Research

Rated a 5*A institution in the recent RAE exercise, London Business School is widely acknowledged as a centre for outstanding research. The Strategic and International Management faculty is concerned with how organisations can create and sustain superior competitive performance. The group provides an integrative perspective on strategic and international management by combining the use of strategy tools and frameworks with an understanding of the process of strategy making and the working of general management.  The broad focus of SIM's research is on issues of internal organisation and behaviour in firms, and their impact on firm strategy, with an underlying interest in the role of managerial agency in shaping action and change in the firm. 

Specific topics of interest include:

• Innovation and entrepreneurship within the large firm
• The theory of the firm and corporate scope
• Technological change and its impact on firm strategy and industry structure
• Management of the multinational corporation
• Behavioural and cognitive foundations of strategy
• Organisational learning
• The impact of informal and formal structures on firm performance

SIM faculty have been involved with the Advanced Institute for Management, a national initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research Council which works to improve management research and practice in the United Kingdom.  Faculty from SIM have recently established the Management Innovation Lab (MLab), a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world-renowned management scholars work together to co-create tomorrow's best practices today. SIM also runs a strong PhD programme to train the next generation of strategy researchers. 

Full details of SIM Faculty publications, working papers and case studies are listed in the School's research database.