You are here:

Business and Management

The international quality of the research carried out through the Surrey Business School and the Department of Health Care Management and Policy is reflected in the findings of the last Research Assessment Exercise, our accreditations from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and AMBA (Association of MBAs), and our extremely close links with the NHS and other providers of healthcare.

Research Environment

Our academic staff have international reputations for research that shapes agendas of scholarship and practice. We support a large and internationally diverse community of doctoral students who we see as important collaborators in this venture. We are committed to helping you build a sound grounding in research methods and methodology.

We provide office space, PCs, access to major business databases and a wide range of online research tools and resources. As a research student, you will be a member of a subject/research group and participate in the activities of our academic staff. You can also get involved with the University’s own postgraduate research conferences as an organiser, speaker or both.

Key Research Areas

  • Finance and accounting
  • Strategy and international management
  • Marketing and retail management
  • People and organisations
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Healthcare management
  • Clinical informatics
  • Policy and change

Research centres and groups

Finance and accounting

The Finance and Accounting Group conducts research into Banking, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Credit Risk, Bond Contracting, IPOs, Emerging Capital Markets International Accounting Issues, Foreign Direct Investment and Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Strategy and international management

This group has two key foci: Internationalization and strategic and organisational change processes, both in domestic and internationally operating firms (including the Business Clusters, Networks & Economic Development (BCNED) group and the Centre for Trust Research); Management processes and operations, with a focus on international supply-chain analysis and strategic management information and business analytics.

http://somwp.som.surrey.ac.uk/ctr

Marketing and retail management

The Marketing and Retail Management Group conducts research into strategic and operational management, planning and policy issues relating to marketing, retailing and consumption. It is also actively involved with industry and practitioners via a number of links which include consultancy projects, executive classes, speaking at industry conferences and events and supplying media commentary. The Group offers programmes at Undergraduate and Masters level as well as supervising PhD and DBA doctoral students in a range of Marketing and Retail areas.

People and Organisations

The People and Organisations group conducts highly-regarded research into a wide range of contemporary issues. We teach organisational behaviour, human resource management, research methods, and other subjects; and we are actively involved with practice through research and consultancy projects, speaking at industry conferences and events, and delivering continuing professional development

Entrepreneurship and innovation

This group is developing the Schools research agenda into the nature and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. It defines entrepreneurship broadly to include activities that involve creative and novel responses to existing problems and the creation of new opportunities whether this takes the form of independent business formation, intrapreneurship or social entrepreneurship.

Career Development

Many of our students continue with academic careers, while others join government, healthcare providers and research or other private-sector organisations from around the world.

Examples of career progression achieved by our students after earning their postgraduate qualification with us:

  • Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Surrey Business School
  • Independent Researcher and Consultant
  • Lecturer in Finance, CASS Business School

Everyone was very kind and my lecturers and the other staff were so friendly, it was just like a family.

Wosilat Aliyu
MSc Human Resource Management

I started my working life back home in Nigeria at a bank in Lagos after taking a degree in accountancy. But my job changed and I found myself in human resources. I realised I needed to get the right qualifi cations and discovered Surrey was a good place to take a Masters in Human Resource Management. 

It was a very intensive course with much to learn. Employment law, for example, is complex and very different to the systems in Africa. My dissertation considered if companies regard human resources as important and whether HR professionals are involved in top-level decision-making. 

Everyone was very kind and my lecturers and the other staff were so friendly, it was just like a family. I enjoyed meeting students from other cultures and discovered it was good to fi nd out how businesses operate in other countries.

During my Masters, I stayed on campus and got involved in university life. I joined the gym and I think the nightlife is great as well! I did a reasonable amount of travelling, including a trip to Paris!