OUR SUBJECT GROUPS
OUR RESEARCH CENTRES AND NETWORKS
Finance The Finance Group conduct research in areas such as theoretical and empirical asset pricing, risk management, microstructure, derivatives, financial econometrics, macro-finance, behavioural finance, international finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, banking, financial markets, household finance, development finance, and fintech. W wbs.ac.uk/go/financegroup Information Systems Management and Analytics The Information Systems Management and Analytics Group’s areas of research include platform ecosystems, digital value creation, open innovation and crowd sourcing, digital business strategy, AI and the future of work, predictive and prescriptive analytics, FinTech, Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, AI and machine learning, crowd-based microfinance, and cyber security. W wbs.ac.uk/go/ISMA Marketing Research from our Marketing Group spans the full breadth of marketing - from consumer psychology and branding to strategy, selling, innovation, digital analytics, and quantitative modelling. Drawing on psychology, economics, sociology, and data science, their work tackles the challenges that matter most to consumers, businesses, and society. W wbs.ac.uk/go/mktgroup
Operations Management The Operations Management Group’s research covers a broad range of topics including supply chain management, process improvement, environmental and social issues in operations, strategic alignment and operations strategy, performance measurement and management, service
The Enterprise Research Centre The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) is the UK’s leading centre for research on SME growth, innovation and productivity. Its project-based research spans innovation, productivity, growth and scaling, finance and investment, wellbeing, leadership, and diversity and inclusion, helping policymakers to understand the drivers of SME development and competitiveness. In addition to core funding from the ESRC, the Centre has received support from the Department for Business and Trade, Innovate UK, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the British Business Bank, and the Intellectual Property Office. Recent achievements include: ■ Professor Mark Hart leads the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team, which is sponsored by NatWest. GEM is the largest single study of entrepreneurial activity in the world and is the only global research source that collects data on entrepreneurship directly from individual entrepreneurs. W wbs.ac.uk/go/ERCgem ■ A six-year study into workplace mental health, led by the ERC and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, resulted in 10 priority policy recommendations in the final 2025 report. W wbs.ac.uk/go/SMEmentalhealth ■ Professor Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC, is Co-Director of the £7 million Innovation and Research Caucus (IRC). The IRC’s aim is to increase the use of evidence in UK Research and Innovation’s
Our research centres and networks include:
T he School supports interdisciplinarity and our research centres generate large-scale funding that emphasises policy and practice impact. Find out more W wbs.ac.uk/go/centresnetworks
Accounting Research in the Accounting Group covers many aspects of accounting research, focusing in particular on areas such as auditing and accountability, accounting fraud, banking, environmental accounting, equity analysts, executive compensation, performance measurement (especially in digital platforms), social value measurement,stock market anomalies, All members of faculty belong to one of our nine academic Subject Groups. Explore them below and click onto their dedicated group pages to find out more about their teaching, research, and expertise.
The Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology The primary mission of the Gillmore Centre is to conduct world-class, cutting-edge research at the intersection of finance and technology. Its work explores the transformative impact of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, mobile payments, cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding platforms on financial activities. Research is focused on three pillars; the consumer, the firm, and wider society. The Centre collaborates at scale with international partners, globally renowned Higher Education institutions, and colleagues across the University of Warwick. Recent achievements include: ■ Securing a research grant with University of California Berkeley and crytopcurrency firm Ripple, to investigate the risks posed by stablecoin de-pegging to financial market stability. W wbs.ac.uk/go/stablecoin ■ Professor David Skeie was appointed to the CBDC Academic Advisory Group (AAG), which will advise the Bank of England and the UK Government’s Treasury on developing a digital pound. W wbs.ac.uk/go/digitalpound ■ Joining forces with West Midlands body SuperTech to launch a roadmap for the tech sector that aims to deliver thousands of jobs and add £1.5 billion to the regional
operations, and design thinking and innovation management. W wbs.ac.uk/go/opsmanagement
Organisation and Work The Organisation and Work Group’s research topics include innovation, the interface between organisation and new technologies, networks, gender, ethics, sense-making, leadership, change, emotions, managerial work, routines, identity, professions and healthcare management. W wbs.ac.uk/go/OW Strategy and International Business Research from our Strategy and International Business Group covers topics such as modes and processes of internationalisation, knowledge transfer in multinationals, strategy as practice and process, innovation dynamics, technology and market emergence, complexity and uncertainty, global energy and behavioural strategy. W wbs.ac.uk/go/SIB
and the accounting profession. W wbs.ac.uk/go/accounting
Behavioural Science The research interests of the Behavioural Science Group include behavioural and experimental economics, cognitive science, judgement and decision making at the individual and organisational level, happiness and wellbeing, behaviour change, and the application of economic methods to social phenomena not generally included within economics. W wbs.ac.uk/go/behaviouralsci Entrepreneurship and Innovation The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group’s research areas include the cognition and decision making of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams, individual and team creativity, healthcare leadership and management, SME growth and performance, entrepreneurial finance and big data, artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship. W wbs.ac.uk/go/EI
economy over the next 10 years. W wbs.ac.uk/go/techroadmap
strategies and investments. W wbs.ac.uk/go/IRCroper
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