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Please Note: The PhD in management program
is not accepting new students for 2010.
The Gatton College's doctoral program in management prepares students for successful academic careers at research-intensive universities. Our doctoral students work closely with the world-class faculty in the Management area to perform cutting-edge research.
What sets the Gatton Management Area doctoral program apart?
World-Class Faculty
The Gatton College is committed to assembling the finest scholars in management to educate doctoral candidates for successful careers as management professors. Our faculty members are renowned leaders of thought within their research domains.
Daniel J. Brass, J. Hennings Hilliard Chair of Management, is an associate editor of the most prestigious research journal in management, Administrative Science Quarterly.
Stephen P. Borgatti, Chellgren Chair of Management, is a senior editor of Organization Science, a highly prestigious research journal. He is past president of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers.
Walter J. Ferrier won the coveted Academy of Management Journal article-of-the-year research award.
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca won the Organization and Management Theory Division best-paper award at the Academy of Management conference, and was runner-up for the Academy of Management Review article-of-the-year. He has served on the boards of the discipline's top journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science.
Ajay Mehra has served on the boards of the disclipline's top journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is book review editor for the Academy of Management Review.
Brian Dineen won a prestigious award from the Academy of Management's Human Resources Division for best dissertation.
Our doctoral graduates have become business school faculty at major research universities such as the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Emory University, Tulane University, Penn State University, Michigan State University, Clemson University, the University of Cincinnati, Oklahoma State University, Queen's University, University of Illinois-Chicago, William & Mary, and Boston College.
LINKS - International Center for the Study of Social Networks in Business
The exciting study of social and organizational networks in management has grown spectacularly over the past decade, and has inspired such websites as MySpace and Facebook. Daniel J. Brass, director of the Links center, is a pioneer in the study of organizational social networks. He conducts extensive research and teaches classes and seminars at top universities throughout the world. His keen influence in the many aspects of social networks is evidenced by more than 500 citations to his published research.
Stephen P. Borgatti has been a key player in the development of social network analysis. In addition to having more than 70 publications on social networks and generating numerous mathematical models of social behavior, he co-developed UCINET, widely regarded as the best software package for analyzing social networks. His research, which mixes cognitive anthropology and social network structure, has been applied to important real-world problems such as countering terrorism, slowing HIV transmission, and improving knowledge management in organizations.
Joe Labianca and Ajay Mehra have earned international reputations for their research in social networks.
LINKS has also benefited from the active participation of network researchers in related fields at UK, such as marketing, decision sciences, and public policy.
The Management area focuses mainly on social networks within and between business organizations. Within organizations, we consider the antecedents and consequences of various types of social networks at the individual and group levels. For example,
- What type of social capital do leaders have?
- Which social network configurations optimize team performance?
- Which position is most powerful in an organization's social network?
- How do social networks affect interpersonal conflict?
- How can we best manage organizational knowledge?
For organizational networks, we ask, for example,
- How do different interorganizational knowledge acquisition networks affect organizational learning and change?
- How do strategic alliances affect the value of an organization's inventions?
We also host the Intra-Organizational Networks Conference (ION), which is the most influential research conference in business networks. The conference allows our doctoral students to enhance their career prospects by meeting and interacting with top network researchers from around the world.
Exciting Research in Strategy, Management, and Human Resources Management
Our faculty members are also engaged in cutting-edge research in business strategy topics such as competitive dynamics within industries and strategic decision making, management topics such as how to manage organizational change or virtual teams with constantly changing membership, and human resources management topics such as how to better compete for the highest quality human capital by attracting and selecting applicants through web-based channels. We study such research questions as,
- How does customizing web-based recruiting information to individual job seekers affect applicant pool quality, employee satisfaction, and job success?
- How may a job seeker or employee better discern an organization's culture? How does understanding the culture affect performance?
- How can we predict that a job seeker will perpetrate resume fraud, and how might organizations deter such behavior?
- How does a firm's competitive behavior impact its profits, market share, and stock price?
Part of a Comprehensive Major Research University
As a doctoral student in a major comprehensive research university, you will collaborate with scholars in related fields including public policy, economics, psychology, and sociology. This contact will allow you to develop research questions that are interesting and important to a variety of fields of study.
Intensive, Personal Attention
We pride ourselves on providing close individualized attention to our doctoral students through an apprenticeship model designed to nurture future thought leaders. Doctoral students work on projects they initiate and design as well as projects initiated by professors. Our students have published articles in the best research journals in our field and have won research awards at annual research conferences of the Academy of Managment and the Strategic Management Society. Research questions that students are currently pursuing include,
- How does a firm's position in an interorganizational network affect the entrepreneurial process?
- What competitive actions impact a company's perceived stock risk and prompt investors to short sell a company's stock?
- How can organizations minimize negative employee reactions to being excluded from workplace relationships, events, and activities? Why are some employees excluded?
- How does an employee's human and social capital affect the likelihood of being laterally transferred within an organization?
Lexington, Kentucky, is One of the Best Places to Live in the United States
Lexington is a small, interesting, urban/suburban locale with ready access to exciting urban areas and beautiful rural areas. Its cost-of-living and crime rates are low, and its schools are terrific. Forbes magazine has consistently listed Lexington as one of the top 20 places to live in the United States.
GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GATTON COLLEGE'S PH.D. IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
If you are interested in challenging yourself intellectually and becoming a professor in a major research university, click here to get more information about applying to our Ph.D. program in Business Administration. You may also contact Ajay Mehra (ajay.mehra@uky.edu) or Daniel Brass (dbrass@uky.edu) to discuss the program in greater depth. We encourage minority and international students to apply.
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