A Guide to Professional Doctorates in Business and Management

摘要

Interest in management research and education has grown significantly over past few decades. Businesses around the world have become more demanding from managers in terms of skill sets to focus more deeply and critically on the work that they do. To match up to the demands of the businesses, managers have started taking interest in pursuing professional doctorate programmes. This is more so for the reason of creation of actionable knowledge through the use of action modes of research. Managers with a professional doctorate degree are expected to showcase increased understanding and knowledge of today's complex world. Professional doctorates in business and management or what is commonly known as the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) is still new both as a degree and as a set of practices. This newness of the degree and set of practices leaves a significant scope of experimentation in terms of formats, structures, outcomes and philosophical underpinnings. A Guide to Professional Doctorates in Business and Management is positioned as a guide to understand how a DBA programme should work and what its key objectives and outcomes should be. Editors and contributors to the book see DBA as an award for practicing managers who are interested in researching practice within their own context in order to develop new understandings and insights about the phenomenon under scrutiny.