Professor David Tennant, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has conducted work on Intellectual Property and Innovation Strategies for three Caribbean Countries as well as work with micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) development. Propelling local and regional firms and industries into a state of international competitiveness in an advanced global economy will require substantial investment. Professor Tennant has highlighted the challenges that domestic firms, particularly MSMEs, have in accessing finance. In spite of the implementation of several recommendations, these challenges remain intransigent. Reliance has thus been placed on external sources of finance and foreign investment.

Staff members from the Mona School of Business and Management have been engaged in publications and consultancies relating to entrepreneurship and ICTs. For example, Dr Indianna D. Minto-Coy has explored ICTs and their intersection, including investigations on the role of ICTs in facilitating and extending the diaspora's contribution to the Caribbean. Dr Minto-Coy has also worked alongside Drs Noel M. Cowell and Michelle McLeod to address challenges to increasing entrepreneurship, enterprise, competitiveness and growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as those in the Caribbean. This work highlights the role of policy, technology and business strategy.

Lawrence Nicholson has focused on Knowledge Management Systems for Small Family-Owned Businesses in the English-speaking Caribbean, which are pivotal in helping to accelerate the Government's economic growth agenda.

Dr Kadamawe Knife currently leads and coordinates the BSc in Management and Entrepreneurship Option at UWI Mona and is also the Director of the Office of Social Entrepreneurship and Youth Crime Watch Jamaica. Dr Knife advocates for sustainable community development through Social Entrepreneurship, for example, through community safety and security and gang and crime prevention. Dr Knife’s work includes research focused on Social Entrepreneurship and its application to strategic planning techniques in planning, policy and project development, as well as Entrepreneurial Development among Private, public and NGOs.

Dr Lila Roa specializes in Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Data Quality, Decision Support Systems, Ontologies and Technology Adoption. Dr Maurice McNaughton research interests include Emerging Open ICT’s including open source software, open data, mobile and cloud computing; Organizational strategy in the Digital Economy and the strategic use of ICT as an enabler of business innovation in the enterprise and a driver of national development. Drs Roa and McNaughton have recently collaborated on a study to determine Big Data capabilities, attitudes and value opportunities among Jamaican organizations across the public and private sectors.

Dr Arlene Bailey from SALISES currently serves as Vice-Chair for Research for the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on ICTs and Global Development. She has conducted work on ICT for development (ICT4D), including the design and assessment of ICT policy and interventions for sustainable development. Her research focus also includes social innovations as well as community and social informatics.

Dr Delroy Chevers has also been doing work in the field of Information Technology, with a special focus on Operations Management and Management Information Systems. Dr Chevers has done work on several related areas such as evaluating the impact of ICT usage on the performance of Jamaican hotels, facilitating the adoption of software process improvement methods in the English-speaking Caribbean and the impact of cybercrime on e-banking.

Dr Chevers has also collaborated with Dr Andrew Spencer on areas involving the use of technology in hotels, for example, the Use and Impact of ICTs in mass tourism destinations, the influencing role of technology in hotels and customer satisfaction in hotels through the use of information and communication technology.

Drs Orville Taylor and Marina Ramkissoon from the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Social Work have focused on labour as well as organisational and developmental issues.

For example, Dr Taylor, who specializes in international labour standards, has produced several country and regional reports which address topics such as labour conflict, gender and labour, tourism, cultural identity, and globalization. He also engages in external collaborations with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Industrial Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in Jamaica.

Dr Marina Ramkissoon, skilled in sub-disciplines of Organizational Learning and Work Motivation, continues to advocate for the needs of employees by emphasizing the importance for organisations to address employee motivation. Dr Ramkissoon emphasizes positive opportunities for innovation and creativity, including strategies that employers can use to keep motivation levels high, emphasizing that motivation is a shared responsibility, and not the sole responsibility of employers or employees.