Business Management

time: 2020-07-01

Program: Doctoral Program in Business Management
Mode of Study: Full time
Years of Study: 3 years
Degree Awarded: Doctor of Management
Credits Required for Graduation: 12 (incl. 8 of compulsory courses and 4 of elective courses)

Objectives

The program aims to cultivate high caliber professional researchers in business management who
  - have solid and profound theoretical foundation and systematic in-depth professional knowledge;
  - stay at the research frontier of management theory and grasp the development trend of management science;
  - master the normative management research paradigm;
  - are able to independently conduct research with rigorous and innovative scientific spirit.

Major Research Fields

1. Corporate Strategic Management
2. Corporate Finance and Capital Market
3. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
4. Organizational Communication and Management

Cultivation Mode

Each doctoral student is assigned an academic supervisor from the faculty to provide supervision on the student’s study and research. Under the guidance of their supervisor, doctoral students should draw up a study plan within two weeks after registration. Students are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to the Doctoral Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology and complete the required social practice session by the end of the third semester. During the program, students must attend at least 15 academic lectures. Students may select elective courses in management science and engineering and obtain credits. Admitted students with master degree in cross-disciplines (disciplines or special fields of study are totally different from the current ones) have to, under the guidance of their supervisor, make up three specialized compulsory courses of this major. Students must complete all these make-up courses which are included in the study plan, but no credits will count toward the doctoral degree.

Doctoral Thesis

Students should draw up a thesis proposal in the third semester. Upon completion of the thesis writing, students can apply for their thesis to be reviewed and the oral defense. Students must satisfy the School’s requirements for degree awarding on academic paper(s) publication before they initiate their thesis to be reviewed. Thesis defense is arranged according to the Rules for the Implementation of Graduation Degrees of South China University of Technology and the Regulations of the Applications for Thesis Defense of South China University of Technology.