College of Business

Traditional PhD Entrepreneurship Concentration

The Entrepreneurship (Management) PhD concentration at 麻豆精品视频provides the specialized preparation needed by nascent entrepreneurship scholars seeking to make significant contributions through their research and teaching. Florida Atlantic is currently ranked #8 globally in .听

Areas of expertise:听

  • Family business
  • Austrian economics
  • Game theory
  • Cognition, judgment, decision-making, and uncertainty
  • Public policy and regulation
  • International entrepreneurship
  • Venture finance

Early in the program our students are paired with at least one faculty mentor who shares their research interests. The program generally consists of two years of coursework, followed by comprehensive exams and a dissertation, and it usually takes a minimum of four years to complete.

During the two years of coursework, the following topic areas will usually be covered.

Entrepreneurship

  • Entrepreneurship Overview
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • International Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Economics

Management Core

  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Strategic Management

Research Methods Core

  • Scientific Method
  • Univariate Statistics
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Research Design and Measurement

We have a very strong entrepreneurship faculty, with several members recognized nationally and worldwide. The program is both selective and fairly small, which allows students to work closely with our faculty members. Our students regularly present their research at prestigious conferences, and many have academic journal publications prior to graduation.听 Job placements are strong, with our students obtaining positions at universities nationwide.

Entrepreneurship Faculty

Management is a large department including faculty members in diverse areas, such as human resource management, international business, and health administration. Though our doctoral students focus on entrepreneurship, they can draw on faculty expertise in the other areas, if it fits their entrepreneurship research. For a complete list of the , check the department's faculty page.

Faculty Member Primary Research Interests
Industrial clusters, interfirm relationships, managerial and entrepreneurial cognition 听
Franchising, startup processes and decision making, founder roles, skills, and behaviors 听
Franchising, productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, ethics and entrepreneurs, and f amily firms: i nnovation, succession, dysfunction, human resource management 听
Corporate entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, research methods 听
Corporate innovation, entrepreneurial management, corporate entrepreneurship, incentive compensation 听
Corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, family businesses, ownership and governance, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility 听 听
Entrepreneurial opportunities, personal identities, value structures, entrepreneurial actions, uncertainty, unpredictability, public policy, and entrepreneurship, processual analysis 听
Comparative international entrepreneurship, corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms, entrepreneurship policy, new venture strategy 听 听
听 Comparative international entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and entrepreneurship policy 听
Transformational l eadership, charisma, self-leadership, leader-member exchange, crisis leadership mentoring relationships , cross-cultural research, teams, methodological issues , bright and dark personality traits 听
Daniel Andrews Firm governance, environmental and institutional complexity, organizational resilience and adaptation, knowledge connectivity and innovation 听
Since entrepreneurship is multidisciplinary, our students also have opportunities to interact with faculty from other departments who are engaged in entrepreneurship research.

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Entrepreneurship PhD Coordinator, Dr. Mark Packard

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