College of Business
Traditional PhD Entrepreneurship Concentration
The Entrepreneurship (Management) PhD concentration at ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app 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 .Ìý
Areas of expertise:Ìý
- 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 ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app 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 ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app to work closely with our faculty members. Our ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app regularly present their research at prestigious conferences, and many have academic journal publications prior to graduation.Ìý Job placements are strong, with our ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app 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 ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app 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 Ìý | |
| Franchising, startup processes and decision making, founder roles, skills, and behaviors Ìý | |
| Franchising, productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, ethics and entrepreneurs, and f amily firms: i nnovation, succession, dysfunction, human resource management Ìý | |
| Corporate entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, research methods Ìý | |
| Corporate innovation, entrepreneurial management, corporate entrepreneurship, incentive compensation Ìý | |
| Corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, family businesses, ownership and governance, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility Ìý Ìý | |
| Entrepreneurial opportunities, personal identities, value structures, entrepreneurial actions, uncertainty, unpredictability, public policy, and entrepreneurship, processual analysis Ìý | |
| Comparative international entrepreneurship, corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms, entrepreneurship policy, new venture strategy Ìý Ìý | |
| Ìý | Comparative international entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and entrepreneurship policy Ìý |
| Transformational l eadership, charisma, self-leadership, leader-member exchange, crisis leadership mentoring relationships , cross-cultural research, teams, methodological issues , bright and dark personality traits Ìý | |
| Daniel Andrews | Firm governance, environmental and institutional complexity, organizational resilience and adaptation, knowledge connectivity and innovation Ìý |