Brochure Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business And
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Ready to start your academic career? Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business and Management Make your academic mark Facts and figures • More than 200 international research on international business seminars, workshops and conferences each year • Strong ERIM presence in top Since its founding in 1999, the Erasmus ERIM is the largest and most prominent research academic journals Research Institute of Management institute at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), • Erasmus University Rotterdam is ranked comprising researchers and professors from number 3 in Business Administration and (ERIM) has created a distinctive Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus number 4 in Management (ARWU 2020) environment for the development University (RSM) and the Erasmus School of • ERIM currently supports a community of Economics (ESE). ERIM is also the university’s around 250 senior researchers and of internationally- recognised graduate school in business and management. 160 doctoral students management research. ERIM provides ERIM currently supports around 160 doctoral • Five research programmes spanning the ideal platform from which to students – they are the next generation of all areas of management research: management scholars. ERIM’s purpose is the Business Processes, Logistics & launch a world-class academic career ongoing creation and dissemination of new Information Systems; Organisation; for any ambitious researcher with an knowledge with relevance and benefits for Marketing; Finance & Accounting; the international business and academic Strategy & Entrepreneurship excellent educational record and communities, and to students in EUR’s pre- and • Research Initiatives which focus on strong motivation. post-experience programmes. specific areas of research interest • Access to EUR’s state-of-the-art behavioural lab, extensive range “ At ERIM, we will train you to be an of databases and excellent academic who creates positive social impact.“ computing facilities. Professor Flore Bridoux, ERIM Director of Doctoral Education The challenging, cutting-edge Erasmus sociology to engineering and from geophysics Bringing Doctoral Programme will bring out the very to economics and a good gender-balance, best in you – as a scientist, a teacher, and an which enriches the ‘ERIM experience’ influential thinker in the international arena of enormously. out the best management research. The English-taught programme includes systematic coaching and State-of-the-art research infrastructure academic and personal development from Students have access to state-of-the-art in you leading academics. The advantages of carrying research facilities such as computing facilities, out doctoral research at ERIM are significant. the Erasmus Behavioural Lab, and the Erasmus ERIM’s full-time doctoral programme This is an excellent place to start your academic Data Service Centre, which provides access to career. financial and social science databases, as well – the Erasmus Doctoral Programme in as running workshops and providing Business and Management – is focused Academically rigorous and highly selective individual support. The Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business on developing and nurturing inter- and Management holds rigorous, exciting years ERIM community national academic talent. It enables of research training and doctoral dissertation You will have the opportunity to work within promising students to develop into work, depending upon your educational the ERIM community, known worldwide for its background. The strict entry requirements for research excellence. You will receive personal ‘thought leaders’ and become top ERIM PhD candidates mean that you join a supervision by distinguished international researchers at the world’s best univer- community of some of the most promising professors. Your supervisors will be some of young academics in the world. the best-known scholars in their field, who will sities and business schools. Depending expertly guide your progress and follow your on the PhD project, generous funding From all over the world research and its potential for adding to ERIM attracts international PhD candidates. management knowledge with genuine can be generated for four or five years; They represent more than 30 nationalities, interest throughout the programme. further extensions are possible. a variety of academic backgrounds from Your place at the top We take the time to understand, support and coach you for a stimulating, prestigious academic career to ensure that you have the skills and mindset needed to create a winning profile in the increasingly competitive international job market. ERIM offers job placement advice and guidance, and courses that help you develop your academic writing, publication, presentation and teaching skills in order to prepare you for an academic career at the top of your field. ERIM PhD profile Enrolled PhD candidates 150 - 170 Gender diversity 36% Female Nationalities 31 International 65% ERIM Alumni 324 Average age 26 Relevant, high-quality research with specialisms Throughout its activities ERIM has five distinct development and testing of fundamental corporate finance, corporate governance, real areas of research in management. theory in the area of applied organisational estate finance, financial accounting, financial research. econometrics, financial markets, investments, • Business Processes, Logistics & management accounting and risk management. Information Systems (LIS) • Marketing (MKT) Organised around three themes: The MKT programme has produced an • Strategy & Entrepreneurship (S&E) business operations, next generation informati- impressive record of publications, putting it Staunchly multidisciplinary, the S&E on systems and supply chain management, the among the best in the world. It achieved the programme focuses on strategic renewal LIS programme focuses on innovation and second-highest number of publications of and firm performance, and how the drivers optimisation in specific research fields such as any business school outside North America in of both can bring about purposeful change logistics, supply chain management, innovation the top four academic journals for marketing. within organisations. It presents topics such as management, transportation, inventories, MKT scholars work on sub-areas of marketing strategy, entrepreneurship, strategic renewal, terminal operations, sustainability, procurement, (consumer behaviour, marketing strategy, managerial roles, top management teams public transport, business networks, information marketing modelling and neuromarketing), and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, and communication systems and technologies. while also contributing regularly to top strategic innovation, exploitation, exploration, In this way it contributes to both management journals for the scientific disciplines and ambidexterity and international business. research and management practice. foundational to marketing (e.g., psychology, econometrics and neuroscience). • Organisation (ORG) Exploring issues such as business • Finance & Accounting (F&A) ethics, corporate governance, innovation, The F&A programme contributes significantly organisational behaviour, sustainability, to management science and management leadership, and analysis of teams from practice through a combination of research, micro- to the macro-level. The focus of knowledge transfer, co-creation and education ERIM’s ORG programme is on the on research topics such as asset management, “ At ERIM you get a world class research environment – it is incredible the way ERIM is willing to invest in the development of its PhDs.“ Dr Mariano L.M. Heyden, ERIM PhD Alumnus, Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business at Monash Business School • ERIM PhD students receive a generous employment contract through Erasmus University Rotterdam. This brings a wide variety of benefits to participants, such as stability of funding, labour protection, holiday allowance, end year bonus, pension contribution, and much more • Generous financial support for conferences, international research visits, data collection and other research activities through ERIM Support Programmes Research • Personal supervision by distinguished international professors support • Job Placement support • State-of-the-art research facilities such as Excellent research demands the Erasmus Behavioural Lab and the Erasmus excellent support. ERIM employs “ ERIM provides PhD students Data Service Centre a series of support and quality with a strong foundation for an international academic • Annual ERIM Summer School which offers instruments, which together short, specific courses to boost research skills career.“ ensure a level of financial and Dr Eelco Kappe, • Skills training to support a successful personal support that is among ERIM PhD Alumnus, Assistant academic career such as presentation and the best in the world. Professor of Marketing at teaching skills, publishing strategy and more. Pennsylvania State University Your academic career starts here Become part of ERIM – apply! Are you ambitious, demanding, and Admissions and application driven by the desire to develop your Do you have what it takes to handle the rigorous PhD programme at ERIM? personal research interests into relevant, influential and published knowledge? • You possess a university Master’s degree in business or economics, or from related fields Do you want to work with the world’s such as psychology, sociology, engineering or top professors, and join a group of the industrial