Our academic staff

Dr Magda Abou-Seada

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Financial & Corporate Reporting; Narrative Reporting; Voluntary Disclosures; Accounting Education; Integrated Reporting; International Financial Reporting; Issues in Accounting Profession

Professor Pawan Adhikari

Professor, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Accounting in Less Developed Countries; Government Accounting and Budgeting; Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs, GFSM, PEFA); Accounting History; Climate accounting, reporting and accountability in the public sector

Dr Rafia Afrin

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Professor Henry Agyei-Boapeah

Professor, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Financial reporting and corporate finance; Corporate governance and accountability; Environmental reporting and sustainability; and Mergers and acquisitions and corporate diversification

Dr Jacob Agyemang

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Management accounting and control systems in developing and emerging economies; Management accounting and development issues in developing and emerging economies; Interdisciplinary research across management controy systems, entrepreneurship and development issues; Corporate governance

Dr Shaila Ahmed

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate governance; Family business; Labour governance, CSR and sustainability practices in developing countries; Interdisciplinary and qualitative research

Professor Thankom Arun

Faculty Dean Research (Social Sciences) - Professor (R), EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Global Development and Development Finance.; Emerging economies; Financial Inclusion, Technology based financial delivery/services, Microfinance and Microinsurance; Issues in Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Social responsibility; Hybrid Organisations and Social Enterprises; Issues in Sustainable Development

Dr Muhammad Ashraf

Reader, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Management Accounting; Management Control; Public Sector Financial Management; Organizational Fraud; Gender and Precarious Work

Dr John Azure

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Dr Fitra Cahaya

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Sustainability reporting; Accounting and governance in developing countries; Disclosure practices in developing countries; Corporate governance

Dr Osamuyimen Egbon

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Social/Environmental/Sustainability Reporting; Accounting in the public interest; Accountability of multinational corporations in emerging economies; Corporate-community relations; Sustainable development goals; Public sector accountability in developing economies; Water accounting

Professor Silvia Gaia

Professor, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate Governance; Executive remuneration; Shareholders activism; Voluntary disclosure; Financial reporting; Social performance and Business Ethics; Social and environmental reporting

Dr Maria Ishaque

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Role of Professional Accounting in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Role of Professional Accounting in Combating Modern Slavery

Dr Abdullahi Ishola

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate reporting; Financial Reporting; Integrated reporting; Sustainability reporting; Accounting in emerging economies; Corporate governance; Climate change accounting and reporting; Corporate social responsibility

Dr Md Shahidul Islam

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate political connection; Corporate environmental and sustainability performance; Stakeholder accountability and violation; Financial distress and bankruptcy

Dr Azimjon Kuvandikov

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Board of directors; Corporate governance impact of activist hedge funds (AHFs); Board diversity; Institutional investors; Activist shareholders

Dr Hao Lan

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate Finance; Financial Text Analysis; Financial Reporting

Dr Teng Li

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Dr Andre Lino

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Public Sector Auditing; Public Financial Management Reforms; Co-production of public services; Financial Resilience

Dr Zeeshan Mahmood

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Sustainability Accounting and Reporting; Accounting in Emerging Economies; Accounting for Sustainable Development Goals

Dr John Malagila

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Dr Ricardo Malagueno De Santana

Reader, EBS - Accounting

Dr Joshua Obeng-Nyarko

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Babajide Oyewo

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Dr Chaoyuan She

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Social and Environmental Reporting; Social Media Communication; Environmental accounting

Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen

Deputy Dean of Partnerships & Professor (R), EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Social and environmental reporting; Corporate governance; Non-profit accounting, accountability and governance; Accounting and governance in developing and emerging economies

Professor Ileana Steccolini

Professor, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Governmental financial resilience; Public sector accounting reforms; Roles, uses and users of accounting information in public services; Performance measurement in public services; Roles of accounting and accountability in inclusive public services and societies; Corruption and Supreme Audit Institutions; Digitalization of public services, accounting and accountability; Inclusion, participation and coproduction in public services: roles for accounting and accountability systems

Dr Anne Steinhoff

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Accounting and health(care); Accounting Education; Accounting in the third sector; Accountability and counter-accounts in organisations

Professor Shahzad Uddin

Professor, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Management accounting; Corporate Governance, CSR and Sustainability; Accounting and Economic Development; New Public Management and Governance

Dr Bedanand Upadhaya

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Corporate social responsibility/Sustainability practices in emerging/developing countries

Dr Rebecca Warren

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Dr Chaminda Wijethilake

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Social and environmental accounting and its implications for the question of mundane governance in waste management; The use of social and environmental accounting in lean manufacturing; Performance implications of adopting sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets; Performance measurement and governance in production and operations

Dr Christos Argyropoulos

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; Alternative Investments

Dr Sam Astill

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Time Series Econometrics; Financial Econometrics.; Theoretical Econometrics

Dr Konstantinos Baltas

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Economics; Applied Econometrics; Financial Intermediation; Empirical Finance; Banking; Financial Stability

Dr Chiara Banti

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: International finance; Market microstructure; Housing; Global liquidity; Emerging markets

Dr Udichibarna Bose

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Corporate Finance; Financial Economics; Emerging Markets Finance; Financial inclusion

Dr Ilias Chronopoulos

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Liangrong Chunyu

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Professor Jerry Coakley

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Fintech; Behavioural finance; Corporate finance

Dr Stefano Filomeni

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Information Transmission in Banking; Relationship Banking; Bank Lending; Islamic Banking; Securitization

Professor Franco Fiordelisi

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Risk Management; Banking Regulation and Supervision; Structure and performance in banking; Bank Corporate Governance; Bank risk culture

Dr Norvald Instefjord

Reader (R), EBS - Finance

Dr Mehmet Furkan Karaca

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Professor Neil Kellard

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Finance (Financial inclusion, Derivative market efficiency, commodity portfolios, bubbles, hedge funds, hedge ratios, return predictability, asset price volatility); International Finance (Forward premium puzzle, purchasing power parity); Development (Inclusive growth, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, modelling and forecasting commodity prices, linkages between commodities ,growth and poverty, the food crisis, political regime and health); Applied econometrics (Spurious regressions, panel, forecasting, long memory, fractional cointegration and structural breaks, GARCH modelling); Environment and Sustainability (cap and trade, carbon allowances, corporate governance)

Professor Sotirios Kokas

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Networks; Syndicated Loan Market; Financial Regulation, Supervision and Architecture; Bank Competition and Financial Stability; Foreign Bank Ownership; Monetary Policy and Banks

Professor Alexandros Kontonikas

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Asset pricing; Monetary policy; Sovereign risk

Yiwei Li

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Junyi Liao

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Dr Jose Linares Zegarra

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Payments Economics; Consumer and household finance; Banking; SMEs finance; Microfinance and financial inclusion; Entrepreneurial finance and Fintech

Dr Vivek Nawosah

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Asset Pricing; Behavioural Finance; Macro-Finance

Dr Efthimios Nikolakopoulos

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; Empirical Finance

Dr Ali Ozbekler

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Professor Ekaterini Panopoulou

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; International Finance; Alternative Investments

Professor Simon Price

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: forecasting methods; forecasting in the presence of structural change; density forecasts; long-horizon predictability; drivers of commodity prices; empirical macroeconomics; applications to dynamic 'macro' panel datasets; Mapping economic outcomes onto perceptions of government competence and and approval

Dr Emmanouil Pyrgiotakis

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Initial Public Offerings; Textual Analysis

Dr Nick Rowe

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Dr Anna Sarkisyan

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Empirical Banking; Securitisation; Corporate Governance

Onur Sefiloglu

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Dr Liya Shen

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Option pricing; Application of wavelet method; Derivative securities

Dr Lazaros Symeonidis

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Financial Econometrics; Forecasting; Empirical Asset Pricing; Commodities

Professor Robert Taylor

Professor, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Time series econometrics; financial econometrics; non-stationary time series analysis

Dr Hardy Thomas

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Corporate control, governance systems & political economy of risk; Valuation of assets; Real option portfolios and investment appraisal; Investment cash flow sensitivities and frictions in credit channels; Market microstructure and high frequency trading behaviours

Dr Luiz Vitiello

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Options and derivatives pricing; Asset pricing; Application of generalised/high moment distributions to option/asset pricing

Dr Senyu Wang

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Capital Structure; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking

Dr Cheng Yan

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Research interests: Empirical Asset Pricing, International Finance, Mutual Funds

Dr Jiahua Zhu

Lecturer, EBS - Finance

Dr Pasi Ahonen

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Management of diversity and difference in organisations; History, memory and temporality in and of organisations; Leadership, power and ways of leading; Organisations, the media and representation and mediatisation of organisations

Dr Muhammad Akram

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Digital Marketing; Omnichannel retailing strategies and consumers' decision‐making; Marketing in the Metaverse; Marketing strategy and firm performance; Social Customer Journey; Methodological Interests

Dr Maged Ali

Reader, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Big Data Technologies and Methodologies

Dr Nicholas Beuret

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor Peter Bloom

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Mario Burghausen

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Corporate Marketing and Corporate Communication (and associated concepts/issues); Corporate Identity and Corporate Brand Management; Corporate Heritage, brand heritage, and (corporate) heritage brands; Corporate and organisational temporalities and time

Dr Callum Cant

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Work, Crisis, Technology

Dr Simon Carmel

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: professional values; organisational and workplace ethnography; teamwork, inter-professional relations and the division of labour; academic evaluation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; micro-social theory (interactionism, strong structuration, practice theory); the concept of vocation

Robert Donoghue

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Marcia Christina Ferreira

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Hamid Foroughi

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor Nicolas Forsans

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Latin American economies and societies; The Impact and Legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic in Colombia; Latin America - entrepreneurship; The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America

Dr James Fowler

Lecturer (R) and MBA Director, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Corporate Strategy; The Management of Organisational Information; Business, Organisational and Management History; The Value of Hybrid Organisations

Dr Mrinalini Greedharry

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Martin Harris

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Erik Jacobi

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Market Studies and Organisational Ethnography; Brand Activism and Consumer Resistance; Consumer Neuroscience and Neuromarketing

Iman Jana

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer behaviour; Consumer resistance to innovation; Customer engagement; International Marketing

Dr Malte Jauch

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Atika Kemal

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Digital Innovation and Management; Mobile Banking for Financial Inclusion; ICTs and Socio-Organisational Change; Digital Technologies and Socio-economic Development; Digital Economies, Digital Payment Innovation in Social Cash Programmes; Digital Identities for Inclusion; Data Governance; e-Government; e-Health

Dr Georgios Kokkinidis

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Abhisek Kuanr

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer Behaviour, Anti-consumption, Influencer Marketing, Body Image, AI & Chatbots, Wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Dr Aylin Kunter

Lecturer (R)., EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Jordon Lazell

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer food waste behaviour; Sustainable Consumption; The attention Economy; Circular Economy

Dr Elise Lobbedez

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Collective resistance, social movements, and activist work; Ethnography and qualitative research; Violence and organization; Anthropocene and sustainability

Dr Aneela Malik

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Brand Management; Consumer Behaviour; International/Global Branding; Advertising and Marketing Communication; Ethical and Green Marketing

Professor Phoebe Moore

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr James Muldoon

Reader (R), EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor Prithwiraj Nath

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer-technology interface; Marketing Strategy; Consumption Decision Making; Services Environment; Sustainability

Professor Rekha Rao-Nicholson

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Strategy in emerging economies and emerging-market MNCs; Management and economics of innovation in developed and developing countries; Economic development and sustainability; M&As - Leadership and performance

Dr Noelia-Sarah Reynolds

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Organisational change and mergers and acquisitions; Sensemaking; Sustainable organisational growth

Dr Tony Sampson

Reader (R), EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Stevphen Shukaitis

Reader, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: cultural production and contemporary capitalism; social theory; artistic labour; social and political imaginaries; communication technologies; avant-gardes and aesthetics; continental philosophy; social movements; intellectual and social history

Dr Sonia Siraz

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Social Evaluations (e.g.: Legitimacy, Status) Implications for Resource Acquisition; Legitimation Strategies; Minority Entrepreneurship: (e.g: women, ethnic/migrant/racial minority owned ventures);; Sustainable Innovations in Developed and Emerging Economies; Venture Growth and Transformation, Recovery from Business Failures; Entrepreneurial Narratives/Pitches and Funding

Dr Hanqun Song

Reader (R), EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Juneho Um

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Optimal Level of Product Variety; Global SC Uncertainty and Risk Management Strategies for SC Resilience; International Business Strategy; Service Supply Chain Performance; Service Customisation and Productisation; Sustainable Global Supply Chain; Emerging Technology in International Business; Challenges in Logistics & Trade

Dr Camila Vergara

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Malu Villela

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Jamie Woodcock

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Min Yan

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer Behaviour; Continuance Intention/Behavior intention

Dr Sunny Yang

Reader (R), EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Yingqin Zheng

Reader (R), EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Jingyu Zhu

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Consumer psychology; Judgment and Decision Making

Dr Luciana Zorzoli

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Dr Debabrata Ghosh

Research interests: Supply chain analytics; Sustainable operations; Game theoretic applications in supply chains; Emerging Economy and Supply Chain Issues; Pricing; Operations-Marketing Interface Models

Dr Shoba Arun

Reader (R), EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Edward Barratt

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: the use of genealogical and historical perspectives in the study of management and human resource management; management and human resource management in the Civil Service and public sector in the UK; power and elites; the ethics of human resource management

Professor Ilaria Boncori

Deputy Dean (Postgraduate Research Training) - Professor (R), EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: identity work; alternative processes of organising; transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming inclusion; parenting and caring responsibilities; autoethnography; Writing Differently in management and organisation studies; Perinatal loss/baby loss

Dr Stefano Cirella

Reader, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Creativity and Organisation; Collective Creativity; Leadership, Change and Transformation; Organisational Learning Mechanisms; Collaborative Management Research; Collaborative Innovation

Dr Huiyan Fu

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Sophie Hales

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized labour in interactive service work; Gender, sexuality and embodiment at work; Lived experiences of sexualized forms of work; Gender, sexuality and the body in work organizations

Professor Philip Hancock

Professor, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: The Colonisation of Everyday Life Through Managerial Discourse and Practice; Critical Social Theory (Marxist and Post-Marxist) and Organisation; Critical Approaches to Recognition at Work and in the Labour Market; The Uses and Abuses of Organisational Culture, Art, Aesthetics and Symbolism; The Management and Lived Experience of Organisational Space and Architecture; The Organisational and Economic Dimensions of Christmas and Other Festivities; Vintage Production, Consumption, and its Organisation

Dr Casper Hoedemaekers

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Maria Hudson

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Equality and Diversity; Precarious work and livelihoods; Organisational learning, social justice and moral economy; Qualitative research methodologies

Dr Jayne Jennett

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Critical management studies; Strategy and leadership in civil society organisations; Resource-based perspectives on organisations, Business ethics; Ethnographic methodologies in organisational research

Professor Elisabeth Kelan

Professor, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Paul Kelly

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Organisation Studies; Information Systems; Impact and Evaluation; Global Development; Approaches to "Power" and "Practice" for research and engagement

Dr Marina Michalski

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Country-specific evaluations of Employment Relations, HRM practice and Talent Management (Global South/rest-of-the-world countries); L&D, skills development and macro human resource development; Language-sensitive perspective on cross-national talent management; Apprenticeships in context

Sandra Moog

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: international environmental politics and transnational civic activism (focus: forest issues/ the Amazon); globalization, sustainable development and environmental justice; the role of NGOs and corporations in processes of environmental governance; ideas of nature within the contemporary environmental movement

Dr Louise Nash

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Organisational space, place, aesthetics and materiality; The lived experience of work in business clusters; The use of embodied methodologies in organisational research

Dr Beatrice Piccoli

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Job insecurity; Organizational justice; Organisational identification; Psychological well-being; Organisational behaviours

Dr Georgie Rider

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Raysa Rocha

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Ian Roper

Reader, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Charlie Smith

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Danielle Tucker

Reader, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Organisational change management; Change Communication; Organisational Trust; Public Sector Management; Organisational Memory and Forgetting; Policy Implementation; Change Agents; Organisational Failure; Integrated Care

Professor Melissa Tyler

Professor, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: Feminist perspectives on work and organization; Gender, sexuality and embodiment at work; Organizational space, place, aesthetics and materiality; Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized forms of labour; Sales-service work and consumer culture; Gender, sexuality and the body in work organizations; Any work drawing on and developing feminist theory; The organization, management and lived experience of organizational space, place and setting; Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized labour in sales-service work

David Watson

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Dr Elaine Yerby

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Professor Suma Athreye

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Economics of Innovation; Economics and Management of Intellectual Property; Technology Management; Evolution of Technology Markets; Technology Licensing; Open Innovation; Inclusive Innovation; International R&D Management; International Cooperation in Science and Technology; Emerging Market Multinationals; Foreign Direct Investment

Dr Shabneez Bhankaraully

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Charan Bhattarai

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Rashedur Chowdhury

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor George Chryssochoidis

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Debashree De

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Mehmet Demirbag

Deputy Dean of Essex Business School and Professor (R), EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: internationalisation of R&D activities; offshore R&D; FDI location choice; product/regional diversification strategies of MNEs; Multinationals from Emerging Countries; International Mergers and Acquisitions; Reverse Knowledge Transfer by Emerging Country MNEs

Dr Muhammad Farooque

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Juan Carlos Fernandez de Arroyabe

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Innovation; Eco-innovation; and Circular Economy.; Innovation and R&D Networks; Cyber Security on the firms

Dr Marta Fernandez De Arroyabe Arranz

Reader (R), EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Fragkiskos Filippaios

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Debabrata Ghosh

Reader (R), EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Supply chain analytics; Sustainable operations; Game theoretic applications in supply chains; Emerging Economy and Supply Chain Issues; Pricing; Operations-Marketing Interface Models

Dr Tanveer Hussain

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Shamsul Karim

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Hyerhim Kim

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Marketing Communications; Strategic Brand Management; Psychophysiological Methods; Corporate Social Responsibility

Dr Young-Ah Kim

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Innovation in the high-tech industry; Business-to-Business Marketing; Service Marketing; Quantitative Methods in Marketing (Advanced SEM, Hierarchical model, Choice Modelling); Relationship Value in Business Contexts; E-government and smart cities; Digital transformation in the service sector; Local economy revitalisation, regional innovation and sustainability

Palitha Konara

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Niraj Kumar

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management; Food Supply Chain; Supply Chain Innovation; Big data management

Dr Rama Kummitha

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Professor Caleb Kwong

Professor, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: social entrepreneurship, humane entrepreneurship and microfinance; entrepreneurship amongst the disabled population; entrepreneurship amongst refugees, Inernal Displaed Persons (IDPs) and those in the conflict zones; female and ethnic entrepreneurship; management education and enterprise education; human resource management (international)

Dr Xiaoying Li

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Wei Liu

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Operations Management in Tourism, Hospitality and Event

Dr Kholoud Mohsen

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Intra-firm integration mechanisms and their influence on marketing performance (effectiveness, adaptiveness, efficiency and creativity); The international marketing strategies of emerging market firms; Drivers of market pioneering; Emerging markets MNEs; Set-Theortic research in Business

Dr Manuela Nocker

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Critical approaches to project work, particularly project teams; Organisational ethnography; The narrative and poetic approaches in organisational analysis; Identity construction and the management of identity; Ethics, social responsibility and sustainability; Collaboration and learning; Strategy-as-practice; Organisational innovation

Dr Femi Olan

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Joao Oliveira

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Wali Ur Rehman

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Muhammad Shujahat

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Human Resource Management; (Counter)productive Organizational Behaviours; Knowledge Management

Dr Misagh Tasavori

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: International entrepreneurship; Multinational corporations from emerging markets; Business strategy and dynamic capability; Base of the pyramid market

Dr Sahar Validi

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Supply Chain Analytics; Operational Research; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems; Intelligent Decision Support Systems; AI and Net Zero

Dr Svetlana Warhurst

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Learning Pedagogy; Problem-based learning; Transnational education; Firm internationalisation; Autonomy and Embeddedness of subsidiaries of MNCs; Subsidiary performance

Dr Peng Xu

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Data-Driven Decision Analytics; Model-Based Decision Support; Behavioral Economics, Prospect Theory and Cumulative Prospect Theory; Finance and Risk Management; Incomplete Risk Preferences & Probability Information

Dr Reza Zaefarian

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Dr Wenjuan Zeng

Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Supply Chain Management; Big data analytics; Green Innovation

Professor Jay Mitra

Professor, Essex Business School

Research interests: New Venture Creation, Opportunity Development and Innovative Growth; Entrepreneurship and regional development; Innovation and small firms; International Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Policy; Social Entrepreneurship; Gender and Entrepreneurship; Alterantive Entrepreneurial Finance

Professor Stuart Manson

Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School

Research interests: Market Based Accounting; Accounting History; Corporate Governance

Professor Nigel Pye

Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School

Research interests: Supply Chains; Inter-organizational relationships

Professor Michael Sherer

Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School

Professor Prem Sikka

Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School

Research interests: Accounting, crime and racism; Auditor regulation; Governance of the UK accountancy profession; Corporate governance; The accountancy profession and the state-profession relationship; Insolvency; Globalization; Tax Havens; Corporate Social Responsibility