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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Social capital and financial development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)What is the driving force of development? Cultural economics explains the discrepancy of development when taking social capital as a workhorse. Driven by cultural factors, social capital describes how individuals and ... -
Spatio-temporal clustering in application
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-20)The importance of machine learning methods in the data analysis of both academic research and industry applications has advanced rapidly in recent years. This thesis will investigate how a method of unsupervised machine ... -
Is scarcity effective? An exploration of ad scarcity effect on recall and attention
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)Scarcity appeals have been widely employed within marketing, however scholarly understanding has focussed primarily on scarcity of products within ads, and not the scarcity of the ad itself. Ad scarcity has become an ... -
Relational perspective on hybrid organizing across the micro, meso, and macro level contexts of social entrepreneurship
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)This thesis advances the theoretical and empirical understanding of hybrid organizing in the field of social entrepreneurship across micro, meso, and macro-level contexts. On the micro-level, it concentrates on the ... -
Role of crisis management simulation exercises in influencing crisis management team performance, in terms of developing learning and developing foresight
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-04)Crises are a phenomenon capable of shattering the social world and destroying the physical one. Organisational crises include explosions, product recalls, cyber-attacks, and more recently the rapid spread of the novel ... -
Essays on corporate social responsibility and informativeness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This Ph.D. thesis consists of three empirical studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stock price informativeness. The first empirical study examines the impact of directors’ philanthropy preferences on CSR ... -
Social capital and networks: networking events enacting knowledge transactions within an entrepreneurial ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)Despite a widespread recognition that networking events serve an essential purpose in entrepreneurial ecosystems, there is still thin evidence about how these events support knowledge flow. The foundations behind accessing ... -
Essays on the economic implications of corporate governance reforms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)This thesis consists of three empirical studies on the economic implications of new regulations relating to corporate governance introduced in Japan in the 2000s. After decades of sluggish economic growth since the ... -
Long sale: future-setting strategies for enterprise technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)Markets for enterprise technologies are complex socio-technical arrangements where the nature of the goods or services available for exchange is frequently uncertain. Early offerings may appear obfuscated, in part ... -
Organising digital innovation in ERP platforms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Recently, established enterprise technology vendors (such as Oracle and SAP) have been remaking their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as ‘platforms’ that herald in new technologies capable of transforming ... -
Be older, but don't look it: perceiving the ageing body at work
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Problematizing speed in and around organizations: struggles over the temporal commons in the British artificial intelligence field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)In recent decades, speed has emerged as a significant social scientific concern, including within the field of management and organisation studies (MOS). However, the literature on speed in MOS has developed according ... -
Embodying entrepreneurship: everyday practices, processes and routines in a technology incubator
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)The growing interest in the processes and practices of entrepreneurship has been dominated by a consideration of temporality. Through a thirty-six-month ethnography of a technology incubator, this thesis contributes ... -
New approaches to corporate credit rating prediction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)Corporate credit ratings are a formal and independent opinion about a company's creditworthiness and are regularly used by different stakeholders, such as investors and the companies themselves in their decision-making ... -
Open innovation in the public sector: Exploring the role and dynamics of public open innovation intermediaries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-02)The aim of this thesis is to explore the role and dynamics of open innovation intermediaries in the public sector. Specifically, the study examines their functions and critically evaluates their benefits and the barriers ... -
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 ...
