Roadmap to a successful PhD in Business & management and the social sciences

This book provides the most comprehensive roadmap to a successful PhD completion, thus offering a useful guide for aspiring and existing doctoral students in business and management disciplines and the social sciences (including, inter alia, international business, marketing, management, management education, organisation studies, tourism and hospitality, accounting, finance, law, and economics). The book is written for a global audience of prospective and existing postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and can be used and implemented as a core text in PhD induction programmes, across countries. Academic supervisors too should find this book a valuable resource on how they can fulfil their responsibility to guide PGRs toward a successful completion of their doctorate. Specific practical guidance is informed, at strategic points throughout the text, by stories of the lived experience of past PGRs as well as the authors’ personal professional anecdotes and real-life examples of «how to» and «how not to».

This compendium of useful information and tools draws from the authors’ decades of experience in teaching at all levels of educational provision (from undergraduate programmes through to the Doctorate of Business Administration), publishing in academic journals of high repute, successful PhD supervision and examining (in the UK and abroad), and in their roles as strategic and academic directors of doctoral programmes in different UK universities.

Glauco De Vita is Professor of International Business Economics and Strategic Director of the PhD Programme in the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University.

Jason Begley is an Associate Professor and Academic Director for Postgraduate Researchers in the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University.

David Bowen is a Reader and Head of Doctoral Programmes in the Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University.