Business and Management thesis and dissertation collection
This is a collection of some recent PhD theses from Business and Management. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of all doctorate degrees from this School.
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Role of emotions in the production of literature: an exploration of Edinburgh's creative entrepreneurial ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The main objective of this three-paper thesis is to explore the role of emotions in the production of culture, examining how books and writers are selected to be part of the production of literature. It focuses on small ... -
Global norms and the nation-state: the ''modernisation'' of audit regulations in Kuwait
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Neoliberal globalisation is spread through a complex web of polycentric and interdependent powers. These powers advance Western norms and practices, even into non-Western societies with very different cultural traditions. ... -
Networks, networking and small-scale women entrepreneurs in Cameroon
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Social networks have been viewed as important to small-scale African women entrepreneurs to compensate for disadvantages in accessing financial and human capital when starting and operating a business. However, there ... -
Improving the predictive performance of longitudinal risk models for UK SMEs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)In 2008, the whole world was a picture of economic depression. During the credit crisis, the viability of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been profoundly jeopardised because of their vulnerability. After ... -
Money, power and elites: an exploration of the structure and practices of the Edinburgh fund management field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-17)The context for this thesis is the fund management field based in the city of Edinburgh. Drawing on a variety of sources including interviews with practitioners, firms’ self-presentation documents and historical accounts, ... -
Conflicts in top management teams: transitions, triggers and actions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-01)Conflicts are inevitable in work teams. In diversity research, early studies have analysed the distribution of personal attributes among interdependent members of a working unit and investigated the different types of ... -
Regulatory, institutional and technological change in investment research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)This thesis comprises four studies, each designed to form an independent contribution. The central theme is change in the provision of investment research. The study focuses on independent investment research firms. The ... -
Financial decision-making and the role of financial technology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)The overarching theme of this thesis is: "Financial Decision-Making and the role of Financial Technology”. The thesis uses new forms of data to test existing assumptions in the areas of behavioural and household finance. ... -
Achieving resilience? Understanding social enterprises' strategies to tackle challenges in their delivery of public services
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)This thesis aims to explore the strategies by which social enterprises (SEs) delivering public services seek to tackle challenges. It also aims to examine which strategies enable SEs to achieve resilience from the challenges. ... -
Evaluation of agri-environmental participatory extension programmes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)Due to negative impacts on the environment, such as emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of surface and ground water, the agricultural sector has come under increasing scrutiny by wider society. A range of ... -
Accounting and the state: transparency as the art of government
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)In this thesis, I explore how accounting is used by the British state in order to govern its citizens. Specifically, I investigate the emergence of ‘the transparent state’, the state that claims to make its inner workings ... -
Addressing the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry: a multi-perspective approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)With average global temperatures rising and more extreme weather events recorded year on year, several counties have now declared a climate emergency. To address this emergency, 195 nations came together to sign the Paris ... -
Identity, design and emotions during radical organisational change
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)This dissertation explores the transformation of a charity which implemented a radical organisational change to become more business-like. Empirically, this study investigates the case of Pathfinder1, a preservation charity ... -
Organizational resilience through quality management: a study on the impact of the implementation of quality management principles on resourcefulness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)As Darwin noted, “it's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change”. Organizations have long been investing heavily to ascertain a better future, in particular, ... -
Essays on the antecedents, outcomes and multiplexity of informal innovation networks in an industrial cluster
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Innovation scholars have been studying social networks for a long time. The two major research concerns have been to understand the origin of social structures and their consequences on innovation. Considerable attention ... -
Dynamics of institutional and professional change: the reform of the Scottish Civil Justice System
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)This dissertation focuses on the institutional change that occurred to the Scottish civil justice system after the introduction and implementation of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act in 2014. In this process, the Scottish ... -
DEA methodologies for assessing the efficiency profiles of commercial banks under heterogeneity conditions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Since the publication of the seminal paper by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes in 1978, where the conventional CCR model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been proposed, DEA as a field has substantially evolved ... -
Shocking, offensive and controversial receptions of UK public and non-profit advertising campaigns: a multi-stakeholder, regulatory and rhetorical analysis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Advertising is commonly criticised for being pervasive, offensive, manipulative, harmful and irresponsible. This thesis focuses on the subjective criticisms and complex issues related to taste, decency, morality and ... -
Essays of inter-firm linkages and return predictability
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)In this thesis, I study whether stock returns are predictable. Specifically, I study whether the focal firm’s linked partners or linked peers can forecast its future returns. The literature of return predictability has ... -
Three essays on the transformative role of technology in financial markets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Financial markets are vital for capital allocation and as a consequence, for the wider economy. They perform two primary functions: liquidity and price discovery. Liquidity refers to the ability to trade large quantities ...
