Department of Business
Staff Research Interests
Business, Demographics and Consumer Markets
- Dr Chris Baumann - customer loyalty; retail banking; culture, ideology and consumer & employee behaviour; factors associated with students' academic performance.
- Mr Gordon Brooks - organisational commitment and consumer behaviour.
- Ms June Buchanan - standardisation and customisation, ethics, consumer empowerment, globalisation and the anti-globalisation, anti-corporatisation movements, marketing of socially unacceptable products.
- Ms Leanne Carter - marketing orientation, organisational learning theories, with focus on not-for-profit sector and application of these theories.
- Professor Greg Elliott - marketing management, strategic marketing, services marketing and international marketing. His current research projects involve the study of customer relationships in financial services, the relationship between services marketing strategies and financial performance and the study of "country of origin" effects.
- Dr Fei Guo - labour migration, demographic behaviours and research methods
- Mr Con Korkofingas - marketing research, business forecasting.
- Dr Nick Parr - demographic change and labour management issues, demographic modelling, fertility and family planning, and the social mobility of migrants.
- Professor Farhat Yusuf - women's health, indigenous populations and ethnic minorities.
Applied Social Research
- Dr Fei Guo - labour migration, demographic behaviours and research methods.
- Dr Nick Parr - demographic change and labour management issues, demographic modelling, fertility and family planning, and the social mobility of migrants.
- Professor Farhat Yusuf - women's health, indigenous populations and ethnic minorities.
International Business and Competitiveness
- Professor Greg Elliott - international marketing, the relationship between services marketing strategies and financial performance and the study of "country of origin" effects.
- Professor Farhat Yusuf - international consumption and demographic patterns.
- Dr Robert Jack - Firm internationalisation, foreign market entry mode choice, international services, international marketing.
- Associate Professor Stephen Chen - Internationalization strategies, international business ethics, offshoring strategies.
Organisational Studies & Leadership
- Mr Gordon Brooks - organisational commitment and consumer behaviour.
- Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management.
Knowledge Management
- Ms Leanne Carter - organisational learning patterns and links with marketing orientation and business performance.
- Associate Professor Stephen Chen - Knowledge-based cities, knowledge-based business clusters.
Strategic Management
- Associate Professor Stephen Chen - Corporate social responsibility and sustainability, management of technology-based firms, technology entrepreneurship.
Labour-Management Studies and Conflict Resolution
- Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management.
Human Resources Management
- Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management.