panayiota Alevizou
Services marketing	Maddy Powell
Servicescape	Panayiota Alevizou
Silence	Sarah Brooks
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)	Jo Padmore
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)	Mike Simpson
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business continuity	Martina McGuinness
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and sustainability	Panayiota Alevizou
Smart meters	Andrew Brint
SME (small & medium-sized enterprises)	Robert Wapshott
SME deviant behaviours	Junzhe Ji
SME internationalisation	Melanie Hassett
SME marketing	Ranis Cheng
SMEs	Abbi Kedir
Social accounting	Bill Lee
Social accounting	Frank Birkin
Social and environmental accounting	Jim Haslam
Social and environmental accounting	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Social business behaviour	Sergej Ljubownikow
Social care workforce and labour arrangements	Diane Burns
Social enterprise	Andreana Drencheva
Social enterprise	Maddy Powell
Social enterprises	Sergej Ljubownikow
Social entrepreneur	Andreana Drencheva
Social entrepreneurship	Andreana Drencheva
Social entrepreneurship	David Littlewood
Social innovation	David Littlewood
Social media	Junhong Yang
Social media marketing	Yichuan Wang
Socio-cultural context	Naoko Komori
Southern NGOs and social movements	Emanuela Girei
Spatial interaction theory	Andrea Genovese
Sponsorship	Marta Herrero
Sport	John Wilson
Sports organisations	Malcolm Patterson
Stakeholder engagement	Sharif Khalid
Statistical methods in management	Jeremy Dawson
Strategic management	Sergej Ljubownikow
Strategic marketing	Vasilios Theoharakis
Strategy	Alex Wright
Strategy	John Wilson
Strikes	Dragos Adascalitei
Sub-Saharan Africa	David Littlewood
Supply chain accounting	John Cullen
Supply chain accounting	Juliana Meira
Supply chain accounting	Richard Bruce
Supply chain contracts	Andrew Brint
Supply chain decision support tools	Andrea Genovese
Supply chain management	John Cullen
Supply chain management	Lenny Koh
Supply chain management	Mike Simpson
Supply chain management	Sonal Choudhary
Supply chain management	Erica Ballantyne
Supply chains and employment	Kirsty Newsome
Supply chains and logistics globally	Richard Bruce
Sustainability	Sonal Choudhary
Sustainability	Stephen Allen
Sustainability	Wael Hadid
Sustainability accounting	Frank Birkin
Sustainability accounting and accountability	Ataur Belal
Sustainability accounting and accountability	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Sustainability claims and certifications	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainability in accounting	Olga Cam
Sustainability in services and retail	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainability labelling	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainability marketing	Caroline Oates
Sustainability marketing	Maddy Powell
Sustainability marketing	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainable careers	Ciara Kelly
Sustainable cities	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainable Entrepreneurship	Ranis Cheng
Sustainable fashion	Panayiota Alevizou
Sustainable Fashion	Ranis Cheng
Sustainable freight transport	Erica Ballantyne
Sustainable marketing and consumption	Navdeep Athwal
Sustainable tourism management	Hossein Olya
Sustainable versus Hedonic Consumption	Fraser Mcleay
Takeover prediction	Tunyi Abongeh
Taxation	Lynda Burkinshaw
Team-working	Jeremy Dawson
Teamworking	Anna Topakas
Technology in the workplace	Rose Shepherd
The dark side of social media	Fraser Mcleay
Trade unions	Dragos Adascalitei
Trade unions	Pauline Dibben
Training	John Wilson
Training	Kamal Birdi
Training	Paul Latreille
Training & Development	Andrea Ward
Training transfer	Karina Nielsen
Transformational leadership and well-being	Karina Nielsen
Transistion and emerging economy contexts	Sergej Ljubownikow
Translation	Naoko Komori
Transparency	Sharif Khalid
Transport and technology	Erica Ballantyne
Transport planning	Erica Ballantyne
Triple top approach	Olga Cam
UK and EU social policy	Jason Heyes
Uncertainty modelling and management	Lenny Koh
Undeclared work	Colin Williams
Under-employment	Jason Heyes
Universities	Naoko Komori
Universities	Tim Vorley
Universities	Maria-Teresa Speziale
Urban freight/city logistics	Erica Ballantyne
Urban metabolism	Sonal Choudhary
Uses of historic past in the political present	Elizabeth Carnegie
Varieties of capitalism	Jason Heyes
Virtual/telework	Carolyn Axtell
Visitors and engagement at cultural sites	Elizabeth Carnegie
Visual culture	Marta Herrero
Voice and silence	Sarah Brooks
Voluntary sector	Colin Williams
Volunteers in sport	Geoff Nichols
Women and accounting	Naoko Komori
Women's careers	Huiping Xian
Work conditions	Malcolm Patterson
Work design	Malcolm Patterson
Work design	Rose Shepherd
Work intensification	Kirsty Newsome
Work psychology	Kamal Birdi
Work-family balance	Kristin Hildenbrand
Work-life balance	Ciara Kelly
Work-life balance	Huiping Xian
Work-life balance	Kristin Hildenbrand
Workgroup diversity and faultlines	Jeremy Dawson
Working carers	Jason Heyes
Working-time	Kirsty Newsome
Workplace conflict	Paul Latreille
Workplace learning initiatives	Bill Lee
Workplace management	Paul Latreille

A-Z of research interests

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