Postgraduate Prospectus

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Konstantinos Poulis, BBA Athens,
PhD Manchester (Lecturer)
Standardisation/adaption strategy debate;
internationalisation processes of consumer
goods firms; case study methodology
Kathleen Riach, MA MSc PhD Glasgow
(Senior Lecturer)
Organisational age inequality; ageing
identities at work; body and embodiment;
sensual methodologies
Carlo Rosa, MSc PhD LSE (Lecturer)
Monetary economics; macroeconomics
and financial econometrics; international
finance
Anna Sarkisyan, BSc MSc Plekhanov,
MSc Southampton, PhD Cass (Lecturer)
Banking; securitisation; financial regulation
and supervision
Vania Sena, MSc DPhil York (Professor)
Human capital agglomerations, innovation
in business, IP and productivity
Liya Shen, MSc PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Options; futures; wavelet method; fund
management
Michael Sherer, BA (Econ) MA (Econ)
Manchester, FCA (Professor and Head
of School)
Application of structuration theory to
accounting and auditing; corporate
governance and mismanagement;
business plans for not-for-profit
organisations; enterprise resource
planning in UK universities; embedding
evaluation in a contemporary visual
arts organisation
Stevphen Shukaitis, BA East
Stroudsburg, MA New School for Social
Research, PhD Queen Mary (Lecturer)
Class composition analysis and
autonomist Marxism; avant-garde arts and
aesthetics; politics of self-organisation;
affect, embodiment and ethics; networked
forms of labour
Prem Sikka, BA Open, MSc London, PhD
Sheffield, FCCA (Professor)
Accounting, crime and racism; auditor
regulation; governance of the UK
accountancy profession; corporate
governance; globalisation; the
accountancy profession and the
state-profession relationship; insolvency;
globalisation; tax havens; corporate social
responsibility
Stuart Snaith, BA Keele, MSc PhD Essex
(Lecturer)
Forward premium puzzle; purchasing
power parity puzzle; syndicated/project
finance loans; panel unit root
testing/panel regressions; long-horizon
regressions
John Stittle, BA Nottingham Trent, MA
London, FCCA (Senior Lecturer)
Privatisation of UK railway industry;
Railtrack’s track access charges; social
and ethical issues in corporate reporting;
the financing of Network Rail
Misagh Tavasori, BSc MBA Sharif,
PhD Manchester (Lecturer)
Corporate social entrepreneurship;
social entrepreneurship in multinational
corporations; international business
development
Hardy M Thomas, BA MSc DPhil Ulster
(Lecturer)
Corporate control and governance; market
valuation of corporations; real options and
investment appraisal
Melissa Tyler, BA Birmingham,
PhD Derby (Reader)
Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized
labour; gender and management;
management of culture and identity;
sales-service work
Shahzad Uddin, BCom MCom FCMA
Dhaka, MSc PhD Manchester, PGCHET
Queens (Professor)
Management accounting and privatisation
issues in developing and developed
countries; development issues and
accounting; globalisation, aid agencies and
accounting; small business financing;
accounting and lending decisions; public
sector management
Giorgio Valente, MA Tilburg, PhD
Warwick (Professor)
International finance; fixed income
markets; market microstructure; macro
finance
Dmitri Vinogradov, Dipl Moscow State,
MSc Moscow HSE, PhD Heidelberg
(Lecturer)
The theory of financial intermediation;
financial markets in general equilibrium;
decision-making under uncertainty
Christina Volkmann, MA Münster, MBA
PhD Exeter (Lecturer)
Architectural space in the organizational
context; architectural and geographic
imagery in financial advertising
Svetlana Warhurst, BSc Polotsk State,
MSc PhD Manchester Metropolitan
(Lecturer)
Internationalisation and international
entrepreneurship; autonomy and
embeddedness of subsidiaries of MNCs;
subsidiary performance; country-of-origin
effects; regional development
Samantha Warren, BA PhD Portsmouth
(Professor)
Visual methods; organizational aesthetics;
materiality and identity
Ceri Watkins, BSc Newcastle, MA PhD
Essex (Lecturer)
Organisational performance; space and
organisation; theatre and performance; art
and organisation; teams; organisational
hierarchy
Andrew Wood, BA MSc PhD London
(Reader)
Momentum in the UK and disposition
effects; syndicated loans and the role of
the underwriter; the expectations
hypothesis
Shu-Jung Sunny Yang, PhD New South
Wales and Sydney, AGSM (Senior
Lecturer)
Operations strategy; product innovation;
competitive strategy
Yong Yang, MSc UEA, PhD Queen Mary
(Lecturer)
International business; applied economics;
technology-outsourcing
Idlan Zakaria, BCom New Zealand,
MA Lancaster (Lecturer)
Market-based corporate governance
research; management control and
performance measurement; corporate
disclosure policy; executive remuneration
Ping Zheng, MBA MPhil PhD Kent
(Lecturer)
Management and organisational
behaviour; ownership impact on shaping
management processes; emerging forms
of business venture under market
socialism in contemporary China; Chinese
entrepreneurship
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