Entrepreneurship

Programme Description

The University of Essex is one of the UK´s leading academic institutions, rated ninth nationally for research excellence following the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in December 2008.

Essex Business School was ranked second in the UK for the accounting and finance subject area in the last RAE and teaching within the School is informed by a broad range of social science theories and concepts that are applied to some of the pressing issues facing business, public sector and voluntary organisations.

Research supervision is available in the following fields: accounting theory; accounting and governance in emerging economies; arts and organising; asset pricing; auditing; banking; behavioural finance; business administration; business strategy; corporate finance; corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship; financial econometrics; financial instruments; financial management; financial markets; financial reporting; human resource management; international finance; marketing and consumer behaviour; managing change; management; management accounting; management education and learning; market based accounting research; performance management in public services; social accounting and auditing.