Management & Entrepreneurship
Five to six years
Fully funded
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.
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 |
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January 2023 |
Posen, H.E., Ross, J-M., Wu, B., Benigni, S., Caro, Z. |
Academy of Management Annals |
Volume 17, pp.74-112 |
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January 2021 |
Salandra, R, Criscuolo, P., Salter, A. |
Research Policy |
Meet your faculty
Our PhD programme fosters close collaboration between leading Management & Entrepreneurship faculty and doctoral students, developing their research interests and providing continuous support and guidance throughout the programme.