Institute of Management Studies (IMS) Research

The Institute of Management Studies (IMS) aims to be a research-driven institute where our scholarship heavily informs our teaching.

IMS produces theoretically informed and interdisciplinary knowledge in the humanities and social sciences that solves fundamental challenges faced by individuals and society.

We focus on making an impact that improves lives with our expertise in the areas of economics, management and entrepreneurship, marketing, and leadership and occupational psychology.

In the 2021 Research Excellent Framework, over 70% of the research of IMS staff was rated world-leading or internationally excellent. This page provides examples of the research work of IMS staff.

Research areas

Structural economic analysis

World-leading researchers working in the area of structural economic analysis.

Improving work lives with occupational psychology

Combining theoretical insights with modern data science techniques to improve work performance.

Consumer culture theory

An interdisciplinary approach that seeks to understand and theorise consumption phenomena as embedded in and co-constituted by their socio-cultural contexts.

Algorithms and Society

Algorithms increasingly play a fundamental role in determining outcomes that people in society experience.

Entrepreneurial minds and behaviours

Understanding entrepreneurs better using theories in psychology and sociology to investigate entrepreneurial phenomena.

History and methodology of economic thought

The Institute of Management Studies has a world-leading team of historians of economic thought.

Researchers

Academic Staff

Our staff have a range of research interests.

PhD Students

Our PhD Students have a range of research interests.

Seminar Series

Goldsmiths-IMS Economics

Addressing important questions in economic theory and exploring the implications of their application.