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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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 ... -
Mathematical programming heuristics for nonstationary stochastic inventory control
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This work focuses on the computation of near-optimal inventory policies for a wide range of problems in the field of nonstationary stochastic inventory control. These problems are modelled and solved by leveraging novel ... -
Influence of customer and organisational religiosity on the development of customer trust in financial services marketing relationships
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a testable conceptual framework that investigates the influence of religiosity on the development of trust in financial services marketing relationships. Guided by the ... -
Accounting in the limelight: audit, calculation and governance in UK television
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This thesis consists of three standalone empirical studies examining the operation and intertwining of accounting in the UK television industry. The first study examines the enrolment of auditing during a series of ... -
Mining customer pattern across multiple time-series-segments of traditional and e-Business market channels in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)The objective of this thesis is to investigate customer pattern across multiple time-series-segments of traditional and e-Business market channels in China. Most customer behaviour studies were done in the context of the ... -
Understanding organisational digital transformation: towards a theory of search
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)As new forms of digital technologies continue to proliferate, Information Systems (IS) scholars argue that we are witnessing a paradigmatic shift in the nature of technologies and their potential in profoundly changing ... -
Interplay between stakeholder relationship, accounting choices and labor investment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This thesis examines the interplay between corporate social responsibility (CSR), financial reporting and corporate labor investment. In the first study, I examine the relationship between CSR and earnings quality in the ... -
Social marketing in public health: the adoption and diffusion of practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Since its introduction as term in 1971, social marketing has undergone continuous developments. Evidence of its effectiveness as a behavioural change technique has been presented across various contexts including environment ...
