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duration4 years
languageEnglish
locationBlended
intakeOctober
FormatPart-Time (Blended)
Face-to-Face3 periods in Spain. 2 weeks each period
AREAS
DBA program provides students with fundamental knowledge about the science of management with a special focus on research methods, including quantitative/qualitative methods and eight different areas.
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Accounting
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Financial reporting
- Auditing
- Management Control
- Executive Compensation
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What is the effect of managers’ choices on financial reporting?
Entrepeneurship
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Opportunity
- Informal Businesses
- Organizational Evolution
- Decision-Making
- Investors
- Innovation
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Family Firms
- Social Entrepreneurship
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What drives entrepreneurial activity by those at the base of the pyramid?
- How human factors influence the evolution of organizations?
- How multiple venture signals affect decisions of public investors?
- What makes corporate innovation efforts successful?
- How family owners make strategic decisions under uncertainty?
- How to create a business that successfully achieves both economic performance and social value?
FINANCE
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Banking
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Market
- Fintech
- Funding of Entrepreneurship
- Real Estate
SELECTED RESERCH QUESTIONS
- How is fintech changing mortgage markets?
- How can we value intangible investments?
- How can we develop markets in business angels, venture capital, and crowdfunding for SMEs?
- What is the market value of liquidity?
- Do banking crises have cleansing effects?
- What are the real effects of alternative bankruptcy options?
- What are the best measures of credit risk in the bond market?
HUMAN RESOURCES / ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Leadership
- Careers
- Blended workforce
- Power and Influence
- Team Dynamics
- Social Networks
- Organizational Change
- Regulatory Focus
- Online Learning
- Organizational Structure and
- Processes
- Managerial Decision Making
- Ethical Behavior
- Motivation
- Emotions
- Turnover
- Organizational Performance
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What are the effects of social mechanisms on learning, worker performance, and employee retention?
- What are the drivers of top executive career success, and how have top executive careers changed in the past 30 years?
- What is the effect of online learning technologies and online learning innovations on corporate development practices?
- How do followers experience organizational change, and how can leaders motivate, engage, and galvanize followers during this process?
- What individual- and organization-level factors drive unethical behaviors, prosocial and giving behaviors, and advice-taking behaviors?
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Information Assurance and
- Security
- IT Outsourcing
- Sharing Economy
- Digital Transformation
- Machine Learning and Market
- Mechanisms
- Big Data
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- How security, risk and trust influence today’s digital world?
- What is the influence of organizational networks of IT outsourcing firms?
- How to design electric vehicle charging algorithms and market mechanisms applicable to smart grids?
MARKETING
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Consumer Behavior
- Judgment and Decision-Making
- Branding
- Goal-Directed Behavior
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Social Networks
- Impact of Economic Cycles on
- Consumer Behavior
- Marketing Models
- Sensory Marketing
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What are the cognitive and affective underpinnings of goal-directed behavior?
- How do they differ for various goal types?
- What biases do consumers display when making decisions?
- What are the effects of corporate social responsibility on consumer perceptions and sales?
- How do tactics in branding influence consumers’ perceptions, attitudes, and emotions under various circumstances?
- When and why do such strategies backfire?
- How do specific visuals, textures, odors, sounds, and imagery change the way we think about brands and products?
- Do individual interactions, both within and across groups, affect diffusion of innovative products and their performance?
OPERATIONS
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- New Product and Service Innovation
- Knowledge-intensive operations
- Retail Operations
- Healthcare Operations
- Decision-Making and Risk Analysis
- Global Supply Chain Management
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- How to manage geographically dispersed operations effectively?
- When can operations be a source of innovation?
- How does digitalization and big data affect operations design, strategy, and performance?
- How do managers make decisions under risk and uncertainty?
- How can organizations operationally mitigate financial and supply chain risks?
Strategy
KEY RESEARCH AREAS
- Competitive Strategy in Platform
- Markets
- M&A and Diversification, Innovation Strategy
- International Business
- Strategic Alliances
- Social Categories and Market Structure
SELECTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- How to compete in platform markets?
- When does corporate diversification create value?
- What is the impact of product-market categories on firm organization and strategy?
- How/when do firms profit from innovation?
- How to design the strategy of a multinational company?
- How do firms benefit strategically from interfirm collaborations (alliances, M&A)?
Program Structure
YEAR 1 | OCT-FEB
- Quantitative Methods I
- Research Methods
- Organizational Theory
- Paper Crafting
YEAR 1 | MAR-JUL
- Quantitative Methods II
- Qualitative Methods
- Strategy
YEAR 2 | OCT-FEB
- Electives
- Quantitative Methods III
- Ethics and Humanities
- Thesis Proposal Workshop
- Research Project
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
This examination will be taken, after the first year and a half. The examination will last three days and will cover those topics defined as Core or major, minor and methodology. The exam will be set and evaluated by the professors of the subjects.
YEAR 3 & 4
This period is formally devoted to work on research leading to the student’s doctoral dissertation. The program is completed after successful submission and defense of the dissertation.