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The Management concentration


In this concentration, students can specialize in one of the following subfields:
- Strategy
- Organization Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Management Control
- Information Systems

Philosophy


The ESSEC Ph.D. program in Management provides comprehensive coverage of an extremely broad range of human and strategic issues, relating them to major contemporary questions of sustainable organizational performance.

Grounded in the research traditions of the fundamental disciplines of Economics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology, the program offers Ph.D. students a common set of core courses, followed by in-depth specialization in one of the following subfields: Organizational Analysis, Strategy, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Management Control.

The Ph.D. Program in Management provides an all-round education covering both methodological and theoretical debates – familiarity with the full range of qualitative and quantitative techniques is coupled with extensive analysis of the major intellectual paradigms in the social and information sciences.

700 hours of courses / seminars


General Requirement courses/seminars: 200 hours
Year 1 courses/seminars: 265 hours
Year 2 courses/seminars: 235 hours

General requirement courses and seminars


All student must follow general requirement courses and seminars as well as advanced courses and seminars and subfield electives.

Subfield electives


20 hours each, 6 over the two-year period: 4 at least must be in the relevant specialization.
 
Organization Behavior/Human Resources Management
International management, institutions and regulations, Human resources strategies and organizational performance, Identity processes in individuals, groups and organizations, Organizational change and learning, Business history, ethics and organizational governance.
 
Strategy
Corporate and business strategy, Strategic management processes, Entrepreneurship, Game theory, Industrial organization and economics.
 
Management Control
Types of control and performance management systems Planning, budgeting, information systems and learning, Management accounting change and innovation, Social and psychological approaches in management accounting research.
 
Information Systems
Modeling and designing IT applications, Development of information systems, Knowledge management, Data warehousing and decision support, Evaluation of IS applications and success/failure.

Advanced courses / seminars


Fundamentals of Management 1: Classics of the Social Sciences (30 hours)
Fundamentals of Management 2: Classics of Administration and Management Theory (30 hours)
Fundamentals of Management 3: Contemporary Management Theory (30 hours)
Qualitative Research Methods in Management 1: Approaches (30 hours)
Qualitative Research Methods in Management 2: Modes of Analysis and Techniques (30 hours)
Quantitative Research Methods in Management 1: Methodology and Design (30 hours)
Quantitative Research Methods in Management 2: Multivariate Analysis (30 hours)
Econometrics (30 hours)
Analysis of Published Research (30 hours x 2)