Centre for Organisational Impact

The University of Central Lancashire’s Centre for Organisational Impact (CfOI) is one of the first Knowledge Exchange-focused university Centres within the UK.

CfOI has been established to work with large-scale organisations to achieve impact for their stakeholders, stockholders and society. The Centre is focused on the improvement of organisational impact; delivering high-quality consultancy and contract research for business, the public and third sectors.

CfOI builds on a body of established public value management literature and its application in real-world settings for large-scale organisations, including the book ‘Public Value Management: Institutional Design and Decision For the Common Good’ (edited by R. Wylie, who continues to develop this area of research). The Centre is part-funded by Westlakes Research Ltd., a key educational partner of the University which develops public value management research with and for the common good, and works with collaborators in the following sectors: nuclear, space, tourism, higher education, health and medicine, defence, culture and business.

The work undertaken by this Centre sits under the Sustainability, Business and Enterprise research theme.

The Centre for Organisational Impact works with large-scale organisations to realise significant impact, improve their performance and responses to financial, political, societal and environmental challenges through the delivery of real-world, innovative and interdisciplinary solutions. In doing so, the Centre maps to the Knowledge Exchange Framework, and particularly the perspectives of research partnerships, working with business, and working with the public and the third sector.

Related research

The Centre most closely relates to the Sustainability, Business and Enterprise research theme. And the following areas of research strength:

Finance, Accounting & Banking
We have a growing community of researchers who produce high quality international and world-leading research.
Economics, Business and Society
Our research explores the impact of business activity upon the wider society, via cooperative and public management, research engagement and leadership development with the local SME business community.
Organisations, Work and Employment
We engage with stakeholders to help build a fair and equitable future of work.
Tourism, Hospitality and Events
Our research addresses the socio-cultural dimension of tourism and the tourist experience, including the phenomenon of dark tourism.

Centre for Organisational Impact

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Related research

Finance, Accounting & Banking

Economics, Business and Society

Organisations, Work and Employment

Tourism, Hospitality and Events