21 December 2015
Students Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy on 1st July 2015
Nurakmal Ahmad-Mustaffa was examined on 3 December 2014. The title of the thesis was “Dual sourcing strategy: Is it effective in mitigating supply disruption” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Tom Archibald.
Saleh Almohaimeed was examined on 14 October 2013. The title of the thesis was “Understanding Leadership Development for Young People: Creating a Multi-Dimensional and Holistic Framework for Emerging High-School Students as future leaders of KSA“ and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Tony Kinder.
Spiros Batas was examined on 15th October 2014. The title of the thesis was “The role of social capital and network relationships in the internationalisation of high technology INVs“ and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Ling Liu.
Valerie Bell, submitted well within three years, was examined on 27th April 2015. The title of the thesis was “International entrepreneurial opportunities: Roles of networks, knowledge and serendipity” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Peter Rosa.
Kasun Chandrasekara was examined on 3 October 2014. The title of the thesis was “A Study of Business Model Innovation: Developing New Frameworks of Business Models for the Future” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Richard Harrison.
Sidra Irfan was examined on 24th April 2015. The title of the thesis was “Understanding inter-organisational relationships in public-private partnerships: A study of educational PPPs in Pakistan” and the Principal Supervisers were Professors Sandra Nutley and Wendy Loretto.
Ja Ryong Kim was examined on 17 March 2014. The title of the thesis was “How Simple Models Outperform Complex Models in Equity Valuation” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Bill Rees.
Jia Li was examined on 4 December 2013. The title of the thesis was “An investigation of Chinese export trading companies: integrating institutional perspective into transaction costs analysis” and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Ling Liu.
Shubo Liu was examined on 1 October 2014. The title of the thesis was “Advertising Greenness in China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Corporate Online Advertising Discourse” and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Kenneth Amaeshi.
Yangpei Lin was examined on 20th April 2015. The title of the thesis was “The non-economic reasons Taiwanese entrepreneurs exit China – the emotional perspective” and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Tony Kinder.
Sara Lopez Gomez was examined on 17 December 2014. The title of the thesis was “Innovation in Family Firms from Developing Countries: The Role of Familiness” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Peter Rosa.
Vandana Pareek was examined on 10 December 2014. The title of the thesis was “Towards Re-conceptualising and Measuring Brand Identity in Services: A Consumer Perspective” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Tina Harrison.
Yaamina Salman was examined on 3 October 2014. The title of the thesis was “Public Management Reforms in Developing Countries: The case of health sector reforms in Punjab, Pakistan” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Stephen Osborne.
Christine Soh, submitted well within three years, was examined on 30th June 2014. The title of the thesis was “Influences of context and culture on Singaporean Strategic Investment Decision Making Practices” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Chris Carr.
Abhishek Srivastav was examined on 22 August 2014. The title of the thesis was “CEO Inside Debt and Risk-Taking in US Banks: Evidence from Three Bank Policies” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Jens Hagendorff.
Veselina Stoyanova was examined on 30 March 2015. The title of the thesis was “The Development of ‘Sustainability-Banking’ Capability in the Changing Institutional Environment: The Case of Royal Bank of Scotland” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Brad Mackay.
Sasithorn Supantankornkij was examined on 19 August 2014. The title of the thesis was “The Determinants and Consequences of Working Capital Management” and the Principal Supervisor wasProfessor Falconer Mitchell.
Grace Vickers was examined on 21 February 2014. The title of the thesis was “An examination of the impact of New Public Management on the changing role of the secondary school Head Teacher” and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Tony Kinder.
Bing Wu Berberich was examined on 14 October 2014. The title of the thesis was “Strategic volunteer management planning and implementation in Scottish third sector organisations: understanding the volunteer psychological contract” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Wendy Loretto.
Students Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy on 24th November 2015
Xiao Yao was examined on 29 April 2015. The title of the thesis was “Modelling Loss Given Default of Corporate Bonds and Bank Loans” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Jonathan Crook.
Alessa Witt was examined on 12 May 2015. The title of the thesis was “Global Hidden Champions: The Internationalisation Paths, Entry Modes and Underlying Competitive Advantages of Germany’s and Britain’s Global Top Three Niche Players” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Chris Carr.
Maria Karampela was examined on 18 June 2015. The title of the thesis was “An investigation of patterns of self-brand personality alignment“ and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Tina Harrison.
Wejdan Alakaleek was examined on 2 July 2015. The title of the thesis was “The networks of female entrepreneurs in technology-based firms in Jordan: Structure, content and evolution” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Sarah Cooper.
Benjamin Koeck was examined on 12 August 2015. The title of the thesis was “The Emergence of a new Actor Category in Electronic Word of Mouth Communication“ and the Principal Supervisors were Professors David Marshall and Neil Pollock.
Duc Duy Nguyen was examined on 14 August 2015. The title of the thesis was “Boards, CEOs and bank behaviour: Regulatory and performance perspectives” and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Jens Hagendorff.
Ben Sila was examined on 31 August 2015. The title of the thesis was “‘Essays on corporate boards“ and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Angelica Gonzalez.
Ally Memon was examined on 12 October 2015. The title of the thesis was “‘Management in increasingly collaborative and integrated Healthcare Service Systems: the changing managerial role and the need to re-frame Management Development as concept and practice“ and the Principal Supervisor was Dr Tony Kinder.
Dimitrios Papanastasiou was examined on 24 April 2015. The title of the thesis was “3 Essays on Credit Risk Modeling and the Macroeconomic“ and the Principal Supervisor was Professor Jonathan Crook.
Students Graduated with MSc by Research on 24th November 2015
Jiafu An, Supervisors Professor Jo Danbolt and Dr Wenxuan Hou
Roland Berberich, Supervisor Dr Jim Hine