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"We are delighted with our REF 2021 outcome.
The overall position for the Unit indicates that relative to REF 2014 there has been an increase in the overall quality score from 2.9* to 3.2*, with 90% of our research judged to be internationally excellent or world-leading, placing us in the top 20 out of over 100 Business Schools.
This is a fantastic result given that we had an increase in the number of staff submitted by over 50% and was a great team effort, involving much hard work from our staff within the Unit of Assessment as well as professional services particularly from Research and Impact."
How we did
Overall
An outstanding 90% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent.
Research Impact
100% of our impact case studies have been judged as having outstanding or very considerable impacts in terms of their reach and significance.
Environment
87.5% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability.
Research Outputs
86% of our research outputs have been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Research Director
Unit of Assessment Coordinator
People Involved
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Our Team
Name Role Ballantine, J Professor Professor of Accounting Beamish, P Professor Professor of Management Birnie, E Dr Senior Economist (Economic Research) Bonner, K Dr Senior Economist Boyd, S Professor Professor of Tourism Brennan, M Dr Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management Brown, S Professor Professor of Marketing Research Cadden, T Dr Senior Lecturer in Operations Management Carey, M Professor Professor of Management Cotte, J Professor Professor of Management Fang, Y Professor Professor of Management Furey, S Dr Senior Lecturer in Consumer Management and Food Innovation Gallagher, Emer Lecturer Henderson, S Dr Lecturer in Financial Services Hollywood, L Dr Manager, Food and Drink Business Development Centre Humphreys, P Professor Associate Dean (Research and Impact) Hutchinson, K Professor Professor Ibbotson, P Dr Senior Lecturer in E-Commerce Joseph-Richard, P Dr Lecturer in Human Resource Management Loane, S Dr Senior Lecturer in International Business McAdam, R Professor Professor of Innovation Management McCartan, A Dr Senior Lecturer Communication & Advertising McCracken, M Professor Research Director - Business & Management McGowan, P Professor Professor of Entrepreneurship & Business Development McHugh, M Professor Professor of Organisational Behaviour McIvor, R Professor Professor of Operations Management McKittrick, A Dr Senior Lecturer in Operations Management Miller, K Dr Reader Moffett, S Professor Head of Department Power, S Dr Lecturer in Hospitality Management Quinn, B Professor Professor of Retail Marketing Ramsey, E Professor Professor of Business Innovation Simmons, G Professor Professor in Consumer Behaviour and Insight Tong, Z Dr Lecturer in Financial Services Wall, A Mr Senior Lecturer in Accounting Ward, AM Professor Professor of Accounting Wiengarten, Frank Professor of Management Woods, J Dr Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour Wu, Wei-Ping Yeung Yeung, Andy Professor of Management
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"I would particularly like to thank our UoA members, who supplied high quality outputs and Impact Case studies as part of our REF 2021 submission.
The fact that 86% of our Outputs were judged as world-leading and internationally excellent ( 3/4* levels) and 100% of our Impact Case studies were judged as being internationally excellent or world-leading illustrates the quality of researchers we have in UUB"
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
Research Outputs
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- A multi-theory approach to understanding the business process outsourcing decision
- A phenomenographic study of research informed teaching through the eyes of Masters’ students
- A rewarding experience? Exploring how crowdfunding is affecting music industry business models
- A systematic literature review of university technology transfer from a quadruple helix perspective: towards a research agenda
- An Embodied Approach to Consumer Experiences: The Hollister Brandscape
- An exploration of business model development in the commercialization of technology innovations
- Banking for the common good: A Lonerganian perspective
- Boundary spanning as identity work in university business engagement roles
- Branding strategies for high technology products: The effects of consumer and product innovativeness
- Can Future Managers and Business Executives be Influenced to Behave more Ethically in the Workplace? The Impact of Approaches to Learning on Business Students’ Cheating Behavior
- Chinese authorial identity: a model for scoring the Student Authorship Questionnaire
- Consistency and Inconsistency Between the Fundamental Relationships on Which Different Traffic Assignment Models Are Based
- Corporate environmental initiatives in the Chinese context: Performance implications and contextual factors
- Determining the presence of a long-term/short-term dilemma for SMEs when adopting strategic orientation to improve performance
- Developing a student-doctoral education fit analytical model to assess performance
- Deviations from aspirational target levels and environmental and safety performance:Implications for operations managers acting irresponsibly
- 'Don't forget to like, share and subscribe': Digital autopreneurs in a neoliberal world
- Enhancing NDPB accountability: improving relationships with upward and downward stakeholders
- Enhancing the Financial Returns of R&D Investments through Operations Management
- Epic Aspects of Retail Encounters: The Iliad of Hollister
- Examining networked NGO services: reconceptualising value co-creation
- Extending travel-time based models for dynamic network loading and assignment, to achieve adherence to first-in-first-out and link capacities
- Figuratively Speaking: Of Metaphor, Simile and Metonymy in Marketing Thought
- Financial Management Effectiveness and Board Gender Diversity in Member-Governed, Community Financial Institutions
- Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance
- How do rapidly internationalizing SMEs learn? Exploring the link between network relationships, learning approaches and post-entry growth of rapidly Internationalizing SMEs from Emerging Markets
- How Doctors Gain Social and Economic Returns in Online Health-Care Communities: A Professional Capital Perspective
- How does regional institutional complexity affect MNE internationalization?
- How does uncertainty affect workplace accidents? Exploring the role of information sharing in manufacturing networks
- Human Resource Business Partner Lifecycle Model: Exploring how the relationship between HRBPs and their line manager partners evolves
- Implementing first-in–first-out in the cell transmission model for networks
- Innovation networks and the institutional actor-producer relationship in rural areas: The context of artisan food production
- LABOR UNIONS AND CORPORATE CASH HOLDINGS: EVIDENCE FROM INTERNATIONAL DATA
- Leveraging channel management capability for knowledge transfer in international joint ventures in an emerging market: A moderated mediation model
- Low versus high intensity approaches to interpretative tourism planning: the case of the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
- Loyalty card adoption in SME retailers: the impact upon marketing management
- Maintaining stability while boosting growth? The long-term impact of environmental accreditations on firms’ financial risk and sales growth
- Making the business process outsourcing decision: why distance matters
- Managerial time horizons and the decision to put operational workers at risk: the role of debt
- Multinational enterprise regional management centres: Characteristics and performance
- Network Centrality and Open Innovation: A Social Network Analysis of an SME Manufacturing Cluster
- Northern Ireland’s property market crisis: insights from Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis
- Object Valuation and Non-Ownership Possession: How Renting and Borrowing Impact Willingness-to-pay
- Offshoring Innovation to Emerging Markets: Organizational Control and Informal Institutional Distance
- OHSAS 18001 certification and operating performance: The role of complexity and coupling
- Only the brave: Product Innovation, Service Business Model Innovation, and their Impact on Performance.
- Religion and development in post-Famine Ireland
- Reviewing Experts’ Restraint from Extremes and its Impact on Service Providers
- Risk Types and Coping Mechanisms for Ethical Tourism Entrepreneurs: A New Conceptual Framework
- Role Hazard between supply chain partners in an institutionally fragmented market
- Self-interest or the greater good: How political and rational dynamics influence the outsourcing process
- Should the fiscal powers of the Northern Ireland Assembly be enhanced?
- Stakeholder management in SME open innovation: interdependences and strategic actions
- Supporting community cohesion through ICT: The epartners programme in Northern Ireland
- Systems Dynamics Modeling for Information Systems Research - Theory Development and Practical Applications
- The cell transmission model with free-flow speeds varying over time or space
- The changing university business model: a stakeholder perspective
- The contribution of networking to small firm marketing
- The differing impacts of operational and financial slack on occupational safety in varying market conditions
- The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision : A Financial, Social and Cultural Perspective
- The effect of buyers’ socialization efforts on the culture of their key strategic supplier and its impact on supplier operational performance
- The effects of pollution prevention on performance
- The Impact of Corporate Label Change on Long-term Labor Productivity
- The impact of firms’ social media initiatives on operational efficiency and innovativeness
- The Impact of Institutional Distance on the Joint Performance of Collaborating Firms: The Role of Adaptive Interorganizational Systems
- The Influence of Social and Human Capital inDeveloping Young Women as EntrepreneurialBusiness Leaders
- The link between information processing capability and competitive advantage mediated through decision-making effectiveness
- The nature of ethical entrepreneurship in tourism
- The origins of the (cooperative) species: Raiffeisen banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909
- The relationship between investments in lean practices and operational performance: exploring the moderating effects of operational intellectual capital
- The role of performance measurement models in multi level alignment
- The role of structural assurance on previous satisfaction, trust and continuance intention: The case of online betting
- The Scaffolding Activities of International Returnee Executives: A Learning Based Perspective of Global Boundary Spanning
- The spatial structure of foreign subsidiaries and MNE expansion strategy
- The Tension Between Worker Safety and Organization Survival
- Towards a Contingency Theory perspective of Quality Management in Enabling Strategic Alignment
- Towards a post-conflict tourism recovery framework
- Trust Formation in Agri-Food Institutional Support Networks
- Uncovering the link between governance as an innovation process and socio-economic regime transition in cities
- Understanding employee innovative behavior: Integrating the social network and leader–member exchange perspectives
- Understanding Quadruple Helix relationships of university technology commercialisation: a micro-level approach
- University business models in disequilibrium – engaging industry and end users within university technology transfer processes
- Up Rising: Rehabilitating J.G. Ballard's High-Rise with R.D. Laing and Lauren Berlant
- USO imprinting and market entry timing: Exploring the influence of university ecosystems
