PhD in Management and Languages Heriot-Watt University Dubai

Overview

The PhD programme in the School of Social Sciences offers unique opportunities for students in the region to research issues of relevance to the Islamic and Arab world as well as globally.

For instance, the programme offers opportunities for research in areas such as Islamic business, international human resource management, cross-cultural management, equality and diversity, Emiratisation and other nationalization policies, marketing, sustainability, accounting, finance, and corporate governance.

Research topics for PhD supervision

Management

• International Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Management policies and practices in local and multinational organisations
• Expatriate staff in organisations (experiences, organisational strategies, etc.)
• Diversity/Equality in organisations
• Emiratisation, Qatarisation (and any other nationalisation/localisation) policies
• Critical management, comparative management and Islamic management. Cross-cultural management
• Electronic HRM (specifically internet recruitment)
• Small and Medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and Entrepreneurship development
• Female Entrepreneurs
• Employer branding
• Sustainability
• Non-genuine branded goods (from a marketing perspective)
• Customer relationship management (CRM; Relationship Marketing; Trust, commitment and quality in customer, business and marketing channel relationships (especially in a financial services context); Marketing Channel Management. Ethical and environmental dimensions of Consumer behaviour and marketing practice.)
• Digital marketing, social media, consumer behaviour online

Accounting, Banking, Finance areas

• Corporate governance and corporate finance
• Corporate governance and regulatory reforms in emerging economies
• Risk management and efficiency in the banking sector
• Islamic banking and finance
• Corporate social and environmental responsibilities
• Carbon disclosures and biodiversity
• Financial Reporting and Corporate Disclosure
• Risk Disclosure
• Investor Relations
• Management Accounting
• International Accounting
• Corporate Governance and Ethics
• Accounting education and ethics
• Socio-economic perspectives on accounting