Business & Management Research

World-class Business Research

Lancaster University Management School has achieved a 20-year reputation for research of exceptional quality and international standing. 75% of our research activity was assessed in 2008 as world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and virtually all our research (95%) is at least of international standing.

This long-term commitment to research of the highest quality has encouraged a distinctive and deeply embedded research culture within LUMS.

High-Impact Research

Most of our research is organised thematically through our seven academic departments:

In addition, much cross-disciplinary research takes place within our dedicated research centres:

In October 2010, Lancaster University acquired The Work Foundation, forming a powerful new alliance that enables both organisations to enhance their research impact.

PhD Programmes

The LUMS doctoral programmes in business and management are among the highest-ranked in the world.

PhD programmes

Contact Information

For more information about research or doctoral study at LUMS, please contact the LUMS Research Office.

Contact the LUMS Research Office

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Making markets: the practice of business models

Over the last three years, AIM Fellows Katy Mason and Martin Spring have been researching how business models are developed and put to work to make markets. This video feature captures a recent conference in London attended by over 200 practitioners.

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Informing Energy Choices through Digital Innovation

In this Spotlight on Lancaster presentation, Dr Kim Kaivanto of the Department of Economics, describes some of the research he is conducting with colleagues in Lancaster's Department of Computer Science, into demand-side energy choices.

Research News

Hay's Journal: 'Sizing up pay and reward'

15 May 2012

Professor Steve Young is quoted in a feature on executive pay in Hay's Journal. "There's too much reliance on compensation consultants who tend to recommend a plan based on industry averages rather than a plan that might best suit the organisation's current needs and strategy," he says. (See page 18 in the link)

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Internationally renowned researcher visits Department of Management Science

9 May 2012

Professor Juan-José Salazar-González, from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, is visiting the Department of Management Science for a period of four months, from May to August 2012. Professor Salazar is known internationally for his work in two distinct research areas: optimisation problems arising in transportation and logistics, and methods for statistical disclosure control.

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Systems Colloquium in honour of Professor Peter Checkland

8 May 2012

Over 80 Lancaster students, alumni and invited guests came together on 20th April to honour esteemed LUMS colleague Professor Peter Checkland and to celebrate the 30-year programme of action research which Peter led at Lancaster.

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China-UK Entrepreneurship Competition 2012 - open for entry!

4 May 2012

The China-UK Entrepreneurship Competition 2012 is now open for entry. The competition aims to encourage new business ventures between China and the UK and is intended to simulate the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early-stage investors and venture capital firms.

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