Supervisors and topics

Learn about our supervisors and what topics are available for your postgraduate study.

Associate Professor Maureen Benson-Rea

  • Business networks
  • Pathways and processes of SME internationalisation
  • International business strategy
  • Business models
Contact Maureen

Professor Peter Boxall

  • Strategic human resource management
  • Work and employee wellbeing
Contact Peter

Dr Brent Burmester

  • International business and human rights
  • Modern slavery
  • Corporate political strategy and diplomacy
  • FDI motivation
  • Foreign disinvestment and relocation
Contact Brent

Dr Lisa Callagher

  • Innovation management practices
  • Local, regional and national innovation systems
  • Practice-based theories of learning and knowing on knowledge-based organisations
  • Practice-based view of innovation and organisation
Contact Lisa

Professor Brigid Carroll

  • Critical approaches to leadership
  • Leadership identity and practice
  • Narrative and discourse theory and methods
  • Power, resistance and struggle
Contact Brigid

Professor Gordon Cheung

  • Structural equation modeling
  • Measurement equivalence/invariance
  • Mediation
  • Moderation and moderated mediation
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Work engagement
Contact Gordon

Dr Benjamin Fath

  • Entrepreneurship and new market creation
  • Micro-foundations of strategy
  • Innovation, internationalisation and growth of SMEs
  • Data driven business model innovation
  • Competing in Asia
Contact Benjamin

Dr Antje Fiedler

  • International business partnerships
  • SME internationalisation and growth
  • Knowledge transfer and employee voice in the MNC
  • Entrepreneurship
Contact Antje

Professor Susan Geertshuis

  • Adult and corporate learning
  • Academic development
  • Student wellbeing
  • Employability
  • Educational innovation
Contact Susan

Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart

  • Business-government relations
  • Finance and money in Southeast Asia
  • International business networks
  • International relations
Contact Natasha

Professor Nigel Haworth

  • Asian and Latin American area studies
  • International human resource development
  • Regional development policies
Contact Nigel

Professor Carla Houkamau

  • Identity in organisations
  • Māori identity
  • Intergroup relations
  • Māori values in business
  • Implicit bias in organisations
  • Racism and discrimination
Contact Carla

Professor Kenneth Husted

  • Corporate entrepreneurship
  • Knowledge management
  • Management of research and development
  • Research management
Contact Kenneth

Dr Grigorij Ljubownikow

  • Strategy
  • Competition
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Alliances
  • International Business
Contact Grigorij

Dr Billie Lythberg

  • Entrepreneurship and innovation in GLAM sector
  • Cross-disciplinary work with Indigenous, Māori and Pasifika business activity
  • Organisational research drawing on an anthropological lens
  • Ethnography and fieldwork
Contact Billie

Professor Rod McNaughton

  • International entrepreneurship
  • International new ventures
  • Exporting
  • Networks
  • University-based entrepreneurship and commercialisation
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Entrepreneurship and health
Contact Rod

Professor Snejina Michailova

  • International management
  • Knowledge governance
  • Knowledge flows in multinational corporations
  • Organisational behaviour issues in multinational corporations
  • Modern slavery
  • Knowledge sharing in organisations between organisations and across cultures, expatriation and repatriation
  • Western businesses in Russia
  • Emerging economies
  • Methodological issues: contextualisation
  • Fieldwork (access to and exit from)
Contact Snejina

Professor Stefano Pascucci

  • Circular economy/circular business models
  • Sustainability transitions
  • Responsible innovation/entrepreneurship
  • Community-based entrepreneurship 
  • Circular food systems and regenerative agriculture
  • Multi-stakeholder initiatives for sustainable development
Contact Stefano

Associate Professor Barbara Plester

  • Humour in the workplace
  • Fun at work
  • Organisational behaviour and misbehaviour
  • Organisational culture
  • Technological behaviour (including social media effects)
  • Food and drink in business situations
  • Workplace engagement
Contact Barbara

Dr Deborah Shepherd

  • Change management
  • Family business
  • Leadership
  • Management and organisational development
Contact Deborah

Dr Peter Smith

  • Strategising in professional service firms
  • Strategy in high-technology firms
  • Practice-based views of strategy and learning
  • Management education
Contact Peter

Associate Professor Christina Stringer

  • Agri-food and forestry
  • Asian development processes
  • Fisheries
  • Modern slavery
  • Trade and investment linkages
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Dr Janine Swail

  • Women's entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship finance
  • Entrepreneurial process: start-up to exit
  • Entertainment: the media and entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial legitimacy
  • Or a combination of the above
Contact Janine

Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm

  • New trends in lifestyle consumption and sustainability
  • New patterns of sustainable consumption
  • Sustainability leadership
  • Commodification of romance, artefacts, symbols and visions of recovery
Contact Rachel

Professor Christine Woods

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Māori entrepreneurship
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Family business
  • Small to medium enterprises
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Dr Joseph Yan

  • Strategy
  • International business
  • Organisational institutionalism
  • Theory development
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Dr Peter Zámborský

  • Effects of FDI (foreign direct investment and industrial productivity)
  • Global strategy (performance of foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures)
  • Industrial clusters (emergence of transnational clusters)
  • New EU countries (international labour mobility, plant location strategy)
  • Organisational capabilities and international innovation strategy
Contact Peter