Business Administration Ph.D. Research
At the intersection of innovation, technology and business, Saunders faculty consistently publish their research in elite journals across the following three Ph.D. specialty areas.
Learn more about Saunders Research, faculty expertise and published scholarship from Business Administration Ph.D. program faculty.
Digital Transformation
Our faculty members have expertise in a variety of areas and their research often reside at the intersection of technology and data. Faculty regularly collaborate within and outside of their discipline and publish in premier journals in the field. The following areas broadly represent faculty research interests:
- Innovation: Blockchain innovation, digital entrepreneurship, distributed collaboration, healthcare IS, software development.
- Markets: Marketing high technology, stakeholder engagement, consumer behavior, analytics, open innovation, and public policy.
- Data: Algorithmic decision-making and anomaly detection, cluster analysis, network analysis, people analytics, text mining.
Research Spotlight - Digital Transformation, with Emi Moriuchi
Research Spotlight - Digital Transformation, with Sean Hansen
Research Spotlight - Digital Transformation, with Ali Tosyali
Research Spotlight - Digital Transformation, with Manlu Liu
Finance and Accounting
Our faculty members have a broad research expertise in finance and accounting. They have published research papers in a myriad of research topics and you will have the opportunity to explore the following fields.
- Financial accounting: Financial disclosure, nonfinancial disclosure, and reporting regulations.
- Corporate Finance: Corporate governance, executive compensation, debt and equity financing.
- Financial markets and investment: empirical asset pricing, banks and other financial institutions, fintech and high-frequency trading.
- Auditing and taxation: Audit pricing, internal control, and corporate tax avoidance.
Research Spotlight - Finance and Accounting, with Archana Jain
Research Spotlight - Finance and Accounting, with Ashok Robin
Research Spotlight - Finance and Accounting, with Rong Yang
Management, Strategy, and Innovation
Our faculty members have expertise in a variety of areas and their research often reside at the intersection of management, strategy, and innovation. Faculty have published research papers in a myriad of research topics that address some facet of strategic management with a particular focus on technology and innovation. You will have the opportunity to partner with faculty members in the following areas:
- Management: Leadership & leading change, sustainable management & competitiveness, supply chain management, voice & organizational commitment, collective action, organizational learning and knowledge management, diversity, ethics and corporate social responsibility, and managing technological disruptions.
- Strategy: Strategic management/planning, inter-firm network, internationalization, institutional context of business, global sourcing, entrepreneurship, e-businesses, risk management, emerging markets, corporate governance, environmental uncertainty, production and operations management.
- Innovation: Platform technology firms, technology and commercialization, AI and the future of work, innovation and public policy, management of technological innovation, and marketing high technology.
Research Spotlight - Strategy and Innovation, with Richard DeJordy
Research Spotlight - Strategy and Innovation, with Zhi Tang
Research Spotlight - Strategy and Innovation, with Clyde Eiríkur Hull
Research Spotlight - Strategy and Innovation, with Ettore Spadafora
