Centre for Finance, Governance, and Sustainable Growth
Digital innovation
We view digital transformation as more than adopting new technologies—it is a fundamental rethinking of how businesses create, deliver, and sustain value. It demands new approaches to data collection, usage, and protection, shifting from episodic interactions to dynamic, real-time engagement. This shift is essential for accountability, trust-building, risk management, investment attraction, and achieving positive environmental outcomes.
Our research focuses on:
- Harnessing emerging technologies to redefine competition and drive industry-wide innovation.
- Developing practical strategies to help firms overcome resource and integration challenges critical to economic growth and resilience.
- Equipping organizations with the skills and tools necessary for agility, innovation, and digital readiness.
Through our work, we aim to empower businesses, shape competitive industries, and inform policy development to support sustainable digital transformation and long-term economic success.
Lead: Professor Maggie Zeng
Our experts
- Professor Marcel Ausloos
- Dr Ning Baines
- Professor Ana Cristina Costa
- Dr Abdul Jabbar
- Dr Jinfeng Lu
- Dr Mahmoud Marzouk
- Dr Md Imtiaz Mostafiz
- Dr Linh Nguyen
- Dr Margaret Nuttall
- Dr Bo Pan
- Professor Mohamed Shaban
- Dr Jacob Seifert
- Dr Neslihan Suzen
- Dr Li Xiao
- Professor Ania Zalewska
- Professor Maggie Zeng
- Dr Hao Zheng
- Dr Ruoying Zhou
Selected outputs
- Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I., 2025, Digital twin, digital thread, and digital mindset in enabling digital transformation: A socio-technical systems perspective, Technovation
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2025, Competition, Data Sharing and Secure Hardware Adoption, Working paper
- Costa, A.C; Ahmed, S.A., Anderson, N.R., 2025, Applicant reactions to digital selection procedures, European Management Journal,
- Apostolidis, C., Devine, A., Jabbar, A., Christofi, M., 2025, Ctrl+ Alt+ Sustain: The role of Algorithmic and Organisational Trust in Sustainable Digital Transformation, Business Process Management Journal
- Jabbar, A., Apostolidis, C., Baines, N., Devine, A., Christofi, M., Trivedi, S., 2024, Help those helping others - facilitating digitalisation and virtualisation in non-profit organisations through University-Industry Collaborations, Journal of Technology Transfer
- Jabbar, A., Akhtar, P., Ali, S.I., 2024, The interplay between blockchain and big data analytics for enhancing supply chain value creation in micro, small, and medium enterprises. Annals of Operations Research
- Bhudia, A., Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., Cremer, F., Meurs, T., Samson, P., Seifert, J., Shannon, D., Sheehan, B., 2024, Cyber Risk Quantification, Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security Report
- Baines, N., Klangboonkrong, T., Smith, H. L., 2024, Exploring product/service innovation process in UK: university spin-offs from practice-based lens. Journal of Technology Transfer 49(2), 715-739.
- Eccles, P., Grout, P.A., Siciliani, P., Zalewska, A., 2023, Open banking, shadow banking and regulation, Bank of England Staff Working Paper 1039,
- Jabbar, A., Geebren, A., Hussain, Z., Dani, S., & Ul-Durar, S., 2023, Investigating individual privacy within CBDC: A privacy calculus perspective, Research in International Business and Finance
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, Regulating Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Journal of Industrial Economics 71(1), 143-175,
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, Secure Hardware Adoption in the Open Data Context, ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science (Discribe) Hub+ Research Report
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, Harnessing Market Incentives to Improve Cybersecurity Outcomes for Firms and Consumers, ESRC Discribe Hub+ Policy Briefing
- Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I.R., 2022, Digital transformation of industrial businesses: A dynamic capability approach, Technovation,
- Eccles, P., Grout, P.A., Siciliani, P., Zalewska, A., 2021, The impact of machine learning and big data on credit markets, Bank of England Staff Working Paper 930,
- Ritala, P., Bayere, A., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., 2021, Digital strategy implementation: The role of individual entrepreneurial orientation and relational capital, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2021, Regulatory Interactions and the Design of Optimal Cybersecurity Policies, ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science (Discribe) Hub+ Research Report,