The key unifying factor is Data-Driven Innovation (DDI). The School is heavily involved in the DDI programme through its leadership of the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and our Director of Engagement (Owen Kelly) is also Deputy Director of EFI, ensuring alignment of engagement strategies.
Our long-standing expertise in credit research was instrumental to the University’s success in securing UK Strength in Places funding for the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence (GOFCoE), which aims to 'safely unlock the potential of customer data as a force to improve lives'.
Business School researchers have collaborated in DDI projects through the Bayes Centre, the University’s innovation centre for data science and artificial intelligence.
Our Research Mission and Strategy
The Business School's research mission is to produce theory-led, practically relevant research that addresses contemporary organisational and management challenges faced by businesses, public organisations, regulatory bodies, and policy-makers.
Our research strategy is focused on creating and sustaining a supportive, collaborative, and vibrant research culture through raising the quality and quantity of our research output and by developing and managing all faculty to achieve our goals.
Research Themes
Discover our key research themes, where staff from across six disciplinary subject groups work together to carry out research.
Discover Our ThemesOur Faculty
Meet our faculty and explore their research interests, publications, and ongoing projects.
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Our Centres and Networks bring together established and new researchers to develop and disseminate new knowledge.
Explore Our ResearchLatest Research News
Structural Estimation of Consumer Energy Consumption
Investigating Idiosyncratic Deals in the University Sector
Is Social Enterprise More Resilient During Covid-19?
Accessing Affordable Finance After COVID-19
Subject Groups
Practitioner engagement is a major emphasis of the Business School. In addition to dissemination in academic and practitioner journals, each research group runs a variety of activities directed at practitioners.
Our Subject Groups
Publications
Our faculty publish in a wide variety of journals and hold a number of editorships with respected academic periodicals, including Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting History Review.
Publications & Journals