Research

Potential Research Topics

The possible research topics below are offered by Sydney Business School research supervisors.

These topics are relevant for Masters of Business Research, Doctor of Business Administration or PhD.

Please contact the potential supervisors directly to discuss their availability and willingness to supervise you and formulate a more in depth 2000 word proposal for formal application to a higher research degree.

Please contact Professor John Glynn for issues relating to MBR, DBA or PhD applications.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Without a supervisor or a 2000 word application your application will NOT be successful. The topics listed below will significantly increased your likelihood of attracting a supervisor.

Staff MemberResearch Projects

Anil Chandrakumara

AC1: Corporate governance, organisational politics, leadership and performance

AC2:  Human resource costing and accounting, eHRM, and performance

AC3: Values and attitudes change, innovative management and HR practices and performance

AC4: Business strategies, leadership, organisational politics and performance

Joshua Fan

JF1: Optimizations, Modeling and Simulations in Supply Chain Management

JF2: Optimizations, Modeling and Simulations in Workflow Management

JF3: Optimizations, Modeling and Simulations in Sustainability Management

Mark Rix

MR1: Information, national security and democratic governance: the prospects for open and accountable government after 9/11

MR2: Promoting ethics and integrity in the public and private sectors: Can either learn anything from the other?

MR3: Corporate governance in the public, not-for-profit and private sectors: understanding the similarities and differences.

Gordon Spence 

GS1: Exploring the relationship between autonomy support and employee engagement

GS2: Workplace health promotion/wellbeing programs and their impact on employer brand

GS3: Mindfulness in executive coaching: How important is it?

GS4: The Happy Worker hypothesis: Investigating workplace perceptions on the relationship between employee wellbeing & organisational success  

Lee Styger

LS1: Mapping the Influencing Factors of the Collapse of Global Supply Chains

LS2: Exploration of the Emergence of Non-rational Supply Networks Post the Collapse of a Global Supply Network

LS3: Mapping the Critical Factors of Under-utilised Knowledge Capital within the Context of Sustainable Supply

LS4: Developing a Matrix of Tangible Measures of Value Generation of Knowledge Capital in Sustainable Supply Networks

Bill Wilkinson

BW1: Financial Statements of NGO's

BW2: Tools for measuring financial performance

BW3: Accounting for the impact of carbon pricing and an ETS

BE4: Electricity industry in NSW: the impact on pricing as a result of the extraction of dividends and tax equivalents.


 

Last reviewed: 10 April, 2012

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