PhD in Management
We offer a high-quality PhD programme in Management that meets the requirements for present and future management, both nationally and internationally.
Study facts
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Campus: Drammen -
Credits: 180 -
Duration: 4 years, with work duty or 3 years full time research -
Teaching Language: English -
Admission requirements -
Academic background -
How to apply external
About the programme
This programme seeks to bring academic research in management closer to management practice in business, non-profit, and public organisations, thereby focusing research on topics that will generate new knowledge for real world problems.
Solving real world problems
Research can be related to planning, acquiring, developing, organising, leading, and controlling the human, financial, material, intellectual, or intangible resources to achieve organisational objectives efficiently and effectively. These research areas are of high strategic importance as organizations strive to meet evolving challenges and opportunities in an ever increasing global, advanced, and fragmented world.
Academic content
The PhD programme will be based on a broad definition of management as a core and overarching field of research in business schools. The focus will be on management as the process in business, non-profit, and public organisations related to planning, acquiring, developing, organising, leading, and controlling the human, financial, material, intellectual, or intangible resources to achieve organisational objectives efficiently and effectively.
Management is a broad, yet well-defined field of research within the social sciences that has membership organizations including academics and practitioners, dedicated scientific journals, and academic programmes offered at all levels. Management is a core academic field within any business school and an important element in all study programmes.
The PhD in Management will focus on balancing rigor and relevance. By training students in rigorous execution of research, sustainable business strategy development, and fundamental substantive theories in management-relevant research fields, the programme will provide students with the knowledge and ability to engage in critical thinking with regard to promoting sustainable social development.
The overall aim of the programme is to produce candidates of the highest international standards who can carry out high-level research suitable for publication in leading academic journals and other outlets and who are capable of addressing research issues important to academia, business practice, and society.
Our PhD Committee
- Leader: Professor Eiri Elvestad, Vice Dean RDI & PhD.
USN School of Business - Professor Anja Hagen Olafsen
Department of Business, Marketing and Law, campus Ringerike - Associate professor Carl Åberg
Department of Business, Strategy and Political Science, campus Kongsberg - Professord Håvard Ness, Department of Business, Marketing and Law
- Professor Martin Falk
Department of Business and IT, campus Bø - Ph.d Research Fellow Dimitrios Polychronopoulos
Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies, Campus Porsgrunn
- Ph.d Research Fellow Cathrine Furseth
Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, campus Vestfold - Professor Etty Ragnhild Nilsen (external member)
USN Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, campus Porsgrunn
Study Plan
A study plan describes the content, structure and organization of a study programme. To each study plan there is a set of course plans that describe the different courses. In the course plan you will also find a reading list. Below you will find a study model that shows you which courses that are taught in each term. In the study model you'll also find links to each course plan.
Latest published study plan for phd in managementMandatory and elective courses
The learning component consists of 45 ECTS of which 15 ECTS are mandatory courses; 5 ECTS are individual core courses, and 25 ECTS are elective courses.
Research groups
PhD students enrolled in the program are involved in one of the faculties research groups:
- Collaborative Innovation, Societal transformation and Operations Management
- Digital transformation
- Events, experiences and culture-based industries
- Management Information Systems
- Market and Strategy
- New Perspectives on Work-Life and Organisations
- Political Culture
- Research in Arts and Design (RAAD)
- Research group in Law
- Societal Analysis
- Sustainability Management
- Utdanningspolitikk og utdanningspraksis
- Work Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- Business Management and Economics
PhD candidates
Campus
The PhD research fellows in Management are employed at one of the departments and administered by the USN School of Business at Campus Drammen.