PhD candidates research topics

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

Raji Khoury

• Interaction between Banking Crises and Fixed Exchange Rate regimes: Lessons from the US 1930s & the Greek Crisis of 2010

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

Furat Alyassin

• Can Corporate Social Responsibility play a role in overcoming Institutional Voids in a Post-Conflict Context: a case study of Iraq

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

Sohail Niazi

• How Ready are Banks in the GCC countries for the FinTech revolution?

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

Rob Roy

• Opportunities in Portfolio Construction: Empirical Evidence of Inefficient Security Allocation in US Equity Mutual Funds

Burton Jay Flynn

• What Matters in Corporate Governance for Small Companies Around the World?

Gerasimos Kouvaras

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

Alexandra Skailes

• An investigation into the impact of charity mergers and acquisitions on the social value created for their beneficiaries

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?

Majed Aljaberi

• Environmental and social sustainability in public procurement

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

Carla El Hage

• The viability of social entrepreneurship: Are successful social entrepreneurial enterprises driven by social value creation or revenue generation mind

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

Rafael Ramirez De Alba Lopez

• Evolution and challenges to the development of the platform economy in Latin America, the case of Mexico

Steve Shu

• Behavioural interventions to reduce savings leakage

Charles Wild

• Autonomy, collaboration and control in globalising professional services firms

Muhammad Nadeem Aslam

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

Chase Cicchetti

• Enhancing Currency Hedging Regimes for Emerging Market Equity Portfolios

Joe Delvaux

• Essays on Sub-Saharan African Financial Markets

Bernd Kolkmann

• Unprofitable tenants: the usual suspects? A case study of modelling tenant profitability.

Rick Mason

• Smarter Screens to Improve Retirement Behaviour

Sergio Mottola

• Managing Ecosystems: the logic of “functional integration” for companies managing a portfolio of business models focused at building high value for their consumers

Valdery Moura Junior

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

Richard Odumodu

• Essays in econometrics and political economy – An analysis of the dynamics of the African capital markets and economic growth

Karl Rutter

• Academic Entrepreneurship: Drivers for entrepreneurship at elite universities in the United States

Ruth Wandhofer

• The potential of Blockchain Technology for global payments: moving payments into the digital age

Olubayo Adekanmbi

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

Jasim Al-Najmawi

• Qatari NGOs and International Development

Joshua Burgher

• Market-Driven Program Portfolio Optimization

Paul Douglas

• Reporting on audited financial statements

Faisal Zai

• Financial Impact of natural disasters

Ylva Baeckstrom

• Making sense of investor needs: Using attribution theory to explain financial advisor investment advice for male and female high net worth clients

Daniel Martinez Martin

• Product Modularity, Collaboration and the impact on Innovation Performance in intra-organizational R&D Networks

Barbara Wang

• The globalisation of Chinese stated-owned multinational enterprises (SO-MNEs): guanxi and Liability of Foreignness (LOF)