Management & Entrepreneurship

Start date:
Duration:
Five to six years
Deadline:
Fee:
Fully funded
Location:
London, UK

Work with renowned faculty and conduct innovative research

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship brings together cutting-edge scientific thought leadership across various areas related to strategic leadership, organisational management, and innovation processes. Our focus extends to entrepreneurship, digitalisation, sustainability, and knowledge management, creating a dynamic environment for scholarly exploration and educational excellence. Our scholarship and educational activities encompass a comprehensive range of analyses, spanning from individual traits and group dynamics to the broader organisational and ecosystem levels. 

This is perhaps best represented in our fully-funded MRes/PhD programme, which provides students two years of training in key theoretical and methodological topics followed by three to four years to develop cutting-edge research with supervision by our research faculty. We welcome doctoral applicants from a wide variety of academic disciplines who are united by a desire to conduct innovative research. You may also be co-supervised by faculty in other departments in the School, depending on your research interests.

We understand that the emergence of new technologies and unprecedented global challenges, encompassing environmental, social, and health crises, necessitate the pursuit of innovative approaches to business. Our esteemed faculty delve into a myriad of research questions, including but not limited to exploring the profound implications of personal and group dynamics on organisational well-being and success, driving transformational change and fostering social impact through innovation, redesigning companies for stakeholder-driven value creation, crafting go-to-market strategies for scientific and social innovations, and establishing and nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Research areas

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Faculty and students in the field undertake research into the innovation and entrepreneurship process, from identifying pockets of original knowledge in the search for ideas, to the diffusion and entrepreneurial exploitation of new products, processes, and services.  Faculty members are particularly interested in the core themes of spotting and leveraging entrepreneurial opportunities; managing the innovation process; building and operating entrepreneurial ecosystems; the role of networks in innovation and entrepreneurship; the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on organisational innovation; and commercialising science innovations. 

Strategy & Organisational Behaviour

Researchers in this area are considering a variety of questions on what constitutes effective organisations across a range of different contexts. Some of these questions include understanding the link between senior managerial style and firm strategy, and the effect of team selection processes on success, how organisational contexts affect how we construe, and therefore facilitate, morally problematic behaviour and how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence. 

Career impact

Teaching experience

PhD students on the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) scholarship will undertake 150 hours of teaching assistant duties from year three of the programme. There will be opportunities for PhD students to engage in teaching activities within the Business School’s programmes such as MSc in Management, MSc Economics & Strategy for Businesses, MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management as well as on our MBA.

Doctoral theses in Management & Entrepreneurship

Name

Thesis

Supervisor

Jiho Yang 

Essays on Organizational Structure and Innovation  

Professor Paola Criscuolo and Dr Dmitry Sharapov 

Stefano Benigni 

A cognitive perspective on learning, decision-making, and technology evaluations in organisations 

Professor Paola Criscuolo and Professor Markus Perkmann

Linghe Lei

Toward a Clear Understanding of Self-monitoring and Its Relationship with Leadership  

Dr Jonathan Pinto 

Maxine Yinmiao Yu

Effective Communication in Nascent Markets: Managing Strength and Speed of Trust Development 

Dr Yuri Mishina 

Selina Zhe Cao

Ecosystem synergies, change and orchestration 

Professor Chris Tucci and Dr Dmitry Sharapov

John Callaghan

Three essays on Social Enterprise Performance (survival and growth)

Professor Markus Perkmann and Professor Michelle Rogan

Damiano Morando

Networking on Twitter: Entrepreneurs’ Quest for Funding

Professor Anne ter Wal and Professor Paola Criscuolo

Publications co-authored by recent PhD students

Date

Authors

Title

Journal

Volume

November 2023 

Lei, L., Wang, C., Pinto, J. 

Do Chameleons Lead Better? A Meta-Analysis of the Self-Monitoring and Leadership Relationship 

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 

January 2023 

Posen, H.E., Ross, J-M., Wu, B., Benigni, S., Caro, Z.

Reconceptualizing Imitation: Implications for Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Competitive Advantage 

Academy of Management Annals 

Volume 17, pp.74-112 

January 2021 

Salandra, R, Criscuolo, P., Salter, A. 

Directing scientists away from potentially biased publications: the role of systematic reviews in health care 

Research Policy