Research at DCUBS

Research Interests

Management

The Management group carries out research in three broad areas: strategy and management, operations and processes, and information and knowledge.

We actively research in the following areas:

• Strategic and institutional leadership, industry evolution, and strategic renewal.
• Strategic interaction, inter-firm competition and game theory.
• Business processes and the supply chain.
• Public procurement and innovation in the procurement process.
• Crisis and emergency management, and business continuity management.
• Knowledge management and organisational social capital.
• Electronic commerce, online service quality, security and risk management.
• Technology adoption and strategic use of information systems.
• Procurement, Innovation and SME's
• Public Procurement
• Leading Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - enabled change with the Irish health services.
• Environmental sustainability and its relationship with modern supply chain operations.
• Trust and privacy management in a digital environment.
• Governance of boards of trustees.
• Corporate governance.
• Strategy for the semantic web.
• Ethics and IT.

We use a variety of research approaches including case studies, survey methods, mathematical modeling and simulation. We have a particular interest in the service, health and aviation sectors.

Management researchers who have supervised, or are currently available to supervise, postgraduate research projects include: Prof. Brian Leavy, Dr. Paul Davis, Dr. Malcolm Brady, Dr. Regina Connolly, Dr. John Loonam, Dr. Theo Lynn, Dr. Caroline McMullan, and Dr. PJ Byrne.