The Managerial Economics and Strategy Group (MES) is one of the four groups in the Department of Management. Our research and teaching are dedicated to understanding the structures and strategies of firms, markets, industries and other organisational forms. Their practices, decisions, and interactions provide and respond to incentives. Our core belief is that an understanding of the causes and consequences of these incentives is central to management, and the foundation on which to improve organisational practice and corporate performance. We are eclectic as to methodology. A wide variety of theoretical and empirical approaches flourish, but all embody the rigour appropriate to scientific investigation
Established in 1990, the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group (MES), promotes the teaching and research of management from a social science perspective. In August 2006, the MES Group was incorporated into the newly created Department of Management.
The MES Group offers undergraduate and graduate degree programmes in management and have consistently attracted a culturally diverse international student body.
Whilst some functional areas of management (eg accounting, finance, human resource management, decision science) are covered elsewhere in the School. The MES Group is responsible for the core curriculum in management, i.e., strategy and organisational design. Our course portfolio also covers marketing, public management, negotiation, international business, system dynamics and managerial economics.
Our approach to management education is academic and focuses on analytical and problem solving skills, strategic thinking, creativity and the development of a critical attitude towards contemporary management literature and practice.
Research areas include corporate governance, corporate restructuring, network economics, game theoretic approaches to strategy, executive compensation, organisational structure, negotiation, public management and system dynamics.