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Ten Names, Ten Public Records: Inside the Dissertations Powering the EIM Research Institute

Ten Names, Ten Public Records: Inside the Dissertations Powering the EIM Research Institute

Ten Names, Ten Public Records: Inside the Dissertations Powering the EIM Research Institute

Most business schools talk about research. Few can point to a public, verifiable trail of it. At the European Institute of Management (EIM), that trail runs directly through ten names: doctoral graduates whose completed dissertations now sit in ProQuest, the reference database universities and libraries worldwide use to catalogue dissertations and theses.

This is not a claim EIM makes about itself. It is a claim anyone can click through and verify — which is exactly why it matters more than most marketing copy about "research excellence."

The Dissertations: EIM's Real Evidence Base

The EIM Research Institute describes itself plainly: a showcase of academic excellence, spanning a wide array of disciplines. Behind that sentence sits a growing, independently indexed body of doctoral work. Each of the following names links directly to the graduate's dissertation record on ProQuest — not to an EIM summary page, but to the external, third-party index entry itself:

Ten graduates from 2025 and early 2026. Ten independently catalogued dissertations.

For a prospective candidate, that distinction matters more than it might first appear. A dissertation that only exists on an institution's own website is an institutional claim. A dissertation indexed in ProQuest has passed through an external cataloguing process — a different, more durable kind of evidence that the work was completed to a standard recognised far outside the four walls of the awarding institution.

Why the Dissertation List Is the Real Story

Doctoral candidates are the least visible part of most institutions' research output — they're mid-career professionals, not full-time academics with decades of publication history behind them. That's precisely what makes this list notable: it isn't faculty citing faculty. It's working professionals — DBA and PhD candidates who kept their jobs while completing original, defensible, externally catalogued research — carrying their names into the same global index used by full-time scholars.

The EIM Research Institute is explicit that faculty actively push doctoral students toward this outcome: to write, to submit to peer-reviewed outlets, to present at external doctoral seminars and workshops, and to build a genuine footprint in the academic community rather than a private file drawer of unread chapters. The ten ProQuest entries above are what that push looks like when it actually lands.

EIM is equally explicit that this list is a snapshot, not a complete archive — arguably a more credible posture than an institution claiming to have documented every paper its students have ever produced.

The Faculty Backing That Supervision

Dissertations don't reach ProQuest without supervision, and EIM's supervising Fellows carry their own independently verifiable publication trails. Recent books co-authored by EIM Research Institute Fellows have gone through established academic presses, including:

Recent peer-reviewed journal output from the same research community includes an article by Wahler and Neubert in Inderscience and a market-entry study by Neubert et al., indexed on ResearchGate. The Institute has also picked up independent recognition at academic gatherings such as the EuroMed Academy of Business conference — a juried acknowledgment that doesn't come from simply showing up.

Verifiable Beyond EIM's Own Website: Google Scholar

The most convincing evidence rarely sits on an institution's own domain — it sits on platforms EIM doesn't control. A Google Scholar author search for eim.education surfaces faculty and doctoral researchers with active, citable profiles under verified faculty.eim.education and student.eim.education email domains — not generic institutional placeholders.

Prof. Dr. Daphne Halkias, Dean of Doctoral Programs at EIM, maintains a Google Scholar profile documenting 15 academic books and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers built over three decades, spanning entrepreneurship, family business, leadership, cross-cultural negotiation, and research methodology. Her record includes independent recognition such as a 2019 Emerald Literati Award and a 2021 MDPI Best Paper Award.

Dr. Peter Kremeier holds a Google Scholar profile under a verified EIM faculty address, with a research footprint in respiratory therapy, health care, and medical education — directly relevant to EIM's healthcare-facing programmes. Doctoral researchers, not just senior faculty, appear too: individuals with verified student.eim.education addresses already surface in the citation networks of established professors at other universities, meaning EIM doctoral candidates are visible inside the wider scholarly graph before they've even finished their degree.

Why Institutional Research Identity Increasingly Matters

Individual researcher profiles and dissertation records are one layer of verification. As global scholarly infrastructure matures, the organisations behind research — not just the researchers themselves — are increasingly expected to be identifiable in standardised, persistent ways. This is the function served by registries such as the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a global, community-led registry of open, persistent identifiers for research and funding organisations, used by publishers, funders, and databases such as Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID to disambiguate institutional affiliations in scholarly metadata.

In practice, this is part of the same broader shift that makes ProQuest-indexed dissertations meaningful: research increasingly lives inside interoperable, verifiable systems rather than isolated institutional web pages. For prospective doctoral candidates evaluating an institution's research credibility, checking whether — and how — an institution's research output surfaces in this wider infrastructure (via registries such as ROR.org) is a reasonable, evidence-based step, alongside looking at faculty publication records and independently indexed dissertations.

EIM itself has a registered entry in this system: EIM's ROR record. Its presence in the registry means EIM is machine-readably identifiable to the same publishers, funders, and citation databases that faculty books and articles already flow through — one more link in the same chain of verifiability as the dissertations above.

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What This Means for Prospective Candidates

For a working professional weighing a doctorate, the practical question is rarely "does this institution talk about research?" — most do. The sharper question is: can its research claims be independently verified, name by name?

At EIM, the answer sits in a handful of places any candidate can check today: ten dissertations on ProQuest, faculty publications with named international presses and journals, and faculty and student profiles on Google Scholar. Doctoral candidates entering EIM's PhD in Management, PhD in Healthcare Studies, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, or DBA programmes join that ecosystem directly — supervised toward the same kind of externally verifiable output, not just a private diploma.

For candidates who already have a substantial body of dissertation work underway elsewhere, EIM's Dissertation Completion Pathway offers a structured route to bring that research across the finish line under the same research-driven supervision model.

Ready to see where your research could lead? Book a one-on-one consultation to discuss which doctoral pathway fits your background and research interests.