• A cross-cutting theme combining world-leading expertise from different academic disciplines, including Warwick Business School, the Institute for Employment Research, the Department of Economics, PAIS, the School of Law and the Department of Sociology
• It focuses on how individuals, groups and collective actors construct, manage, resist and change organisational and market structures, including the associated processes and practices, and how they shape and influence society
• It includes work focused on the political and social challenges involved in the regulation of markets and organisations operating locally, nationally and globally, as well as research focused on the concept of the market itself – its historical and philosophical origins - and its role in how we think about and study contemporary social, economic and political phenomena
• Research addresses real-world issues including SME growth, work and employment, gender inequality, entrepreneurship and economic outcomes in both developed and developing countries
• It combines key academic and user engagement from across sectors to address research challenges at local, national and international levels
• Our research centres in this area include the Centre for Research in Economic Theory and Applications, the Centre for Studies in Democratisation, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, the Industrial Relations Research Centre, the Innovation, Knowledge and Organisational Networks Research Unit, the Social Theory Centre, the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and Connecting Research on Employment and Work.