Supervisors and topics
Learn about our supervisors and what topics are available for your postgraduate study.
Associate Professor Maureen Benson-Rea
- Business networks
- Pathways and processes of SME internationalisation
- International business strategy
- Business models
Professor Peter Boxall
- Strategic human resource management
- Work and employee wellbeing
Dr Brent Burmester
- International business and human rights
- Modern slavery
- Corporate political strategy and diplomacy
- FDI motivation
- Foreign disinvestment and relocation
Dr Lisa Callagher
- Innovation management practices
- Local, regional and national innovation systems
- Practice-based theories of learning and knowing on knowledge-based organisations
- Practice-based view of innovation and organisation
Professor Brigid Carroll
- Critical approaches to leadership
- Leadership identity and practice
- Narrative and discourse theory and methods
- Power, resistance and struggle
Professor Prithviraj Chattopadhyay
- Demographic diversity
- Social identification
- Work externalisation
- Managerial cognition and emotions
Professor Gordon Cheung
- Structural equation modeling
- Measurement equivalence/invariance
- Mediation
- Moderation and moderated mediation
- Quantitative research methods
- Work engagement
Associate Professor Liliana Erakovic
- Corporate governance, boards of directors
- Governance in not-for-profit organisations
- Organisational change
- Qualitative research methods
Dr Benjamin Fath
- Entrepreneurship and new market creation
- Micro-foundations of strategy
- Innovation, internationalisation and growth of SMEs
- Data driven business model innovation
- Competing in Asia
Dr Antje Fiedler
- International business partnerships
- SME internationalisation and growth
- Knowledge transfer and employee voice in the MNC
- Entrepreneurship
Professor Susan Geertshuis
- Adult and corporate learning
- Academic development
- Student wellbeing
- Employability
- Educational innovation
Professor Elizabeth George
- New forms of work
- Non-standard work arrangements
- Diversity
- Micro-foundations of institutions
Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart
- Business-government relations
- Finance and money in Southeast Asia
- International business networks
- International relations
Professor Nigel Haworth
- Asian and Latin American area studies
- International human resource development
- Regional development policies
Associate Professor Carla Houkamau
- Identity in organisations
- Māori identity
- Intergroup relations
- Māori values in business
- Implicit bias in organisations
- Racism and discrimination
Professor Kenneth Husted
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Knowledge management
- Management of research and development
- Research management
Dr Tyron Love
- Institutional theory
- Narrative theory and methods
- Indigenous organisation research
- Organisation studies
Dr Billie Lythberg
- Entrepreneurship and innovation in GLAM sector
- Cross-disciplinary work with Indigenous, Māori and Pasifika business activity
- Organisational research drawing on an anthropological lens
- Ethnography and fieldwork
Professor Rod McNaughton
- International entrepreneurship
- International new ventures
- Exporting
- Networks
- University-based entrepreneurship and commercialisation
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Entrepreneurship and health
Professor Snejina Michailova
- International management
- Knowledge governance
- Knowledge flows in multinational corporations
- Organisational behaviour issues in multinational corporations
- Modern slavery
- Knowledge sharing in organisations between organisations and across cultures, expatriation and repatriation
- Western businesses in Russia
- Emerging economies
- Methodological issues: contextualisation
- Fieldwork (access to and exit from)
Professor Stefano Pascucci
- Circular economy/circular business models
- Sustainability transitions
- Responsible innovation/entrepreneurship
- Community-based entrepreneurship
- Circular food systems and regenerative agriculture
- Multi-stakeholder initiatives for sustainable development
Dr Barbara Plester
- Humour in the workplace
- Fun at work
- Organisational behaviour and misbehaviour
- Organisational culture
- Technological behaviour (including social media effects)
- Food and drink in business situations
- Workplace engagement
Dr Deborah Shepherd
- Change management
- Family business
- Leadership
- Management and organisational development
Dr Peter Smith
- Strategising in professional service firms
- Strategy in high-technology firms
- Practice-based views of strategy and learning
- Management education
Associate Professor Christina Stringer
- Agri-food and forestry
- Asian development processes
- Fisheries
- Modern slavery
- Trade and investment linkages
Dr Janine Swail
- Women's entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship finance
- Entrepreneurial process: start-up to exit
- Entertainment: the media and entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial legitimacy
- Or a combination of the above
Dr Rachel Wolfgramm
- New trends in lifestyle consumption and sustainability
- New patterns of sustainable consumption
- Sustainability leadership
- Commodification of romance, artefacts, symbols and visions of recovery
Dr Christine Woods
- Entrepreneurship
- Māori entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Family business
- Small to medium enterprises
Dr Joseph Yan
- Strategy
- International business
- Organisational institutionalism
- Theory development
Dr Peter Zámborský
- Effects of FDI (foreign direct investment and industrial productivity)
- Global strategy (performance of foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures)
- Industrial clusters (emergence of transnational clusters)
- New EU countries (international labour mobility, plant location strategy)
- Organisational capabilities and international innovation strategy