Strategic Management

The PhD Program in Strategic Management is designed to train scholars who aim to advance our understanding of how firms create, capture, and sustain competitive advantage in dynamic environments. Our research-centered program encourages students to engage deeply with topics such as corporate, competitive, and behavioral strategy; innovation; industry dynamics, network analysis; organizational theory; global competition and international business; corporate social responsibility; and corporate governance. Drawing from the field of management and disciplines such as economics, sociology, psychology, and organizational theory, students develop rigorous, theory-driven insights into real-world strategic challenges.

Our PhD program immerses students in a vibrant and rigorous research environment, from the very beginning of the journey. Students benefit from close collaboration with diverse faculty actively shaping the frontiers of strategic management and international business research. Through seminars, individualized mentoring, and immersive research apprenticeships, the program offers a collegial and intellectually vibrant environment. Our faculty are very research active and currently hold or have held editorial positions at journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies and others. Students are encouraged to design their own research agenda and are supported in developing both topical and methodological expertise needed for impactful scholarship.

Our graduates are prepared for and regularly placed in tenure-track faculty positions at top research universities around the world.