Sources of research funding
Our cutting-edge research keeps us at the forefront of business and management knowledge and so benefits all other aspects of our work - undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, executive development and work with local and regional industry and commerce. We fund research by cross-subsidy from other areas of our work, and surpluses from our overseas collaborative activity. We also receive, or have recently received, research funding from organisations including:
- Bradford Chamber of Commerce
- British Academy - for an investigation of the lessons from Icelandic indexed-bond markets
- CIMA - for the role of the accountant in the design process
- Department for International Development - for work on foreign direct investment and poverty reduction in Association of South-East Asian Nations countries
- EPSRC
- ESRC
- European Union
- Game Republic
- Getrag-Ford - for showing the use of an intranet to map an organisation's processes as a form of knowledge-management system to improve competitiveness
- HEFCE
- ICAS - for an examination of intellectual capital disclosure and the cost of capital
- Japan Foundation - for conducting fieldwork on corporate social responsibility practices in Japan
- Japanese Government - for comparing the way in which employment institutions shape labour markets and strategies for human resource management
- Kitagawa (Europe) Ltd
- National Health Service - towards critical, post-structuralist research into management in organisations through the stories managers tell and biographical accounts of their lives
- New Economics Foundation - for the financial concerns of women-led mico-enterprises
- Pilkington plc
- SCA Packaging - towards developing a practical method for developing a process-based knowledge-management system to support continuous improvement and asset management
- UK Trade and Investment - for an analysis of international business-education research
- World Intellectual Property Organisation - for developing a system for benchmarking intellectual-property systems
- Yorkshire Forward