Topic Proposal Form for Leicester Business School Dissertation

This is a topic proposal form for postgraduate students at Leicester Business School to indicate the area they wish to study for their dissertation. The form requires the applicant's personal information, programme of study, indicative titles for possible dissertation topic areas, keywords, seminal journal articles, and modules the proposed topic(s) draw upon.

We encourage all postgraduate students to select research topics that reflect the areas
within which they wish to deepen their business knowledge.
Please use this form to indicate the area you wish to study, bearing in mind the
requirements of your programme of study. We cannot guarantee that students will be
supervised by their preferred supervisor.
Applicant
Last Name: First
Name:
DMU Email
Address: Student no.
Programme of
study:
The research
Indicative Titles for possible dissertation topic areas:
1. Employee resistance towards organizational change
2. Link between employee’s well-being and their performance
3. Exchange rate volatility and Trade
List up to 5 key words or phrases that suitably describe your dissertation topic
E.g. organisational behaviour, innovation, technology, consumer behaviour, entrepreneurship, brand
management. Please do not use your programme of study as keywords, i.e. NOT International Business,
Management, HRM, Finance
1. Organizational behavior
2. Employee behavior
3. Innovation
4. Exchange rate
5. Trade pattern
Identify key (seminal) journal articles and/or books that you expect to influence
your work, and those authors/ contributors of theories and ideas on whose work
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Topic proposal form
Submission date:
Decision date:
Allocation:
Initials:

you intend to draw upon (in Harvard Style)
e.g. Mintzberg, H., & Gosling, J. (2002). Educating managers across borders. Academy
of Management Learning and Education, 1, 64–76.
Argyris, C. (1980). Some limitations of the case method: Experiences in a management
development program. Academy of Management Review, 5, 291–298.
1. Benn, S., Edwards, M. and Williams, T., 2014. Organizational change for corporate
sustainability. Routledge.
2. Alvesson, M. and Sveningsson, S., 2015. Changing organizational culture: Cultural
change work in progress. Routledge.
3. LePine, M.A., Zhang, Y., Crawford, E.R. and Rich, B.L., 2016. Turning their pain to
gain: Charismatic leader influence on follower stress appraisal and job
performance. Academy of Management Journal, 59(3), pp.1036-1059.
4. Della Corte, P., Ramadorai, T. and Sarno, L., 2016. Volatility risk premia and exchange
rate predictability. Journal of Financial Economics, 120(1), pp.21-40.
Indicate which modules your proposed topic(s) draw upon
ACFI5007 International Taxation Policies
ACFI5018 Risk Management
ACFI5020 Accounting for Managers
ACFI5021 International Finance
ACFI5022 Strategic and Financial Decision Making
ACFI5029 Corporate Governance
ACFI5031 Internal Control and Audit
ACFI5056 Global Supply Chain Management
CORP5039 International Strategic Management, Markets and Resources
CORP5042 Creative Action in International Organisations
CORP5060 Corporate Social Responsibility
CORP5061 Managing the Client Experience and Expectations
CORP5066 Contemporary Business Model Generation
CORP5068 Critical Management in a Global Context
CORP5069 People Management and Organisations
 ECON5006 International Trade Theory and Policy
 HRMG5027 Managing Organisational Change
 HRMG5057 Managing Employment Relations
HRMG5059 International Human Resource Management
LCBS5002 Business Creation and Innovation
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MARK5054 International Marketing
MARK5055 Managing Advertising and Communications
MARK5062 Social and Sustainable Face of Marketing
POPP5007 Globalisation
Other (please
state)
Signature of Researcher:............................................................................ Date: ………….…….
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