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The Open University Business School is a leading international management school with the largest management education programme in Europe. Research is at the heart of our activities, underpinning our teaching, consultancy, advisory and policy work. Our research is based around three themes: |
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These themes include traditional business disciplines, and newer areas such as social marketing, social enterprise and management learning. Working in collaboration with institutions around the world, our research involves extensive engagement with professional practice in business and management and offers wider benefits to society.
We offer three research degree programmes: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Master of Research (MRes).
Key facts
- 40 per cent of our research assessed as internationally excellent or better in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
- External project funding from a wide range of sources such as EU Framework 7, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
- Opportunity to join a lively community of doctoral and masters research students.
- Opportunities for personal and professional development via our seminar programme and bespoke training events.
- Requirements for direct entry onto PhD or MPhil are a 2:1 (or equivalent) and an MRes or specialist masters which includes research methods training.
- Entry requirements for MRes are a 2:1 (or equivalent).
- The PhD programme is not available by distance learning.
- Students are normally required to be resident in the UK for the duration of their studies.
- Part-time self-funded applications are accepted at any time but all successful students start on 1 October. Applications must be received by the 1 June to start on 1 October of the same year.
- We welcome full-time self-funded applications in any of the business and management research topics.
Further information
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
- Name:
- Debby Hing
- Email:
- oubs-research@open.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1908 655272
For general enquiries please contact the Research Degrees Team via the link under 'Your questions' further down the page.
Publications
Research publications by Open University staff are available through Open Research Online (ORO), the university's repository of research publications and other research outputs. ORO can be searched or browsed by staff name or subject.
The following list, generated from ORO, provides a flavour of the most recently published work in Business and Management:
- Preston, Diane (2013). Being a manager in an English nursery. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 21 (in press).
- Underwood, Sarah; Blundel, Richard; Lyon, Fergus and Murray, Alan eds. (2012). Social and Sustainable Enterprise: Changing the Nature of Business. Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, 2. Bradford: Emerald (forthcoming).
- Sharma, Seema; Daniel, Elizabeth and Gray, Colin (2012). Absorptive capacity and ERP implementation in Indian medium-sized firms. Journal of Global Information Management, 20(4), (In press).
- Blundel, Richard; Monaghan, Adrian and Thomas, Christine (2012). Promoting environmentally sustainable enterprises: some policy options. In: Blackburn, Robert and Schaper, Michael eds. Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development: Policy, Practice and Challenges. Farnham: Gower, (In Press).
- Monaghan, Adrian; Blundel, Richard and Thomas, Christine (2012). Policies to promote environmental responsibility in SMEs: a case-based review. In: 18th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 24-26 June 2012, University of Hull, UK (forthcoming).
- More publications relating to Business and Management
OU research degree areas
- Acoustics
- Art History
- Business and Management
- Chemistry and Analytical Sciences
- Children, Young People and Families
- Classical Studies
- Computing
- Design
- Development Studies
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Economics
- Education and Educational Technology
- English
- Geography
- Health, Social Work and Social Care
- History
- Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Life Sciences
- Materials Engineering
- Mathematics
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Planetary and Space Sciences
- Politics and International Studies
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Social Policy and Criminology
- Sociology
- Statistics
Your questions
The Research Degrees Team is here to advise you about our research degree programme and the OU experience.
- research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0)1908 654882
Employers' questions
The Research Degrees Team is happy to advise about supporting students through our research degree programmes.
- research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0)1908 654882