Cranfield School of Management

Our Research

As a specialist action-research centre at Cranfield School of Management, our research is focused on CR, sustainability and the role of business in society. Our purpose is to enable academic research in these areas, and provide today’s manager with the knowledge, vision and scope to adopt a fully sustainable approach to business activities.

            •  We undertake our own research and also collaborate with associates and partners.
            • We also support faculty members of the School of Management in their related research.
            • Our library is free to access here.
            • We also encourage research via our students at MBA/MSc and PhD level, who we consider the next generation of leaders in the field.

 

What's New:

Doughty Centre Associate, Chris Marsden, has written a teaching module on Business and Human rights for use by business school faculty. Click here for more details.”

 

Professor David Grayson has an essay published in the April 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation: “Carers: a business responsibility and social opportunity”

 

Our latest Doughty Centre Occasional Paper, "Creating sustainable businesses through social intrapreneurism", highlights the features of the enabling environment for social intrapreneurism, including "culture that D.A.R.E.S. to innovate", as well as suggested practical C.H.A.N.G.E.S. - 7 Habits companies can cultivate to build successful social intrapreneurism. Click here to download a briefing note on this paper.

 

Dr Palie Smart is quoted in an article in The Times (18 March 2013) : Launch of Female FTSE 100 manufacturing board index. Full Article

 

Professors David Grayson and Andrew Kakabadse have an article "Sustainable Business Leadership. Take it from the top" published in the February 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation magazine.

 

This joint Doughty Centre publication with Business in the Community was launched at the Prince of Wale’s Seeing is Believing report-back session at St James’s Palace on January 29th by Phil Hodkinson who is a non-executive director of BT plc, Travelex Holdings and Resolution Ltd. Phil also wrote the foreword to the report. The report is both a summary of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken during 2012 into how boards organise oversight and governance of Corporate Responsibility; and a think-piece commentary inviting discussion and debate within and amongst corporate boards about how to improve oversight and governance in future. Read report

 

New publication: “Corporate Responsibility Coalitions. The past, present and future of alliances for sustainable capitalism” by David Grayson, director of the Doughty Centre, and Jane Nelson, director of the CSR Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, published by Greenleaf Publishing. Click here for a summary of the book and an interview with David Grayson

 


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