Research
The Strategy and International Business (SIB) Department hosts a group of researchers on strategy, international business and corporate social responsibility. Research within the SIB Department is diverse in terms of research topics, covering strategic management and leadership, learning and organisational changes, international business, innovation, management education and business school strategy, and corporate social responsibility.
Our department is the home of the world-leading International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR). It is one of the largest of its kind, specialising in research on responsible business and management. The SIB Department also hosts the Centre for Research in the Behavioural Sciences (CRIBS) which is an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in studying management from a behavioural perspective, using theories and methods from management, economics, and psychology.
SIB members value diversity, inclusiveness, multi-disciplinarity and collaboration, engaging with diverse stakeholders within and outside the Business School and the University with a mission to:
- develop impactful and globally recognised research and generate new knowledge
- promote research-led teaching that is truly world-class
- provide expertise and solutions to business leaders and policy-makers
Expertise
SIB’s research focuses on three strategic priorities:
- Strategic management, learning and organisational changes
- Internationalisation of emerging market enterprises (EMEs) and innovation
- Corporate social responsibility
Our aim is to generate world-leading research through collaboration with multiple stakeholders. We want our research to influence business leaders and policy-makers and address some of the most challenging issues that the world faces today.
Research topics in the Department include:
- business turnaround and restructuring (for example, how resource weaknesses influence the outcome of business turnaround)
- mergers, acquisitions, alliances and business integration (for example, how communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes)
- strategic management and leadership (for example, CEO and top management teams and firm performance)
- organisational changes, strategy and new forms of organisation (for example gendered ageism and organisational routines)
- internationalisation of EMEs (for example, how EMEs balance competitive and institutional pressures and internationalise; how home country political ties influence EMEs’ internationalisation and outcomes)
- globalisation of innovation and appropriation (for example, geographic dispersion and co-location of R&D units and appropriation; how firms take advantage of variations in IPR protection across countries to improve performance)
- organisational forms and innovation (for example, synergies between alliance partners and radical innovation; business group affiliation and innovation)
- the moral dimensions of the corporations, markets and consumers (for example, workers' rights in global value chains, modern slavery, health and inequality, and gender equality)
- business impacts on grand challenges (including food poverty, corruption, and social exclusion), and the alignment between business objectives and development goals (for example, sustainable mining in developing countries)
- sustainability and governance (for example, sustainable finance, sustainable supply chain, sustainable communities, responsible tourism)
