About
Professor Peter Rodgers is Professor of Strategy and International Management, Head of the HRM/OB Department and MBA Director within Southampton Business School.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Non-market strategies
- Corruption
- Informality within state-business relations
- Transnational migrant business and entrepreneurship
- Business transformation across former-socialist spaces
Current research
Professor Rodgers's research interests focus on informality within state-business relations, non-market strategies and entrepreneurship and has published in leading journals such as Journal of World Business, Work, Employment and Society, Management Learning, Management International Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Public Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Industrial Relations Journal and Global Networks.
Research projects
Active projects
Publications
Teaching
Professor Rodgers is the Director of the Southampton MBA programme and is the Module Leader on the following modules:
Global Business Environment
Leading Sustainability, Innovation and Change
Business Project
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Professor Rodgers gained a BA (Hons) degree in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Previously, Peter worked at the Aston Business School, Sheffield University Management School and the University of Leicester’s School of Business where he was the Director of the MBA Programme and Associate Dean for Marketing, Recruitment and Global Engagement.
Professor Rodgers's interests focus on informality within state-business relations, non-market strategies and entrepreneurship and have published in leading journals such as Journal of World Business, Work, Employment and Society, Management Learning, Management International Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Public Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Industrial Relations Journal and Global Networks.
Externally, he currently serves also as a Co-Editor of the ABS (3*) journal 'International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research' and also sits on AMBA (Association of MBAs)'s Faculty of Assessors.
He is a fluent Russian speaker and has worked on and managed several large international collaborative research projects across the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans, involving universities and a variety of different stakeholders. He continues to provide expert briefing advice to the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office on matters relating to the business environment in Ukraine.