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Sustainable investing, social preferences and ESG commitment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-08)This thesis examines sustainable investment and social preferences of investors and fund managers. The first chapter examines individuals’ social preferences and the potential drivers behind such preferences. Although ... -
Enrolment, technical mediation, and the obligatory passage point: a socio-technical examination of the Canada Green Building Council
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-07)Building Movements significantly impact society, promoting ideals such as sustainability, modernity, innovation, and well-being, and fundamentally shaping our built environment. In turn, these movements are shaped by society ... -
Opportunity at the crossroads, where do we go from here? Evidence and conceptualisation of a non-dichotomous emergent opportunity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Intended as a counterargument, this thesis evaluates the premise of several key arguments that have been made against the opportunity construct. As a result, several issues were recognised and distilled into a root ... -
Accounting for resilience capabilities: structuring rationales for decision-making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-16)Organisational processes which address disruption such as risk management, business continuity and disaster management have acknowledged limitations in that they do not cater for disruptions which cannot be imagined or ... -
Accelerators and acceleration: a development policy in entrepreneurial contexts of an emerging economy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-16)Despite the increasing popularity of business accelerators to support entrepreneurial ventures in emerging economies, there is still limited research on how accelerators interact and operate within diverse entrepreneurial ... -
Essays on banking behavior: political access and resilience
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-11)This thesis consists of three empirical studies on the US banking system. The studies can be read independently. While the first two studies employ political access to evaluate banks’ value creation and credit facilitation ... -
Why do people commit organisational fraud? Reconstructing fraud theories
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-10)This study explores the situations leading individuals to commit initial and subsequent frauds. This research is required at the present epoch as there are some reasoning fallacies in the previous studies when analysing ... -
Role of civil society organizations in achieving community impact
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-22)This three-paper dissertation advances theoretical and empirical understandings of how internal, external, and societal systems of civil society organizations (CSOs hereafter) governance influence the achievement of community ... -
Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data for dynamic prediction in credit-related applications
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-09)Lenders monitor their borrowers over time, allowing them to dynamically predict the probability of an event of interest, such as default. The widely used survival models focus on when the event happens and can handle ... -
Technology investment decision-making: case studies of the implementation of contactless and QR payments in commercial banks of Kazakhstan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-29)This research explores the practice of technology investment decision-making in Kazakhstani banks. It focuses on the implementation of contactless and QR payments and uses interviews with bank executives and practitioners ... -
Enabling innovative business models for emerging low-carbon technologies in the steel sector
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-23)In responding to climate change, one of the most serious threats facing humankind today, recent climate movements have aimed to decarbonise different parts of society, in particular energy generation and industrial ... -
Social capital and financial development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)What is the driving force of development? Cultural economics explains the discrepancy of development when taking social capital as a workhorse. Driven by cultural factors, social capital describes how individuals and ... -
Spatio-temporal clustering in application
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-20)The importance of machine learning methods in the data analysis of both academic research and industry applications has advanced rapidly in recent years. This thesis will investigate how a method of unsupervised machine ... -
Is scarcity effective? An exploration of ad scarcity effect on recall and attention
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)Scarcity appeals have been widely employed within marketing, however scholarly understanding has focussed primarily on scarcity of products within ads, and not the scarcity of the ad itself. Ad scarcity has become an ... -
Relational perspective on hybrid organizing across the micro, meso, and macro level contexts of social entrepreneurship
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)This thesis advances the theoretical and empirical understanding of hybrid organizing in the field of social entrepreneurship across micro, meso, and macro-level contexts. On the micro-level, it concentrates on the ... -
Role of crisis management simulation exercises in influencing crisis management team performance, in terms of developing learning and developing foresight
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-04)Crises are a phenomenon capable of shattering the social world and destroying the physical one. Organisational crises include explosions, product recalls, cyber-attacks, and more recently the rapid spread of the novel ... -
Essays on corporate social responsibility and informativeness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This Ph.D. thesis consists of three empirical studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stock price informativeness. The first empirical study examines the impact of directors’ philanthropy preferences on CSR ... -
Social capital and networks: networking events enacting knowledge transactions within an entrepreneurial ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)Despite a widespread recognition that networking events serve an essential purpose in entrepreneurial ecosystems, there is still thin evidence about how these events support knowledge flow. The foundations behind accessing ... -
Essays on the economic implications of corporate governance reforms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)This thesis consists of three empirical studies on the economic implications of new regulations relating to corporate governance introduced in Japan in the 2000s. After decades of sluggish economic growth since the ... -
Long sale: future-setting strategies for enterprise technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Markets for enterprise technologies are complex socio-technical arrangements where the nature of the goods or services available for exchange is frequently uncertain. Early offerings may appear obfuscated, in part ...
