Research Areas

The research conducted at the University of Edinburgh Business School seeks to set the agenda across a wide range of business disciplines. Our research areas are staffed by teams whose work has real influence in business, government, and the public sector.

Accounting and Finance

This group focuses on areas such as accounting in society, carbon accounting, and behavioural finance, and is enhanced by a vibrant and integrated community of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

Accounting and Finance Group
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Research within this group focuses on innovative, growth-orientated entrepreneurship and the study of innovation around new information and communication technologies.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Management Science and Business Economics

The MSBE group considers the development of innovative methodologies and frameworks to analyse issues of importance to business and policy decision-making.

MSBE Research Group
Marketing

This group focuses on marketing and consumption practices, with many projects looking at the food and services sectors. Many projects draw on theoretical frameworks from external disciplines such as childhood studies and psychology.

Marketing Research Group
Organisation Studies

Research within the group provides insight into major challenges in human resources and public policy in the fields of leadership, governance and diversity. Group members are at the forefront of developments in their specialised fields.

Organisation Studies Group
Strategy

The Strategy Group studies contemporary issues of societal and organisational importance at local, national and global levels, and knowledge production is organised around such themes as Service Management and Strategic Change.

Strategy Research Group