Course director: Associate Professor Alan Simon
The course
Areas for masters research within the four Syme Business departments include:
* Accounting: Studies in all areas of financial and management accounting, auditing, corporate finance, investments and accounting information systems.
* Banking and Finance: Students will be provided with the opportunity to undertake research into specialised banking and finance topics including international banking and finance, treasury management and technology, prudential and legal banking regulations, corporate finance and strategic planning for financial institutions.
* Management: Suitable research applicants with interests in issues such as quality management, manufacturing strategies, operations management, systems thinking and learning organisations, organisational behaviour,leadership, international management and human resource development, will be encouraged.
* Marketing: Studies will provide students with the opportunity to undertake research into specialised marketing topics including strategic marketing planning, marketing communication and advertising, marketing research, logistics management, agribusiness, services marketing (including customer services), industrial marketing, retail management and international marketing.
Inquiries should be directed in the first instance to the course director.
Objectives
On completion of this course students will produce a rigorous and theoretically correct and practically relevant business related thesis.
Course structure
A candidate shall successfully complete the subject MGM8000 (Research methodology) and one of the following subjects:
* ACC5900 Thesis
* FIN5900 Thesis
* MGM5900 Thesis
* MKT5900 Thesis
Assessment
Research proposal and up to 50,000 word thesis.