Our research groups
The eight research groups within the department include approximately 95 senior researchers.
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Research groups
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Consumption, Culture & Commerce researches in consumption and markets from an approach that primarily uses qualitative and ethnographic methods. The group explores a wide range of fields in which consumption plays a central role, including symbolic consumption and branding; the marketisation of health, care and welfare; the consumption of digital services; the meanings of material culture; processes of globalisation; moral economy and the politicisation of markets
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The Centre for Integrative Innovation Management combines the social and engineering sciences in close collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering, based on the belief that product development requires management to drive growth and competitiveness. The group researches new methods for ensuring the success of innovative companies in emerging international markets and takes a multidisciplinary, practice-oriented approach, focusing on the entire innovation process – from idea to commercialisation and implementation.
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Finance covers both theoretical and empirical research through the application of advanced mathematical-statistical models grounded in microeconomics. The group’s primary research areas are: Asset pricing, asset allocation, capital structure and financial transactions.
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International Business & Entrepreneurship focuses on the dynamics of emerging markets and Industry 4.0, with a particular interest in SMEs. The group is globally oriented and aims to contribute to a better understanding of the internationalization potential of SMEs in areas such as new technologies, intercultural understanding and the integration of migrants.
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Management of People studies how management takes place in public and private organisations, and the group seeks both to contribute to theory development and to provide research-based advice to practitioners. It thus works reflexively and constructively to explore and propose new, sustainable ways of organising people’s working lives. For instance, in HR management, frontline management, employee relations and performance management.
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Strategic Organisation Design works with three main topics: 1) How micro-processes influence the macro-behaviour of organisations 2) How multi-level adaptation can enable success in dynamic environments. 3) Strategic organisation of learning and innovation in organisations that include different agents and levels.
There is currently little knowledge about how structured organisational design can help companies in practice. The group wants to fill this gap through theoretical and empirical work that will elucidate the relationship between organisational design and actual performance.
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The SCC Elite Center PACA: Mobilizing Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action: A New Root Narrative investigates and supports the emergence and activation of a positive root narrative. Through the study and consolidation of post-anthropocentric ontologies and behavior, the aim is to
- Map the social movements and communities where a post-anthropocentric narrative has moved to the front of their political and social agenda.
- Engage in a conceptual shift in social science that strives for consolidating an overarching general narrative that can assist the emergence of the new ecological class.
- Provide a systematic consolidated perspective on systemic intermediary strategies for promoting a foundational post-anthropocentric root narrative.
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