▪ E-Business & E-Government Issues, Trends and Case Studies
▪ Contemporary Issues in developing countries
▪ Next Generation Computing (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, IoT)
▪ Technology-enabled Healthcare (mHealth / eHealth)
▪ Technology-enhanced Learning and eSkills
▪ Business Information Management
▪ Information Systems Management and Governance
▪ Technology-enabled Agriculture (mAgriculture / eAgriculture) & Environmental Sustainability
▪ Societal Implications of Technology – E.g. E-learning, M-Commerce
▪ Innovation and Competitive Advantage in IS
▪ e-Infrastructures, eGovernment and Public Service Delivery
▪ Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust
▪ Collaborative Open Innovation and Technology-enabled
▪ Global Development (including ICT4D)

▪ Behavioural Finance
▪ Capital Market Pricing and Microstructure
▪ Risk management and Asset financing
▪ Debt and Credit Rating
▪ Cost of Capital and Financing
▪ Financial Distress and Crisis
▪ Bank Efficiency and Stress Tests
▪ Interest and Exchange Rates
▪ Islamic Banking
▪ Infrastructure and Project Finance
▪ Microfinance
▪ Insurance and micro insurance
▪ Development Finance
▪ Real estate finance and management

▪ Accounting Challenges – Strategic Accounting
▪ Creative Accounting and Earnings Management
▪ Financial Reporting
▪ Auditing
▪ Taxation
▪ Corporate Governance
▪ Behavioural Accounting
▪ Public Sector Accounting
▪ Accounting Information System
▪ Accounting Standards and Regulation
▪ Globalization and Accounting Practices
▪ New and Emerging Roles for Accountants
▪ International Accounting Research, Education, and Practice

▪ Leadership Traits in a Dynamic World
▪ Business Negotiations
▪ Leadership Performance and Management Development
▪ Social Governance
▪ Regulatory and Business Change
▪ Public – Private Partnerships
▪ New Public Management and Economic Transformation
▪ Performance management

▪ Artificial Intelligence -driven Customer Experience in Tourism and Hospitality
▪ Language Translation and Cultural Adaptation
▪ Predictive Analytics for Tourism Trends
▪ Smart Tourism Infrastructure
▪ Language Learning and Artificial Intelligence
▪ Ethical and Cultural Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Tourism
▪ Artificial Intelligence-driven Marketing and Personalization
▪ Multilingual Content Creation and Localization
▪ Data-driven Decision Making in Tourism Management
▪ Cross-cultural Communication and Artificial Intelligence

▪ Consumer Behavior in the Digital Age
▪ Digital Marketing & Brand Engagement.
▪ Public Sector Marketing.
▪ Sustainability and Ethics in Marketing.
▪ Innovation Management and New Product Development.
▪ Health Care Marketing.
▪ Global Value Chains Development
▪ SME Internationalization.
▪ Social Media Research
▪ International Business Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management

▪ Energy - ICT for Power Delivery, Micro-grids
▪ Economic Resilience and Crisis Management
▪ Inclusive Economic Growth and Social Equity
▪ Regional Cooperation and Integration
▪ Poverty Alleviation Strategies
▪ Clean Cooking
▪ Energy Transition
▪ Productive Use of Energy
▪ Renewable Energy
▪ Sustainability and Economic Policy
▪ Regional Integration and Cooperation
▪ Technology and Operational Management
▪ Modern Operations Practices
▪ Behavioural Operations Management

▪ Operations Research/Optimization Models (Transportation, assignment, queuing, networks, linear programming etc.)
▪ Public and private procurement
▪ Innovations in procurement
▪ Public private partnerships
▪ Transportation and logistics management
▪ New Producer Development
▪ Supply Chain Integration
▪ Managing Innovations
▪ Supply Chain Management and Logistic
▪ Total Quality Management Emerging Issues
▪ Strategies for Managing Supply Chains

▪ Work, Culture & Organizations
▪ Managing Diversity in Business
▪ Intellectual Property Strategy & Management
▪ Project Management
▪ Human Resource Management Emerging Issues
▪ Contemporary Workforce
▪ Management in a Global Context
▪ Culture and Creative Industries
▪ Power & Politics in academic institutions
▪ Strategic Management Contemporary Issues
▪ Business sustainability
▪ Crisis and conflict management
▪ Organizational Transformation
▪ HR Models

▪ Money laundering
▪ Corporate governance
▪ Business Associations
▪ Employment and Labour regulations
▪ Taxation, banking and insurance regulations
▪ Regulatory issues in banking, finance, microfinance and investment

▪ Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship (including Social Entrepreneurship)
▪ Theorizing in entrepreneurship research
▪ Entrepreneurship Research and context
▪ Small and new firm growth
▪ Entrepreneurship and poverty
▪ The Dark side of entrepreneurship, informality and rent seeking
▪ Entrepreneurial Pasion
▪ Individual opportunity nexus
▪ Entrepreneurial Innovation and inclusivity
▪ Social and sustainable entrepreneurship
▪ Entrepreneurial teams and Incubation
▪ Returnee, Transnational, Diaspora and Immigrant entrepreneurship

• Developing a PhD concept
• Steps in a PhD proposal
• Different PhD models and the Mak best practices
• PhD politics and how to manage interfaces
• PhD synopsis by various prospective applicants
• PhD proposals from various students
• Publishing as a PhD requirement.