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Management
"The faculty in the Management Department has been particularly successful at involving doctoral students in cutting edge research, and many such projects have culminated in co-authored publications at major academic journals in the management field." - Andrew D. Henderson, Graduate Advisor
The mission of the Ph.D. program in management is to graduate doctoral students who will shape the academic profession and the practice of management through their excellence in research, teaching and service. The majority of the program is designed to develop the students' research abilities and to prepare them to communicate that research to a variety of audiences. Our program places special emphasis on research collaboration between students and faculty. At the McCombs School, our students and faculty are colleagues and co-authors: students have many opportunities to collaborate with faculty - early in the program - on research projects that culminate in co-authored publications at major academic journals in the management field. An article in the Academy of Management Journal ranked Texas fourth in the nation in research productivity, based on publications in the most prestigious journals over a recent five-year period. Many of these publications were co-authored with doctoral students.
Our program places particular emphasis on training students to conduct inter-disciplinary research. Through coursework and collaboration with faculty, students learn how draw from theoretical traditions in sociology, psychology, economics, and related fields to develop original theoretical perspectives on organizational and strategic phenomena, and they learn how to conduct rigorous empirical studies to test their ideas.
Graduates of the program are also expected to exhibit the skills needed to teach management courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. By giving students the opportunity to teach courses in their areas of specialization under the direction of a faculty member, the program provides a foundation that helps graduates become excellent teachers.
In short, through extensive research collaboration with faculty and other close mentoring by faculty, our program is carefully designed to prepare students to succeed in an academic position at a top business school, while also furnishing an intellectually exciting and enjoyable doctoral experience.
The doctoral program in management provides an opportunity for specialized study in Organizations & Strategy and in Operations Management. The Organizations & Strategy doctoral program is composed of two major concentrations: Organization Science and Strategic Management.
Organization Science covers the areas of organizational behavior and organization theory and design. Major topics studied include individual, group and organizational decision-making, organizational and industry-level change, organizational culture, strategic human resources management, ethical dilemmas and deviant behavior in organizations. Strategic Management is concerned with the role and problems of general managers. Major topics include strategy formulation and implementation, strategic decision processes, executive compensation, diversification, competitive strategy, industry analysis, selection and behavior of general managers, the composition and processes of top management teams and corporate governance.
The management faculty is composed of 25 individuals with research interests in organizational science or strategic management. Many of them have national and international research reputations. Some of them have recently received prestigious research awards from the academic community i.e. two Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Awards and an Academy of Management Best Book Award. Two of the Department's faculty are fellows of the Academy of Management.
Members of the management faculty hold offices in national professional associations, serve on editorial boards of major journals and serve as consultants to major corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The Department faculty has had recent success at obtaining large research grants from corporations (e.g. IBM and AMD), foundations (e.g. the Construction Industry Institute) and government agencies (e.g. National Science Foundation).
