Management is not an isolated activity or confined to the traditional business – it has a wider social and economic impact on individual lives, communities, societies and territories. We take this social and economic context into account by using a distinctive academic perspective: socio-management. Coming from Latin ‘socius’ (fellow, comrade) and ‘sequi’ (to accompany, follow, result from), ‘socio’ clearly signals that management is always to be understood in the context of what accompanies and follows from it. Recognising the importance of ‘socio’ for management makes our work a lot more complex and difficult, but also a lot more useful – real.

The Stirling Institute for Socio-Management brings together academics who work across a range of different areas and topics, but always with the ‘socio’-aspect of management at the heart of our research, education and knowledge transfer activities.

• Our areas of expertise include management and business administration; public sector management; socio-economic development; social marketing; social enterprise; creativity and wellbeing; creative industries; working lives; social identity and professions; gender, work and management; skills, labour markets and work organisation.

• We work with and for a wide range of stakeholders: for-profit companies, more-than-profit organisations, social enterprises, public sector organisations, local and national government, government agencies, trade unions, industry and consumer organisations.
  
  
• We bring together a comprehensive portfolio of academic disciplines: business, management, economics, marketing, human resource management, public sector management, sociology, psychology, geography, history, philosophy and engineering.
  
  
• We educate a diverse community of undergraduate and postgraduate students and PhD researchers in business administration, human resource management, public service management and socio-economic development and contribute to a range of other degree programmes across the Management School.
  

• Coming from more than 10 different nationalities and cultures, our staff are part of various international academic and practitioner networks.

As part of our Socio-Management agenda, the Institute for Socio-Management has driven Stirling Management School’s membership of the PRME initiative. PRME stands for Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and its mission is to encourage responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally. To this end, PRME provides a voluntary engagement platform for business schools and management-related academic institutions. The Stirling Management School is committed to the principles of the PRME agenda and the Institute for Socio-Management has corporate responsibility and sustainability at the core of its taught programmes.