International
Business programme:
MSc and Postgraduate Diploma
Academic
leadership : Royal Holloway
Founded in
1886, Royal Holloway is the third largest multidisciplinary
College in the University of London and home to the renowned
School of Management . The School is accredited by AMBA;
this award is an indication and hallmark of quality, as
judged by academic peers.
Now one of the
largest departments in the College, the School of Management
is a leading research organisation in the field of international
business and the in-depth understanding of this complex subject
is reflected in the quality of teaching there. All management
studies staff are active researchers whose published work forms
a major part of their professional careers. The school continues
to develop a wide range of business links from within both the
private and public sectors. This enables the University to bring
a wealth of real life experience to your programme.
Some of the links
they have include:
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Corporate services: J.P. Morgan, Mellon Financial
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Airlines: BMI and EasyJet
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Consultancy: Reed
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The
British National Health Service (NHS)
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The
British Police Force
Our
academic staff include:
Dr G. Harindranath
Dr Harindranath is Director of MBA and MSc programmes for
External students and a Senior Lecturer in Information
Systems at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hari holds
a doctorate from the London School of Economics and
Political Science. His research interests include
information and communications technology use in SMEs,
information infrastructure policy and e-government
initiatives in transition economies, and ICT and economic
development. Hari is an Associate Editor of the Journal
of Global Information Management, and serves on the
editorial board of the International Journal of
Knowledge Management. He has published in a range of
international journals including Decision Support
Systems, European Journal of Information Systems,
Human Relations, The Information Society,
and Information Technology for Development. Hari
regularly serves on the programme committees of a range of
major conferences in information systems. He has undertaken
consultancy work for the United National Industrial
Development Organisation and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Dr Isabella Chaney
Dr Chaney has been lecturing in Marketing at Royal Holloway
since 1995. Prior to this she lectured at Massey University
in New Zealand. She is responsible for the course on
'International marketing' and contributes to the teaching of
the 'Business research methods' course. She also supervises
several students’ dissertations both at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. Her research interests include the
marketing of wine, the internationalisation of companies,
Chinese perceptions of retail outlets, and product placement
in online games. She has published several articles and
presented conference papers on these topics.
Dr Derrick Chong
Derrick Chong, a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Royal
Holloway, University of London, is interested in the various
relationships between management and the arts. This is
based, in part, on his academic studies in business
administration (BComm, Toronto; MBA, McGill) and art history
(MA, York, Canada). Aspects of his PhD (London), a
comparative analysis of art museums in the USA, Canada, and
the UK, appeared in Arts Management (Routledge
2002). Publication vehicles include the International
Journal of Arts Management, Journal of Nonprofit
and Public Sector Marketing, International Journal
of Cultural Property, Museum Management and
Curatorship, and Journal of Arts Management, Law,
and Society. Consultancy work with Sotheby’s Institute
of Art-London is linked to research, including chapters in
books on international art markets and art business. Chong’s
teaching focuses on marketing, but has included postgraduate
courses on general management and North American business.
Ever cognizant of the English class system, he continues
voice classes to cultivate an authorial mid-Atlantic accent.
Chong has been a staff member at Royal Holloway since 1992.
He continues to travel between London and Toronto with a
Canadian passport.
Dr Jos Gamble
Dr Gamble is a Reader in Asia Pacific Business at Royal
Holloway's School of Management. He joined the School in
September 1998. Jos graduated from Oxford Brookes University
in 1987 with a first class BA degree in Anthropology and
History. He then undertook a one-year intensive course in
Modern Chinese at Thames Valley University. Between 1988 and
1990 he studied Chinese language and literature at Fudan
University in Shanghai, before returning to London to take
an MA in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and
African Studies. He continued at SOAS to study for a DPhil
in Social Anthropology. This involved over 17 months
research based in Shanghai. Recent publications include
Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social
Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (RoutledgeCurzon,
London 2003). Jos is currently Principal Investigator on a
three-year ESRC/AHRB funded project, ‘Multinational
Retailers in the Asia Pacific’.
Dr Gül Berna Özcan
Dr Özcan is Senior Lecturer in European Business and
Corporate Governance. She earned her MSc in City and
Regional Planning from the Middle East Technical University
in Turkey. She later received her PhD from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. Dr Özcan is the
recipient of several prestigious awards including the
McNamara Fellowship of the World Bank and the Leverhulme
Trust Research Fellowship. Her research interests include:
small and medium-sized businesses, local economic
development, entrepreneurship, corporate governance,
enterprise development in Central Asia, retail
modernisation.
Dr Alan Pilkington
Dr Pilkington is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and
Technology Management at the School of Management. He holds
a degree in engineering, a PhD in manufacturing strategy and
spent six years working for a UK automobile producer.
Current research includes developing patent analysis
techniques to explore inventor and technology networks;
analysing bibliometric data to define emerging research
streams; and the adoption of process improvement
methodologies for strategic advantage. He is Chair of the
IEEE Engineering Management Society UKRI Chapter and also a
member of the European Operations Management Association,
Academy of Management and POMS. He has dozens of
publications including articles in the California
Management Review, Technovation, and
International Journal of Operations and Production
Management. His most recent book is Transforming
Rover: Renewal Against the Odds, 1981-1994.
Dr Bill Ryan
Dr Ryan is Lecturer in Accounting at the School of
Management, where he is also Deputy Director of the Distance
Learning MBA programme. He also teaches on external company
training programmes including Mellon Financial Corporation.
Before entering academic life, he held a number of senior
management positions in Accounting and Change Management in
companies such as Chrysler and the 3M Corporation. His
research is in the general area of Management Control and
spans Accounting and Business Strategy. Research interests
are primarily in the area of management control systems and
performance management. The focus is on management control
and the contribution ability of individuals in change
environments including changing systems of control. Teaching
qualification: 2004, Member Higher Education Academy (ILT
membership).
Professor Chris Smith
Professor of Organisational Studies at the School of
Management, Chris Smith was previously at the University of
Aston and has held visiting positions at the University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, University of
Sydney, University of Wollongong and Griffith University.
His main research interests are in the sociology of
professions, labour process theory, and the comparative
analysis of work. He has published 10 books and many journal
articles and conference papers. Some of his books include:
Technical Workers (1987); Reshaping Work: The
Cadbury Experience (1990) with John Child and Michael
Rowlinson; Global Japanization? (1994) (ed) with
Tony Elger; Engineering Labour (1996) with Peter
Meiksins; and Assembling Work: The Remaking Factory
Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain (2005)
with Tony Elger. He is currently co-editing books on
Creative Labour and Comparative Management.
Professor David Faulkner
Professor Faulkner is an Oxford-educated economist by
background, who has spent much of his early career as a
strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Co and
Arthur D. Little. David is currently Professor of Strategy
at Royal Holloway, University of London and Director of the
on-campus MBA programme in International Management. He is
also Visiting Professor at the Open University. On moving
into academic life in 1989, he became a lecturer in the
Strategy Group in the Cranfield School of Management, and
gained a Doctorate from Oxford University (DPhil),
researching into conditions for success in International
Strategic Alliances. He is a former Deputy Director
(undergraduate courses) and Deputy Director (MBA) of the
Said Business School, Oxford University. His specialist
research area is strategy, in particular international
cooperative strategy and mergers and acquisitions, on which
subjects he has written and edited a number of books
including The Oxford Handbook of Strategy (OUP).
Dr Catherine Liston-Heyes
Dr Liston-Heyes is a Reader in Business Economics. She
received a PhD in Economics from McGill University in 1992.
She subsequently joined Université Laval (Québec, Canada)
and moved to Royal Holloway's School of Management a year
later. The bulk of her work examines relationships between
regulators and firms from an economic perspective. Her more
recent publications focus more explicitly on issues
pertaining to environmental regulation, and on the
relationship between corporate social responsibility and
governments. She has published in a number of international
academic journals including the Journal of Public
Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, Public Choice, the Journal
of Regulatory Economics and the Journal of Consumer
Policy. She is an experienced teacher in the areas of
quantitative methods, business economics and
micro/managerial economics. She has taught both at
undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. She currently
lives in Surrey with her husband and two children.
