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Executive PhD in Business Administration – (Ph.D.)
IEDC Bled School of Management
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| Application Deadline: | 1 July | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 10,000 - | ||
| Location: | Bled / Slovenia / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 48 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of IEDC Bled School of Management
Innovative doctoral program, built on IEDC's history of excellence in executive education, and focused on the issues of strategy, leadership, and general management.
According to legal requirements, the doctoral program is equivalent to 3 years of full time studies, which equal 180 ECTS or 5,400 hours of direct or indirect study load. Given the preference of IEDC, wanting to offer a part-time program, the program is a 4-year modular doctoral program resulting in the production of an original Doctoral Thesis.
Candidates for the PhD program in the academic year 2011-12 should submit their applications by 1 July, 2011. Eligible candidates will be invited for interviews with two faculty members assigned by the IEDC -Bled School of Management, Postgraduate studies. Successful completion of the interviews is a mandatory requirement for enrollment.
Doctoral Dissertation
The Doctoral dissertation will represent original research by the PhD candidate in the areas of Strategic Management and/or Leadership. The dissertation may be presented as a single monograph or as a series of articles. A doctoral dissertation in the form of a monograph is an extensive, comprehensive, and detailed treatment of a defined research issue. A doctoral dissertation in the form of a collection of published articles, articles accepted for publication, and articles suitable for publication is a collection of scholarly contributions in a specific area and must be accompanied by an introduction and a summary.
Exceptionally, and with permission from the Committe for Postgraduate Studies obtained at the end of the first year of studies, two candidates may complete a joint doctoral research project and write a joint doctoral dissertation.
This will be allowed if:
- Clear synergy of joint work is evident, leading to higher quality of the research output than would be the case with separate, individual efforts;
- The contribution of each of the two doctoral students to the doctoral research and to the dissertation text is clearly identifiable and separable;
- It is clear from the proposal that the contribution of each of the two doctoral students will have the volume and quality corresponding to the one expected for individual doctoral research and dissertation.
Contents
1st year*
Winter semester
- 2 required courses
- Literature study
Summer semester
- 2 required courses
- Literature study
- Research seminar
- Submission of final research proposal
*In order to advance from the first to the second year, doctoral students must complete all four required courses, attend the research seminar, publicly present their dissertation proposal and obtain approval of the doctoral dissertation proposal from the Committee for Postgraduate Studies.
2nd year**
Winter semester
- Elective course work
- Refining of the research proposal
- Research
Summer semester
- Elective course work
- Research
- Research seminars
- Submission of an article for publication in an internationally recognised academic journal
**In order to advance from the second to the third year, doctoral students must complete two elective courses, attend two research seminars and submit an article for publication in an international academic journal. The submission must be approved by the mentor, but acceptance for publication is not the condition for advancing, since review periods might be prohibitively long.
3rd year
Winter semester
- Research
- Research seminars
Summer semester
- Research
- Research seminars
4th year
Winter semester
- Thesis writing
Summer semester
- Dissertation writing and defense
Doctoral Dissertation
The Doctoral dissertation will represent original research by the PhD candidate in the areas of Strategic Management and/or Leadership. The dissertation may be presented as a single monograph or as a series of articles. A doctoral dissertation in the form of a monograph is an extensive, comprehensive, and detailed treatment of a defined research issue. A doctoral dissertation in the form of a collection of published articles, articles accepted for publication, and articles suitable for publication is a collection of scholarly contributions in a specific area and must be accompanied by an introduction and a summary.
Exceptionally, and with permission from the Committe for Postgraduate Studies obtained at the end of the first year of studies, two candidates may complete a joint doctoral research project and write a joint doctoral dissertation.
This will be allowed if:
- Clear synergy of joint work is evident, leading to higher quality of the research output than would be the case with separate, individual efforts;
- The contribution of each of the two doctoral students to the doctoral research and to the dissertation text is clearly identifiable and separable;
- It is clear from the proposal that the contribution of each of the two doctoral students will have the volume and quality corresponding to the one expected for individual doctoral research and dissertation.
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Register Now!Requirements
Eligible candidates will be invited for interviews with two faculty members assigned by the IEDC -Bled School of Management, Postgraduate studies. Successful completion of the interviews is a mandatory requirement for enrollment.
Candidates for the admission to the Executive PhD Program have to fulfill the following requirements:
- Master Degree diploma (Bologna second level corresponding to 300 ECTS)
- Minimum 5 years of meaningful work experience
- Proficiency in English
An application for the doctoral program must include the following:
- Completed Application form
- Certified copy of Master Degree diploma, translated into Slovene or English by a court interpreter
- 3 letters of recommendation
- Preliminary research proposal in which the candidate describes the topic of her/his doctoral research
- Motivational letter in which the candidate explains the reasons for enrolling into the doctoral program
- Candidate’s CV with the list of publications (co-)authored by the candidate
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | 5 years |
Accreditation
IEDC-Bled School of Management has been accredited by
CEEMAN (Central and East European Management Development Association)
and AMBA (Association of MBAs).
Faculty
The Faculty of the PhD Program are internationally recognised professors with years of experience in original research, teaching and mentoring top level academic research as well as in executive education.
Faculty List
- Bandelj Nina, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia and University of California-Irvine, USA
- Coleman Gill, Ashridge Business School, UK
- Fatzer Gerhard, University of Innsbruck, Switzerland in Sloan School of Management, USA
- Fischer Bill, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gosling Jonathan, University of Exeter, UK
- Ladkin Donna, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK
- Moselein Kathrin, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
- Oblój Kryzstof, School of Management, University of Warshaw, Poland
- Puffer Sheila, Northeastern University, USA
- Purg Danica, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia
- Sutherland Ian, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia
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