Current students

PhD and Postgraduate research students are essential members of UTS Business School and the Management Discipline Group.

UTS Business School's PhD program is aimed at providing the brightest minds with a set of skills to equip them for both high-level industry and academic positions.

Students A–C

Tasneem Mohammed A Ageeli

Thesis title: Leadership Behavior and Its Effects on Subordinates’ Productivity and Performance

Supervisors: Kyoung-Hee Yu, Marco Berti

Hani redha a Alanazi

Thesis title: The Role of Cultural Diversity in Enhancing the Indicators of Organizational Performance in Multinational Companies

Supervisors: Simone Faulkner, Marco Berti

Mohammad Alaslani

Thesis title: Women and Business in Saudi Arabia

Supervisors: Jock Collins, Bronwen Dalton, Antoine Hermens

Scott Andrews

Thesis title: SFraming and Valuing Cultural Heritage at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Supervisors: Stephen Schweinsberg, Linda Leung

Rachel Atkins

Thesis title: How to support veterans to be successful in entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Australia, US and the UK

Supervisors: Jochen Schweitzer, Natalia Nikolova

Luciana Battista-Favero

Thesis title: Workplace Restorative Justice

Supervisors: Alice Klettner, Kyoung-Hee Yu

Rhonda Bell

Thesis title: Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility within the Australian Construction Industry

Supervisors: Alice Klettner, Simon Darcy

Natasha Bobyreff

Thesis title: Modelling the Impact of Social Entrepreneurship to Enhance Business Practice and Social Outcomes

Supervisors: Jenny Onyx, Natalia Nikolova, Jenny Green

Rachel Bertram

Thesis title: Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm: How Indiginous and Spiritual Ecological Value Systems Help Measure What Matters

Supervisors: Bronwen Dalton, Peter Fleming, Carl Rhodes, Dean Jarrett

David Bickett

Thesis title: The Role of Curiosity as a Practice in Executive Decision-making

Supervisors: Jochen Schweitzer, Stewart Clegg, Paul Brown, Marco Berti

Peter Bryant

Thesis title: Choosing Zines – Defining the constructs that influence the decision to participate in the practice of zine making

Supervisors: Chris Burton, Bronwen Dalton, Judy Johnston, Suzanne Benn

Zulay Patricia Buchs

Thesis title: Can Rising Healthcare Provider's Awareness and Attitudes Contribute to Improve Law Enforcement Efficiency Towards Breaking Cycles of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking?

Supervisors: Martijn Boersma, Peter Fleming

Robert Carroll

Thesis title: Who’s in Control? Mobile Technology, Work and Life in Australia

Supervisors: David Bedford, Sarah Kaine, Emmanuel Josserand

Corey Cutrupi

Thesis title: Fan Engagement and Women’s Football in Australia

Supervisors: Nico Schulenkorf, Stephen Frawley, Katie Schlenker

Students D–L

Rowena Ditzell

Thesis title: Four Day Week: Examination of Impact on Key Business + Employee Outcomes

Supervisors: Bronwen Dalton, Anna Stephens, Robyn Johns

Christopher Francis

Thesis title: Contested Governance in an Aboriginal Corporation: An Auto-ethnographic Case Study of Conflicting Institutional Logics

Supervisors: Thomas Clarke, Alice Klettner

Nina Frankowski

Thesis title: The future of social foresight: merging strategic foresight and social impact

Supervisors: Danielle Logue, Christopher Riedy

Jake Gordon

Thesis title: Aboriginal Cultural Safety Within the NSW Public Sector: Trauma Informed Approaches to Effectively Manage and Support the Needs of Aboriginal Employees

Supervisors: John Collins, Larissa Behrendt, Nareen Young

Anwara Happy

Thesis title: Blockchain for Supply Chain Traceability and Sustainability: The Case of the Australian Beef Industry

Supervisors: Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Moira Scerri

Aglae Hernandez Grande

Thesis title: Team Consequences of Employee Wellbeing

Supervisors: Simon Darcy, Mihajla Gavin

Megan Hibbins

Thesis title: Events, Risk and Trust

Supervisors: Carmel Foley, Deborah Edwards

Mitchell Howard

Thesis title: Strategic Modelling of Relationship Networks in Humanitarian Funding Supply Chains 

Supervisors: Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Melissa Edwards, Moira Scerri

Jonathan Joseph

Thesis title: Interactions and Travel Companionship: Constructing the "Lived" Hiking Experience in a Natural Setting

Supervisors: Simone Faulkner, Najmeh Hassanli, Stephen Wearing

Melanie Lewis

Thesis title: Establishment of Climate KIC Australia: Assessing Impact Through the Co-Evolution of Innovation, Strategy and Social Networks

Supervisors: Jochen Schweitzer, Brent Jacobs, Rebecca Cunningham

Shiyou Liu

Thesis title: The Role of Human Factors in Logistics Outsourcing Relationship Management: A Meso-Level Perspective

Supervisors: Sanjoy Paul, Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Moira Scerri

Gilbert Lorquet

Thesis title: Measuring the Social Impact of Community Football in Australia

Supervisors: Adam Cohen, Bronwen Dalton, Nico Schulenkorf

Francesca Lowry

Thesis title: Stakeholders in Regulatory Agreements, Whose Voice is Heard?

Supervisors: Thomas Clarke, Alice Klettner

Students M–R

Cheryl Malone

Thesis title: Business events: the new normal. The power of storytelling

Supervisors: Carmel Foley, Deborah Edwards, Anja Hergesell

Margaret Malone

Thesis title: Re-imagining the Research Article: Participation, Dialogue and the Radical Potential of an 'Ecology of Knowledge’

Supervisors: Jennifer Onyx, Paul Ashton, Simon Darcy

Cameron Mceachern

Thesis title: Integrated Logistics Models: Implications of Design on Responsiveness

Supervisors: Renu Agarwal, Sanjoy Paul, Gnanabarathy Bharathy

Hina Mehreen

Thesis title: Successful Repatriate Knowledge Transfer: A perspective of MNC’s in Australia and New Zealand

Supervisors: Najmeh Hassanli, Pavlina Jasovska, Nico Schulenkorf

Nutcha Netpradit

Thesis title: Open Innovation Management at Innovation Districts in Developing Countries

Supervisors: Danielle Logue, Krithika Randhawa

Louise O'Flynn

Thesis title: Exploring the Challenge of Financial Sustainability of the Publicly Managed Terrestrial Protected Area Estate in New South Wales, Australia

Supervisors: Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing

Eric Patterson

Thesis title: Improving innovative capability development in the Australia Public Service through innovation process management and innovative service design. Navigating politics, managerial reforms and an increasingly networked public sector

Supervisors: Renu Agarwal, Christopher Bajada, Roy Green

Towfique Rahman

Thesis title: CManaging Large-scale Disruptions in Supply Chain Networks

Supervisors: Sanjoy Paul, Nagesh Shukla, Renu Agarwal

Ian Randall

Thesis title: The innovation paradox and the challenge of orthodoxy to Lead User and Actor-Network Theories

Supervisors: Marco Berti, Natalia Nikolova, Berto Pandolfo

Iftekhar ahmed Robin

Thesis title: Plastic waste recycling: additive manufacturing technology enabled circular economy in the Australian context

Supervisors: Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Tim Schork, Moira Scerri

Lloyd Brian Rothwell

Thesis title: Leadership Development and Succession Planning within the Sports Management Field

Supervisors: Simon Darcy, Tracy Taylor

Students S–Z

Alan Skinner

Thesis title: The Lived Experience of Managers Facilitating Organisational Improvement Projects

Supervisors: Renu Agarwal, Carl Rhodes, Moira Scerri

Leanne Sobel

Thesis title: Human-Centred Design and Service Value Networks

Supervisors: Jochen Schweitzer, Lindsay Asquith, Moira Scerri

Mathilda South

Thesis title: Enterprising Interns: Interns’ Lived Experiences of Their Employability Development in an Age of Neoliberalism

Supervisors: Mihajla Gavin, Carmel Foley, Martijn Boersma

Ephraim Spehrer-Patrick

Thesis title: Capability Ecosystems: Current Practices, Opportunities and Challenges in Organisations

Supervisors: Natalia Nikolova, Benjamin Farr-Wharton, Stewart Clegg

Virginia Springer

Thesis title: Platform business in the industrial internet of things – Development of a conceptional framework on business models for industrial ecosystems

Supervisors: Krithika Randhawa, Asif Gill

Paul Templeman

Thesis title: Industry Digital Transformation and the Role of Industry Platforms and Public Entrepreneurship: The Digital Transformation of Australian Sport

Supervisors: Daryl Adair, Asif Gill, Linda Leung

Duncan Tweed

Thesis title: Leveraging international sporting events by domestic leagues: The opportunities of hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 for the W-League.

Supervisors: Nico Schulenkorf, Adam Cohen, Katie Schlenker

Nusrat Jusy Umme

Thesis title: Resistance to Health Information Systems in Developing Country Context: Antecedents, Outcomes And Causal Conditions

Supervisors: Moira Scerri, Bruce Perrott

Kevin Wallace

Thesis title: Time, Timing and Timeliness – the Art of Event, Project and Stakeholder Management in the Festival and Events Sector

Supervisors: Carmel Foley, Deborah Edwards

Tracey Walmsley

Thesis title: Travelling Without An Anchor: Risks in Self-Initiated Expatriation

Supervisors: Simone Faulkner, Marco Berti

Lewis Whales

Thesis title: "We Are a Team of Leaders": Relational Leadership in Professional Sport

Supervisors: Stephen Frawley, Natalia Nikolova, Adam Cohen

Mingliang Wu

Thesis title: Can the adoption of Humanoid Robotics promote quality of life for users by addressing the fundamental issues for aged care industry?

Supervisors: Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Moira Scerri

Mengyuan Zhu

Thesis title: International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: An Institutional Perspective

Supervisors: Wen Li, Yaowen Shan, Krithika Randhawa

 

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