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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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An investigation of Africans and Hongkongers relationship : a social psychological approach, Raymond AGYENIM-BOATENG

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A socio-cultural analysis of elder abuse in a non-western society of Ghana : theoretical approach and (multi-stakeholder) interventions for elder justice, Francis ARTHUR-HOLMES

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Two essays on pollution, trade and industries in China, Jie BAI (白洁)

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Challenging domesticity, mobilizing indigeneity : the Igorot migrant domestic workers of Hong Kong, Jose Kervin Cesar Belmonte CALABIAS

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Uncover the underground : distribution and population status of blind snakes and Bogadek’s burrowing lizards, Man Ho CHAN (陳文灝)

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Does non-financial information disclosure promote firm's exports? Evidence from China's mandatory CSR reporting regulation, Xin CHEN (陳欣)

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Incompatibilist arguments and compatibilist rebuttals, Wai Sing FOOK (霍煒昇)

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‘More or better?’ : finding the balance between equitable access and quality of higher education in Malaysia, Adam HAMZAH NOR BIN AEDY RAHMAN

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Information economy, employment vulnerability and the development of new urban marginality : the case of Bangladesh, Rasel HUSSAIN

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Using multiobjective optimization to solve multimodal optimization and constrained optimization problems, Jingyu JI (冀镜羽)

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Game-theoretic analysis of financing problems in online operations, Dianyao KANG (康殿堯)

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A longitudinal study of Covid stressors and wellbeing outcomes : the role of global meaning violation, mindfulness, meaning making, and meaning made, David KANSAKAR

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A socio-ecological barrier to regular migration, regularization and healthcare access for Myanmar irregular migrant workers in Thailand, Tual Sawn KHAI

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Integrating personality, situational ethical cues and proactive ethical behaviors : implications for work performance and well-being, Yu KOU (寇雨)

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Perceived similarity and relationship satisfaction : the role of attributional confidence, Ting Hin LEE (李庭軒)

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Essays on comparative statics for choice under risk and ambiguity, Tian LI (李甜)

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Dissertation on applied micro-economics, Wei LIU (劉薇)

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Issues on selling products via social media influencers, Zhenhao LI (李臻昊)

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The Sugar War : the response of Guangdong brown sugar to the provincial industrial sugar system, 1933-1936, Yiqun MAO (毛逸群)

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Social networks, access to healthcare, and the health-related quality of life of young informal workers in Nigeria’s construction industry, Ayomide Oluwaseyi OLADOSU

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Two essays on the tax consequences of auditor litigation risk : evidence from quasi-natural experiments, Felix OWUSU

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Sandurot festival as mugna : exploring modernity and belonging through the civic festival, Lady Flor Niñal PARTOSA

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Beyond economics and politics : a sociological review of local long-term care service provision in China, Zhen TIAN (田真)

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Gallery film and contemporary Chinese art : on Yang Fudong’s Beyond GOD and Evil-First Chapter and Endless Peaks, Bingxi WANG (王柄羲)

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One chinoiserie, two series : a comparative study of the French L'histoire de l’empereur de la Chine and the English Indian Manner tapestries, Yue WANG (王玥)

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Can investor communications discipline corporate misconduct? Evidence from a field experiment, Chen XU (徐晨)

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Personal life security, nonmonetary benefits and executive compensation : evidence from stand your ground laws, Zixuan ZENG (曾子軒)

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The Covid-19 crisis and intergenerational relations : the case of Hong Kong families with older parents ageing in the Greater Bay Area in Mainland China, Bowen ZHOU (周博聞)

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Married working women and work-family interface in Urban Ghana : a holistic approach, Kwaku ABREFA BUSIA

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Socioeconomic status, health, and health behaviours of school-aged adolescents : the psychosocial mechanisms of social capital, Evelyn Aboagye ADDAE

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Exploring the semantics and functionality of Ghanaianisms, James Nsoh ADOGPA

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Essays on the consequences of auditor regulatory oversight : evidence from PCAOB international inspections, Solomon Wise Dodzidenu ADZA

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The effects of online reviews and promotional messages on product performance : review helpfulness and the power of language, Ziru BAO (鮑子如)

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Essays on the effects of mergers on competition, Yiran CAO (曹奕然)

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On probabilistic reasoning of actual causation, Jingzhi FANG (方靜芝)

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Public sector unions and government financing, Qian HE (何倩)

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Democratization by foreign intervention : how different causes of intervention affect the outcome of democratization?, Pat Shu Roy HO (何拔紓)

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元明時期華北國家秩序的重建 : 軍屯、漕運和馬政 : 以大名府為例, Senhao HU (胡森豪)

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An Information-theoretic analysis of generative adversarial networks for image restoration in physics-based vision, Xudong KANG (康旭東)

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Assist conservation with microbiome? An investigation using native Amphibian species in Hong Kong, Pui Yin LAM (林沛賢)

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‘Aging in place’ or ‘stuck in place’? The aging in place experiences of older adults in a gentrifying neighborhood in Hong Kong, Ho Wing LAU (劉浩榮)

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Evaluation of preview cues to enhance recall of auditory sequential information, Tsz Chun Marco LAU (劉梓俊)

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Platform work, social risks and social welfare : a qualitative study on workers’ experiences and views in Hong Kong, Cham Kit MING (明湛杰)

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Investigating the Psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between parenting stress and mental health among adolescent mothers in Zambia, Kalunga Cindy NAKAZWE

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China’s rise and technology denials : a study of variations in allies’ cooperation with the United States, Cheuk Ling PONG (龐焯玲)

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Dilemmas, reactivity and paper support : the support conceptualisations and experiences of students with disabilities in Ghanaian higher education, Sarah Tara SAM

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Using a literature based discovery approach to study moderating effects and preventive mechanisms of online game addiction problems among gamers, Ananya SINHA CHOUDHURY

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American becoming : poetics, space, and race in the travel narratives of Herman Melville and Jack Kerouac, Yun SONG (宋昀)

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Inclusive development for social integration : a capability approach to youth-oriented Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), Paul Ogwang TULIBALEKA

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「迷霧時期」香港文學的「邊界」探索(1997-2014) : 論陳冠中、黃碧雲、韓麗珠小說中的文化身分, Yat Long WONG (黃逸朗)

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Entertainment media, propaganda, and popular support : evidence from China, Shouzhi XIA (夏守智)

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Experimental studies on prosocial, divisive and discriminatory behavior, Chen ZHANG (張琛)

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Corporate social responsibility and operating performance in life and health insurance market : evidence from China, Ji ZHANG (張吉)

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Materialities, discourses, and entanglements in gendered decision-making and practices : an ethnographic account of ‘fish mammy’ households in Ghana, Moses ADJEI

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Being an employee and an entrepreneur simultaneously : two essays on hybrid entrepreneurs’ wage work and entrepreneurial work outcomes, Eric Adom ASANTE

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中國古典美學範疇之“淡”, Zhou CAO (曹舟)

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Fictional characters and their discontents : a prolegomena to any future metaphysics of fictional entities, Shamik CHAKRAVARTY

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Subject formation in Hong Kong’s “alternative communities”, 2010-2020, Chor See CHAN (陳楚思)

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To self-enhance or self-verify? How choice difficulty influences product preference for low self-esteem consumer, Hoi Ching CHAN (陳凱晴)

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Interactive translation in cyberspace : translator-reader dynamics in online translation of children’s novels, Xuemei CHEN (陳雪梅)

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Effects of management and media disclosures of corporate tax evasion on investor judgments, Ming Wei Gabriel CHUA

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以譯而治 : 清前期多語文政治下的翻譯政策研究, Ke DENG (鄧科)

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Translating and literary agenting Anna Holmwood’s Legends of the Condor Heroes, Hong DIAO (刁洪)

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Security imperative of the belt and road initiative : a comparative study of Malaysia and Pakistan, Mateena HAMMAD

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Redefining the object of semiotic studies, Yiqiang JIN (金毅強)

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How do contracting, co-production and politics affect road maintenance efficiency : the case of Uganda, Miriam Nabawanga KATUNZE

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Examining the perceived meanings, motivations, benefits and mechanisms for Creating Shared Value (CSV) by Asian firms, Hamid KHURSHID

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Neo-Quinean and neo-Aristotelian metaontology : on explanation, theory choice, and the viability of ontological inquiry, Micheál Vincent LACEY

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Gender, risk-taking and organization form : evidence from the U.S. property-casualty insurance industry, Jing LI (李晶)

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Towards Satu Bangsa : a reevaluation of the race-based narrative and its impact on Chinese communities in Malaysia, Chun Lean LIM (林俊良)

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The roles of growth mindset and rational beliefs as personal resources on employees’ job performance and work engagement : applying the job demands-resources model in the Greater Bay Area, Nuoxun LIN (林諾洵)

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From Soviet periphery to Kazakh heartland : economic crises, ethnic politics, and the Great Russian emigration from Kazakhstan, 1970-2000, Alexey MALIKOV

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“We are Parents” : changing constructions of fatherhood and fathering in Urban Zambia, Aurick MUBITA

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The influences of academic discipline on work-based learning : the case of Hong Kong, Yeuk Nam NG (吳若楠)

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Practical perspective of market efficiency and comparison of empirical efficiency tests, Haoxiang PENG (彭皓翔)

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呂祖謙《東萊博議》研究, Shuai PU (蒲帥)

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Tracing the roots of disjunction : Dutertismo and the discourse of liberal democracy in the Philippines, Kristine Marie Tayo REYNALDO

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Data security and M&A, Yuan SUN (孫源)

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The relationship between rumination and metacognition : application of an innovative signal-detection approach, Chak Man TANG (鄧澤文)

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Republican autonomy : extending freedom as non-domination, Ezechiel THIBAUD

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Massive modularity : an ontological hypothesis or an adaptationist discovery heuristic?, Joseph David de Jesús VILLENA SALDAÑA

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Negotiating housing precarity : displacement and homing of migrant-tenants under urban redevelopment in Hong Kong, Ka Wai WU (胡家偉)

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「社會主義時期」的藏地「生態政治」與「政治生態」: 以阿來「機村史詩」爲例, Huaji XU (許華集)

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Multiple realization : fifty years of contesting intuitions, Lok Hang YUEN (阮樂行)

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Common auditor and supplier’s performance, Lei ZHUANG (庄磊)

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Effects of parental incarceration on their children : a study of children of incarcerated parents, Afua AMANKWAA

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The distinction problem of self-deception, Chi Yin CHAN (陳子然)

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State-contingent overconfidence : application to bank loans, Sze Nam CHAN (陳思楠)

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Customer’s operational efficiency and trade credit provision, Wai Ho CHAN (陳偉豪)

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Cold War intimacy beyond the Taiwan strait : sexual labour and Chinese modernities in the teahouse, I-Ting CHEN (陳逸婷)

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永恆逃逸的差異 : 以《流言》、《易經》及《小團圓》為例論張愛玲與重複, Lok Tung CHOI (蔡樂東)

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Worlds in a stochastic universe : on the emergence of world histories in minimal Bohmian Mechanics, Alexander EHMANN

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The role of information and knowledge of weather warnings in marine access behavior : a field experiment in coastal area of Bangladesh, Khan Mehedi HASAN

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The megaton mission : the role of the nuclear arms race in 1950s British imperialism, Joseph David Daniel HOLDING

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Risk invulnerability : the impact of a desirable background risk, Sai Kit HUI (許世傑)

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A study of graduate entrepreneurs in urban China : the case of Shenzhen, Yuyang KANG (康宇揚)

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Inspecting the role of positive emotions, adaptive coping, and psychological resources to explain the strengthening of resilience after stress exposure, David KANSAKAR

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Introversion and online word-of-mouth behavior : what roles do review website design and product design play?, Shu Ting LAU (劉紓庭)

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Selling to reference-dependent consumers, Hin Shing LEUNG (梁軒誠)

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Hukou decentralization and migrant students’ educational opportunities : case studies in Beijing and Shenzhen, China, Bo LI (李博)