Browsing Theses by Subject "Business"
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Barking Abbey : a study in its external and internal administration from the Conquest to the Dissolution.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1961)This thesis attempts to trace the history of Barking Abbey from the Conquest to the Dissolution. In some respects it has proved a disappointing study, for though Barking was among the greatest and wealthiest nunneries ... -
A comparative study of the reasons for and means of setting-up a small business: the case of Turkish Cypriot restaurateurs and lawyers in North Cyprus and Britain.
(2007)This study aims to generate insights into the business start-up activities of Turkish Cypriot business owners in the restaurant and the legal sectors in North Cyprus and Britain, by drawing cross cultural comparisons ... -
Counter-cultural and new age capitalist ideas: wellbeing and the contemporary workplace
(2009)This thesis examines the concept of wellbeing at work. It outlines a new type of organisation, that uses intellectual, immaterial and communicative labour power in order to provide a work ethic for both the production ... -
Finite Element Analysis of Composites Integral Armour
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)This thesis is focussed on a numerical method to analyse the ballistic performance of multi-material armour system. The overall objective of this work is to develop numerical models to be used within MSC. DYTRAN capable ... -
Identification and characterisation of endogenous inducible promoters in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the world’s most devastating pathogens. Despite completion of the genome sequence in 1998, research progress has been hampered by a lack of genetic tools and the difficulty of working ... -
Internationalization and firm performance: meta analysis and new empirical evidence
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)There has been considerable research on the performance gains attributable to international trade and foreign direct investment in recent years. However, the empirical ndings are still unclear, in part because of di ... -
The Irish Revenue System: Government and Administration, 1689-1702.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1997)This dissertation is an examination of the Irish revenue system in the reign of William III, concentrating on the extent to which the period witnessed the development of a modem, professional system, and the forces that ... -
A politics of location : subjectivity and origins in the work of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1993)This thesis attempts to discover the links between concepts of identity and origins, and Canadian women's writing. The work of three English-speaking Canadian women writers, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood and Alice ... -
Social embeddedness, 'choices' and constraints in small business start-up : black women in business
(2007)Historically, black women's labour market experiences in the UK have been largely framed by factors that encouraged the racialisation of women's work. migration patterns, changes in the global economy and government ... -
Understanding the Agency of Diversity Managers: A Relational and Multilevel Investigation.
(2008)This thesis aims to provide a critical realist account of diversity managers' agency, incorporating a critique of the existing diversity management research. A multilevel and relational analytical framework is offered ...