Author: ja58

Despite a much evidence on the potential role of senior management in the success of corporate social responsibility initiatives in Western-dominated organizational contexts, little attempt … Read more

This paper by a research team including Professor John Mingers of Kent Business School argues that semiotics, the theory of signs and symbols, is at … Read more

Social capital theorists have established decades ago that better connected people do better in life. The emergence of online social networking sites have given a … Read more

The World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat have launched new publication that explores how tourism can facilitate growth, create jobs and improve livelihoods in small island … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Dr Habip Kocak for a one year visit from September 2013 to August 2014.  Dr Hocack is an Associate … Read more

Dr Mark Hampton’s recently published research mongraph, Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development: Perspectives from the Less Developed World (Routledge 2013) has been described as an ‘impressive, … Read more

Congratulations to KBS PhD student, Sarah Tetley, who won the prize for the best social science poster at the University of Kent’s Postgraduate Research Festival … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Prof. Zhengde Xiong of the College of Business Administration, Hunan University, China from June to November 2013.  Prof. Xiong will … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Prof. Zhengde Xiong of the College of Business Administration, Hunan University, China.  Prof. Xiong will visit from June to … Read more

The Leiden methodology (LM), also sometimes called the “crown indicator”, is a quantitative method for evaluating the research quality of a research group or academic … Read more

Kent Business School’s Anglo-Chinese Business and Management Centre has joined forces with the Royal Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a workshop on Sciennce … Read more

The Management Science Group is offering two three-year PhD studentships on Operational Research/Practical Optimisation projects with Prof. Said Salhi or Dr Jesse O’Hanley. You can … Read more

Mark Hampton and Julia Jeyacheya of CENTICA gave a presentation at an FCO debate on sustainable economic growth on small island states at Wilton Park … Read more

Prof. Radu Tunaru will speak at the SUERF/Nykredit Conference in Copehhagen on Wednesday 14 November 2012 as part of a session on mortgage lending. For … Read more

Prof. Carol Alexander will lead a University Finance Seminar on A General Decision-Tree Approach to Real Option Valuation on Tuesday 13 June in the KBS Symposium … Read more

New research by Professor Radu Tunaru and collaborators proposes a new pricing  framework for real estate derivatives.  The findings are published in European Financial Management … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to host ‘Democratising Diversity Management in Europe – Future research directions and challenges’ on Monday 12 November 2012. This workshop … Read more

New research on rail privatisation by Dr Robert Jupe argues that the performance of the UK rail network would have been better had rail remained … Read more

Newly-published research by Dr Robert Jupe discusses the role of risk transfer in the failed privatisation of the UK’s eight nuclear power stations. Hist findings … Read more

Professor Peter Bird passed away in post as Head of Accounting and Finance at the University of Kent in 1987 and this fund was established … Read more