Stirling, University of, PhD, Management

Research is organised into 3 main groups: Organisational analysis; human resource management; public sector management; entrepreneurship; department has internationally recognised research strengths and supervision available in: knowledge management; public sector healthcare systems, analysis and redesign; performance management in local government; social identity; organising trade unions; entrepreneurial processes and their links to business and economic development; service quality; strategic information management; project management; operations management; current research projects include: Lifting the barriers to growth in UK small businesses; knowledge transfer partnership with NHS Fife to implement a range of computer modelling techniques to support the redesign of health care services; iDTV Research: review of interactive digital television; ESRC project on management consultancy; the problems of work-life balance within the contemporary workplace; knowledge transfer partnership (with Queen Margaret University College) with NHS Lanarkshire to redesign care of the elderly for acute hospital patients; an evaluation of the joint improvement team; DTI Small Business Service.