Welcome to the PhD programme in Strategy and Management
Department of Strategy and Management
The department represents four main research areas: Organisation Science, Strategic Management, Marketing and Information Management. The department comprises over 35 full-time faculty members and a number of adjunct faculty.
Faculty members represent an active research environment that yearly publishes about thirty articles in international refereed journals. Moreover, fifty to sixty papers are presented at international conferences every year, with many of these based on close collaboration between PhD students and faculty members.
The faculty members are involved in research within in a diversity of fields and topics, such as organisation theory, organisational behaviour, human resource management, change processes, business ethics, corporate strategy, strategic alliances, networks, knowledge management, enterprise systems, decision support systems, ecommerce, brand management, consumer behaviour and service marketing and management.
Find out more about the Department of Strategy and Management faculty at NHH here.
Areas of Research
The department is currently divided into four areas: Strategy, Organizational Science, Marketing and Information Management.
The department is actively involved in research and teaching within a diversity of fields and disciplines, e.g. organization theory, organization behaviour, organization psychology, business management, change management, human resource management, business ethics, business strategy, corporate strategy, interorganizational relations, networks, knowledge management, information management, information systems, electronic commerce, marketing, brand management, and consumer behaviour.
The department is interested in applicants within the whole range of the academic profile within the department, but especially in the following fields:
Knowledge-Based Value Creation in Business Firms is an area of specialization in the masters program and is a field of strategic importance for NHH.
Extensive teaching and active research related to Knowledge-Based Value Creation in Business Firms are carried out in several departments. Professor Nicolai J. Foss is responsible for further developing, organizing and integrating the research efforts in this field.
While any project that highlights the role of knowledge for firm-level value creation is potentially relevant, the following project themes are particularly relevant:
• The causal links between competitive advantage and knowledge.
• How knowledge shape the boundaries of the firm.
• The behavioural foundations of knowledge-based value creation in firms.
• How formal and informal organization shape knowledge-based value creation in firms.
Projects that build on a quantitative empirical research methodology will be given particular preference.
Service development/innovation is taught in several of the masters program and is a field of strategic importance for NHH. The research in service development/innovation is conducted across the four traditional areas (Strategy, Organizational Science, Marketing and Information Management) which the department represents. Service development/innovation is an area of commitment for the department.
Programme of study
The NHH three-year PhD programme in Strategy and Management provides training that enables students to produce original research of high quality. The programme is suitable for highly motivated and talented individuals who would like to pursue an international career at universities and other academic institutions, or in public or private sector organisations. Our objective is to be a leading research institution in Europe, and the programme has a strong international focus. The programme offers prospective students specialisations on a wide range of topics. The entire programme is taught in English.
Find out more about the programme structure here.
Student experience
The department emphasises student-faculty interaction, including student participation in department seminars, faculty-student research collaboration, and faculty-student teaching collaboration.
The department runs a programme of weekly faculty seminars where PhD students and faculty members present and discuss their research, facilitating early feedback. Students are also encouraged to present papers at international conferences and to stay one or two semesters at universities abroad.
General requirements for admission
Students should already hold a masters degree covering central business administration topics. It is a prerequisite that applicants are interested and motivated to pursue their PhD within one of the stated areas of research. Students with only an undergraduate degree will normally not be considered. Moreover, recent GMAT or GRE tests are necessary to be considered for enrollment in the programme.
