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.

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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

Setting the tone at the top: Financial Executives International features book by Jan Pfister

3 February 2012

Dr Jan Pfister, of Lancaster's Department of Accounting and Finance, has had his book Managing Organizational Culture for Effective Internal Control featured in an issue alert by the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the research arm of Financial Executives International (FEI).

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FT ranks Lancaster PhD 7th in world

30 January 2012

In the 2012 Financial Times ranking of the top global MBA programmes, Lancaster is ranked 7th in the world and 2nd in Europe in the 'FT Doctoral Rank'.

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New Generation Thinkers - LUMS PhD graduate featured on BBC Radio 3

19 January 2012

Philip Roscoe, who completed his PhD at LUMS in 2007, is one of BBC Radio 3's 'New Generation Thinkers'. Philip’s first talk for Radio 3 - on the changing role of the entrepreneur - was broadcast nationally on 16 January 2012.

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Universities minister speaks at Engage HEI 2012

13 January 2012

The Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, gave the keynote opening speech at the Engage HEI Conference 2012, organised by Lancaster's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (IEED).

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