Five fields of concentration
Choose a field in which your research can matter
Each concentration combines specialist depth with the programme's wider concern for leadership, sustainability, innovation, governance and institutional transformation. Candidates complete six 3-credit concentration modules across the first three semesters.
Accounting and Finance
Investigate how organisations measure value, allocate capital, govern financial judgement and sustain public trust across reporting, finance, investment, taxation, assurance and managerial accounting.
Human Resource Management
Examine the human architecture of institutions: how capability, motivation, culture, teams and employment systems shape performance, legitimacy and organisational change.
Marketing and Communication
Study how markets are formed, interpreted and influenced through consumer behaviour, international strategy, digital ecosystems, integrated communication, service value and the institutional contexts of exchange.
Leadership and Governance
Examine how authority is exercised, constrained and made answerable through leadership theory, moral reasoning, governance, organisational change and institutional accountability.
Strategic Management
Treat strategy as an intellectual and institutional discipline: the work of interpreting environments, making defensible choices, configuring organisations and sustaining renewal across African and international settings.
What candidates learn to do
- Evaluate established and emerging strategy theories and their limits.
- Diagnose industries, institutions, competitors, resources and organisational capabilities.
- Assess corporate scope, governance systems and board effectiveness.
- Design ethical change, innovation and business-model renewal strategies.
- Evaluate global, regional and emerging-market choices and their institutional conditions.
- Translate strategic evidence into an original doctoral contribution and implementable recommendations.