MPhil Dissertations
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The role of communities of practice in shaping modernisation: A case study of change, persistence, and survival in the UK cockle-fishing industry 2011-2018.
(University of Exeter Sustianable Futures, Management, Cornwall, 26 June 2023)Most Management and Organisational Studies research attempts to conceptualise Communities of Practice (CoP) within and between organisations. In contrast, with an empirical focus on a single community of practitioners ... -
Methods to Improve Our Understanding of the Health and Welfare Status of Sheep (Ovis Aries) and the Influences of their Immediate Environment
(University of Exeter Health and Life sciences, 3 April 2023)Studies into the effective use of accelerometers in the automated assessment of sheep behaviour to improve welfare has increased exponentially with promising preliminary results. Previous research has focused primarily on ... -
Cornwall's Border: Celtic Frontier or Anglicised Territory?
(University of Exeter Humanities Penryn, 6 February 2023)Cornwall has had a long history of difference compared to the experience of other English counties. As landscape and identity have interwoven, the river Tamar has represented a clear divide between Cornwall and the ... -
How Bright and How Nasty: The Economics of Variable Aposematic Traits
(University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences, 16 May 2022)Although the theory about the evolution and maintenance of aposematism predicts distinct and uniform warning signals, variation in both signal and defence is common across many taxa, and some species also show correlations ... -
The effect of litigation risk on the quality of audits: evidence from cross-listed UK firms
(University of Exeter University of Exeter Business School, 7 March 2022)This thesis investigates whether cross-listing drives audit effort and results in higher-quality audits owing to a greater exposure to litigation risk in the US. I use new measures of audit effort taking advantage of the ...