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Management & Entrepreneurship

Start date:
Duration:
Five to six years
Application deadline:
Applications are now closed
Fee:
Fully funded
Location:
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 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
(Survival and Growth)

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.

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Personality and Social Psychology BulletinÌý

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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