Deusto Business SchoolResearch areas and teams

Research and knowledge transfer, a core part of Deusto Business School’s mission

In line with its mission, Deusto Business School is committed to generating new knowledge in the fields of Economics and Business Management, aimed at transforming society and creating a more sustainable, fair, and inclusive world. Consequently, knowledge transfer activities are an additional key element to ensure that this research has a positive impact on the business, social, and institutional sectors.

Regardless of how they are organised into more specific themes, research at Deusto Business School is grouped into three major areas of knowledge, each led by one of the three teams recognised within the School and awarded an external “A” rating by the Basque Government’s Department of Education.

Research areas

Business and society

This includes research aimed at addressing the main social challenges faced by organisations in today’s context: inequality; sustainability; creation (and measurement) of social and economic value; promotion of human dignity within organisations; fostering transformative humanist leadership; gender equity; ageing; and sustainable finance, among others.

Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

It addresses the study of knowledge management and organisational learning as drivers of innovation and supporters of integral sustainability; the promotion of digital transformation in organisations; the promotion of technological, organisational and business model innovation; innovation through servitisation; the study of the entrepreneurial phenomenon; the generation of entrepreneurial skills; and the family business.

Competitiveness and development

In close collaboration with Orkestra, the Basque Institute of Competitiveness, this area focuses on the study of factors that contribute to sustainable economic growth and well-being, as well as the territorial strategies that support it.