Management (School of ): Recent submissions
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Inquiry and the social : an empirical study of the construction of knowledge in architectural designing
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of inquiry. Drawing upon the work of American pragmatist John Dewey, this work seeks to contribute to our understanding of the construction of knowledge within the social system of communities of ... -
Challenging legitimacy in cultural fields : the case of Dundee Rep
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis argues for a dualistic, epistemological, framework for the study of legitimacy which recognises the different ways it might be understood to exist, and as such be managed, within organisations. It is based on ... -
Correlations and linkages in credit risk : an investigation of the credit default swap market during the turmoil
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis investigates correlations and linkages in credit risk that widely exist in all sectors of the financial markets. The main body of this thesis is constructed around four empirical chapters. I started with ... -
Acquisitions and mergers in Saudi Arabia : reasons and effects
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisThe high scale of acquisition and merger's activity has produced great interest among academic and policy makers alike, resulting in the development of a considerable amount of research on the advantages and disadvantages ... -
A critical rearticulation of Foucault's panoptic paradigm : fingerprinting as a failing project
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06-28) - ThesisUsing a critical rearticulation of Michel Foucault's broad output, this thesis analyses juridical fingerprinting in England to illuminate panoptic systems as inevitably failing projects. Explicitly, it presents original ...