DBA Research in Action

CEIBA’s DBA candidates bring questions from their professional environments into doctoral research. Working with academics, they develop these questions through theory, empirical investigation and critical reflection, with the aim of contributing both to management practice and to broader knowledge.

DBA RESEARCHER

Zha Yingjun 查英俊

Continuous Improvement & Employee Empowerment

From water-treatment challenges to research on how leadership, empowerment and employee involvement foster continuous improvement.

DBA RESEARCHER

Ning Yibing 宁一冰

AI Capability & Responsible Innovation

From pressure to adopt AI to research on how firms build the capabilities required for responsible innovation.

DBA RESEARCHER

Hu Weiwei 胡伟伟

AI-Enabled Servitization & B2B Relationships

From technological change in the photovoltaic industry to research on how traditional and AI-enabled services shape customer relationships.

DBA RESEARCHER

Dai Yue 戴悦

Fatalistic Beliefs, Career Adaptability and Career Development

Beyond the assumption that fatalism is necessarily harmful: Non-linear relationships between helplessness and career adaptability

Our doctoral research community is growing. Additional researcher profiles will be added as projects progress from data collection to empirical analysis and dissemination.