Management

Program Overview

The Ph.D. concentration in Management reflects the particular strengths of the faculty in the Department of Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship. Doctoral candidates have been working with faculty on dissertations in the areas of human resources and organization development, international management and business, and domestic, entrepreneurial and international business strategy.

Candidates are also working in the areas of organizational knowledge development and transmission, business associations as facilitators of international business activities, employment discrimination, franchising, international business ethics, and organizational training and development.

Below is a list of courses at the doctoral level that have been taught in years past. While there are few required courses in research methods and the major areas of management, doctoral courses are specifically selected to follow the areas which interest the students, and also coincide with the strengths of the faculty.

MAN 7275 Organizational Behavioral Management
MAN 7931 Special Topics in Management
MAN 7207 Organizational Theory
MAN 7146 Leadership
MAN 7721 Strategic Management Seminar
MAN 7002 Industrial Organizational Psychology/> QMB 7565 Research Methods 1
QMB 7566 Research Methods 2
QMB 7567 Measurement Design and Evaluation

For additional information about the concentration in management, please contact the Ph.D. Advisor in Management, Dr. Stephanie Castro, scastro@fau.edu.

Management, International Business & Entrepreneurship Faculty

The faculty members are actively engaged in ongoing research and have published in a number of leading academic journals. Faculty is particularly interested in researching the following areas within business:

human resource management and development
leadership and influence tactics
mentoring
performance appraisal systems
small business and entrepreneurship
venture capital financing
the impact of culture on management
international decision-making
international acquisition performance
cross-cultural studies
expatriate staffing and selection
business and leadership ethics
organizational adaptation
competitive behavior and strategy
diversification and performance
business and public policy

Faculty

Andac Arikan, Ph.D., New York University
H.J. Bernardin, Ph.D. Bowling Green State University
Stephanie Castro, Ph.D., University of Miami
Donna Cooke, Ph.D., University of Miami
P.Golden, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
T. Lenartowicz, Ph.D., University of South Carolina,
A.I. Litvak, Ph.D., Columbia University
H. Merchant, Ph.D., Purdue University
M.F. Peterson, Ph.D., University of Michigan
B. Richey, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Ethlyn A. Williams, Ph.D., University of Miami,
Gary Castrogiovanni, Ph.D., Texas Tech University
Kimberly Ellis, Ph.D., Florida State University
Elizabeth Goodrick, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Bryant Hudson, Ph.D., University of Texas - Dallas