Doctorate Topics

After completion of one of the three masters in management, a doctorate is an excellent opportunity to deepen one's knowledge in a field of interest while extending one's truly unique time at university. A doctorate in the discipline of business is a good starting point not only for an academic career but also for a career in upper management in international companies. The following is an overview of a selection of previously conducted doctoral projects in order to show what a future doctoral project might look like.

• Accounting and Finance

  Measurement errors in costing systems

  Using controls to enable individual ambidexterity 

  Over-reliance on cost information in managerial decision-making 

  (Prof. Michael Burkert)
  

  Gouvernance d'entreprise et risqué

  Présence des femmes dans les conseils d'administration et effets sur la performance

  Politique du dividende des entreprises cotées

  Décisions financières des entreprises familiales 

  (Prof. Dušan Isakov)

  Impact de la divulgation environnementale sur les prévisions des analystes

  La gestion des résultats lors des d’acquisitions d’actions

  Réaction du marché aux annonces des bénéfices

  The impact of Corporate governance on earnings management

  (Prof. Frank Missonier)
  

  Three Essays on Financial Economics of Banking: Bank Diversification, Asset Returns, and Earnings Management

  Using Long-Term Tendencies of ROE in Equity Valuation and Investment Strategies for the European Market

  Financial Analysts and Information Processing on Financial Markets

  Essays on Stock Market Anomalies in Europe

  (Prof. Martin Wallmeier)
  

• International Management, Strategy and Organisation

  Transfer and local adaptations of HR Management practices within MNCs

  Global careers and new top management profiles

  Integration of highly skilled migrants

  (Prof. Eric Davoine)

  Global Value Chains in Automotive Industry

  Swiss alpine resorts and global value chains of tourism

  SEM financing in Russia

  (Prof. Paul Dembinski)

  Collective capabilities and the success of collective action

  The impact of the ecosystem in social entrepreneurs’ success

  (Prof. Emmanuelle Fauchart)

  Unternehmerische Orientierung in NPO

  Kommunikationsstrategien von Verbänden und ihre Wirkungsanalyse

  Corporate Philanthropy und die Effekte für NPO

  Erklärungsfaktoren für die Entwicklung des Genossenschaftssektors

  (Prof. Markus Gmür)

  Public export promotion and export performance

  Strategische Analyse der Schweizer Bergbahnen 

  Erfolgsfaktoren bilateral strategischer Kooperationen von mittelständischen Unternehmen Deutschlands und Saudi-Arabiens

  (Prof. Rudolf Grünig)

  Retailers’ Localisation to Foreign Markets

  Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries

  Chinese M&A into European Markets

  (Prof. Dirk Morschett)

  Digital business models

  Top management teams and digital innovation

   

  (Prof. Stephan Nüesh)

• Marketing and Innovation Management

  Service Recovery-Strategien

  Effekte von Preispromotionen auf Referenzpreise von Konsumenten

  Reaktanzeffekte vergleichender Werbung

  (Prof. Silke Bambauer-Sachse)

  The factors affecting bootlegging projects’ successful transfer in companies

  (Prof. Emmanuelle Fauchart)

  Cross-cultural marketing in services marketing

  The negative impact of service customers’ misbehavior on the satisfaction of the other customers

  Managing customer captivity

  (Prof. Olivier Furrer)

  Effekte von Online Word-of-Mouth auf Kaufentscheidungen von Konsumenten
  

  Internationalisation of Online Retailers

  (Prof. Dirk Morschett)

  Innovation and technology management

  Open innovation and crowdsourcing

  (Prof. Stephan Nüesch)