Category: research

Two University of Kent academics, Dr Jaideep Oberoi from Kent Business School and Professor Miguel Léon-Ledesma from the School of Economics, are among the winners … Read more

In early 2017 BMI The Chaucer Hospital reached out to Kent Business School (KBS) in order to better understand staff and patient flows around the … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to announce that Dr Xuemei Bian, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, was invited to the US to discuss her research on … Read more

Kent Business School’s Lecturer in Employee Relations and Human Resource Management, Dr Samantha Evans was invited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) … Read more

Professor Salhi’s book aims to provide an overview of heuristic search in general, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to … Read more

Kent Business School’s Lecturer in Employee Relations and Human Resource Management, Dr Samantha Evans spoke on Channel Radio’s ‘People Platform’ show, presented by local HR … Read more

Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Dr Kazuo Yamada from the Nagasaki University in Japan. Dr Yamada is an Associate Professor at Nagasaki University … Read more

Kent Business School Senior Lecturer in Marketing has been appointed as a member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Global Challenges Research Fund … Read more

ESRC Research Methods Festival 2016 – Instrumental Innovation and Existential Angst It was as a surreptitious observer that I attended this biennial event hosted at … Read more

The broad focus of this conference is on collaboration and communication in science and technology, science policy, quantitative aspects of the ‘science of science’, and … Read more

Does the EU have more to worry about than the US…? The trouble with wasps The election of Donald Trump caused plenty of buzz on … Read more

KBS has announced a series of new research events, known as Kent Business School Debates. The launch event, which takes place in May 2017, will … Read more

Welcome to the next edition of a quarterly newsletter reporting on what’s going on with research at Kent Business School. 1. Research Round-up Research Manager, … Read more

The British Academy offers a portfolio of fellowships for Post-doctoral, Mid-career and Senior researchers. With no strategic priorities other than research excellence, it also takes … Read more

Are High Hedge Funds Costs Justified by their Returns? Commonly Unique When it comes to hedge funds, the common perception is that they constitute high-cost, … Read more

The relationship between CEO pay and company success continues to exercise politicians and shareholders alike. In finance, we know something about how bank performance influences … Read more

How should organisations design their innovation contests so that they win with online communities? The internet has opened up a tantalising opportunity for organisations to … Read more

We say plastic bags are for life, but they still end up hanging from trees By Pamela Yeow, University of Kent The European Parliament has … Read more

Government’s plastic bag plan has been shot full of holes By Pamela Yeow, University of Kent After months of deliberation and consultations, the UK government’s … Read more