Strategy, International Management & Business, and Entrepreneurship
This academic group addresses global challenges faced by organisations of all shapes and sizes, we focus on the understanding and application of strategic management, international business and entrepreneurship in the context of social, political and economic factors within business and society. Our group researches issues at the intersection of people, responsible business and the planet.
Research themes
Business, organisations, and society
- Organisational values, reputation, and identity
- Modern slavery
- Gender studies, intersectionality and social justice
- Pluralistic approaches to management studies
- Global challenges and sustainable development goals
Entrepreneurship
- The survival and exit of entrepreneurial firms
- Social entrepreneurship
- Refugee entrepreneurship
International business, management, and sustainability
- The rise of global managerialism and business elites
- Digitalisation of international organisations
- Regenerative and distributive supply chains and global commodity chains
- Uneven development and global production networks
- Multinational corporations and enterprises
- Social sustainability
Microfoundations of strategy and organisation
- Strategy-as-practice
- Practice view of organisational epistemology
- Microfoundations of strategising for grand challenges
- Social movements and organisation
Contact us
Organisations or individuals interested in working with the Strategy, International Management & Business, and Entrepreneurship academic group, please contact:
Professor Hinrich Voss
PhD programmes
Find out more about studying a PhD at the University of Bristol Business School.
Members
- Dr Ketch Adeeko
- Dr Oghale Ayetuoma
- Dr Samir Balakishi
- Dr Roman Barwinski
- Professor Florian Bauer
- Professor Jonathan Beaverstock
- Dr Antony Beckett
- Dr Gary Burke
- Dr Wanxiang Cai
- Dr Haneul Choi
- Dr Sam Davies
- Professor Robin Holt
- Mr Carl Hughes
- Professor Jennifer Johns
- Dr Zhengyao Kang
- Mr Nick Kent
- Dr Melsia Tomlin Kraftner
- Dr Rachael Lamb
- Dr Neil Lambert
- Dr Xiaoting Luo
- Dr Anna MacPherson
- Dr Surya Mahdi
- Professor Orietta Marsili
- Dr Lucy McCarthy
- Dr Juan Carlos Mondragon Quintana
- Dr Hazel Nendick
- Dr Anthonia Onyeahialam
- Dr Karina Pavlisa
- Dr Jiyoung Shin
- Dr Xiaolong Shui
- Dr Annika Skoglund
- Dr Georgios Tsiachtsiras
- Professor Hinrich Voss
- Dr Tao Wang
- Dr Edwina Zhu
PhD students
Programmes
- BSc International Business Management - Our international business management degrees combine rigorous theory and real-world relevance with a strong international dimension.
- MSc International Business and Strategy: Global Challenges - The programme will equip students with a competitive advantage in the graduate jobs market by giving them the tools to deal with the new 'mega-forces' of globalisation driven by technological advancement, climate change, global health crises and geopolitical events.
- MSc Management - including the 8 different alternative pathways for this programme, MSc Management (CSR and Sustainability), MSc Management (Digitalisation and Big Data), MSc Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), MSc Management (International Business), MSc Management (International HRM), MSc Management (Marketing) and MSc Management (Project Management).
Latest publications
Dindial M & Voss H. 2024 Persistence of wicked problems in opaque global value chains Critical Perspectives on International Business 10.1108/cpoib-11-2023-0107
Buckley, P. J., Luise, C. & Voss, H. 2023 A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling” Journal of International Business Studies, vol 54, no 6 10.1057/s41267-022-00576-w
Swords, J. & Johns, J. L. 2023 Deepening precarity – the impact of COVID-19 on freelancers in the UK television industry Cultural Trends 10.1080/09548963.2023.2247375