Possible Questions PHD DP Mock

1. Can you summarize your research in one sentence?
Research Title+ by utilizing Quantitative method
To examine the impact of CBSL CG strctures on finan……through

employing quantitative method and evaluating secondary data
obtained from …
2. What is the idea that binds your thesis together?
What is the idea that creates the need for the research(Problem st+
background)
3. What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research?

Need of the research (problem statement)
4. What are the main issues and debates in this subject area?
Local issues+ industry problem (problem statement)
5. Which of these does your research address?

Problem statement
6. What is the research problem? What phenomenon(event) are you

trying to explain/understand?
Problem statement
7. Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling?

Problem statement+ significance of the study
8. What contribution do you expect to make from this research?what

theoretical gaps are you trying to fill?
Who can get the benefit out of this research-explain
9. How did your research questions emerge? What are your research
questions? Would the answer to these research questions provide
answer to your research problem?
Research questions emerged from the problem statement. Need to

highlight the things that you are trying to explore. Highlight the part
of the problem statement and say the research questions have been
emerged from the problem statement.
10. What are your research objectives? Have you stated them
clearly? Can you achieve the understanding of your research problem
through these objectives?
Research questions emerged from the problem statement. Need to
highlight the things that you are trying to explore. Highlight the part
of the problem statement and say the research questions have been
emerged from the problem statement.
11. Have you collected and reviewed enough literature? Have you
been exhaustive in your literature search? Is your literature
current/up to date?
Meta analysis-from the beginning of the subject area to date
12. Have you obtained local literature on this topic?

Sufficient local literature needs to be shown.
13. Have you reviewed and not merely copied the literature?
Avoid plagiarism and execute in your own language
14. Have you written the literature coherently?

This research is written from coherence perspective and no
fragmentation.
15. Have you included in the literature the significant

theories ,concepts, factors and variables connected with your
research?
Can say yes and explain
16.Who has had the most substantial influence on the development of your
subject area in theory and practice?
Peledagama Arachchige Ishan Pramod Perera1, Sithy Safeena

M.G.H2, Athambawa Haleem3-Corporate Governance and
Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka (2020)
The study obtained the research data from annual reports of listed
twelve domestic commercial banks over the period from 2012 to 2019.
The researcher conducted correlation analysis and multi regression

analysis to examine the objectives of the study.
Kumudini Heenatigala- Corporate Governance Practices and Firm
Performance of Listed Companies in Sri Lanka(2011)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between
corporate governance practices and firm performance in Sri Lanka, as
a result of the adoption of code of best practice on corporate
governance in 2003 and the extent of changes to corporate governance
practices four years after (2007). During this period ), the firms that
operated in Sri Lanka were affected by political and economic
instability. However, the stock market performed well.
This study is a comparative analysis to gauge the changes to

corporate governance practices from 2003 to 2007. A sample of 37
companies was selected from the top 50 listed companies in The
Lanka Monthly Digest 50 (LMD) for the years 2003 and 2007. The
selection was determined by the availability of data for both years.
Descriptive statistics from the study showed a significant increase in

corporate governance practices between 2003 and 2007 for board
composition, board committees and corporate social responsibility
reporting. As a result of the increased governance practices in 2007,
this study provides evidence in support of a positive relationship for
separate leadership, board composition, board committees and firm
performance based on return on equity. Both board composition and
board committees also had a significant relationship with performance
measured by Tobin’s Q in 2007. However, corporate social
responsibility reporting practices by the firms in Sri Lanka did not
report any relationship to firm performance in 2007.
In this study, the positive relationship between corporate governance
structures, separate leadership, board composition, board committees
and firm performance indicate that firms have implemented corporate
governance strategies, which have resulted in higher profitability and
share price performance.
Kjanthan- Do The Publicly Listed Non-Bank Finance Companies
Comply With Corporate Governance Policies & Practices Have
Better Financial Performance In The Sri Lankan Context?
17.What are the three most important papers that relate to your study?
Above
18.What published work is closets to yours and what are the differences?
Above
19.Where did you get your research framework? Is it your own? Why this
framework?
It is formed based on empirical perspective and theoretical perspective?
20.How do you justify this framework?

It is justified from my empirical and theoretical literature
21.What is the governing theory/theories in your framework?
Agency Theory……
22.What are your dependent variables? How do your dependent variables

reflect the phenomenon under study? How do you measure your dependent
variables?
22.What are your independent variables?
23.How do you measure these independent variables? Whose measurements

are you using? Why?
Scale? Adopted adapted or developed?
24.Are there moderating variables? Why these moderating variables?
25.Are there intervening variables? Why these intervening variables?

(full mediation/partial mediation)
26.What are the expected relationships between the independent variables

and dependent variables? Why do you expect these relationships?
Cause and effect relationship and correlation
In CFs,we use one arrow. One arrow refers to cause and effect relationship.
Then refer to hypotheses. We can say non directional hypotheses as
literature does not support
27.Do your hypothesis statements reflect the relationship shown in your

research model/framework?
P value-o.o5
28.Are there any definite directions in the relationships between your dv and
ivs emerging from the literature?
29.What is your unit of analysis?
30.Are your measurements referring to the same unit of analysis?
31.What is the population of your sample? What list directory you are
using?
What sampling tecjnique are you going to use?why?how are you going to
choose the sample from the population?
Are there alternative ways of measuring your varibles?IF there are why
choose this one?
Why use a five point scale?what about seven point scale?
IS not your questionare too short or too long?
What statistical tools are you using to test each hypothesis?

SPSS
Why do you think this tool is appropriate?

Why SPSS is sufficient
How did you deal with the ethical implocations of your work?
University perspective and own perspective
How has your view of your research topic changed?

Certain things have been changed but min target not changed
41.How have you evaluated your work?
This reseach follows all the academic regulations and academic criteria
How do you know that your findings are correct?

MEasur4ment was corrct/st tools correctly used.Therefore findings are
correct.
What are the strongese and weekest part in your work?
Stongets part-followed all the critieria of academic reasehc.Find the gap/set

objectives/using lit revir amdmdm
Weekest-limitations time /
What would have improved your work?

For future studies-may be consideir LSBs as well
To what extent do your contributiins generalize?
Who will be most interested in your work?

Future reserachers/CBSL/Policy mkers
What is the relevance of your work to other reseachers?

Further researchers
What is the relevance of your work to practicionors?
Where did you intedn to pubclish this research

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1. Can you summarize your research in one sentence?

Research Title+ by utilizing Quantitative method

To examine the impact of CBSL CG strctures on finan……through

2. What is the idea that binds your thesis together?

3. What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research?

5. Which of these does your research address?

6. What is the research problem? What phenomenon(event) are you

7. Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling?

8. What contribution do you expect to make from this research?what

Research questions emerged from the problem statement. Need to

12. Have you obtained local literature on this topic?

14. Have you written the literature coherently?

15. Have you included in the literature the significant

Can say yes and explain

Peledagama Arachchige Ishan Pramod Perera1, Sithy Safeena

The researcher conducted correlation analysis and multi regression

This study is a comparative analysis to gauge the changes to

Descriptive statistics from the study showed a significant increase in

It is formed based on empirical perspective and theoretical perspective?

20.How do you justify this framework?

22.What are your dependent variables? How do your dependent variables

22.What are your independent variables?

23.How do you measure these independent variables? Whose measurements

Scale? Adopted adapted or developed?

24.Are there moderating variables? Why these moderating variables?

25.Are there intervening variables? Why these intervening variables?

26.What are the expected relationships between the independent variables

Cause and effect relationship and correlation

27.Do your hypothesis statements reflect the relationship shown in your

29.What is your unit of analysis?

30.Are your measurements referring to the same unit of analysis?

Why use a five point scale?what about seven point scale?

IS not your questionare too short or too long?

What statistical tools are you using to test each hypothesis?

Why do you think this tool is appropriate?

How has your view of your research topic changed?

How do you know that your findings are correct?

What are the strongese and weekest part in your work?

Stongets part-followed all the critieria of academic reasehc.Find the gap/set

What would have improved your work?

To what extent do your contributiins generalize?

Who will be most interested in your work?

What is the relevance of your work to other reseachers?

What is the relevance of your work to practicionors?

Where did you intedn to pubclish this research

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