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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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 ... -
Essays on financial markets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This thesis comprises three empirical studies, which investigate the influential factors of financial markets and their participants’ behaviour. These studies can be read independently. Using a sample of European banks, ... -
Essays on credit ratings
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This PhD thesis consists of three independent empirical research papers about credit ratings and the connection between credit ratings and the financial market. A credit rating agency (CRA) is a third-party financial ... -
Exploring the factors influencing the success of UK service sector SMEs: an owner/manager perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are an important part of any economy consistently contributing over 90% of businesses, 60% of employment and over 50% of GDP. They are regarded as a key source of innovation and ... -
Barriers to absorption when grafting experiential internationalisation knowledge
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Abstract The Uppsala internationalisation process model, as the dominant theoretical model explaining internationalisation processes in International Business, suggests that the knowledge gap between a firm’s current ... -
Probabilistic travelling salesman off the beaten track: the impact of clustering, construction, and correlation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Same-day parcel deliveries, grocery order collection in warehouses and food delivery by bicycles are but a few recent examples that illustrate the increased complexity of the routing problems our society is facing nowadays. ... -
Legal institutions and financial markets: the impact of institutions on corporate governance and capital allocation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Institutions shape people’s behavior and exert fundamental influence on financial markets. In this thesis I examine how financial markets and firms are affected by institutions, paying particular attention to investor ... -
Political endorsement and political visit: new evidence of how governments influence capital markets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Governments participate in financial markets through various methods, such as issuing policies, providing subsidies or directly owning firms. This thesis examines the effects of two under-researched ways in which the ... -
Managing incentives for greenhouse gas emission reduction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)The Paris Agreement sets out the goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to within 2°C. Incentive mechanisms and low-carbon policies, such as emission trading schemes (ETS), feed-in tariffs, carbon ...
