Doctor of Philosophy in Business
Faculty and student collaboration
Study: A relational view of shiftwork: Co-scheduling with higher performers
Faculty member Patrick Downes worked with doctoral student Sareum "Ella" Lee on a study about the practice of scheduling shift workers into times and places to conduct their work.
Attorney marketing tactics compared to 'corporate ambulance chasing' in new stu…
A new paper examines how social media announcements of plaintiff’s attorneys’ corporate investigations strongly predict future litigation — so-called "corporate ambulance chasing" with KU Business Professors Eric Weisbrod and Adi Masli, Steven Kaplan of Arizona State University, and KU Business Ph.D. candidate, Matt Peterson.
Study: Multinational enterprises should choose between two colocation strategies
Professors Minyoung Kim and Chang Hoon Oh collaborated with Jukyeong Han, an assistant professor at McMaster University and Kim’s former doctoral student at KU, on a paper to help managers answer whether multinational enterprises should repeatedly colocate with the same competitors across multiple countries or with diverse competitors with less repetition.
Study: Investment in information technology helps companies maximize innovation
Professor Adi Masli co-wrote a study with Feng Guo of Iowa State University and Yijun Li of Erasmus University Rotterdam — who both earned doctorates in accounting from KU — that analyzes how integral information technology is to maintaining innovation at companies.
Video: Workplace + audit study
Faculty members Adi Masli and Felix Meschke and professor emeritus Jim Guthrie worked with then-doctoral candidate Minjie Huang on this study about how workplace environment influences outcomes of an audit.
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In addition to full tuition and fee payment, all Ph.D. students are supported via research or teaching assistantships or fellowships. Subsidized health insurance is available through the university. Learn more about funding opportunities.
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