This thesis explores the continuities and change in the conduct of Russian foreign policy in the Caspian region in the period 1991-2008 with the central focus set on the inclusion of energy both as a tool and one of the main targets of Russian foreign policy during the Putin adm…
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Researchers have developed investigations into both initial and seasoned equity offering (SEO) by obtaining data from developed markets (e.g. Denis, 1994; Kothari and Warner, 1997; Corwin, 2003; Eckbo et al., 2006), while the literature in emerging markets is relatively neglecte…
This thesis gives an overall view of the two most commonly used approaches for measuring the relative efficiencies of organisational units. The two approaches, data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontiers (SF), are supposedly estimating the same underlying efficiency…
The impact of uncertainty in the commercialization lifecycle of new technologies is a complex phenomenon. Technologies are research intensive and exposed to uncertainty regarding their successful development and functionality. Further these technologies have to be absorbed by vo…
Market segmentation practice has been one of the central issues in marketing research over the past thirty years. However, the results of many segmentation studies have been unworkable from a business stand-point. This research was concerned with understanding what makes some ma…
Background: Experimental studies have shown that exposure to food advertising on television can affect children’s food preferences, choices and consumption in the short-term. However, little is known about the role of habitual television viewing (and therefore food advert exposu…
The thesis examines advertising behaviour and quality-setting behaviour at the firm level. In both cases economic theory is used to discover theoretically optimal behaviour patterns which may then be compared with the behaviour patterns exhibited by firms operating in the real w…
As part of the organisation's strategy to improve its manufacturing logistics and supply chain management operations, they sponsored me on a Doctoral Program to research into the concept of customer service within the international Pharma-chemical and Pharmaceutical manufacturin…
Sound Quality engineering (SQE) is a discipline that should be embedded within Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH) engineering. Its purpose is to tailor and enhance a vehicle’s sound in order for it to meet and / or exceed the customers’ expectations of the car and of the brand.…
The main aim of this study is to identify and analyse, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the potential effects of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the Libyan Banking sector using DEA and Panel data regression methods. Libya has not gained its full membership of the WTO…
This PhD thesis was motivated by the simple observation that the objectives of distinct supply chain managers are often conflicting. This problem is usually addressed via supply chain contracts that are designed to align the incentives of the different supply chain partners to t…
In recent years, public sector reforms with its New Public Management (NPM) doctrine have attracted the attention of policy makers, practitioners and academics around the world. In the developing countries, these reforms are usually engineered and imposed by the international fi…
E-commerce is becoming increasingly attractive to businesses. Compared to the US and Europe, E-commerce remains in an embryonic state in China. E-commerce in China is forecast to grow more than two-fold during the next two years, according to government estimates. China has been…
Document Management is a technology that allows the input, storage, management and control of an image under the supervision of a computer based system. A document may be an electronically scanned image of a hard copy document or an electronic image such as a word-processed file…
Inter-organisational cost management and control (IOCM and control) is generally defined as a means whereby independent organisations protect their interests and coordinate resources to create value from their inter-organisational relationships (IORs). While research in IOCM and…
A previous study of the moneyers' names on the late Anglo- Saxon coinage by the same writer concluded with the death of Ethelred Il. This study continues the survey to the accession of Edward the Confessor. The introduction summarises the sources for the coins of this period, cu…