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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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 ... -
Essays on development and the function of financial markets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis includes three empirical studies on financial development and the function of modern financial markets. The first study investigates the impact of an alternative legal system on financial development in ... -
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 ...
