Research - Business
Research projects
Infowork
October 2012 to October 2015
Principal Investigator: Dr Maurizio Atzeni
Project Value: £230,000
Sponsor: European Commission, FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
Offshoring Attitudes and Relationships: A Qualitative Case Study of German-Indian and British-Indian Offshoring Collaborations
April 2012 to July 2013
Principal Investigator: Dr A Zimmermann
Co-Investigators: Dr R Mayasandra
Project Value: £6,624
Sponsor: The British Academy
Collaborating with Tsinghua University, China on Emergency Management
November 2011 to November 2012
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Project Value: $10,000
Sponsor: Marco Polo Exchange Scholarship Programme
CEO Compensation, sub-national institutions and firm internationalisation
October 2011 to October 2013
Principal Investigator: Professor Xiaohui Liu
Project Value: £43,729
Sponsor: The Leverhulme Trust
Embedding Systems Engineering at JLR
October 2011 to October 2012
Principal Investigator: Dr Donna Champion
Project Value: £35,935
Sponsor: Jaguar Land Rover
Leveraging beneficial levels of collaborative working in organisations: A study in managing group identities
August 2011 to July 2013
Principal Investigator: Dr Belinda Dewsnap
Project Value: £7,315
Sponsor:The British Academy
Performance management in shared service centres: relevance regained?
August 2011 to July 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Lin Fitzgerald
Co-Investigators: Ian Herbert, Dr Laurie McAulay, Dr Rhoda Brown, Ruth King
Project Value: £36,134
Sponsor: The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ General Charitable Trust Fund
Return migrants and international knowledge flows: China and the UK
June 2011 – May 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Xiaohui Liu
Project Value: £43,552
Sponsor: ESRC
Firm growth and shareholder wealth: why do firms that grow destroy shareholder wealth?
June 2011 – November 2012
Principal Investigator: Dr A Vivian
Co-Investigators: Dr G Saridakis
Project Value: £7,150
Sponsor: The British Academy
How, when and to whom should pharmaceutical innovations be promoted?
April 2011 – August 2011
Principal Investigator: Professor Philip Stern
Project Value: £4,601
Sponsor: Marketing Science Institute
Human Mobility and International Knowledge Flows: China and the UK
March 2011 – May 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Xiaohui Liu
Project Value: £7,480
Sponsor: The British Academy
Effectiveness of the board of directors on bank performance: Empirical analysis for Japanese banks
March 2011 – May 2012
Principal Investigator: Dr Katsu Shinozawa
Co-Investigators: Dr Amon Chizema
Project Value: £7,452
Sponsor: The British Academy
The Role of Unlearning in Healthcare Managers' Decision Making
January 2011 to June 2012
Principal Investigator: Dr Crispin Coombs
Co-Investigators: Dr Donald Hislop, Dr Julie Holland
Project Value: £161,028
Sponsor: National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery Organization (NIHR SDO)
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Alcohol Policy Modelling and Evaluation
November 2010 to October 2013
Principal Investigator: Dr Jonathan Seaton
Project Value: £10,794
Sponsor: Medical Research Council via University of Sheffield
Re-Framing Service Delivery, Professional Practices and Professional Identities in UK Careers Work
1st November 2010 to 31st October 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Laurie Cohen
Co-Investigators: Dr Donald Hislop, Dr Julie Holland
Project Value: £5,761
Sponsor: ESRC via The University of Warwick
Information Systems for Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events (System4Rescue)
September 2010 to December 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Project Value: £4,000
Sponsor: The Royal Society
Individual Career Management and the Role of Anchors For Management Accountants Within a Shared Service Centre Culture
September 2010 to August 2013
Principal Investigator: Ian Herbert
Project Value: £15,120 (extension of existing project - £35k total)
Sponsor: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Financial Crisis & Enterprise Activity in Britain Conference
September 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr George Saridakis
Project Value: £3,000
Sponsor: UK Industry, Commerce & Public Corps, Barclays Bank
Evaluation of Olympic Park Safety and Communications Initiatives
1st August 2010 to 31st July 2011
Principal Investigator: Dr Alistair Cheyne
Project Value: £55,442
Sponsor: IOSH
Macroeconomic Conditions and Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico
August 2010 to January 2011
Principal Investigator: Dr G Saridakis
Project Value: £750
Sponsor: Graduate School Santander Travel Awards
Export Decision-Making in a Turbulent Economy: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective
June 2010 to May 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Anne Souchon
Project Value: £7,499
Sponsor: The British Academy
Insider Trading and Corporate Asset Sell-Offs
June 2010 to August 2011
Principal Investigator: Dr A Ataullah
Project Value: £5,800
Sponsor: The British Academy
Developing an Intervention Toolbox for the Common Health Problems in the Workplace
Summer 2010 - Summer 2012
Principal Investigator: Professor Kevin Daniels
Co-Investigators: Nick Kendall, Kim Burton (both Kendall-Burton), Jenny Lunt and Nadine Mellor (Health and Safety Laboratories)
Project Value: £200,000
Sponsor: Health and Safety Laboratory, Buxton
Straight Talking: Tools and Resources to Support the Role of Non-Specialist Advice in Career Conversations for Researchers
Summer 2010 to Summer 2011
Principal Investigator: Professor John Arnold
Co-Investigators: Professor Laurie Cohen
Project Value: £40,000
Sponsor: CRAC: The Career Development Organization
Informational Empowerment - Cross-national Comparison of Internet Health Information Use and Patient Behaviour
March 2010 - December 2011
Principal Investigator: Professor Angus Laing
Project Value: £71,833
Sponsor: British Academy
The Nexus Between Securitisation and Bank Risk Taking
March 2010 to February 2011
Principal Investigator: Dr Alper Kara
Project Value: £5,200
Sponsor: The British Academy
Service Work Ethnographies: Creating a Database and Piloting a Coding Template
May 2010 to November 2010
Principal Investigator: Professor Marek Korczynski
Project Value: £7,000
strong>Sponsor: British Academy
Exploitation of model-based approaches for business exploitation
January 2010 to January 2013
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Project Value: £50,000
Sponsor: The University Development Funds
Scoping Study for Evaluation of Olympic Park Communication Initiatives
January 2010 to March 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr A Cheyne
Project Value: £6,500
Sponsor: Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Applying Principles of Safety in Design to Developing Safer Patient Systems
October 2009 to September 2010
Principal Investigator: Professor Kevin Daniels
Researchers: Nick Beesley
Project Value: £23,000
Sponsor: EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership
International Network of Technology Entrepreneurship Educators (TECnet)
October 2008 to September 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr Regina Frank
Co-Investigators: Grahame Boocock (UK); Pedro Vilarinho (P); Ted Baker, Roger Debo and Angus Kingon (USA)
Project Value: £105,044
Sponsor: EU-US Atlantis Programme
Secure Ad Hoc Fire and Emergency Safety Network (SafetyNet)
June 2006 to June 2010
Project Overview:
Secure Adhoc Fire & Emergency safety NETwork (SafetyNet) is a Technology Strategy Board funded project which provides a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) system for fire protection and emergency responses. The system developed by the research is intended to enable fire response teams to get real-time information on the location and nature of a hazard from the WSN before entering the building and integrate them with different information resources to support decision making.
Principal Investigator: Professor Shuanghua Yang (Loughborough University Department of Computer Science)
Co-Investigators: Dr Lili Yang and Dr Ian Philips (Loughborough University Department of Computer Science)
Project Value: £1.3million
Sponsor: DTI (now the Technology Strategy Board)
Collaborating Bodies: ARQIVA, Jennic, Sure Technology, and the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Services
The role of venture capital in the growth of Chinese high-tech new ventures
February 2008 to February 2009
Principal Investigator: Joy Zou
Sponsor: British Academy
Designing for innovation and safety: How can medical device designers do both?
1st February 2008 to 31st October 2009
Principal Investigator: Professor K. J. Daniels
Co-investigators: Dr D. Hislop, Professor L. Cohen and Dr A. J. T. Cheyne
Researchers: Nick Beesley, Dr Varuni Wimalasiri
Project Value: £256,155
To disclose or not to disclose: An account of German executive pay
Jan 2008 to December 2008
Project overview:
Some provisions of the German code of corporate governance have attracted substantial resistance, including the particularly interesting case of executive pay. This study seeks to answer the question: To what extent do German companies adopt and implement the code’s provisions or recommendations on board compensation? More importantly, given the salience of the German corporate institutional environment, particularly ownership structure and the power of employees (through the law of Co-determination), the study also seeks to understand the role of institutional actors e.g. employees, family ownership, etc in implementing and complying with the recommendations on the disclosure of individual executive pay.
Principal Investigator: Dr Amon Chizema
Sponsor: Nuffield Foundation
Multi-objective optimisation and trade-off analysis for large-scale systems architecture design - EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship
December 2007 to June 2011
Project overview:
This project aims to develop a stochastic approach that is potentially adaptable to assessing the effectiveness of a system/software design relative to its conflicting drivers such as safety, performance, maintainability etc. This approach can be applied to a range of distributed, real time large scale systems in BAE Systems, with tool support for more practical applications. Consideration will be given to how best to integrate the resulting approach and tool support into BAE Systems' process and design modelling environments/toolsets.
Principal Investigator: Dr LiliYang
Project Value: £85,000
Sponsor: BAE Systems/EPSRC
A Longitudinal Study of Allied Health Professionals' Career Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviour in a Changing Labour Market
1st September 2007 to 29th February 2008
Principal Investigator: Professor John Arnold
Co-Investigator 1: Dr Crispin Coombs
Co-Investigator 2: John Loan-Clarke
Sponsor: ESRC
Integrating Security Technologies and Organisational Culture for Employee Risk Assessment (ERA)
May 2007 to November 2007
Project Overview:
This project aims to develop a multiple-perspective framework and based on IT information management system will be developed for security risk assessment that simultaneously addresses three distinct perspectives.
Investigators: Dr Lili Yang, Professor Malcolm King, Professor Shuanghua Yang
Project Value: £135,000
Sponsor: DTI
Information Management in Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events
February 2007 to January 2008
Project Overview:
Responding to natural or man-made disasters in a timely and effectively manner can reduce deaths and injuries, prevent a secondary disaster, and reduce the resulting economic losses and social disruption. Developing an information management system integrating static and dynamic information for the first responders on site would be desirable at present. This research aims to investigate how to collect, retrieve, present, and disseminate the information before, during and after crises and unexpected events.
Principal Investigator: Dr Lili Yang
Project Value: £5,000
Sponsor: British Council
EPSRC and The University of Leicester NHS Trust, in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership
The Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a User-focused Clinical Trials Support System
April 2006 to April 2008
Project overview:
The primary aim of the project will be to provide the University of Leicester NHS Trust with a fully operational, web-based information system to support the effective conduct of their clinical trials.
strong>Researchers: Professor Ron Summers, Professor Neil Doherty, Dr Crispin Coombs, Dr Mark Hepworth and Sheila Price
Leverhulme Trust
National Culture in the “New” China: A Study of Joint Ventures in China
April 2006 to March 2008
Project overview:
Does national culture still matter in the “new” China? As privation and stock market capitalism presumably take a tighter hold, is Chinese national culture based on Confucianism likely to prevail? Or is national culture converging on American short-termism?
Researchers: Professor Trevor Buck, Dr Ursula Ott and Dr Xiaohui Liu
Leicestershire Economic Partnership
Working title: Daily learning and problem-solving in a sample of Leicestershire's small and medium sized enterprises
Project overview:
Grahame Boocock, Kevin Daniels and Julie Holland have been awarded £21,500 by the Leicestershire Economic Partnership to examine daily learning and problem-solving in a sample of Leicestershire's small and medium sized enterprises. Jane Glover will be working on the project with Grahame, Kevin and Julie. The project will examine how factors such as innovation climate, job design, teamworking and problem-solving behaviour relate to learning and mood in SMEs. The project will gather data on problem-solving behaviour and learning in real time using palm-top computers.
Researchers: Grahame Boocock, Kevin Daniels, Julie Holland and Jane Glover
EPSRC
Risk and the Design Engineer
Project overview:
Alistair Cheyne and Kevin Daniels have been awarded £209,000 by the EPSRC for a project entitled 'Risk and the Design Engineer'. Nick Beesley of AMEC will also be working on the project. The two year project will examine how individual and work-related factors contribute to decisions to adopt more or less risky design features in fabrications for hazardous industries.
Researchers: Alistair Cheyne, Kevin Daniels and Nick Beesley
The British Academy
Returning Chinese Entrepreneurs and Their Role in Technology Transfer
April 2005 to April 2008
Project overview:
This project will investigate the role of returning overseas Chinese in technology transfer and internationalisation. The project employs a combined analytical framework, namely both resource-based view and social network to examine whether trans-national Chinese entrepreneurs have gained unique comparative advantages over local entrepreneurs. In particular, the researchers are interested in how global networks affect returnees’ firms in terms of innovative characters, financial sources and business opportunities. The analytical strategy will treat the impact of these networks on the formation of returning entrepreneurs as an empirical question to be investigated by formalising hypotheses.
Researchers: Professor Trevor Buck, Dr Xiaohui and Professor Mike Wright (University of Nottingham)
ESRC Project
Executive Pay: Share Options and Long-term Incentive Plans
2003 to 2007
Project overview:
This study aims to identify the reward and incentive effects of executive pay packages for each executive director in the 350 biggest UK companies. It will address the question of whether "fat cats" earn their rewards in terms of improved company performance.
Researchers: Professor Trevor Buck and Rodion Skovoroda
