Dr Gabor Lukacs

PhD, MSc, BSc

Programme Lead for MSc Programmes (Business and Management)

Oxford Brookes Business School

Role

As MSc Programme Lead I am responsible for the academic health of all Business and Management MSc programmes. This involves continuous programme development, acting on feedback from students and employers, liaising with our stakeholders (student, employers, professional and accrediting bodies, etc.) and developing our graduates' employability potential. I lead several modules in the Business School, among others Strategic Management and International Study Trips. I chair Programme Development, Periodic Review and Validation Teams and lead on accreditation projects (AMBA, CMI).

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

Global Strategic Management
International Business in Practice: Study Trip
Business Strategy
Managing the Contemporary Organisation
International Study Trip

Supervision

I supervise MSc Dissertations and Client Projects

Research

My major research interests are:

Innovative assessment methods - Assessment standards – the oral viva
Globalisation, FDI, the nature of the transnational corporation
Strategic management, strategy development, operations management
Knowledge management, the learning organisation

Publications

Bancroft J, Saha K, Li D, Lukacs G, Pierron X, 'Lean Six-Sigma: The Means to Healing an Ailing NHS?'
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 35 (9) (2018) pp.1976-1988

ISSN: 0265-671X
Abstract Published here Open Access on RADAR

Journal articles

John Bancroft, Krish Saha, Di Li, Gabor Lukacs, Xavier Pierron, (2018) "Lean Six-Sigma: the means to healing an ailing NHS?", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 35 Issue: 9, pp.1976-1988.
Lukacs, G. (2004) 'Economic policy and foreign direct investment', Society and Economy, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 71-86, January, ISSN 1588-9734.
Lukacs, G. (2004) 'The state's regulatory role in attracting investments', Journal of Finance, vol. 12, no. , pp. 1285-1298, January, ISSN 0031-496X.

Other publications including books, book chapters and reports

Lukacs, G. (2015) ‘Teaching and Learning Online’ in HK Alumni and Students E-zine, OBU.
Lukacs, G. (2005) 'Knowledge Management in Practice - Adaptation of Theory within Corporate Limits', in Hamori, B., ed. ', Paradigm Shift - Information, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Economy, pp. 53-71, DE KTK: Debrecen, ISBN 963 4728 863.
Lukacs, G. (2003) 'State Sovereignty and Foreign Capital in the Globalising World Economy - Theory and Empiria', in Fink, G., ed. ', Intercultural Business Management in Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 71-79, University of Applied Sciences: Eisenstadt.

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Chartered Manager (Chartered Management Institute - CMI)
Fellow of AdvanceHE (the Higher Education Academy)
Association of MBAs

Conferences

Lukacs, G. (2013) ‘Knowledge Management in Practice - adaptation of theory within corporate limits’ Paper presented at the Joint Brookes-Burgundy Conference, Dijon, June.
Lukacs, G. (2012) ‘Innovation in challenging times’ Paper presented at the ABS / HEA L&T conference, Manchester, April.
Lukacs, G. (2010) 'An investigation of oral vivas as a form of assessment' Paper presented at the Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference: Building networks partnerships and communities, Oxford, June.
Lukacs, G. (2010) 'Investigating oral vivas as a form of assessment in business and management education' Paper presented at the BMAF, Newcastle, April.

Consultancy

I have worked on corporate training projects organised by Commercial Services – developing and delivering offers/activities for corporate clients, delivering seminars (e.g. Executive Trainers in Nigeria, Elsevier, Brita)

Further details

Gabor graduated from the State University of New York with and MSc in Management Sciences in 1995. He then proceeded with his PhD studies in International Business Relations and earned his degree at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2004. Between 1997 – 2004 Gabor worked as a lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Comparative Economics and 2004-2008 at the International Business School (Budapest), where he was the module leader of International Business Policy and Strategy. Parallel to this, Gabor worked full time as the internal consultant to the vice president at Hungarian Telekom (T-Mobile International).

Gabor joined Oxford Brookes University in 2008 and currently is the Postgraduate Programme Lead for the business and management MSc programmes, works as liaison manager with some of our esteemed international partners and professional and accrediting bodies, and teaches on several business and management modules.