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Dundee Business School (DBS) provides opportunities to study for a postgraduate degree by research leading to the award of a Master’s by research (MPhil) or a doctorate (PhD). The current research activity and research supervision in Dundee Business School are informed by a consistent commitment to the needs of industry, commerce, the environment and national and international governmental institutions and decision-making bodies. The research is expected to be applied, practice-based and policy-oriented in its approach and its output.
The main areas in which the school faculty have expertise and supervisory capacity are:
The research into Oil and Gas Accounting and Finance covers issues relating to energy management, energy economics, energy reporting and the impact of economic and other events on the share price of oil companies. In particular, the team specialises in research and practical understanding of the complexities of economics and reporting central to the petroleum and energy industries. Coal, hydro power, wave, wind and nuclear fuel as alternatives to oil and gas as primary sources of energy all pose similar environmental and economic reporting issues to those encountered in dealing with oil and gas.
We currently have a number of PhD students from different nationalities working in the area of Oil and Gas Accounting and Finance. The school envisages having a thriving doctoral cohort in this area in the near future with a target recruitment of at least 5 new students per year.
The themes that link projects in this area of research is the exploration of whether and how organisations as participants in the local and global economic and social environments address the key imperatives of sustainable performance: the effective resource configuration and re-configuration in the context of dynamic environments; the capacity for change and flexibility, both internally and across industry or other boundaries; and the need for responsible management and strategic action in a world of emerging economies and shrinking natural resources.
More specifically, current projects address the innovation capacity of SMEs, the management of knowledge work, the management of environmental awareness, cross-cultural knowledge transfer, labour market trends (emigration), leadership styles and cultural influences, HRM preferences and cultural orientations, etc. We currently have more than 10 PhD students working on different subjects related to this area of research with a good successful completion rate each year.
The research areas that have been developed within the Law and Policy Issues research group include research focusing on EU law and Commercial law generally. Within EU law research is conducted into the legal framework behind the EC Agricultural policy, and the EU policy area of Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PJCCM), with consultancy work being undertaken in the context of the UK security industries. Research is conducted into UK Commercial law, in particular Contract law in both the Scottish and the England & Wales legal jurisdictions, with consultancy services also available in the area of Financial Services law, employment law, and international trade laws.
Current PhD projects include: ‘A Comparative Critical Analysis of the Concept of Error in English, Scottish and Islamic Contract Law’; ‘Legal Challenges for Developing Countries Exports of Agricultural Food Products to the European Community’; Scottish based anti-money laundering operations- police inter-agency co-operation across jurisdictions.
