Management & Entrepreneurship
Five to six years
Applications are now closed
Fully funded
London, UK
Work with renowned faculty and conduct innovative research
°Õ³ó±ðÌýDepartment of Management and EntrepreneurshipÌýbrings 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.Ìý
This is perhaps best represented in our fully-funded MRes/PhD programme, which provides ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ 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 centres and partnerships
The Business School is home to several research centres and institutes, offering a diverse range of activities that bring together academics and specialists.Ìý
Centre for Digital Transformation
The Centre for Digital Transformation helps businesses understand the wide-ranging implications of the digital revolution. It focuses on emerging digital technologies to meet business and social objectives.
Centre for Responsible Leadership
Using evidence-based research to create a focus on generating meaningful change in businesses and organisations.
Gandhi Centre for Inclusive Innovation
Linking innovation and entrepreneurship in companies and institutions globally, through thought leadership, research, technology and next-generation innovation models.Ìý
Imperial Business Design Studio
Creating new empirical evidence on the impact of design thinking on business and the relationship between business, technology and data.
Leonardo Centre
Exploring and experimenting with new ways of doing business to regenerate economies, communities, and natural environments around the world. 
Research areas
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Faculty and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ 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 ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ 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 ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ 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 |
Xule Lin |
Rethinking Organizational Design: Token-Enabled Coordination and Governance Adaptation in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) |
Professor Erkko Autio and Dr Ying-Ying Hsieh |
Yuki (Xueqi) Yuan |
Entrepreneurial Resilience |
Professor Erkko Autio and Dr Tim Weiss |
Jiho YangÌý |
Essays on Organizational Structure and InnovationÌýÌý |
Professor Paola Criscuolo and Dr Dmitry SharapovÌý |
Stefano BenigniÌý |
A cognitive perspective on learning, decision-making, and technology evaluations in organisationsÌý |
Professor Paola Criscuolo and Professor Markus Perkmann |
Linghe Lei |
Toward a Clear Understanding of Self-monitoring and Its Relationship with LeadershipÌýÌý |
Dr Jonathan PintoÌý |
Maxine Yinmiao Yu |
Effective Communication in Nascent Markets: Managing Strength and Speed of Trust DevelopmentÌý |
Dr Yuri MishinaÌý |
Selina Zhe Cao |
Ecosystem synergies, change and orchestrationÌý |
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 |
Yinmiao Yu |
Crime and punishment: organizational misconduct and its implications |
Dr Yuri Mishina |
Damiano Morando |
Essays on The Role of Networks And Networking in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Social Structure as a Playfield for Networking |
Dr Anne ter Wal and Professor Paola Criscuolo |
Linghe Lei |
Toward a Clear Understanding of Self-monitoring and Its Relationship with Leadership |
Dr Jonathan Pinto |
Jiho Wang |
Essays on Organizational Structure and Innovation |
Professor Paola Criscuolo and Dr Dmitry Sharapov |
John Callaghan |
Three Essays on Social Enterprise Performance |
Professor Markus Perkmann and Dr Michelle Rogan |
Xule Lin |
Rethinking Organizational Design: Token-Enabled Coordination and Governance Adaptation in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) |
Professor Erkko Autio and Dr Ying-Ying Hsieh |
Publications co-authored by recent PhD ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
Date |
Authors |
Title |
Journal |
Volume |
2025 |
Mishina, Y., Yu, M., and Gomulya, D. |
Academy of Management Journal |
Forthcoming |
|
2025 |
Yang, J., Criscuolo, P., and Sharapov, D. |
Research Policy |
Volume 54, Issue 7 |
|
2025 |
Agarwal, R., Guerra, M., Moeen, M. and Aversa, P. |
The Academy of Management Annals |
Forthcoming |
|
2025 |
Guerra, M., Clarysse, B. and Wadhwa, A. |
Strategic Management Journal |
Forthcoming |
|
November 2023 |
Lei, L., Wang, C., Pinto, J. |
Ìý |
Personality and Social Psychology BulletinÌý |
. |
October 2023 |
Burato, M., Tang, S., Vastola, V. & Cenci, S. |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
120(41) |
|
January 2023Ìý |
Posen, H.E., Ross, J-M., Wu, B., Benigni, S., Caro, Z. |
Ìý |
Academy of Management AnnalsÌý |
Volume 17, pp.74-112Ìý |
Meet your faculty
Our PhD programme fosters close collaboration between leading Management & Entrepreneurship faculty and doctoral ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, developing their research interests and providing continuous support and guidance throughout the programme.ÌýÌý
Erkko Autio
Michael Yeomans
Mark Kennedy
Sanaz Talaifar
Celia Moore
Susan Scott
Markus Perkmann
Christian Hampel
Dmitry Sharapov
Anu Wadhwa
Yuri Mishina
Anne ter Wal
Maurizio Zollo
Kevin Corley