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and/or equivalent. You must
submit a research proposal
of approximately 1,500 words
on your intended topic.
We have international expertise
in the following areas: accounting;
finance, operational research,
international business strategy,
organisational behaviour, human
resource management, marketing
and supply chain management.
Master’s and PhD degrees are
available in most of these areas,
or in the general subject area of
management.
Research groups
Accounting
Our Accounting Group has an
international reputation for its
research on public sector critical
accounting and accounting
history. Recent topics include
privatisation, health and new
public management.
Finance
The Finance Group addresses
academically interesting and
practical contemporary issues
in finance and banking. Staff
pursue research in several areas,
including: derivatives pricing
and risk management; financial
econometrics; international
banking; financial regulation;
corporate finance; asset pricing
and real estate modelling.
Marketing
Research in this group cuts
across four main domains
including, marketing strategy
and performance; product
development and innovation;
buyer behaviour; and the
management of supply (value)
chains and market delivery
systems. Strong links with industry
and an international network of
research partners support the
group’s empirical research.
Management Science
This group covers a wide range
of research areas in operational
research and systems thinking.
These include research in the
area of logistics, including green
logistics and network security
with a special emphasis on the
innovative design and analysis of
heuristic and exact optimisation,
DEA, operation management,
multi-variate analysis, biometrics,
multi-methodology and soft
OR/systems.
People, Management and
Organisation
Research examines themes in
the areas of employment relations,
human resource management,
organisational behaviour and
leadership. The group covers a
wide range of research, including
employment relationships, the role
of social partners, the effects
of skills, technology and culture
on the world of work, employee
engagement, and the role of
leadership.
Strategy and International
Business
Research focuses on strategic
alliances, non-market strategies,
performance management,
business in emerging economies,
international strategy, management
of multinational enterprises and
corporate social responsibility.
Academic staff
For details of individual
staff research interests,
see www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/
our-staff/academic.html
Dr Xuemei Bian: Senior Lecturer
in Marketing
Dr Vinh Sum Chau: Senior
Lecturer in Strategy
Dr Li-cheng Chang: Senior
Lecturer in Management
Accounting
STAFF PROFILE
John Mingers
Professor of Operational
Research and Systems
John Mingers is Professor
of Operational Research and
Systems, and past Director
of the School. His research
interests include: the use
of systems and cybernetic
methodologies in problem
situations – particularly the
mixing of different methods
within an intervention; the nature
of information, meaning and
knowledge; research metrics
and research performance,
and critical management
studies.
He is an academician of
the Academy of the Social
Sciences and has been on the
editorial board of MIS Quarterly,
Systems Research and
Behavioural Science and the
Journal of Mixed Methods
Research. He has been
published widely in journals
and has published several
books.
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