Essex Business School
Our research
Research that makes a global impact
Our academics push the boundaries of knowledge to help organisations and society innovate and thrive. They undertake theoretical and applied research that investigates important problems facing business, the public sector, not-for-profits and the wider world.
Their work challenges inequality and business injustices, such as gender prejudice, and explores important areas like accounting in emerging economies and behavioural finance. They examine issues at local, national and international levels and their work is informed by a wide range of social science theories.
We have several research centres and groups covering a range of contemporary business issues:
- Essex Accounting Centre
- Essex Finance Centre
- Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies Group
- Centre for Work, Organisation and Society
- Management Science and Entrepreneurship Group
- Essex Critical Diversity Research Group
- Essex Centre for Macro and Financial Econometrics
- ESRC BLG Data Research Centre
Business as usual?
Not at Essex.
Research databases and software
Databases
We provide a range of databases to aid research. We have a subscription to Bloomberg and WRDS, which includes:
- Bank Regulatory
- Blockholders
- CBOE Index
- Compustat
- CRSP
- CUSIP
- Direct Marketing Educational Foundation
- Dow Jones Averages and Total Return Indexes
- Fama-French
- Federal Reserve Bank Reports
- MSRB
- OptionMetrics
- OTC Markets
- Penn World Tables
- Peters and Taylor Total Q
- PHLX
- Public Data
- Research Quotient
- SEC Order Execution
- TRACE
- World indices
Business and Local Government Data Research Centre datasets
Our Business and Local Government Data Research Centre offers access to the following datasets:
Company and financial
- Osiris Companies Database
- UK Companies Basic Data
- UK National Business Database
- UK Outstanding Loans
Markets and public
- Colchester Borough Council Data
- Deprivation Index
- Essex County Council Data
- fDi Markets Library
- Footfall Data
- UK Councillors, MPs, MEPs and Civil Service
- UK Public Sector Spending
Healthcare and social care
- Care Homes Data
- Global Data Pharma Etrack
- Medway Council Data
- Norfolk Vulnerable Children Data
- UK Healthcare Providers and Ratings
- UK Minimum Dataset for Social Care
- Online Retail Website Hits
- Retail Floor Space Utilisation
- Broadband Speed
Retail
Infrastructure
Software
We provide a range of software to aid your studies, in addition to those in the University's software catalogue.
Mathematical analysis software and computing environments
- IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio
- Maple
- Matlab
- SAS
Statistical analysis
- AMOS
- EViews
- Gretl
- R
- SPSS
- Stata
Qualitative data analysis
- Max QDA2
- NVivo
Accounting software
- Sage Line 50
General programming
- Eclipse
- GCC
- JDK/JRE
- RStudio
- Visual Studio
- Python
Office and reference management
- Emacs / Xemacs
- EndNote
- Microsoft Office
- MikTex
- Reference Manager
- Tex, LaTeX, DVI, tec
- TeXnicCenter
- TeXworks
- Adobe Reader
- LPDF Creator
- SSH client for Windows
