The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice
The paper presents an over view of a new type of degree program that is rapidly emerging and gaining acceptance in the U.S.: the business doctorate for executives. Roughly a dozen of these programs currently exist at institutions accredited by AACSB International, the nation's premier accrediti...
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International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
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| description | The paper presents an over view of a new type of degree program that is rapidly emerging and gaining acceptance in the U.S.: the business doctorate for executives. Roughly a dozen of these programs currently exist at institutions accredited by AACSB International, the nation's premier accrediting agency. Although they are research-focused, like their Ph.D counterparts, they are quite different in a number of ways. Among the most important of these: they target applicants with substantial executive experience, they are part time and assume their participants will continue working while in the program, they are interdisciplinary in focus and their emphasis is generally on applying research methods to practical business problems, as opposed to producing published research articles. As a consequence, they are well-positioned to serve as a bridge that increases partnering between academic research and practice. After summarizing the general nature of these programs, the paper considers the structure and objectives of the new Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program being offered by the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-32c59603ab2a49258761eeda85b810f02022-12-21T22:48:30ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242015-10-01136116121The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and PracticeT. Grandon Gill0Matthew Mullarkey1 The paper presents an over view of a new type of degree program that is rapidly emerging and gaining acceptance in the U.S.: the business doctorate for executives. Roughly a dozen of these programs currently exist at institutions accredited by AACSB International, the nation's premier accrediting agency. Although they are research-focused, like their Ph.D counterparts, they are quite different in a number of ways. Among the most important of these: they target applicants with substantial executive experience, they are part time and assume their participants will continue working while in the program, they are interdisciplinary in focus and their emphasis is generally on applying research methods to practical business problems, as opposed to producing published research articles. As a consequence, they are well-positioned to serve as a bridge that increases partnering between academic research and practice. After summarizing the general nature of these programs, the paper considers the structure and objectives of the new Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program being offered by the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/ZA252RN15.pdf DBAexecutive educationinterdisciplinarydoctoratecurriculum. |
| spellingShingle | T. Grandon Gill Matthew Mullarkey The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics DBA executive education interdisciplinary doctorate curriculum. |
| title | The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice |
| title_full | The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice |
| title_fullStr | The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice |
| title_short | The Interdisciplinary Business Doctorate for Executives: A Novel Way to Bridge Academic Research and Practice |
| title_sort | interdisciplinary business doctorate for executives a novel way to bridge academic research and practice |
| topic | DBA executive education interdisciplinary doctorate curriculum. |
| url | http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/ZA252RN15.pdf
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