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How can one enterprise operate responsibly within two different governance systems? This study compares Russian and Chinese institutional and legal arrangements and proposes an integrated framework for cross-border corporate decision-making, accountability and risk management.
Read the research overviewA practical research pathway for experienced managers: frame an organisational problem, test assumptions against evidence, assess strategic options and turn the analysis into a coherent applied DBA dissertation.
Read the research overviewA two-part doctoral manuscript develops an integrated model of preventive care: clinical risk assessment, personalised support, multidisciplinary organisation, digital monitoring and the economics of a premium clinic.
Read the research overviewAn applied dissertation examines how strategic intent, organisational capabilities, delivery processes and feedback can be coordinated across a digital company’s operating model.
Read the research overviewA comparative dissertation examines digital tourism ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific region and the conditions for adapting their practices to Kazakhstan.
Read the research overviewAn applied doctoral study considers how corporate management instruments can be adapted to private medical organisations, including the organisational setting of dental care.
Read the research overviewA comparative legal dissertation connects corporate governance, capital markets, insolvency, compliance and financial technologies across national legal systems.
Read the research overviewA joint doctoral manuscript develops a governance perspective on the potential return of foreign companies to a market affected by sanctions and institutional uncertainty.
Read the research overviewA thematic collection of separately attributed DBA manuscripts examines business-process outsourcing in warehouse logistics and its implications for a geographically distributed organisation.
Read the research overviewAn archival DBA dissertation examines organisational models, management communications and decision criteria for a construction enterprise operating in a competitive environment.
Read the research overviewPlanned studies from the Academy's 80-project agenda. Each detailed page contains a research problem, hypothesis, proposed methods, work packages and sources.
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How should boards allocate accountability when algorithms recommend strategic decisions?
Which board practices distinguish public-service obligations from commercial targets?
When does informal family authority undermine compliance across jurisdictions?
What can board members actually verify in corporate sustainability disclosures?
How can firms price uncertainty in compute demand, energy costs and model obsolescence?
Which treasury design protects cash conversion when routes and payment terms change?
How should long-lived industrial assets reflect regulation, energy demand and adaptation expenditure?
Which financing structures bridge the gap between laboratory proof and investable product?
Which work should remain discretionary when AI systems enter management routines?
Which leading indicators detect executive dysfunction before financial deterioration?
How does repeated crisis exposure alter organisational learning?
How should executives choose strategy when competing trade and investment scenarios remain plausible?
When does joining a platform improve access but weaken bargaining power?
Under what conditions does supply-chain proximity create genuine strategic value?
How do resource constraints change location and growth decisions?
How can participating jurisdictions coordinate corridor governance without obscuring local accountability?
What actually breaks when a transnational data workflow confronts new transfer restrictions?
Which governance practices help foreign projects withstand policy discontinuities?
How should exporters choose routes when transit, insurance and geopolitical risks change simultaneously?
Do digital trade documents lower SME costs or merely shift complexity to new intermediaries?
How exposed are industrial value chains to highly concentrated material processing?
What happens when many critical operations rely on the same small set of providers?
How can physical hazard exposure propagate through credit, insurance and trade?
Through which channels does sovereign risk affect private investment decisions?
How can companies detect legal exposure without relying on static country risk lists?
Can realistic uncertainty exercises transfer more effectively to executive decisions than lectures alone?
Which institutions allow smaller regions to commercialise scientific research?
Which local factors translate research intensity into durable firm creation?
How can researchers avoid mistaking executive narratives for verified organisational facts?
When do synthetic datasets support legitimate method development but fail substantive inference?
Can qualitative scenarios be transparent enough for independent critique?
What scientific information is lost when multiple indicators collapse into one index?
How do cyber incidents and energy shortages interact across infrastructure?
Which feedback loops determine whether circularity reduces rather than relocates environmental burden?