PhD candidates research topics

Mohamed Fadi Hassan

• Measuring geopolitical risk in banking industries

Justina Ogechi Ehirim

• Supply Chain Resilience - Public sector buyer vulnerabilities and mitigations

Imran Khalid

• The longitudinal research study on HSBC's strategic leadership in navigating digital disruption

Maged Abdelfattah Elshenawy

• Strategic Change: the preparation for generational succession in family firms in emerging countries

Ahmad Abou Merhi

• Private equity investments in professional sports: a look at the performance of private equity funds in the big leagues.

Ritamae Adamson-Schwisow

• Using marketing research for quality lead generation: Improving lead conversion through buyer personas and ideal customer profiling

Eoin Murray

• The interaction of finance and nature

Hanan Al Saif

• Identifying areas of improvement in the leadership capabilities related to change management for change leaders.

Unathi Loos

• Strategic asset allocation: The impact of including sustainability and impact investing targets on the strategic asset allocation framework

Nikolai Frolov

• Yield curve forecasts in emerging economies post COVID: Another wake-up call?

Tim-Thilo Joachim Spott

• The effect of language on the functioning of global virtual collaboration - The role of professional service firms

Olamide Augustina Orekunrin

• The effect of digital currencies on monetary policy transmission mechanisms

Lei (Aaron) Zhang

• Examining mutual fund performance through a machine learning approach

Shubham Modi

• Pairs portfolio optimization: A regime-switching approach

George Cliff

• Momentum, performance persistence & the management of momentum crashes in UK domiciled international Bond & Equity managed funds

Ramesh Akella

• SPACs – Returns beating market returns: “A source for Alpha”

Mark Murray

• Are limits to arbitrage the main drivers of asset price anomalies?

Mark Fogel

• The cure for what ails you: Organisational culture, leadership development, and how one affects the other

Jing Chen

• Non-market strategies of technology MNCs in the Great Decoupling and de-globalisation era: New risks, new practices, and new models.

Frankson Chong

• Applying the Cooperative Banking Ethos to Advance Business and Finance

Mark John Salway

• How the balance and culture within nonprofit organisations between delivering social and financial value affects their business models.

Taylor Agisim

• Delivering societal impact through innovation in sports & entertainment: Gamifying the next 100 years through immersive omni-channel experiences

Daniele Corbino

• Key strategic factors to succeed in the space economy: theory, empirical evidence and implication.

Taehyun Lee

• Foreign exchange hedging using a regime-switching model with currency futures

Francisco Andres Ibanez

• Harvesting Stock Market Anomalies in Latin American Markets

Mohan Yang

• Fund Level Venture Capital Analysis And Return Prediction Using Deep Learning

Sean Bailey O'Brien

• User-Centric Paradigms for Extended Involvement Contexts

Victor Schiller

• Determining and balancing entrepreneurial ecosystems input elements and using cross-ecosystem cooperation to improve success/sustainability outcomes.

Jafar Sabbah

• Alignment of AI strategy and business strategy to obtain value

Sami Assadi

• Managing change in family firm lifecycle - a case study from food manufacturer in Iran

Amanda Scott

• The impact of Hybrid Working on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) as it relates to performance management, progression, wellbeing and fairness

Daniel Ung

• The aim of the thesis is to review and improve on the ESG-based portfolio construction approaches.

Ghassan Aboughazale

• Work From Home (WFH) Post-Covid Digitisation Effect on Organisational Workforce Productivity in the United Arab Emirates

Ammara Awais

• A distance of more than Six feet: Leadership in Universities during COVID-19

Nathan Michael Keilholz

• Rapid MedTech Technological Boom and Developing Markets: Transforming Strategies and Business Models to Accelerate the Trajectory of Healthcare

Peter Osei-Amoako

• The funding of cocoa bean purchases by Ghana Cocoa Board (CocoBod) versus the aspirations and development of Ghana

Marcello Forcellini

• The impact of the economic cycle to the quality of credit in retail banking

Veronika Voinovian

• Merging Professional Service Firms: How Complexity Perspective Helps to Overcome the Challenge of Cultural Integration After Cross-border M&A

Jihad Srage

• The Industrial Digital Divide: How using a rational technology strategy can bridge the gap between mega-companies and small businesses

Stefano Di Colli

• Essays in Quantitative Finance

Fabio Henrique Fukuda

• Assessment and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in human resources management: A human-centered approach and framework

Yoko Dochi

• Toyota Way or SoftBank Vision? Making of an excellent company in modern stakeholder capitalism of Japan

Sayed Mohammed Naser

• Islamic Finance: Challenges to Opportunities

Huiming Chen

• Self-identity’s Evolution and its Implications on Management Behaviours for Globally Mobile Elite Professionals

Nathanai Suphabanpot

• Intercorrelation between compliance risk, financial crime risk and banks’ performance

Aysel Bandad

• The Impact of External Shocks on Macroeconomic Environment in Azerbaijan: How to Alleviate shocks and Sustain Economic Growth

Alberto Maria Ghezzi

• The Difference between Acquisition and Control Premia since the Seventh Merger Wave. Current Market Estimates and Regional and Industry Determinants

Yoongu Chung

• The transformation of shipping finance in accordance with regulatory changes: Focus on the new Basel III reforms (Basel IV).

Miguel Alves Martins

• Paradox theory, new philanthropy and the family foundation: Charting new terrain at the interface of organization(s) and society

Timothy David Barlow

• The Investors in People Paradox.

Stephen Peter Hampson

• A Business Model Approach to Governance and Decision Making: Theory and Implementation

Eugene Okyere Yeboah

• Empirical Studies of Risk-Factors in Credit Pricing and Investing Using the Omega Function

Alessandro Francesco Giudice

• Linking business/corporate strategy to financial structure: how financial decisions contribute to achieving competitive advantage

Steven Mark Leroy

• Essential ESG Principles for Boards in Private Companies

Alexander Jeremy Michael Michael Findlater

• On the Assessment and Management of Risks to Lifetime Income in UK Retirement Solutions

Alfredo Grattarola

• Semantic and social dynamics as symptoms for managing pluralistic work groups

David Snyder

• Credit Scoring’s Contribution to Sustainable and Profitable MSME Loan Growth and Key Success Factors for Use of Credit Scoring

Emmanuel Py

• Opening up of China’s external capital account, due to the progressive internationalization of the RMB, and in link with the “impossible trinity”.

Linus Akanoh

• Measuring cost, performance, and outcomes of private sector contracting in FEMA-funded recovery programs

Stephanie Mason

• Reviewing certain influences on college governor behaviour and decision making, in England: are governance models delivering the desired outcomes?

Steven Patrick Schramm

• "Prevalence of, and Provider and Patient Characteristics Associated with, Low Value Care in Low Income Populations"

Natwilai Utoomprurkporn

• Value creation of 3D data visulisation and data management system

Tatiana Alexandrovna Franus

• Financial market manipulations and investment strategies in the manipulative environment

Daniele Romano

• Technology innovation in financial services: Implications of Artificial Intelligence on business models

John Cowman

• Congruent delivery and organisational design models

Gerasimos Kouvaras

• The role of ideology in causing and managing organisational identity tensions: the case of international non-governmental organisations.

Jaafar Al-Sarraf

• Financial Inclusion and Financial Technology (FinTech)

Helene Gemayel

• Global Supply Chains: promoting universal values through CSR and corporate governance mechanisms

Eugen Andre Marinoff

• Unravelling the Value of Cryptocurrencies: Do Digital Coins Improve the Efficiency and Performance of Traditional Investment Portfolios?

Kirstin Armit

• How Medical Directors actions influence medical engagement and organisational performance in the English NHS

Ana Dahik

• Configuration of cross-sector partnerships for social innovation against corruption: the case of Mexico

John Jacob

• The impact of digital strategies on the management of pediatric healthcare

Kamil Mirishov

• Geographic location, economic stability and cash holdings management

Isidora Mytilinaiou

• A conceptual organisational learning model for the effective use of hospital volunteers: The case study of the Children's Hospital Agia Sophia, Greece

Muhammad Nadeem Aslam

• The critical determinants of quasi-equity investments and firm’s capital structures – An Islamic banking perspective

Joe Delvaux

• Essays on Sub-Saharan African Financial Markets

Valdery Moura Junior

• Center of Excellence for Clinical Big Data: Transforming Biomedical Research and Healthcare

Olubayo Adekanmbi

• Bandwagon luxury consumption behaviour of low-income groups– towards a model for BoP market penetration

Paul Douglas

• Reporting on audited financial statements