School of Business
PhD Topics
Academic Name | Cluster | Potential PhD Topics |
Digital Transformation | Heavy-tail analysis in crypto markets; Modelling and forecasting the volatility of FinTech-based stock indexes under structural breaks | |
Digital Transformation; Thriving Communities | Decision-making behavior and strategy (Trust, cooperation, performance, motivation), Innovation and technology adoption, emerging technologies | |
Thriving Communities | Labour and Development Economics (gender studies, social welfare, institution); Experimental economics (related to the economics of exogenous shocks) | |
Thriving Communities | Demographic change and economic growth, especially in Asia; Interaction between technology and skills and its consequence on productivity and distribution of income; Human capital development in Asia | |
Sustainable Business | Climate Change Law and Policy, Protection of Forests and Fiscal Policy, Taxation, Comparative Tax, Emissions Trading, International Tax | |
Digital Transformation; Sustainable Business | Digital marketing that influences consumer behavior and selling strategies./Sustainable consumption and production, Green consumer behavior, consumer decision-making | |
Thriving Communities | Islamic marketing; Sustainable Islamic tourism | |
Thriving Communities | Positive organizations, cross cultural management | |
Thriving Communities | Intersections of culture; politics and the marketplace; Marginalized communities within the Asian region; Socio-historic patterns of consumption; Ideologies in the marketplace | |
Thriving Communities | Education Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship | |
Digital Transformation | Profit based predictive modelling | |
Sustainable Business | Legal Perspective to ESG Practices Among Top PLCs in Malaysia; Comparative Corporate Governance Approaches - Malaysia, Japan, and US | |
Thriving Communities | Economics of Education (all aspects); Economics of Gender; Labor Economics; Inequality of Opportunity; Poverty, well-being & happiness; Human development; South/East Asia | |
Digital Transformation | Machine learning applications in finance; Energy sustainability | |
Digital Transformation | Digital banking and bank performance / Digital banking and financial stability |
School of Business PhD Topics
Academic Name | Cluster | Potential PhD Topics |
Sustainable Business | Innovations in Business Organisations for Sustaianility Innovation Systems for Supporting Sustainability Inter-organisational linkages/collaborations for Innovation Business Model Innovations in Small and Medium Enterprirse | |
Digital Transformation | Risk associated with Digital Assets; FinTech Regulation; Social and Responsible Investment | |
Sustainable Business | HR analytics and business outcomes; Employee attitudes and social media | |
Thriving Communities | Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education | |
Thriving Communities | Shared Consumption, Collaborative Fashion Consumption, Closet Sharing | |
Digital Transformation | Socioeconomic inequality: causes and consequences; Social identity; language policy and human capital; long run consequeces of labor coercion; colonalism and its aftermaths; health and education in Asia | |
Digital Transformation | Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty; Comparative Study of ESG Disclosures and Firm Value in Emerging Markets and Developed Markets; How technological innovation is reshaping sustainable investment; Alliging Sustainability with Invesments; Digital transformation and sustainable performance; Digital transformation and corporate environmental performance | |
Sustainable Business | Energy Justice; Advancing Societal Readiness toward Renewable Energy; Role of Privacy Protection in Business Models for Sustainability; Islamic Finance in Energy Industry; Blockchain in the Energy Industry; Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption Model & Organizational Readiness; Blockchain Adoption Model & Organizational Readiness | |
Thriving Communities | Development Economics (inequality, education, labour markets, innovation and institutions) and Tourism Economics (i.e. determinants of tourism demand) | |
Digital Transformation | The adoption of information technology (such as artificial intelligence and data analytics) and its impact on business, the implementation of information technology (such as big data), the utilization and influence of technology in education and ESG (environmental, social and governance) | |
Thriving Communities | Sacred Consumption; Consumer Pyschology; Education Research | |
Digital Transformation | Building sustainability and resilience in Malaysia and Australian healthcare supply chains; Sustainable Work, Empowerment, Artificial Intelligence, Action Research and Older Women | |
Digital Transformation/Thriving Communities | 1. Examining the Long-Term Link between Health and GDP. 2. Decomposing Productivity Growth in Specific Sectors Across ASEAN Nations: Insights and Implications. 3. Income Source Dynamics and Their Effects on Inequality.1. Assessing the Impact of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: An Empirical Study. 2. Decomposing Health Inequalities by Socioeconomic Status in ASEAN Countries: Patterns and Trends |
School of Business PhD Topics
Academic Name | Cluster | Potential PhD Topics |
Digital Transformation/ Sustainable Business | Bank Risk-Taking/Sustainable Finance | |
Digital Transformation | computational statistics/econometrics; multiple time series; high dimensional data; spatiotemporal stochastic frontier models; longitudinal data; applications in financial markets, firm behavior, big data analytics, and SDG monitoring | |
Digital Transformation/Sustainable Business | Social Media Marketing, Digital consumption, CRM/Green marketing; Social marketing | |
Digital Transformation | Social media in shaping customer perceptions of service quality Service recovery strategies on customer citizenship Role of knowledge and dynamic capabilities in enhancing the export competitiveness of firms in emerging markets. Technology in enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes in marketing education Workplace innovation on employee creativity and innovation | |
Sustainable Business/Digital Transformation | Impact of Gender Diversity/inequality, powerful CEO and CFO on tax avoidance; Impact of Gender Diversity/inequality, powerful CEO and CFO on earnings quality; Consequences of disparity in executive compensation; Gender diversity, powerful CEO and CFO and Payout Policy; Gender Diversity, powerful CEO and CFO and Equity Issuance; Impact of Gender Diversity/inequality, powerful CEO and CFO on Price Discovery and Stock price Crash Risk, Gender Diversity, Powerful CEOs and Equity option; Corporate Culture and Firm Value; Gender Diversity, Corporate Culture and Credit Ratings; Climate Risk and Firm Value, Climate Risk and Dividend Policy; Climate Risk and Credit Ratings,/Textual analysis on corporate culture and firm value; Textual analysis on corporate culture and Dividend Policy; Textual analysis on corporate culture and M&A Outcome; Textual analysis on corporate culture and Credit Ratings; Textual analysis on corporate culture and Stock Price Crash Risk; |