Research
Research in the School is based in a number of centres including:
- Centre for Operations Management, Management Science and Statistics (COMMSS)
- Enterprise and Innovation Research Centre
- Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre (ISOS)
- Marketing and Strategy Research Centre
- Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Research Centre
Statistics and Operational Research had 35% of its work rated as internationally excellent and 55% rated as recognised internationally in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Current research interests include Maintenance and Asset Management, Condition based maintenance modelling, Warranty Risk, Operations Management, System Dynamics, Player performance measurement and ranking, Forecasting results in golf and football and Modelling long-shot bias in betting markets.
The School's Business and Management Studies submission had 65% of its activity judged to be of international standard and 5% was categorised as 'world leading'.
The Information Systems, Organisations and Society research centre was ranked second in Research Fortnight's Power Table for its RAE2008 result in the Library and Information Management panel and current research interests include ICTs and social inclusion, the rise of social networking sites such as Myspace, On-line Gaming, information fulfilment, the diffusion of innovations, ICTs and call centre working, mobile and ubiquitous computing, system work-arounds, knowledge work, learning technologies, Web 2.0 technologies, gender and technology, web accessibility, search and social media marketing. and the philosophy of technology.
On 31 March 2009, and partially in response to the Institution's RAE2008 results, the University of Salford announced significant changes to its internal research structures. The most important change is that research is now be managed at a School level rather than through semi-autonomous Research Institutes. This change most affected the Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre which had members in four of the University's schools.
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