Our current PhD students and their research

We welcome enquiries from New Zealand and overseas students who wish to pursue Management or International Business at doctoral level.

Recently completed PhD projects are listed below.

2020

Student name Title Supervisor
Josh Firth Deus ex Machina: Towards a Negative Ontology of Software AP Brigid Carroll
Laura Harvey Learning from failure: Labour-management partnership Dr Helen Delaney
Gerson Tuazon The Role of Socio–emotional Competencies Towards IT Implementation, IT Experience, and Team Performance Dr Rachel Wolfgramm

2019

Student name Title Supervisor
Ankit Aggarwal Influence of Social Capital on Foreign Market Entry Modes among Family SMEs Dr Deborah Shepherd
Jose Huesca Dorantes Structural adjustment programmes, structural reforms, and neoliberalism: The case of the liberalisation of the Mexican oil industy AP Christina Stringer
Wender Martins Embedding or Disembedding from the Founding Location: The Role of Early-stage Financing on the Emergence of the Territorial Embeddedness of New Technology-based Firms Prof Kenneth Husted
Lena Obushenkova Shifting subjectivities: Experiences of agency and wellbeing in connected organisations Dr Barbara Plester
Leny Woolsey The business of performance: theatre-based interventions in New Zealand organisations. AP Brigid Carroll

2018

Student name Title Supervisor
Stefan Korber Exploring the Institutional Agency of Organisational Hybridisation AP Christine Woods

2017

Student name Title Supervisor
Kiri Dell Disrupted Māori management theory: Transforming whanau conflict in the Māori land trust AP Carla Houkamau
Deepika Jindal
Work Engagement, Job Crafting, and Performance: An Analysis in an Indian Conglomerate
Prof Peter Boxall
Smita Paul The MNE as a network of dynamic intra-organisational relationships: The temporality and multiplexity of subunit triads Prof Snejina Michailova