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The curriculum for the PhD-TM Program is designed to foster a research-intensive doctoral education relevant for the rapidly emerging area of technology management. Management core courses provide a necessary foundation in management. Technology management courses provide the exposure to the fundamental and most current research and thinking in the broadly defined technology management field Research methods courses help students develop quantitative and qualitative research skills and management research methods. Thematic elective courses help students gain in-depth knowledge in a focused thematic area related to technology management. Working together, students and doctoral advisers select which of these courses are appropriate for the student’s course of study in the PhD-TM Program. As part of each thematic elective course, students also take an associated thematic independent research course in order to thoroughly investigate previous research works in the selected theme. All PhD students are required to undertake a doctoral research project, preferably in the second summer semester of the study. This course will introduce students to research requirements of management research. Finally, students work on the dissertation, an original investigation of a research question(s) related to technology management.

 

Admitted after 12/2007: Students are required to take a total of 75 credits. See the right hand column for a listing of courses.

Admitted before 12/2007: Under the previous program structure (before the units to credits change came into force at Polytechnic), students are required to complete 90 graduate units, including 66 units from the coursework and 24 units from the dissertation. See the left hand column for a listing of courses.

 

CURRENT STUDENTS - COURSE REQUIREMENTS (Before Units to Credits Change)

PhD Technology Management

MG Core Courses: 6 courses, 3 units each (18)

MG 601  Organizational Behavior                                                                                              

MG 607  Marketing                                                                         

MG 608  Managerial Economics and the Economic Environment                                                                                  

MG 609 Managerial Accounting and Finance                                                                         

MG 630 Operations Management                                                                                             

MG 650 Management of Information Systems & Technologies                                                                                   

Technology Management Courses: 4 courses, 3 units each (12)

MG 631 Theory and Design of Organizations

MG 651 Interorganizational Information Systems

MG 660 Management of New and Emerging Technologies

MG 865 Managing Technological Change and Innovation

Doctoral Seminars: 4 courses, 1.5 units each (6)

MG 920 Seminar in Managing Knowledge-Workers in Innovative Organizations (Co-requisite MG 631)

MG 921 Seminar in Information Systems Management Seminar in Information Systems Management

MG 922 Seminar in Business Process Innovation (Co-requisite MG 660)

MG 923 Seminar in Managing Technological Change and Innovation (Co-requisite MG 865)

Research Methods Courses – 4 courses, 3 units each (12)

MG 933 Business Research Methods

MG 930 Quantitative Analysis I

MG 931 Quantitative Analysis II

MG 932 Qualitative Analysis

Thematic Elective Sequence – 4 courses, 3 units each (12)

Independent Research – 4 courses, 1 unit each (4)

Doctoral Research Project – 1 course, 2 units (2)

Doctoral Dissertation – 24 units (24)

 

TOTAL 90 UNITS

COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL NEW STUDENTS

PhD Technology Management

MG Core Courses: Choose 5 courses x 3 credits (15)

OB 6013  Organizational Behavior                                                                                             

MG 6073  Marketing                                                                       

MG 6083  Managerial Economics and the Economic Environment                                                                                  

MG 6093 Managerial Accounting and Finance                                                                       

MG 6303 Operations Management                                                                                            

MG 6503 Management of Information Systems & Technologies                              

Technology Management Courses: Choose 4 courses x 3 credits (12)

OB 6313 Organization Theory and Design

MG 6541 Economics & Strategy for Information Sectors

MG 6603 Management of New and Emerging Technologies

MG 8653 Managing Technological Change & Innovation

MG 8693 Special Topics

Doctoral Seminars: 4 courses x 3 credits (12)

MG 9203 Seminar in Managing Knowledge-Workers in Innovative Organizations

MG 9213 Seminar in Information Systems Management

MG 9223 Seminar in Business Process Innovation

MG 9233 Seminar in Managing Technological Change and Innovation

MG 9243 Technology Management and Policy

MG 9253 Technology Strategy, Structure, and Decision Making

MG 9263 Strategic Marketing Seminar

MG 9273 Technology Adoption & Diffusion

MG 9283 Entrepreneurship

MG 9293 Content Innovation

MG 9303  Advanced Topics – Organizational Behavior and Organizational Theory

MG 9313 Seminar in Behavioral Science

MG 9323 Special Topics

Research Methods Courses – 4 courses x 3 credits (12)

MG 9403 Business Research Methods

MG 9413 Quantitative Analysis I

MG 9423 Quantitative Analysis II

MG 9433 Qualitative Analysis

Doctoral Dissertation  MG 9993 –  8x 3 credits  (24)

TOTAL 75 CREDITS

 

Note: Doctoral seminars will be offered on a rotating basis. Not all the course options will be available to all students going through their course of study.
 
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