Departmental PhDs
The School offers PhD registration for specialist research in all its seven academic departments. Full details of departmental research opportunities can be found on the departmental pages:
- Accounting & Finance
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Management Learning & Leadership
- Management Science
- Marketing
- Organisation, Work & Technology (formerly Behaviour in Organisations)
- Strategy
Below is a summary of the research areas in which we offer supervision:
Accounting and Finance
The Department's research is split into main groups.
Accounting research:
Finance research:
- Corporate Finance and Corporate Risk Management
- Financial Markets (including Market Microstructure)
- Derivatives Pricing
- Financial Econometrics
Economics
Research is organised under four major areas:
- Economic Theory
- Human Resource Economics
- International Business
- Macroeconomics, International Economics, Finance and Financial Markets
Entrepreneurship
- Enterprise policy and regional development in the North West
- Contexts of entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial behaviour and learning
Management Learning & Leadership
There are eight main research strands in the department:
- Action Learning and Action Research
- Critical and Strategic HR and Human Resource Development
- Gender, Learning and Leadership
- Impact and Evaluation Studies
- Leaders, Leadership and Practice
- Learning and Leadership for Sustainability
- Learning, Practices and Pedagogies
- Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management
Management Science
A wide range of research areas including:
- Optimisation
- Forecasting and Market Modelling
- Risk Management
- Health
- Simulation
- Systems/Soft OR
- Strategy/ Systems and Information Systems
- Supply Chain Management and Modelling
Marketing
Research in the department is clustered around two main headings:
Consumer Research in the Retail and Service Sector:
- Competition and Consumer Choice
- Shopping Behaviour
- Shopping Addiction
- Consumer (Mis)Management of Credit and Debt
- Gender Issues and Consumption
- Symbolic Consumption and Young People
- Disadvantaged Consumers
Business Marketing:
- Interorganisational Relationships
- Structure of Business Markets
- Business Marketing and Purchasing
- Marketing Strategy in Business Markets
Organisation, Work & Technology
- Organisational Behaviour
- Organisation Theory
- Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Development
- Knowledge Management
Research centres
Research is facilitated through specialist centres, all of which can provide PhD supervision:
International Centre for Research in Accounting
Director: Professor Ken Peasnell
Centre for Forecasting
Director: Professor Robert Fildes
Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
Director: Professor Brian Bloomfield
Lancaster Centre for Management in China
Director: Emeritus Professor Alasdair MacBean
Centre for Performance-Led HR
Director: Professor Paul Sparrow
Lancaster Centre for Strategic Management
Director: Professor Julia Balogun
