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POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREE OPPORTUNITIES
Building on its success in management education, the OUBS has developed a
significant research capability that ensures the School's place in the major
league of European Business Schools. Staff at the OUBS is involved in a wide
range of research activities. OUBS research is undertaken in close
collaboration with partner organizations in the business, public and
non-profit sectors. As well as disseminating research results through
publications, television, and other media, OUBS research outputs feed into
the development of new management courses in our teaching programmes, which
are studied by thousands of managers across Europe and beyond. In its
commitment to the pursuit of high quality research and the expansion of its
research student programme, the School is offering a number of studentships.
Applications are invited from candidates wishing to study for a full-time
PhD in this vibrant environment, which has excellent research facilities,
and a track record that shows a commitment to the highest standards of
research supervision. This is an opportunity to join one of Europe's leading
business schools and to make a real contribution to management research.
We are particularly interested in candidates wishing to work in any of the
following general areas:
* Accounting, Accounting Education, and Banking
* Accounting in the public and non-profit sector
* Comparative financial systems
* Globalisation, mergers and acquisitions and the market for corporate
control
* Urban financial markets
* Strategy and Marketing
* Globalisation
* International marketing and consumer behaviour
* Human Resource and Change Management
* Careers and career management
* HRM and management learning
* Issues in international HRM
* New ways of working (eg teleworking, call centres)
* The development of managers in the child care sector
* Management of Knowledge and Innovation
* Management Learning and Development
* Corporate Universities
* The application and transfer of learning in the workplace
* The application of critical theories in management contexts
* The use of electronic media in distance learning
* The use of the WWW in contextualising management learning
* Performance Management
* Benchmarking and performance management
* Electronic commerce, operations management and organisational
performance
* How organisations measure their performance and the impact of such
activities
* Management in manufacturing
* Public Interest and Non-Profit Management
* Partnership and collaboration in the delivery of public/non-profit
services
* Performance measurement and improvement methods in public and
non-profit organisations
* The concept of entrepreneurship in public service management
* The development and role of social enterprise
* The governance of public and non-profit organisations
* Comparative Management
* The MBA curricula in the 21st century
* Cultural 'reversioning' or Anglo-American management concept among
non-North Western managers
* Business Ethics
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* Small and Medium Size Enterprises
The impact of information and communication technologies (including
e-commerce) on SME innovation, learning, networking and strategy
Venture capital
The studentships are tenable from 1 October 2002 and are based at The Open
University main campus at Milton Keynes and will normally be granted for
four years, the first year being taken up with full-time study towards a
master's degree in research methods. The studentships include a living
stipend plus a bursary to support fieldwork.
Applicants should have or expect to gain in 2002, a good honours degree or
equivalent and preferably a master's degree in a relevant subject.
Applicants should also demonstrate the necessary commitment with a well
defined research proposal matching the interest of staff as described above
(although, once registered, individuals can expect to receive support in
developing their ideas). OUBS staff does not have research topics waiting
for applicants.
The School is also willing to consider candidates for part-time PhD study
although studentships are not available on a part-time basis.
A Research Degree Prospectus and further particulars are available from:
Gill Izzard, The Open University Business School, Walton Hall, Milton
Keynes, MK7 6AA. Telephone (01908) 655889; e-mail
g.izzard@open.ac.uk.
The prospectus and application form can also be downloaded from
www.open.ac.uk/research-school. Potential applicants are also encouraged to
visit the School's website: www3.open.ac.uk/oubs/research.htm.
Closing date for applications: 10 June 2002. Early application is
recommended.
Equal Opportunity is University Policy
Bernardo B�tiz-Lazo, PhD
Director of Research Degrees
The Open University Business School
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
Tel 44(0)1908 659 124
fax 655 898
http://www.open.ac.uk/b821