Strategic plan

The School of Management's strategy for 2021-2026 focuses on responsible management, through a mission to explore, envision and encourage responsible, accountable and sustainable management. It begins with the following mission statement and strategic themes.

Mission statement

The School of Management’s mission is to explore, envision and encourage responsible, accountable and sustainable Management. To this end, we take a critically reflective approach to Management principles, policies and practices at individual, communal, organisational and societal level, on a national and international scale. As a community of academic and professional colleagues, we work collaboratively and collegiately to conduct world-leading research, educate a diverse and inclusive cohort of outstanding students, and actively engage with a variety of stakeholders to address existing and emerging challenges in the global environment, foster talent, and provide demonstrable benefits to society and organisations.

Strategic themes

Aligned with its mission, the School of Management pursues five key strategic themes for the period 2021-2026.

Research: conducting world-leading research

The School of Management will expand its global reputation as an internationally leading management school that excels in socially responsible areas of research in banking and finance; creative industries; equality and inclusion; social and environmental accounting; philanthropy and the public good; surveillance and privacy; and knowledge and its utilisation. The School will expand research activities to incorporate newly imagined overarching themes of responsible leadership, enterprise, sustainable futures, and creating capitals, as well as developing expertise in education-focused research.

Education: fostering talent

The School of Management will build on its inclusive, interdisciplinary and enterprising vision for education to develop and deliver a suite of programmes and modules that will produce socially engaged global citizens who will positively contribute to a sustainable future for the diverse contexts, organisations and societies within which they will work and participate.

Impact: providing demonstrable benefits to society

The School of Management will enhance its local, national and international engagement and knowledge-exchange activities around matters of societal importance, using evidence-informed approaches and initiatives to enhance engagement and impact and enable clear identification and articulation of how its work has positively contributed to society.

People: collaborating constructively and collegially

The School of Management will continue to develop a culture of collegiality, inclusivity, diversity and equality within and across the whole range of its activities.

Governance: taking thematic groups and our ethos forward

The School of Management will revisit, reimagine, realign and recommunicate its thematic group structure, its service and leadership roles and their coordination through role families, and its governance architecture to further strengthen and support its world-leading portfolio of activities.

Download the full School strategy: School of Management strategic plan 2021-2026 (PDF) .