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The court of last resort : a reassessment of agency costs in the UK takeover market
(Heriot-Watt University Social Sciences, 2019-04)This thesis examines the role of agency costs in the context of takeover markets, which leads to a better understanding of the functioning of the market for corporate control and takeover likelihood. There has been ... -
Gig work in Scotland : an exploratory study of job quality among gig workers in Central Scotland
(Heriot-Watt University Social Sciences, 2020-06)Current views of gig work and the implications of these modern employment practices for workers and wider society are largely polarized. However, current presumptions regarding the quality of gig work have been mainly ... -
Do young people’s executive functioning capabilities impact their ability to apportion effort during a high intensity intermittent running task?
(Social Sciences Heriot-Watt University, 2020-05)Recent studies have investigated a potential link between an invasion games (e.g. rugby, football, field hockey) players executive functioning (EF) capabilities and their performance on the pitch (Verburgh, Scherder, van ... -
Unpacking the process of overseas knowledge recontextualisation in returnee entrepreneurship - a learning perspective : a study of returnee entrepreneurs in Vietnam
(Social Sciences Heriot-Watt University, 2020-07)International entrepreneurship research has recently been directed towards returnee entrepreneurship, a phenomenon in which individuals who acquire knowledge in overseas developed markets return to start businesses in ... -
Approximately there : positioning video-mediated interpreting in frontline police services
(Social Sciences Heriot-Watt University, 2020-06)This study looks at how UK police forces make use of video interpreting services to complete standard police procedures. Two frontline police services were examined: video relay service (VRS) calls to a Police Scotland’s ...
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