The Cardiff Organisational Research Group (CORGIes) is a leading interdisciplinary research group dedicated to advancing critical and socially engaged scholarship on organisations, organising and contemporary societal challenges.

Based within the Management, Employment and Organisation (MEO) Department at Cardiff Business School, CORGIes brings together researchers, doctoral scholars and international collaborators committed to developing innovative and impactful research that expands understanding of organisational life and its consequences for society.

We foster a lively intellectual space for advancing research across the broad field of organisation studies, drawing on diverse theoretical traditions, methodological approaches and disciplinary perspectives. We examine how organisations shape, and are shaped by, questions of power, inequality, leadership, work, sustainability, digital transformation, social movements, expertise and alternative forms of organising. Through critical inquiry and intellectual collaboration, we seek to generate new insights into the challenges facing organisations and societies in a rapidly changing world.

CORGIes has strong roots in Cardiff while maintaining an extensive network of national and international collaborators. Our members contribute to internationally recognised debates in organisation and management research, engage with policymakers, businesses, public institutions and civil society organisations, and foster exchange with leading scholars from around the world. Through research, engagement and knowledge exchange, we aim to influence both scholarship and practice.

As part of Cardiff Business School's distinctive Public Value mission, CORGIes is committed to producing research that contributes to social and economic improvement. Collectively, our research inquiry is committed to addressing grand societal challenges, including future organisations, responsible innovation, good governance, decent work and fair and sustainable economies. By combining rigorous scholarship with meaningful engagement, we seek to develop knowledge that creates value for organisations, communities, nature and society more broadly.

CORGIes provides a vibrant intellectual environment through research seminars, visiting scholars, doctoral development activities and international partnerships. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive scholarly community while pursuing research that is theoretically ambitious, methodologically robust and socially relevant.

What we do

International Research Community exchanges

CORGIes maintains a vibrant international network of researchers and visiting scholars, creating opportunities for intellectual exchange, collaboration and debate across the global organisation studies community.

Critical, Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Drawing on organisation studies, sociology, political economy, critical management studies and related fields, we address complex organisational and societal challenges through theoretically informed and methodologically diverse research.

Addressing Grand Challenges through high-quality research

Our work examines some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary organisations and societies, including inequality, sustainability, responsible innovation, power and governance, digital transformation, social movements and the future of organising.

Public Value and Societal Impact

In line with Cardiff Business School's Public Value mission, we engage with policymakers, public organisations, businesses, trade unions, community groups and civil society organisations to co-produce knowledge that informs policy, practice and public debate at local, national and international levels.

Supportive Research Environment

CORGIes provides an inclusive and intellectually stimulating environment for established academics, early career researchers and doctoral students, fostering collaboration, critical dialogue and scholarly development. We achieve this through regular research seminars and events, and through a collaborative and supportive approach in our research practices.

Projects

Sarah Jenkins is the Wales Lead for the UK Centre for Evidence Implementation in Adult Social Care (IMPACT).  This is a newly funded centre by the ESRC/Health Foundation, the centre will be funded for six years from 2021-2027 with an award of £15m to focus on the establishment of an implementation centre to develop a programme of innovations and best practice to improve adult social care outcomes. IMPACT is a collaboration based on Universities representing the four UK nations, the centre is based in Birmingham University and led by Prof Jon Glasby.

Tim Edwards is the Principal Investigator for the ESRC's Global Challenges Research Fund (up to £60,000) to look at the challenge of sustainable development in the Atlantic Forest of Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Tim leads a team of social and computer scientists from Cardiff Business School and Cardiff School of Computational and Mathematical Sciences working alongside social, computer and natural scientists from Fundação Getulio Vargas, UNICAMP and the Federal University of San Carlo, Brazil. The aim is to develop a responsible innovation approach to citizen science that builds the necessary socio-technical infrastructure to support sustainable development goals in the local community.

Meet the team

Co-ordinators

Academic staff

Postgraduate students