At Stirling Management School we specialise our research expertise across the full breadth of business and management subjects:

• Accounting & Finance
• Consumers, Cultures and Society
  
• Economics
  
• Healthcare Management
  
• Retail
  
• Socio-Management
  
• Social Marketing
  

We aim to provide a unique space for thinking about business and management; for challenging and benefiting people, organisations, communities and societies; for affecting lives by enabling public interests to be identified and realised. Our distinctive research seeks to deliver world-leading academic and societal impacts. We aim to deploy and disseminate that research through teaching in undergraduate, postgraduate, professional development and other lifelong learning programmes that span the business and management field.

Stirling Management School is committed to a research-led approach in all of its activities through:

• Research programmes
• Knowledge transfer partnerships
• Industry-specific postgraduate programmes
• Management development programmes
  

This was endorsed by the results by the UK wide Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE) with all outputs being rated at an international level, with an impressive proportion deemed to be world leading: 

• Across Stirling Management School, 85% of outputs were assessed to be at an international level.
• Stirling Management School Accounting and Finance Division was ranked 1st (equal) in Scotland and 5th in the UK, with virtually all (90 percent) research activity considered to be of international standing
• Economics was ranked 4th in Scotland and 25th in the UK
  

Business and Management Studies was identified as having world leading activity in Retail Studies; Social Marketing; Public Sector; Consumption, Markets & Cultures; Contemporary Workplaces.