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Facts and figures

• The Edinburgh Business School DBA was launched in 2003.
• We have over 60 students pursuing their DBA research with guidance from a mentor or supervisor, with many more actively completing the course stage of the programme.
• Students are drawn from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
• All DBA students must be fluent in the English language.

Examples of topics that EBS doctoral students are currently researching at the supervised stage include:

• The influence of culture on national competitive advantage (Africa)
• Strategic decision-making in an extractive industry (Europe)
• The role of value driver tools in strategy implementation for a mining company (Arica)
• The adoption of environmentally sustainable management practices in an agricultural industry (North America)
• Designing and using a risk management model (Europe)
• Price setting in grocery retailing (North America and Europe)
• Environmental uncertainty and strategic orientations in a telecommunications sector (Africa)
• Strategic planning in a service sector (Europe)
• Modelling risk in capital investment decisions for a mining company (Africa)
• The effect of financial liberalization on the competiveness and efficiency of an Asian banking industry (Asia)
• Sources of competitive advantage in a manufacturing industry (Middle east)
• Pursuit of local objectives for a non-profit organisation and its relation to organizational objectives (Europe)
• Designing and using a risk management model (Europe)
• Effect of performance incentives on the alignment between activities and strategy (Asia)
• The effect of culture on the conduct of management education (General)

Completed theses include:

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and German Non-profit Organisations: Empirical Research of Organisational Compliance
• Implementation of operational environmental practices in the Ontario (Canada) wine industry : perceptions, constructs, intent
• How do extrinsic performance incentives affect the alignment between frontline police performance and police strategy?
• Strategic planning in Irish quantity surveying practices
• The relationship between environmental uncertainty and business-level strategy in the telecommunications sector in Ghana
• Evaluation of Key Value Drivers as a decision support tool for strategy implementation in BHP Billiton Manganese (Limited Access)
• The design, implementation and use of an integrated causal risk management model to predict the likely effect of proposed actions on the risk profile (Limited Access)