We analyse important marketing and management issues, communicating our findings to both the business and academic worlds. We believe we can only do this effectively by achieving the highest standards in research, teaching and consultancy work. Our academics are well known in their fields and have published work in leading marketing and management journals. While we cover the breadth of marketing and strategy, we particularly focus on four key areas of research activity.<br><br>The Marketing and Strategy Department has a long tradition of quantitatively studying firm-level phenomena such as strategic orientations, slack resources, strategic planning and strategic flexibility and their influence on firm performance. More recently, work has focused on managerial-level issues such as strategic thinking, sensemaking and other facets of management cognition, strategic options and the strategy tools used in decision making.<br><br>We use a range of methods appropriate for investigating complex issues in decision making and strategy process research. Recent projects have incorporated qualitative cognitive methods, including sorting techniques, cognitive mapping and laddering techniques as well as in-depth interviews and observations in case studies.