Professor Simon Mollan
Professor of Business Strategy

Research

Overview

My research explores how business and finance are constitutive of power relationships, especially in the context of Geopolitics and Geo-economics. I primarily use historical research methods. Current research areas are:

1. Banking history. With co-authors I am currently working several banking history projects that examine, variously, mergers and acquisitions in UK banking, the Eurocurrency market, and banking elites.

2. International development and development finance. I have published on the role of business in international development, particularly focusing on the MENA region.  I have recently begun a project which will explore how the UK undertook development banking activity in the post-war period, and how this was connected to international development, decolonization, the Cold War, and international business.

3. Business history. I continue to undertake work on various topics in global and international business history, especially on the role that taxation plays in shaping the international business environment. I am particularly in interested in tax havens, offshore corporate activity, and corporate strategy in relation to taxation.

4. Leadership, management, and society. I also undertake research on the ways in which leadership and management as practices and bodies of knowledge shape organizational and societal relationships.

I would welcome enquiries from prospective PhD applicants in any of the areas above. 

Publications

Full publications list

See my University of York PURE profile.