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Universityof OxfordDPhil Programme inManagement Studies2015/16


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WWW.SBS.OXFORD.EDU 3UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DOCTORAL PROGRAMME 2015/16

We welcome youas a student and asa colleague.

Oxford the DPhil is the degree that corresponds to a PhD at most other universities. Essentially

DPhil Programme offers in-depth training in academic research skills that will prepare you to

come a productive scholar.

ctoral training at Sad Business School will immerse you in all aspects of academic life. Yes, of

urse we provide courses in a wide range of research methods, and you will work closely with

ur supervisors (most DPhil candidates are assigned two supervisors) to define your research

estion and develop your thesis. In addition, you will have opportunities to gain teachingperience, either at undergraduate level through your college or as a teaching assistant on the

BA programme, and to become involved in the intellectual community at the School and in the

t of the university. DPhil candidates are full members of the research centres and departments

h which they are associated. They attend academic conferences, make presentations, organise

tures and seminars, and contribute to management and academic decisions. If you are accepted

the programme, we will welcome you as a student and as a junior colleague.

d Business School is relatively small and we have deliberately kept the DPhil programme small

o: we will accept a maximum 12 candidates this year who in the vast majority of cases are fully

ded. Full funding ensures that you will not have to worry about tuition costs or living expenses,

can devote all your energies to getting the most out of your time here. You will have lots of

portunities and receive a lot of attention not only from your supervisors but also from other

ulty who are happy to act as sounding boards, to talk about your research, and to suggest

ferent methods and techniques.

are looking for talented applicants who are enthusiastic about research and genuinely

ellectually curious. If this sounds like you, I encourage you to take a closer look at our DPhil

gramme, and I look forward to discussing your application with you.

omas Noe

omas is the Erne st Butten Professor of Management Studies and DPhil Programme Director.

research has influenced the way companies are financed through the issuing of securities,

ntributed to the way we analyse systemic risk for firms, and provoked a re-evaluation of the

y senior managers are compensated.

Welcome to Sad Business School.am delighted that you areonsidering applying for the

DPhil programme here.

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Marc is a DPhil candidate and recipient

of a Templeton Education and Charity

Trust DPhil Scholarship. He is co-

supervised by Professor Mari Sako

and Professor Eric Thun. His academic

research interests are in international

business, global strategy, cross-

border M&A, and China business and

economics. He has been a teaching

assistant for the Global Strategy

courses in the MBA and EMBA

programmes, and for the Business in

China course in the MBA programme.

Alysia completed an MPhil in

Geography and the Environment at

the University of Oxford before joining

Sad Business School. Her thesis is

based on mixed-methods research

into materials in 3-D printing. She

is co-supervised by Dr Felix Reed-

Tsochas and Professor Steve Rayner.

She is jointly funded by Sad Business

School and Green Templeton College.

Research

t the heart of the DPhil programme is an emphasis ongh-quality, rigorous academic research.

ile there are variations according to your subject area and your own experience when you join

programme, you can expect to have extensive training in all the principal research methods.

ese are typically taught in lectures and seminar-style classes, with some assessed work. In

dition, you are encouraged to seek out and take courses in other departments typically

ered by departments in the Social Sciences Division although courses in maths, computer

ence, and the natural sciences may also be valuable especially when your work has

erdisciplinary elements.

s breadth of research training is essential if you are to progress in an academic career. You

ed to be able to make informed choices about the methods you employ even at this early

ge. And as your thinking develops and you begin to research more widely, you will naturally

nt to bring in other approaches.

m the second year of your DPhil, while you may still have some coursework, you will

ncentrate primarily on your thesis. This is for most students a hugely exciting and stimulating

e, as they get to work closely with leading academics in their field and to explore their own

erests in greater depth. The student-to-faculty ratio is such that there is plenty of interaction

d individual attention, and many students have co-published with their supervisors.

dents are encouraged to go to academic conferences and to participate in research activities

anised by the Schools research centres and other university departments and institutes. You

n also take full advantage of the many resources available in Oxford, from the range of libraries

employment opportunities, funding, data, and mentoring.

The people at the top always reflect the tone of the whole

organisation, and its easy to see where Sads interested, supportive

environment comes from. A few weeks ago I was walking through the

School when I saw the Dean, Professor Peter Tufano. He said, Marc

youve got to make an appointment. Come and see me: I want to hear

about your research. So I went to see him and we chatted for an hour.

This is the Dean of the Business School; hes running the whole place

and yet he gave me an hour of his time. My research is not even in his

field but he was genuinely interested and encouraging. I think thats

extraordinary you just wouldnt get this at many other schools. Other

professors, too, will ask me how its going and want me to share my

work with them.

Above all, I feel grateful for the privilege of working with and learning

from Mari Sako and Eric Thun, my supervisors. Also, in my second year

I had the opportunity to co-convene together with Mari Sako the

Strategy, Innovation and Marketing Lecture Series! I dont feel like a

student: I feel that Im being treated as a junior colleague. It makes ahuge difference.

Marc Szepan

The thing that has surprised me most about the DPhil programme is

just how difficult it is to define your research question! I knew that I

was interested in materials and 3-D printing and, having already done

a Masters degree, I had some idea about research. But still defining the

research question turned out to be one of the most difficult things I have

done. It took a huge amount of personal time and a lot of discussion with

my supervisors.

Thankfully, it was approved and I now aim to finish my thesis in just over

a year so I will have taken four years. I hope then to continue working

in the field of materials and sustainability, perhaps getting involved in

policy issues.

Alysia Garmulewicz

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The supervisors viewAll members of faculty who supervise DPhil candidates believe in and aim for the same

very high standards, but how we achieve these may vary significantly and very much

reflect different personal styles. That is really part of the joy of doing a DPhil: it is most

definitely not a one-size-fits-all, standardised process. Each doctoral students experience

is going to be idiosyncratic, and shaped by the student, his or her supervisors, and the way

that they choose to interact.

Although much of my current research is located within the social sciences, my original

academic training and earlier research was in physics, and my current style of supervision

at the Sad Business School draws on the collaborative norms and practices that are

common in the natural sciences.

In my view most of us are able to be more productive when we work closely with others,

and have the opportunity to test out embryonic ideas on a regular basis. Interestingly,

there is good empirical evidence showing that the most impactful academic work is

increasingly being done by teams of authors, even in fields where this hasnt been the

norm. I think its important that DPhil students have the opportunity to develop their

research in the same sort of creative and stimulating environment, so I try to see students

that I am supervising once a week. We also hold weekly group meetings, and I encourage

my students to organise seminars and colloquia.

Again, this is very much my personal view, but if you only see your supervisor twice a

term, you probably feel under tremendous pressure to deliver something perfect each

time. You may be hesitant to articulate things that could be wrong. But if you meet

more frequently it becomes a continuing conversation. Both of you have room to try out

ideas that havent been totally thought through. And if some of them, in the cold light

of day, turn out to be a bit silly or plain wrong, thats OK! Research is about trying out

different approaches, and especially if the problem that you are addressing is difficult and

challenging, you should be prepared to make plenty of mistakes along the way. But its only

through constantly testing and defending your thinking with more experienced academics

and your peers (and this applies every bit as much to faculty members as it does to DPhil

candidates) that you can find your way to really interesting new ideas.

As a supervisor, I dont want instrumental students. Im not interested in people who

have a nine-to-five approach to research, or who just want a degree. I want people who

are passionate about their subject, who strive to achieve excellence, who aim to publish

in top-tier journals, and who value the deep insights that can be provided by tackling

problems through a variety of perspectives.

Felix Reed-Tsochas

Felix is James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems and Associate Dean for Research.

He works on a broad range of problem domains, linked by an interest in modelling the

structural and dynamic properties of complex networks. Specific applications include

the impact of ICT on social networks, social influence and innovation diffusion in online

environments, common structural features in organisational and ecological networks,large-scale supply networks, as well as economic and financial networks.


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At Sad Business School, depending on your subject, there are

opportunities to work as a teaching assistant on the MBA and EMBA

degree programmes, as well as on some of the executive education

programmes. Areas in which teaching opportunities are available

include finance, marketing, organisational behaviour and strategy,

entrepreneurship, and international business. We work with the

Department of Educational Studies to run a regular DPhil teaching day,

although most of what you learn about teaching will come from acting

as an apprentice. You observe how the faculty member you work with

prepares lectures, engages students with the topic, and keeps them

motivated and interested throughout the sessions. You are likely to be

involved with preparing materials, answering questions from students,

and marking assignments.

You may also want to try your hand at tutoring or lecturing to

undergraduates through your college. The tutorial is an importantfeature of teaching at the University of Oxford, and is the model

on which your individual meetings with your supervisor are likely to

be based. Learning to question, draw out arguments, and present

different points of view is invaluable practice not only for teaching, but

in developing your own research.

Teaching

Teaching is probably the most important non-researchcomponent of an academic career. After the first

year of intensive research-based coursework, therewill be many ways in which you can gain practice andexperience in this area.

I have enjoyed being a teaching assistant for the MBA and

EMBA module, Strategy and Innovation, jointly taught by my

supervisor, Professor Marc Ventresca, and by Professor Teppo

Felin. The module is about how new markets are created, how

technology develops, and how entrepreneurs and incumbent

firms can organise for innovation. As a TA I marked more

than a hundred versions of each practical task, as well as the

final exams and group projects. For a whole term I never saw

the surface of my desk! I also had eight tutorial sessions with

an undergraduate student for an Organisational Behaviour

course. For each tutorial the student prepared readings and

submitted an essay in advance. It was great to see how their

critical analysis developed as they tried to relate the different

concepts about the study of organisations to those firms or

groups that they know.

Guillermo Casasnovas

Guillermos research is supervised by Professor Marc

Ventresca and Professor Tim Jenkinson. His thesis looks at

the social finance context in the UK, specifically at the role

of intermediaries in the emergence and current landscape

of this institutionally complex field.


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Unlike many other business schools, Sad makes the most of being part of a great university. We

come under the aegis of Social Sciences, and have particularly strong links with other departments

in the division, such as the Department of Economics, the Blavatnik School of Government, the

Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, and the Oxford Martin School, which focuses on

interdisciplinary research aimed at solving some of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st

century. Many of our current DPhil candidates are working at the intersections of these subjects,

and in some cases will have a supervisor from the Business School and one from somewhere else.

We are also keen to learn from subjects which would seem to be very distant from the traditional

concerns of business and management. We bring in outside speakers (from the university and

from elsewhere) to lecture on a range of topics. Engaging with the Humanities, for example, is a

popular series of lunchtime talks that has covered everything from how to lead an orchestra to the

architectural history of Oxford.

This idea of drawing on the richness of different disciplines is ingrained in the structure and history

of the university. Like all other students and faculty, when you are accepted to read for a DPhil

at the Sad Business School, you will also become a member of one of the universitys colleges.

Being part of one of these small, multidisciplinary communities means that you meet students

and academics from all over the world who are engaged in study in a broad range of subjects. You

may be sitting next to a philosopher one night at dinner, or strike up a friendship with a chemist,

or decide to attend a series of history lectures organised by the college. The opportunities for

intellectual exploration and discovery are limitless.

Even within the School, though you may specialise, you do not operate in a silo. All the DPhil

students sit together in a large office, and often socialise as a group as well as working together.

They have a termly dinner, and hold a number of informal meetings as well as the formal DPhil

Committee. Once a year they collaborate to organise a Doctoral Colloquium, making all the

decisions about topics and speakers and other arrangements.

Community

In joining the Sad Business School you will become part ofa vibrant scholarly community that extends far beyond theboundaries of the department.


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The thing about Oxford is that you can meet absolutely anyone. I wanted to talk to

the Theology Professor at Christ Church (my college), so I dropped him an email

and we had coffee together! Scholars are generally friendly and kind, and interested

in talking about their research and hearing about yours.

The DPhil is a very entrepreneurial programme in the sense that you are in charge

of your work. If you want to do something, like go to a particular conference or

have a secondment to another university, it can usually be done. This also means

that you have to be active and push yourself. No one is going to spoon-feed you.

Ali Aslan Gmsay

Ali is a DPhil candidate in Organisation and Management Theory and

is based in the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms. His

thesis employs an institutional perspective to explore the intersection of

religion and organisations. In a related research project he looks at Islamic

Entrepreneurship, and has published in the Journal of Business Ethics and

the Journal of Management Development. Ali is supervised by Professor Sue

Dopson and Professor Tim Morris.

Doing a DPhil at Oxford allows me to be part of and even contribute to a

centuries-long tradition. During the year-end exams at the examination schools, as

I walked the impressive marble halls looking for my assigned seat, wearing my fancy

sub-fusc, I really felt part of history.

Even more exciting was attending my supervisor s (Professor Colin Mayer) book

launch at Blackwells Bookshop last year. Before the launch I was looking around at

the beautiful Norrington Room of Blackwells, impressed by the variety and volume

of books and there was my supervisors book among them. Colin introduced me

to his family, friends and colleagues later that night as his doctoral student, and I

realised that I was part of a true scholarly tradition. The next morning I went backto my research knowing where my work may end up one day.

Mehmet Ihsan Canayaz

Mehmet is a DPhil candidate in Financial Economics. He is supervised by Professor

Colin Mayer and Dr Han zsylev, and he has been awarded the Sad Business

School Foundation (SBS-SBSF) DPhil Scholarship. He also won the Alastair

Ross Goobey Memorial Scholarship and the ICGN Scholarship, both granted by

International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Mehmets research interest is

in empirical corporate finance and primarily in corporate governance. He is currently

working on firm reputation, firm commitment and political economy.


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Student life in Oxford

s a graduate student at the University of Oxford, you wille a member of one of its 38 colleges. You will apply to yourreferred colleges after you have been accepted on to thePhil programme.

An Oxford college is both an academic and a social community, and is central

to the Oxford experience. While the Sad Business School will be the focus

of your academic life, your college is your home in the University. It provides

accommodation, meals, common rooms, sports and social facilities, academic

support, intellectual stimulation and pastoral care.

Many DPhil students stay in college accommodation, which is located in or

around the city centre. It is also possible to rent privately. Both your college and

the Universitys accommodation office can help you find somewhere suitable

to live. Even if you are living out of college, you can still have meals there, take

advantage of its library and sports facilities, and participate in social events.

For a fuller idea of student life in Oxford, please read our DPhil student blogs:

http://programmes.sbsblogs.co.uk/category/programmes/dphil/


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Cornell University

Bristol Business School

Bocconi University

Sad Business School

University of Oxford

University of Reading

University of Cambridge

Moscow School of Management Studies

University of Technology, Sydney

University of Warwick

Warwick Business School

Stanford University

University of California, Berkeley

New York University

International Monetary Fund

Ivey Business School / Western Ontario

Renmin University of China

Ritsumeikan University

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Ecole des Mines, Paris

IAE Business School

Harvard Kennedy School/

Balfour Centre for Science

World Bank

Harvard University

Office of Financial Research

Beyond Sad Business School

Oxford DPhils are now working in some of the worlds leadingbusiness schools and research institutions. Graduates havesecured appointments at, among others:

The academic freedom you enjoy is terrific.

From day one of the programme, the focus is

on your research and your personal progress.

The entire environment is extremely

supportive and encouraging, giving you

the freedom to explore, be creative with

your research, and really make it your own.

Everyone is very collegial and accessible, and

lots of high-profile academics come to visit,

so you dont just work with your supervisor,

but with an entire scholarly community.

In this sense, the programme is not about

just earning a degree, but genuinely about

preparing you for an academic career your

very own career.

My supervisor was a very keen squashplayer and we both participated in our

college squash tournament. He happened

to have one of my chapters in his bag and

so in between matches we just sat on a

pile of exercise mats and went through

my latest ideas. It was a bit bizarre, but

a very powerful eye-opener about how

approachable faculty are here. I had not seen

that before.

Michael Smets

Dr Michael Smets is A ssociate Professor in

Management and Organisation Studies and a

Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.

He is also a member of the Novak Druce

Centre for Professional Service Firms, based at

Sad Business School. His research focuses on

professional service firms (PSFs), especially their

internationalisation, innovation and regulation.

Michael studied at Cologne University in

Germany before joining Sad Business School

for his postgraduate education. He obtained

an MSc in Management Research and a DPhil

in Management before accepting a post-

doc position jointly held by Sad Business

School and the School of Management at

the University of Alberta, Canada. Before re-joining Sad Business School full-time in 2013,

Michael was a Lecturer in Strategy at Aston

Business School, Birmingham.


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e Oxford DPhil in Management Studies is organised into two possible research pathways.

e financial economics pathway is built on coursework in economics and finance, and embraces

earch topics in asset-pricing and corporate finance, the design and regulation of securities

rkets, corporate financial policy and the impact of financial markets on real economic activity.

e management research pathway is built on coursework in theories of organisations, institutions,

ategy, and markets, focuses on using both quantitative and qualitative methods in the wider field

management studies, and engages research topics in organisations, operations management,

ence/technology studies, international business, marketing, innovation studies, entrepreneurship,

d strategy.

accept only the highest calibre candidates with the motivation to pursue a career in academic

earch. We value excellence in academic preparation and accomplishments. The application

cess does require submission of the GMAT/GRE, dated within the past five years, and evidence

your ability in research-oriented written work. For further information, contact details, and to

ply, please see our website:

ww.sbs.ox.ac.uk/programmes/degrees/dphilmgmt/how-to-apply

admissions decisions are made by a committee, not by individual faculty members, so it is not

cessary to contact potential supervisors directly to discuss your application.

Application requirements

Funding

Over 90 percent of DPhil students receive

full-funding over four years, which includes

tuition fees and a living stipend. The

Admissions Office will help identify a suitable

scholarship for you during the course of

your doctoral application. Please contact theAdmissions Office for further information:

[email protected]


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the worlds leading and most

entrepreneurial business schools.

An integral part of the University

of Oxford, the School embodies

the academic rigour and forward

thinking that has made Oxford

a world leader in education. The

School is dedicated to developing

a new generation of business

leaders and entrepreneurs and

conducting research not only into

the nature of business, but the

connections between business

and the wider world.

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