The Research School of Management (RSM) has a PhD program across several management and business disciplines to qualify research candidates keen on investigating and developing new knowledge through substantial specialised research as a contribution to scholarship and business and management practice. RSM has internationally recognised researchers who can supervise doctoral candidates on a diverse range of topics across various disciplines. To complete the PhD program, candidates are required to take four compulsory and two elective courses, be successful in the thesis proposal review process, and write a substantial and high quality thesis is passed by external examiners.
The Program Learning Outcomes for RSM’s PhD pertinent across its various disciplines are:
- Explain their philosophical approach and its incorporation into a significant research journey and the building of their doctoral identity.
- Problematise a complex social phenomenon within or across the domains of business and management studies that merits targeted study and research skills to advance scholarship and professional practice.
- Identify relevant databases to systematically retrieve applicable and appropriate literature to address research problems and ensuing questions.
- Critically and systematically review and discuss the extant body of complex knowledge within a domain to demonstrate the expertise and skills required for scholarly inquiry.
- Devise an effective research design, including a justification of the methodology(ies) developed, adapted and implemented for the scholarly study of the topic of interest.
- Actively prioritise the conduct of responsible and ethical research within an environment that promotes scholarship and collegiality
- Develop insights into the discipline through expert and specialised analytical, research and technical skills as applied to the research data collected.
- Determine the contributions and implications of the research for the advancement of theoretical knowledge and practice.
- Propose future directions of research in the discipline based on original insights and knowledge gained through a critical discussion of the findings of the research.
- Produce a manuscript in the form of a monograph or collection of scholarly articles to effectively communicate, disseminate and promote new insights within the academic community and society at large.
RSM staff have diverse research interests and can provide supervision across a range of topics in disciplines such as:
- Business Information Systems
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Entrepreneurship
- Human Resource Management
- Innovation
- International Business
- Leadership
- Marketing
- Organisational Behaviour
- Project Management
- Strategic Management
- Tourism
- Indigenous studies
Our school’s research capabilities have been rated as “well above world standard” by Excellence in Research Australia (ERA). Our academic staff and former students have published their papers in such top journals as: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Operations Management, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Production and Operations Management.
Many of our research students have received recognition for outstanding PhD research (e.g., 3MT People’s Choice Award, Best PhD Proposal Award on Corporate Social Responsibility, ISBM Doctoral Support Award Competition Winner), best paper awards (e.g., Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy, and Australian Industrial/Organizational Psychology Conferences etc.), and published their papers in top journal publications.
PhD ProgramManagements in Research School of Management
The Research School of Management (RSM) has internationally recognised researchers who can supervise doctoral candidates on a diverse range of topics.
Current RSM PhD Students
Student | Title of Thesis or Research Area | Primary Supervisor | Chair of Panel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravini Abhayarathne | Entrepreneurial resilience and rural entrepreneurship | A/Professor Birgit Muskat | |
| Dhanya Boyd | Australian Public Service Capability Pipelines- New Ways of Building a Neurodiverse Workforce | Dr Andrew Bradly | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta |
| Kathryn Brett | Flex Ability: An Exploratory Study of the Dynamics of Flexible Working | Professor Sarbari Bordia | |
| Linh Bui | Effects of Team Processes and Temporal Contingencies on Team Innovation | A/Professor Guihyun Park | |
| Richard Cawsey | Turning organisational purpose into sustained organisational performance | A/Professor Alessandra Capezio | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Puja Dhawan | Beyond the Logo: A Qualitative Study on the Co-Constructed Interpretations of Internal Branding Dynamics in the Healthcare Sector | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta | |
| Shima Farazmehr | Locating and deploying essential goods and equipment; An AI-enabled approach for emergency response in disasters | Dr Gary Buttriss | |
| Penny Grewal-Sidhu | Dr Gary Buttriss | ||
| Deisya Maulida AI Hamid | Dr Sally Curtis | ||
| Jiaxin (April) Li | Professor Giles Hirst | Professor Prashant Bordia | |
| Yuanyuan Liu | The Societal Impact of Digital Technology | Dr Babita Bhatt | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta |
| Han Long | Professor Lin Cui | ||
| Elham Merikhi | Risk-Return Trade-off in Project Appraisal and Selection | Professor Ofer Zwikael | |
| Benjamin Mitchell | Championing Indigenous Place-Based Innovation: A Quadurpe Helix Investigation of Prescribed Body Corporate Performance | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta | |
| David Nawiene | Leveraging Digital Technology to Build Community Resilience | Professor Israr Qureshi | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta |
| Camilo Potocnjak Oxman | The Role of Design Thinking in the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Xiangru Qin | Green innovation implementation | A/Birgit Muskat | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Divya Raghavan | A/Professor Pierre van der Eng | ||
| Christopher Seyrl | An Organic Approach for the Delineation of Foreign Product Avoidance | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta | |
| Ann Smith | The Factors and Processes that Shape Decision-making by Public Sector Boards | A/Professor Alessandra Capezio | Professor Ofer Zwikael |
| Kafil Uddin | Roles of Social Intermediaries on livelihood development of Marginalized Social Group | Professor Israr Qureshi | Professor Lin Cui |
| Ganarajah Varendran | How Do Firms Respond to the Hardening of the Duty of Care to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint from a Strategic Planning Perspective? | Dr Gary Buttriss | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta |
| Olga Vasilyeva | Big Data and Data Analytics: Developing Capability for Successful Implementation | A/Prof Alex Richardson | |
| I-Ning Wang | A/Prof Nick Wang | ||
| Subashini Weerakotuwa | Professor Sarbari Bordia | Professor Vinh Lu | |
| Julian Widdup | Board led innovation | A/Professor Anton Kriz | |
| Haiyang Xia | Destination Competitiveness Analysis: Using AI Methods and User-Generated Experience Data | A/Professor Birgit Muskat | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Ning (Neil) Xiao | Leadership and Creativity | Professor Giles Hirst | |
| Zhejing Xu | Exploring Persistence of Affluent Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy: A Postmodern Perspective | A/Professor Patrick J.N. L'Espoir Decosta | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Peisen Xu | Workplace Loneliness | A/Professor David Cheng | Dr Andrew Bradly |
| Mohammad (Zain) Zainuddin | Market for the Missing: Essays on Intermediation and Institutions | Professor Israr Qureshi | Professor Vinh Lu |
| Xianrui Zeng | Creating value in wine tourism through content marketing | Dr Toni Eagar and Dr Armando Corsi | Dr Ashkan Zarghami |
| Leopold Zhou | Professor Sigi Goode | ||
| Zhiwen (Zoey) Zheng | Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement for Enhancing Project Success | Professor Ofer Zwikael | A/Professor Birgit Muskat |