All Outputs (9)

Customer-centricity, resilience and flexibility in the legal services sector (2025)
Thesis
Pepperell, B. (2025). Customer-centricity, resilience and flexibility in the legal services sector. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5087937

The aim of this thesis is to identify and investigate the disconnect between contemporary client expectations and law firms’ current ability to deliver on those expectations, in the context of a chronically underfunded justice system.
It goes on to... Read More about Customer-centricity, resilience and flexibility in the legal services sector.

From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980 (2021)
Journal Article
Lu, Q., Toms, S., & Wei, Y. (2023). From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980. Business history, 65(4), 656-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1883000

This research contributes to British multinational banking history, post-acquisition integration and legitimacy research, by exploring HSBC’s top management control integration with its first two acquired British banks, during the period 1960–1980, f... Read More about From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980.

Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979 (2019)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2021). Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979. Business history, 63(2), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1552679

In the late twentieth century, the international joint venture (IJV) became an increasingly important yet unstable organisational form of international business. Based on insights provided by the Mid-Med Bank of Malta during the period 1975-1979, thi... Read More about Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979.

Export processing zones (EPZs) in Tanzania : impact and influencing factors (2017)
Thesis
Kiria, J. S. Export processing zones (EPZs) in Tanzania : impact and influencing factors. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220466

This thesis is an attempt to understand the impact of, and factors influencing the outcomes of EPZs in a latecomer context, using Tanzania as a case study. Also, it aims to understand why governments in developing context preserve tax incentives. The... Read More about Export processing zones (EPZs) in Tanzania : impact and influencing factors.

Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84 (2014)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2014). Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84. Business history, 56(8), 1262-1280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.876533

This study aims to fill in the gaps in existing business history research regarding post-acquisition integration by adopting a case study of the post-acquisition integration process between HSBC and Mercantile Bank (MB) 1959–84. It explores the impac... Read More about Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84.

EU public procurement, the social dimension and its building capacity (2013)
Thesis
Calleja, A. EU public procurement, the social dimension and its building capacity. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215869

This thesis attempts to prove how the flexible application of public procurement has the potential to realise a social model of integration in the European Union wherein the European citizen is the key actor in the integration process.

The integra... Read More about EU public procurement, the social dimension and its building capacity.

The US government dual banking regulation levels, transaction costs and HSBC's strategy in acquiring Marine Midland Banks, Inc., 1978-80 (2010)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2010). The US government dual banking regulation levels, transaction costs and HSBC's strategy in acquiring Marine Midland Banks, Inc., 1978-80. Business history, 52(6), 955-977. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2010.511184

This paper undertakes a case study of HSBC acquiring Marine Midland Banks, Inc. (MMBI) in the US between 1978 and 1980, a historic incident that had a catalytic impact on the whole debate about foreign banking in the US and re-examination of the rest... Read More about The US government dual banking regulation levels, transaction costs and HSBC's strategy in acquiring Marine Midland Banks, Inc., 1978-80.

Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government (2008)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2008). Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government. Enterprise & society, 9(1), 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm106

We use the tools of transaction cost politics (TCP) developed from transaction cost economics and economic analysis, to analyze the business relationship building between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), the largest and most succ... Read More about Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government.

Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China (2007)
Journal Article
Lu, Q., & Dewhurst, J. (2007). Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 16(52), 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560701314487

Because of the excess demand for branch licences and the Chinese government’s policy to effectively ration banking licences, this paper suggests explaining the allocation of branch licences by the objectives of the Chinese government rather than by t... Read More about Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China.