Postgraduate Prospectus

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micro-finance practices in rural/informal
enterprises and agriculture and fishing
sectors; aid-agencies and public sector
management control particularly at local
government level
Marjana Johansson, MSc Akademi, PhD
Stockholm, (Lecturer)
Events and festivals; arts and cultural
organisations; organisational ethnography
Neil Kellard, BA Manchester, MSc
Warwick, PhD Nottingham (Professor)
Derivative market efficiency; hedge funds;
hedge ratios; return predictability; asset
price volatility; international finance
(including forward premium puzzle and
purchasing power parity); Prebisch-singer
hypothesis; modelling and forecasting
commodity prices; linkages between
commodities; growth and poverty; the
‘food’ crisis; applied econometrics
Simon Kelly, BA PhD Lancaster
(Lecturer)
Leadership development in the UK public
sector; management education and the
application of ethnomethodology in
organisational research
Iqbal Khadaroo, BBA IIUM, MBA UM,
FCCA, PGCHET, PhD Queen’s (Senior
Lecturer)
Public sector accounting; public private
partnership; accountability; performance
management
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, MA Warsaw, PhD
Polish Academy of Sciences (Lecturer)
Technology and organising; social
construction of space; narrativity, science
fiction and organisations; knowledge
management; identity, self and branding
Azimjon Kuvandikov, BA MA Lancaster,
PhD York (Lecturer)
Financial reporting; corporate governance;
merger and acquisitions; employment
effects of mergers and acquisitions
Caleb Kwong, BSc Bath, MSc Glasgow,
PhD Leeds (Lecturer)
Social entrepreneurship and microfinance;
human resource management; female
entrepreneurship; ethnic entrepreneurship
Chris Land, BA Bradford, MA PhD
Warwick (Senior Lecturer)
Aesthetics and politics of organisations;
community as an organisational discourse;
literature, organisation and utopia; the
organisation of piracy in the early
eighteenth century; organisations and new
social movements; cycling cultures
Jun Li, BA MA People’s University of
China, PGDip PhD Lancaster, PGCTHE
Luton (Senior Lecturer)
Business clusters; innovation
management; international
entrepreneurship; Chinese
entrepreneurship
Pik Kun Liew, BA PhD Sheffield
(Lecturer)
Corporate governance; auditing;
globalisation; corporate social responsibility
Xiaoquan Liu, MSc PhD Lancaster
(Senior Lecturer)
Derivatives; asset pricing
Ricardo Malagueño de Santana,
BA UFPE, MSc Pompeu Fabra, MRes
ESADE (Lecturer)
Management accounting systems;
behavioural research in accounting;
control systems and product innovation
Stuart Manson, BA MBA Strathclyde,
CA (Professor)
Audit automation; pension fund reporting;
audit reporting; accounting history;
corporate governance
Sumohon Matilal, BComm MComm
Calcutta, MRes PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Accounting and the visual; narrative
analysis; problems of accounting
representations; corporate and political
accountability
Jay Mitra, BA Calcutta, MA Jadavpur,
MSc Stirling (Professor and Head of
Group)
New business creation and economic
development; small firm growth and
innovation; business networks and
clusters; entrepreneurship and innovation
policy; small firm internationalisation
Li Ying Meng, BA Tongji, BA Wuerzburg,
PhD Cranfield (Lecturer)
Information/knowledge management and
firm performance; marketing and financial
justification; quantitative and qualitative
research methods; entrepreneurship and
marketing
Sandra Moog, PhD Berkeley (Lecturer)
International environmental politics and
transnational civic activism; globalisation;
sustainable development and
environmental justice; evolution of civil
society organisations in south and north
America and western Europe
Hiroyuki Nakata, BA MA Kyoto,
PhD Stanford (Lecturer)
Application of microeconomic theory
(general equilibrium and game theory)
in finance; the social costs of volatility;
expectations or beliefs formation; impacts
of finance on R&D activities
John Nankervis, BA MA Auckland,
PhD Surrey (Professor)
Financial econometrics; bootstrap
methods and applications; autocorrelation
testing in dependent time series
Vivekanand Nawosah, BSc Mauritius,
MSc PhD Exeter (Lecturer)
Empirical asset pricing; duration analysis;
the term structure of interest rates;
behavioural finance
Manuela Nocker, BSc Padua, PhD LSE
(Lecturer)
Critical project studies; organisational
ethnography; the narrative approach
in organisational analysis;
strategy-as-practice; organisation
innovation
Sena Ozdemir, BA Istanbul Bilgi, MA
PhD Portsmouth (Lecturer)
New product/service development and
performance; innovation in services;
adoption and diffusion of innovations;
marketing capabilities in innovative firms;
open innovation and user involvement in
open innovation environments
Georgios Panos, BSc Ioannina, MSc
Warwick, PhD Aberdeen (Lecturer)
Entrepreneurship; labour and personnel
economics; behavioural economics and
finance
Sudarshan Pillalamarri, BA Bhavans
Vivekananda, MSc Clermont, PhD Aarhus
(Lecturer)
Auditing; ethical decision-making in
accounting; role of moral reasoning in
accounting
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