Financial Management
The FM SIG provides a forum for interdisciplinary thinking and research collaboration between academics and practitioners across the spectrum of corporate finance, and its application to other areas of management, including entrepreneurship, management, international business, regulation, decision sciences, as well as the foundation discipline of economics.
We welcome empirical, methodological and theoretical research that has a focus on the firm or the manager as the unit of analysis. A core concern is to enriching the scholarly community, promoting debate and dialogue, and the deepening of publication skills. We are particularly interested in clearly identified managerial implications and impact potential. We support activities that promote diversity and inclusion in the finance profession. We promote our shared values of interdisciplinarity, impact, sustainability, boldness, diversity, collaboration and collegiality.
Almost one in thirteen UK-based workers (over 2.4 million people) are employed in financial and related professional services (CityUK data for 2022). This accounted for 7.5% of total UK employment, with two thirds of this employment based outside of London. Financial services sector productivity is almost 2.5 times as high as whole-economy productivity. Fund managers helped to protect and grow around £10.3trn in financial assets whilst UK private equity funds invested £27.5bn in more than 1,600 UK companies. UK and international companies raised £9.2bn in issues of shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2023. Financial and related professional services contributed £243.7bn (12% of the total) to UK real Gross value added (GVA) in 2023.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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SIG Events:
International Symposium in Finance (ISF2025) – 25-27 July 2025
SIG Committee Members
