Our Research

In its initial activities, AIM will focus on four meta-level concepts that are particularly relevant to management practice, government policy and academic expertise:

UK Productivity and Performance for the 21st Century

How can UK policy makers evaluate and address concerns surrounding the UK's performance in relation to other countries?

National productivity has been the concern of economists, government policymakers, and corporate decision-makers for some time. Further research by scholars from a range of disciplines is bringing new voices to the debates about how the productivity gap can be measured, and what the UK can do to improve the effectiveness of UK industry and its supporting public services.

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Sustaining Innovation to Achieve Competitive Advantage and High Quality Public Services

How can UK managers capture the benefits of innovation while meeting other demands of a competitive and social environment?

Innovation is a key source of competitive advantage and public value through new strategies, products, services and organisational processes. The UK has outstanding exemplars of innovative private and public sector organisations and is investing significantly in its science and skills base to underpin future innovative capacity.

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Adapting Promising Practices to Enhance Performance Across Varied Organisational Contexts

How can managers disseminate their experience whilst learning from others?

Improved management practices are identified as important for enhancing producvity and performance. The main focus is on how evidence behind good or promising practices can be systematically assessed, creatively adapted, successfully implemented and knowledge diffused to other organisations that will benefit.

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Excellence in the Public Service Sector

The Public Sector is an additional area of work, exploring these and related themes in the Public Sector, will be undertaken by the Public Service Fellows.

By initially paying attention to this relatively focused set of topics as context and desirable outputs of organisational activity, we will structure research outputs and make them more compelling for varied audiences who have criticised the relevance and timeliness of academic research.

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