Program Overview

Doctoral Study in Management

When you enrol with us for your PhD in Management or International Business, you'll join a high-calibre research community. You'll have the opportunity to publish papers, attend international conferences and develop your networks in academia and industry.

Why Study with Us?

• The University of Auckland consistently ranks in the top 100 globally and is New Zealands No. 1 university.
• The Business School at The University of Auckland is one of the 1% of Business Schools worldwide with Triple Crown accreditation.
• The University hosts more researchers in business and economics than any other New Zealand university.
• Students have opportunities to connect with professionals from their discipline through networking events, fostering collaboration and industry connections.
• The Business School offers state-of-the-art facilities, including dedicated workspaces for full-time PhD students.
• Doctoral candidates receive annual Postgraduate Research Student Support funding to cover research expenses.
• The Business School Careers Centre assists students with career planning through skills workshops, employer interactions and individual support.

Research Opportunities

We welcome research proposals in topics relating to our key research specialisations:

• Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness: How managers understand leadership and how they can become more effective in leadership roles.
• Workforce Strategies, Employee Well-being and Workplace Performance: How organisations adopt work and employment practices and how these practices affect employee well-being and organisational performance.
• The Management of Distributed Work in Global Firms: How teams operating across borders can become more effective.
• The Role of Labour Standards in Global Regulation and International Trade: How domestic employment relations are influenced by international employment standards.
• Cross-Cultural and Diversity Management: How managers and business organisations interact with different cultures and societies, and how they can become more effective in diverse cultural and social contexts.
• Corporate Governance Relationships: The behavioural aspects of boards of directors and ensuring good governance.
• Business Sustainability: The challenges organisations face to become more sustainable and the ways in which business leaders can help them respond.
• International Business Strategy: Multinationals internationalisation strategies; organisations and institutions in international contexts; global innovation strategy and emerging markets; sustainability and global strategy.
• Global Mobility People and Knowledge: International and cross-cultural management; international human resource and talent management; knowledge management, including knowledge sharing in MNEs.

Our People

Pursue your topic with us and benefit from exceptional standards of support and supervision from internationally recognised researchers.

• Professor Kenneth Husted (Head of Department): Special interests include corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and research management, knowledge management, management of R&D and research commercialisation.
• Professor Peter Boxall: Special interests include strategic HRM, work and wellbeing.
• Associate Professor Brigid Carroll: Special interests include identity work in organisations, critical leadership theory, practice, and development.
• Professor Prithviraj Chattopadhyay: Special interests include relational demography and diversity, managerial cognition, and employment externalisation.
• Professor Gordon Cheung: Special interests include structural equation modelling, moderated mediation, latent interaction.
• Dr Helen Delaney: Special interests include sociology of work and critical perspectives towards organisations.
• Associate Professor Ljiljana Erakovic: Special interests include corporate governance, boards of directors, governance in not-for-profit organisations.
• Associate Professor Carla Houkamau: Special interests include diversity management, inter-cultural communication, cross-cultural management.
• Dr Barbara Plester: Special interests include workplace humour, promoting fun at work, organisational food rituals.
• Dr Peter Smith: Special interests include knowledge intensive firms, strategy-as-practice, theories of practice.
• Dr Rachel Wolfgramm: Special interests include economies of wellbeing, status and sustainability in consumption.
• Dr Sihong Wu: Special interests include international business strategies, multinational enterprises, global disruptions.
• Dr Peter Zamborsky: Special interests include firms' internationalisation strategies, foreign direct investment, international innovation management.

Past Research Topics

• The influence of mobile information and communication technologies and user-device interactions on workplace relationships.
• Emotions in organisations: role of emotional regulation in work-life balance attitudes and behaviours.
• Exploring the social construction of 'Employee Engagement' through discourse analysis.
• Corporate governance and its effect on family and non-family corporations in Vietnam.
• Abusive coaching and subordinates' skill development among chefs: A curvilinear relationship.
• The Impact of Talent Management Practices on Psychological Contract in the Organizations: A Framework for Multigenerational Diversity.
• How does executive coaching influence gendered discourses and practices involved in the processes of female professional identity construction.
• The predictors and consequence of work engagement: What role does job crafting play?

Scholarships and Awards

There are several scholarships you may be eligible for when you decide to pursue your doctoral studies in Management. These include:

• University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships
• Barry Spicer and Owen G Glenn PhD Scholarship

Doctoral Programmes

• Doctor of Philosophy

Related Subjects

• Global Management and Innovation
• Human Resource Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• International Business