Prof Pauline Gleadle

Research interests

My research interests are highly interdisciplinary, reflecting my background in Economics, Psychology, Social Psychology and Critical Management Studies, as well as drawing on my professional accountancy qualification, as a Chartered Accountant.

More specifically, my main research focus centres broadly around financialization, defined for these purposes as relating to the dynamic interaction between financial markets and the strategy and governance of non-financial corporations, primarily of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Appropriately enough, given the massively increased interest in financialization since the Global Financial Crisis, my first publication on this subject dates from 2008.

Recently, I have turned my attention also to the financialization of the household and of individuals, both in the UK and more internationally including the Global South..

Finally, I am also interested in supervising doctoral students. To date I have supervised to completion two DBA (Doctorate in Business Administration) students, based in different African countries and am finishing the supervision of a third, in the Middle East. Their research topics are quite diverse and include risk management strategies by SMEs in a particular region of Nigeria and bankers’ decision-making practices during a period of substantial economic volatility in part of southern Africa. I have also supervised to completion two other doctoral students, one of whom explored the risk of fraud in an NGO based in a country still highly traumatized by a recent bitterly fought war.