Concentrations


Accounting Concentration

The Ph.D. Program in business administration is designed primarily to prepare students for careers in research and teaching at the university level. The program prepares students to be highly effective researchers by providing academically rigorous and state-of-the art training in business administration. The Accounting Concentration equips students with strong research skills that allow them to produce high quality research pertaining to the valuation and stewardship role of accounting information for organizations.  Students specializing in this area conduct high quality research on topics such as capital markets, auditing, and corporate governance among others. Area faculty have published in top accounting journals including Auditing - A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting and Finance, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Journal of Management Accounting Research, among others.

  

Finance Concentration

The Finance concentration provides students with advanced training in theory and research methods to equip them with strong skills to produce high quality research in a broad range of fields in finance. Students specializing in this area will be able to conduct research in the fields of corporate finance, financial econometrics, financial economics, financial markets and institutions, international finance, investments, and related fields. Area faculty publish in quality academic and professional journals including Energy Economics, Financial Management, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Fixed Income, The Journal of InvestingManagement Science, and Review of Finance among others.

 

Information Systems Concentration

The Information Systems concentration provides students with strong research skills that allow them to produce high quality research pertaining to the theoretical and empirical developments in the areas of information systems and emerging information technologies.  Students specializing in this area conduct high quality research on topics such as business analyticssocial media, information privacy and security, as well as health information systems. Area faculty have published in high quality information systems journals such as Information Systems ResearchJournal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyEuropean Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, Decision Support Systems among others.

 

Management Concentration

The Ph.D. Program in business administration is designed primarily to prepare students for careers in research and teaching. The program prepares students to be highly effective researchers by providing academically rigorous and state-of-the art training in business administration. The Management concentration equips students with strong research skills that allow them to produce high quality research pertaining organizations and management. Students specializing in this area conduct high quality research on topics such as human resources management, organization behavior, international management, strategic management, operations management/sustainable supply chains as well as entrepreneurship. Area faculty have published in top management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management and Journal of Management Studies among others.

 

Marketing Concentration

The Marketing concentration provides students with strong research skills that allows them to produce high quality research pertaining to the various facets of marketing theory and practice. Students specializing in this area conduct high quality research on topics such as marketing strategy, consumer behavior, social media, channels of distribution (regional and international), globalization, services marketing as well as cultural consumption. Area faculty have published in high quality marketing journals including Journal MarketingJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Business Research, and Marketing Theory among others.