Business Administration Doctoral Program (Ph.D., 3,5 - 5 Years)

In a PhD thesis, at least one of the following is sought: Introducing an innovation to science, developing a novel scientific method, applying a known method to a new field.

The course aims to give the PhD students “the methods to be followed after collecting data for a problem to be solved”. The main purpose of the course is to provide the PhD students with an understanding of research findings.

This course aims to extend and deepen the understanding of different research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences and to develop skills for applying different research methods in the broad range of business and management disciplines. This course will prepare students to develop their research proposals and guide them through the process of identifying and formulating research problems, conducting literature review, choosing a theoretical perspective that will inform the methodology, selection of research strategy and design and the application of particular research methods of data gathering and analysis.

After the successful completion of the seminar and courses, the PhD qualifying exam measures the students’ breadth of knowledge as well as the depth of their understanding in their field and their research capabilities in their PhD studies.

The aim of the seminar course is to improve the student’s skills in conducting research in an area of interest for the student, preferably a topic related to the thesis work, and reporting the research findings both verbally and in writing.