School of Business

PhD students

Name Research Area Email
Pasquale Accardo Essays on the Economics of Organised Crime and Networks [email protected]
Sara Adel Kabil The dynamics of grassroot innovation scaling: An investigation of internal and external factors for successful scaling [email protected]
Steve Agboyinu  Sustainable social and environmental accounting in oil and gas companies in Nigeria: a comparative analysis  [email protected] 
Syed Noaman Ali Cybersecurity Risk Management - A Governance framework to mitigate Risks of Social Engineering Attacks on Cybersecurity Management [email protected]
Alaa Hassan A Alsaffar How to lead digital change in a national context? Strategy and skills for tomorrow’s cultural and creative organisations [email protected]
Aliasghar Aliakbari The non-linear (inverted U-shape) effect of entrepreneurial marketing and coopetition on business performance during the time of crisis (post Crisis) with the moderating role of technological turbulence and market dynamism [email protected]
Abdulla Alshareef The impact of entrepreneurial marketing orientation and coopetition on product innovation strategies  in SMEs and start-ups and the mediating role of digitalization [email protected]
Theophilus Kow Anderson Investigating the role of intermediary organisations in advancing sustainable practices and environmental capabilities in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana's gold mining [email protected]
Margarita Avgerinopoulou Study of Harry Potter fans; Emotions of consumption in Transmedia Storytelling [email protected]
Ebenezer Ayeah  Employee's aggression in call centres: the replica effect on service quality and the negative effect on job satisfaction  [email protected] 
Anna Joelle Baum Social justice and the employment relationship: the rise in precarious work?  [email protected]
Sarra Ben Salem Essays in Computational Finance [email protected]
Shawn Bhimani   [email protected]
Rimsha Bilal Online consumption practices and behaviors of Pakistani Gen-Z in a post-pandemic world [email protected]
Jorge Borquez Jorquera Perspectives of sustainability concerning the development of tourism in emerging destinations: A study of the Aysen Region in Chilean Patagonia [email protected]
Gifty Alswell Brew Mensah Towards an Effective Corporate Governance as a Tool for Financial Soundness in the Banking System: Case Study from Ghana [email protected]
Jennifer Claire Cartwright The dark side of paid placements?  An exploration of the emotional labour experiences of Business School undergraduate placement-year students in the UK [email protected]
Wun Han Chan Cross-cultural gamification in social media advertising [email protected]
Kinkini Chatterjee Coworking spaces: A new era of work [email protected]
Roy Mark Clinton The Free Port of Gibraltar, 1784-1886: Development, Organisation and Trad [email protected]
David Ekundayo Akinola Cole Rethinking Governance and Impacts of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Sierra Leone [email protected]
Rocchino Contangelo Capital cycle and ESG investing [email protected]
Denise Corsel Living with floods: Learning from Takeo Province's resilience in Cambodia [email protected] 
Menaka Prabhani Madushani Dannangoda Gamage Knowledge spillovers in Multi National Corperations  in Sri Lanka: The Impact of Institutions [email protected]
Michael Darko Education Policy Reform and its' Impact on Educational Outcomes in Ghana: A Quasi-Experimental Approach [email protected]
Amy Bleker De Bruycker The gendering of medical specialisms: a study of the specialism career choices by women doctors in the National Health Service (UK) [email protected]
Marcus Digman Exploring doctors' experiences of performing emotional labour during the Covid-19 pandemic [email protected]
Arthur De Souza   [email protected]
Rachel Doherty [email protected]
Jiaxu Du An investigation of the corporate social responsibility disclosure practices of Mainland Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange [email protected]
Gokmen Durmus  The role of religion on managers moral decisions: exploratory study in Turkey  [email protected] 
Luis Eduardo Torres Lara   [email protected]
Helen Elliot-Mainwaring   [email protected]
Graham Frobisher  The 7th decade manager: a life of experience or an experience of life? An examination of late career managers’ perspectives upon their world of work  [email protected] 
Ying Gan  An exploration of the effects of ownership structure on corporate governance in Chinese banking area  [email protected] 
Fan Gao Essays in Financial Network and Computational Finance [email protected]
Desmond Gargan  New public management and academia  [email protected] 
Ololade Tomilola George-Aremu The nexus of organisational culture and how its influences women’s roles on Boards of private sector organisations [email protected]
Burak Gokce Education Economics [email protected]
Robert Gonouya Understanding the impact of social prescribing on the wellbeing outcomes and transitions into work, of young people categorised as not being in education, employment or training (NEET): A case study of the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) [email protected]
Ravi Kiran Gopalakrishna Pillai The Creation of a Novel Recommendation System for Video material on an E-learning Platform [email protected]
Benjamin Gross  Culturing the workplace: Sociomaterial relations and expatriate valuation in South Korean higher education  [email protected] 
Yang Gu Factors Affecting Employees’ Work-Life Balance: Evidence from Chinese Multinational Corporations [email protected]
Nitu Gupta Precarity and Academic Labour in Higher Education in the UK [email protected]
Mehran Habib  Comparison between the HR issues concerning accident and emergencies (A&E) departments of the Yorkshire and Midlands United Kingdom acute hospitals  [email protected] 
Nour Elimane Hadjadj The impact of Power uses and abuses on the Autonomy of Asylum in the UK: case study of Syrian refugees [email protected]
Shiban Haithem Gaining Legitimacy Through Organizing Vision: An Institutional Study of Dubai's 50-year Charter [email protected]
Anita Haliti How Swiss firms ‘crack’ the US market? Exploring critical success factors for Swiss firms successfully positioning into the US market [email protected]
Ken Hamblin Unraveling the Helix: A Critical Realist Examination of the Silicon Slopes cluster using the Triple Helix theory [email protected]
Amal Hamlan  Exploring CSR practices of financial institutions in Saudi Arabia  [email protected] 
Zulfikar Hanafi Entrepreneurship / ‘Self-Intention, Family Involvement, and Entrepreneurship Education as Identity of New Business Owners [email protected]
Chiedozie Obinna Hez Innovation as tool for Accelerated and Successful Change in Information Technology: with Specific Reference to Financial Services [email protected]
Imran Hossain  The role of entrepreneurship in poverty alleviation in Bangladesh: A critical investigation of the social and community aspects of business and social entrepreneurship in eliminating poverty in a rural environment  [email protected] 
Louisa Vera-Beth Horne From We to Me - The influence of declining communitarianism, social capital and community resilience on volunteering: A case study of Rotary Clubs in Atlantic Canada [email protected]
Adele Howes Performative Gendered Services: A Post-Structualist Feminist Exploration into the Construction of Gender Identity [email protected]
Dimitar Hristoskov   [email protected]
Yang Huang Corporate Social Responsibility, Industry Characteristics, and Corporate Performance – An Analysis of China [email protected]
Yuhan Huang Doctors become managers, a case study of a Chinese hospital [email protected]
Matthew Hutchinson DPI Market Diversification [email protected]
Ali Hassan Ali Ibrahim A proposed framework to enhance the role of Forensic accounting in combating Money laundering considering the applications and activities of Blockchain technology [email protected]
Alena Iltcheva Nation Branding: Identity building and image construction processes of countries in transition. Case study of post-communist countries during the preparation and the course of their Presidency of the Council of the EU [email protected]
Kenji Ishihara Theology of Green Consumption and its Influence in the Market [email protected]
Mehman Ismayilli  Behavioural economics [email protected] 
Aaron Jackson Senior Women Entrepreneurship and Mental Wellbeing: A Study on the Fashion Industry in the East Midlands [email protected]
Wissawa Jenjob  Management of technology and innovation acceptance: Developing a model of managers acceptance process  [email protected] 
Sruthi John Exploring the entrepreneurial well-being of Indian women entrepreneurs using an interpretivist phenomenological approach to understand the impact of personality and prevailing entrepreneurial ecosystem [email protected]
Rawn Kadhim Stories in Higher Education in the Middle East: A Tale in Change Management [email protected]
Danny Kaliba Macroeconomic effects of the exchange rate: A nonlinear application [email protected]
Bincy Baburaj Kaluvilla Ethical-investment decision-making under conditions of conflicting values: An exploratory case study on Basel Evangelical Missionaries in Malabar [email protected]
Tayamika Kamwanja   [email protected]
Ravi Kiran Gopalakrishna Pillai   [email protected]
Luke Lowalski Lackluster Adoption of Cryptocurrencies as a Consumer Payment Method -Is this Independent Technology in Need of a Brand, and What Kind? [email protected]
Thomas Leicht Brand equity in and across places [email protected] 
Sharimar Leman Accounting For Positive Place Brand Image. How Important Are Sustainability Factors? [email protected]
Yan Ting Leung   [email protected]
Chenyiman Lou The adaptation experiences of Chinese PhD students in the UK [email protected]
Hussein Lubbad Evaluating IMGs’ career progression within the NHS as well as the role of management support and its implications on the quality of care and retention [email protected]
Lina Lucumi Mosquers Identity-based inequalities and the global production of fine cocoa and craft chocolate [email protected]
Salih Mallookee The role of Payment Systems in Financial Inclusion [email protected]
Marisol Marin Rojas  “It’s not because you are lesbian or sexual worker, but…..” sexual workers and child protection system in Columbia: an approach from matters of care  [email protected] 
Laura Esther Martinez Gutierrez Digital Transformation in the Public Sector: a Case Study of Panama [email protected]
Leila Masoomi Green product consumers' insight: the way that social media interactions affect motivation toward green consumption [email protected]
Trevor McFadyen The Gamification of Innovation: Development and Evaluation of a Structural Equation Model of Gamified Innovation [email protected] 
Selen Mesutoglu  Reputation management of local products in countries with national identity or image conflict – case of Cyprus  [email protected] 
Amoya Ovony Mitchell Cryptocurrency Accounting in Publicly Listed Financial Institutions: The Impact on Shareholder Confidence [email protected]
Farah Mneimne Resilience-Driven Frugal Innovation by Businesses in Times of Crisis [email protected]
Amna Moeen Impact of The Mother-Daughter Relationship Play On the Identity of Mothers Returning to Work [email protected]
Jawad Mohammad The Dynamic Effects of Financial Liberalisation on Economic Growth: A Panel Data Analysis  [email protected]
Nada Mohamed Semiotics analysis of fashion brands [email protected]
Lubica Mueller  Agencing processes in the Philippine coffee actor-network [email protected] 
Nora Musyoka Tradition, organisation and empowerment: 'Mwethya' and alternative feminist organising by the women of Matinyani, Kitui County, Kenya [email protected]
Lisa Nachtman  The Material Production of Immateriality: Value co-creation through consumer data for digital subscription services [email protected] 
Mohamed Atef Ahmed Elbeyaly Nassar Does Real earnings management Affect the firm value: Mediating Effect of Social Welfare and Moderating Effect of Internal Governance Mechanisms: International Evidence Based on IFRS Convergence [email protected]
Kora Nyznyk   [email protected]
Brian O'Donoghue   [email protected]
Oluwagbemiga Kolawole Oduntan To what extent does Coporate Social Responsibility unleash the creative potential of shop floor workers in a developed country [email protected]
Maro Ojaide A Critique of Public Financial Management Practice and Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa using the Goal-Means Model of Performance Audit Methodology: A Case Study of Nigeria [email protected]
Agwu Onuoha The mis-sale of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) in the UK and the role of regulators in Industry Transgression [email protected]
Fatos Ozkan Erciyas  Social production of space in street food vending: an ethnographic research in Izmir neighbourhood, Turkey  [email protected] 
Julie Pitcher Giles  Small Business - Big Responsibility: An examination of social responsibility among small firms in rural Newfoundland and Labrador [email protected] 
Tatiana Polyakova  Place branding for small cities and surrounding areas: interrelation of time and place brands  [email protected] 
Ernesto Porta Sandova  Stock market responses to politics: evidence from Latin America  [email protected]
Hemesh Prag Identifying the applicability of federated learning for computer vision across grocery retail at scale [email protected]
Colin Price  National IT strategy in the turbulent English NHS: A structuration study of meso-level practice  [email protected] 
Hari Purnomo Why and How do B2B SMEs articulate their Customer Value Proposition [email protected]
Yichen Qiu Long-term care labour force in China [email protected]
Muhammad Rahman  Political settlement and labour movements in Bangladesh: A focus on the ready made garments (RMG) sector  [email protected] 
Alejandro Ramirez  Digital transformation in the food and beverage industry: strategic advantages and productivity  [email protected] 
Precious Etiosa Reuben BAME nurses career progression and management support in the NHS [email protected]
Elizabeth Victoria Jane Robinson Job Satisfaction in Multi-academy Trusts [email protected]
Jonathan Rogers Persuasion and decision marking: An investigation into the methods of persuasion used by sell-side broker dealers to influence buy-side asset manager investment decisions pre- and post MiFD II regulation change in the investment industry [email protected]
Mostafa Saadeldin  Intergenerational Consumption and the Modern Muslims’ Experiences: An Ethnographic study on Egyptian Consumers [email protected] 
Enise Sanci Does CEO personality really matter? CEO narcissism, CEO overconfidence, CEO reputation and their effects on firm financial outcomes  [email protected] 
Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo Where should you look in order to find anomalies in financial statements? [email protected]
Tasneem Shaikh Job factors that influence work-nonwork conflict and its impact on employee turnover intentions [email protected]
Samar Shaklia El-Nakla Women’s consumption of luxury goods and services in Dubai and the motives behind their consumption [email protected]
Antara Sharma Selective Retention and Realized Payoffs [email protected]
Rohit Sharma University responses to under-represented students, employment and closing of progression gaps?: A case study of the ‘Student First’ initiative [email protected]
Chenyong Shi Chinese MNEs OFDI in the EU and UK [email protected]
Mahmoud Shihadeh The Utilisation of Decentralised Social Media for Crisis Communication Management in the Public Sector [email protected]
Mable Sikanyiti Women's employment in the financial sector in Zambia: a gender analysis  [email protected] 
Haroon Tabraze Stakeholders’ perceptions: Deciphering the audit quality [email protected]
Asad Tahir The Utilisation of Decentralised Social Media for Crisis Communication Management in the Public Sector [email protected]
Sraa Taj Understanding the Relation between Mobile Technologies and Young Females Becoming Entrepreneurs [email protected]
Leen Mustafa Aref Talafha The Relationship Between Ethical Controversies And Sustainability Assurance: A Moderating Role Of Corporate Governance [email protected]
Sonia Tamakloe Managing multi-tier sustainable supply chains: the adoption of visual management for visibility and transparency [email protected]
Sujata Telang   [email protected]
Ivi Theodoulou    [email protected] 
Maleka Thula The Role of Informal Institutions on Growth, Poverty and Inequality Nexus [email protected]
Bosun Tijani   [email protected]
Olatunbosun Tijani   [email protected]
Luis Eduardo Torres Lara Researching Design Through Design as Research: Towards a Low-Code Enterprise Applications Design Method [email protected]
Thuy Duong Tran  Corporate philanthropy at Higher Education Institutions in Vietnam [email protected] 
William Trevor  Examining the diffusion of frugal and revers innovation: a comparative study of the healthcare sectors in the USA and India  [email protected] 
Janice Turner  Consuming sport: An examination of the IRONMAN brand community  [email protected] 
Harry Udoh E-Governance and Its Performance in Nigeria's Public Sector: A case of ICT Enabled Reforms [email protected]
Mfon Okon Usoro Impact of Capital Structure on the Performance of Banks Overtime [email protected]
Assumpta Happy Umwagarwa Multiple job holding among highly educated and highly paid nationals of the developing countries - Drivers, Effects, and Regulations [email protected]
Kuok Sin Un Essays on Technical Analysis and Asset Price Prediction [email protected]
Pascal Vander Straeten  The significance of tail risk management: Qualitative risk tools to help create more resilient business models for banks  [email protected] 
David Walker   [email protected]
Jinshang Wang Exploring the application of high-frequency trading strategies in different trading markets [email protected]
Shuoxiang Wang Information Spillover Between Underlying Asset and Its Corresponding Derivatives [email protected]
Clarissa Wilson   [email protected]
Steven Wilson The Emotions Behind Innovation: An Autoethnography of The Emotional Lifecyle During Innovation Within a Public Sector Organization [email protected]
Amy Yan Ting Leung   [email protected]
Richard Yeboah Essays on Climate Risks and Corporate Finance & Reporting [email protected]
Cemre Yoldas Behavioural Finance and Hormones [email protected]
Jingjing Xing  An evaluation of regional CSR reporting practices in China  [email protected] 
Kangan Xue Uncertainty in Financial Markets [email protected]
Xiaohao Zhang  Bid data and consumer behaviour towards online luxury fashion brands: comparative studies of consumers in China and UK  [email protected] 
Yuhan Zhang  Volatility spill-over between stock prices and foreign exchange rates: do structural breaks matter?  [email protected] 
Yili Zhou New shocks in the FX market [email protected]
Lin Zou   [email protected]
Jianqing Zhu A study on the time-varying systemic risk of external shocks to the financial system [email protected]
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