Coordinator: Gary N. Powell, gpowell@business.uconn.edu
The Management concentration has two broad areas of focus, organizational behavior and strategic management. Research on organizational behavior examines issues pertaining to the attraction, retention, and management of people in organizations that arise at the individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels. Research on strategic management examines issues pertaining to the establishment and implementation of a strategic direction for the organization that is compatible with its external environment.
The Management faculty have a wide range of research interests, including corporate and competitive strategy; strategy process; mergers and acquisitions; management of innovation and technology; transfer of knowledge and best practices; managerial sensemaking; management across national borders; entrepreneurial and family firms; strategic risk; organizational culture, design, and change; human resources management; gender and diversity issues; discrimination in the workplace; organizational justice; cross-cultural behavior; leadership; and team effectiveness.
The Management Ph.D. exposes students to broad areas, but also provides ample course work to concentrate on one. The curriculum is intended to prepare students to conduct original research; i.e., to explain phenomena previously not well understood and then to test proposed explanations empirically. The goal is to prepare students to be the best in the field and place them in top universities.
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