About us
Aims
The centre aims to foster a better understanding of the evolution of business and institutions drawing on an eclectic approach, both in terms of research topics and methodologies used. Researchers with diverse theoretical backgrounds, from different fields of management work together to research a group of topics on the evolution of global business and institutions.
The CEGBI aims to widen the research agenda in the field of business and management studies in both the United Kingdom and globally, and also support business and policy making improving performance. It is involved in a wide range of activities, attracting leading scholars from different parts of the world, creating networks for collaboration, disseminating knowledge through conferences, workshops, seminars, and publications, and also through teaching outstanding students in both undergraduate, postgraduate programmes.
Type of Research
CEGBI combines the following key characteristics:
- it looks at the evolution of business as well as other institutions (both formal and informal)
- it has a commitment to comparative and international analysis
- it offers a broad range of theoretical viewpoints essentially from organization and management studies, but also from other fields such as economics, history, political science and organizational sociology
- it draws on a multitude of sources, ranging from corporate and institutional archives and oral history projects, and also to secondary sources, such as company and institutions of histories
- it researches real-life business strategies of firms and other institutions, and also the behaviour of entrepreneurs over time and across borders
- it has a commitment to high standards of research. Theory is confronted with facts, and relevant facts are selected using insights from different theoretical backgrounds
Areas of Interest
The CEGBI combines interests of a group of people: staff at York Management School; staff from other departments from the University of York with related research interests to those of the centre; and external visiting fellows. All the members have in common an historical and scholarly approach to the study of the evolution of global business and institutions; there is wide interest on topics such as public vs. private interface; and there is the belief that business research research can inform policy and decision taking by illuminating the past, and helping to test models. The centre is also also keen to explore the potential that exists for creating departmental, interdepartmental and global research networks.
Two areas of research are of particular interest to the Centre:
Evolution of Global Business
- growth of firms
- multinationals
- corporate governance
- mergers and acquisitions
- corporate diversification
- comparative accounting
- outsourcing
- supply chains
- entrepreneurship
- brands and global marketing strategies
- industrial structure and performance
Evolution of Institutions
- public sector
- state-business relationships
- trajectories of capitalism
- gender
- innovation and diffusion of knowledge
- business history and its value to managers
- path dependence, intellectual capital and intangible assets
- cross-cultural transfer of marketing knowledge and institutions
- professional services
- human resource management
- Training and Development
- employment relations
Visiting Scholars - the Centre welcomes applications for visiting scholars with an interest in issues related to the evolution of global business and institutions. For more information please contact Professor Teresa da Silva Lopes.
