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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Recent Submissions
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Systematic approach to work-life balance research: theoretical development and empirical examination
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)Work–life balance research has been extensively studied in Western contexts with a focus on high-income and industrialized societies. However, it is not clear whether this largely Western conceptualization of work–life ... -
Three essays on merger and acquisition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)This thesis consists of three independent essays on merger and acquisition (M&A) in the U.S. capital market. The first essay explores how the social tie with the acquirer’s investment bank advisor influences the ... -
Observing organisational (in)justice: motivations, processes and reactions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The importance of organisational justice for employees, employers and society is well established. Although a large body of literature has investigated how justice recipients react to their own experiences of (in)justice, ... -
New product development (NPD) process in Islamic banks: the role of Shariah Supervisory Boards (SSBs)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)The combined environmental effects of technological change, growing competition, and increasingly demanding consumers have created pressure within the Islamic financial services industry for change. One outcome has been a ... -
Simulation optimisation approaches for robust scheduling of airport ground handling tasks and teams
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)Aircraft ground operations (baggage loading/unloading, refuelling, etc.) are usually very tightly scheduled, so that even small variations in the task durations or travelling times of handling teams between two aircraft ... -
Understanding public and private value: the case of carbon reduction projects in Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)Arguably, the research of public value and private value constitutes an essential foundation for both the academic study and practical reform of public management in recent decades. Yet, paradoxically, both concepts ... -
Interplay between regulatory changes and firm behavior
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)This thesis consists of three empirical studies on the interplay between regulatory changes and firm behavior from the viewpoint of business ethics. While the first study investigates one of the most stringent anti-bribery ... -
'Urrgh.. will they stop going on about their relationships': An examination of self-disclosure by travel influencers on consumer outcomes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the impact of self-disclosure by Social Media Influencers (SMIs) on consumer outcomes with particular reference to travel influencers. It is until now unknown whether intimate self-disclosure by ... -
Investigating the dynamics of actors' formal and informal organizational change communication during mergers and acquisitions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involve transformational changes and implicate multiple stakeholders at all levels of an organization. Organizations rely on effective communication to deliver the desired merger outcomes ... -
Impact of value co-creation on male cancer patients’ well-being in the non-medical cancer support setting
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This study is among the first to investigate the dynamic value co-creation process in non-medical cancer support setting, it specifically examines the often-overlooked male cancer patients. The study explores the continuing ... -
'Urrgh.. will they stop going on about their relationships': an examination of self-disclosure by travel influencers on consumer outcomes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the impact of self-disclosure by Social Media Influencers (SMIs) on consumer outcomes with particular reference to travel influencers. It is until now unknown whether intimate self-disclosure by SMIs ... -
Exploring value creation processes in publicly funded services: lnsights from inclusive arts programmes in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis expands the understanding of the processes underpinning the creation and destruction of value in public service organisations. It does so by integrating insights from service management literature and public ... -
Sustainable banking: identity. logics.liabilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the phenomenon of sustainable finance and banking. It explores how organisations simultaneously pursue the community development and the profitability goals, therefore, combining the behaviour of the ... -
Essays on bank diversification
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis, which consists of four studies, investigates bank diversification in the context of bank stability, banks’ market power, and bank competition, by constructing new diversification indicators to capture the ... -
Three essays on banking regulations
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)One of the main aims of the Basel Accords, issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), is to strengthen the soundness and stability of the international banking system. The objective of this thesis is to ... -
Exploration of religious and ethnic identification in the consumption and consumer acculturation of different generations of British Pakistani Muslims
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The last five decades have seen waves of immigration to the west. In recent times the emerging second and subsequent generations of immigrants, especially within the Muslim communities have started to redefine and contest ... -
Aesthetics innovation: an exploratory study into the nature of innovation in the fashion industry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research investigates the nature and dynamics of aesthetics innovation in the fashion industry by studying the role of stakeholders and processes at organisational and industry levels. Aesthetics has been a significant ... -
Comparative analysis of the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to stress testing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Stress testing is necessary for banks as it is required by the Basel Accords for loss predictions and regulatory and economic capital computations. It has become increasingly important especially after the 2008 global ... -
Essays on investor sentiment, mispricing, and cross-section of stock returns
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis studies how mispricing caused by investors’ biased expectations of future cash flow affects the cross-section of stock returns. Since the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), asset pricing models have long been ... -
Linking carbon pricing jurisdictions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis develops our understanding of the linkage and process underlying the international cooperation framework in carbon pricing jurisdictions. The linkage concept is for cap-and-trade systems to capture the ...
