The graduates from the College of Business and Economics Ph.D. program in Business Administration will be prepared to better understand the complexity and the dynamics of the changes affecting organizations and should be able to play the role of change agents, visionary leaders, mobilizers and strategists.
Required courses (9 Credit Hours):
MAGT 800 Management Theory
This Management seminar course will introduce students to the theories and empirical analyses conducted in the various areas of the discipline of Management. The theories we will examine will range from motivation theories to institutional theories. We will look at different levels of analysis, ranging from individual behavior to population ecology. Both classic and current readings will be studied.
MAGT 801 Advanced Strategic Management
Understanding the shifts in internal and external contexts and their implications for organizations is essential to identifying new areas of strategic management study. This course aims at discussing advanced strategic management issues in a way that guides students to make sense of strategic practices and understand how organizations can adapt to changing environments. It also discusses competing schools of thought in strategic management, reviews the contributions of different disciplines to strategic management, and analyzes the strategic management literature.
MAGT 802 Organization Behavior and Organization Theory
Doctoral students will learn the theories about, and research done at, the micro- and macro- level in organizations. In Organization Behavior (OB), the topics of motivation, communication, decision making, leadership and groups will be studied. In Organization Theory (OT), the topics of organizational decision making and learning, organizing, organizational design, organizational power, institutional theories and change processes will be examined.
Elective courses (6 Credit Hours):
MAGT 803 Supply Chain Management
This course provides the Ph.D. students a critical knowledge of the main concepts and principles of supply chain management and how supply chains can be leveraged to build sustainable competitive advantage. The course has a strong focus on issues related to strategic and tactical level in effectively managing the supply chains.
MAGT 804 Business, Government and Society
Businesses operate in society within the formal and informal rules laid down by Governments. Ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability are issues that may be defined differently by Business, Government, and Society. In this seminar, we will try to understand issues which lie at the interface of B,G, & S. Students will learn about different theoretical frameworks used to understand the issues, and read research papers that attempt to study and resolve the issues.
MAGT 805 Managerial Decision Making
Decision making in organizations can be studied at the individual, group and organizational levels, each contributing unique insights into how decisions are made in organizations. The diversity of this research, encompassing economics, psychology, and political science, enables scholars of management to choose appropriately from available theories to explain particular outcomes in organizations, and also design interventions at the individual, group and organizational levels to attain better outcomes.
MAGT 806 Special Topics in Management Research for Qatar and GCC
This course will feature a rotating set of topics based on the cutting-edge research conducted by the PhD faculty at QU and the topics with special importance to the state of Qatar and the GCC countries. Potential topics include localization (e.g., Qatarization, Emiratization and Saudization), public sector reform, sport events management, tourism management, health care management, mega projects management, executive leadership, change management and management from Islamic perspective. Students will review key studies in each of these areas and learn to recognize new areas of research.