[UK] PhD Research Studentship on The Impact of Enterprise Performance Management on Management Control

Closing date: 15 April 2009
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), also known as Business Performance Management (BPM), integrates ideas from Performance Management with Business Intelligence and Information Management. An important aspect of EPM is the – real-time – monitoring of actual performance against targets, based on data from the business processes and their outcomes. When organisations apply EPM, ubiquitous availability of real-time (and accurate) performance data would, in principle, allow for more ‘democratic’ or empowering control approaches to be employed. This would not just free up management time and make organisations more responsive, it would also respond to long-standing calls to curtail the use of formal, centralised management control approaches. Do EPM Systems in practice really change management control towards more democratic methods?

Contact for informal inquiries and further information about the project:

Dr Diana Limburg
email: dlimburg@brookes.ac.uk

or

Professor Laura Spira
email: lfspira@brookes.ac.uk

Applicants should have a good Honours degree with 2:1 and normally a masters degree within a relevant discipline.

The full-time studentship, which includes an element for teaching will be for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress. The bursary will be £20,000 pa plus student fees.

For details regarding how to apply please download the application form, reference form and additional information.

Completed applications forms should be sent directly to:

Business School HR Team,
Oxford Brookes University,
Business School,
Wheatley Campus,
Wheatley, OX33 1HX
email: hr-bs@brookes.ac.uk