Doctoral Programmes

Research plays a central role in the ISCTE Business School overall activities. Our faculty is fully committed in producing research according with the highest international standards as vital part of our mission of exploring the frontiers of management and contributing, though, to the dissemination of knowledge.
Accordingly, ISCTE Business School offers an apealling proposal for everyone interested in enroling  in a high quality Ph.D degree, with seven distinctive features:

• Seven independent areas of research, each one with a dedicated scholar programme, enabling the offer of a course curriculum focused in the specific acquisition of knowledge related to the chosen fied of study, in addition to the tradditional first years courses covering more general research methodological issues and tools;

• A world class faculty holding PhD degrees from top international schools, fully commited in develloping research activities, and with an outstanding track of international publications, strong international links;

• A vision of international research networking, well evidenced by the recent admission to EDAMBA - European Doctoral Programes Association in Management and Business Administration (www.edamba.eu), an association that includes the majority of the more well known European business schools and dedicated to the development of high quality research.

• Envolvement in regular workshops and seminars organized by the School of outstanding international scholars, enhancing the quality of the School's networking and reputation and offering unique opportunities for research advice and counseling;

• A state-of-the-art research infrastructure - data bases, financial lab, journals and working papers search tools - available both locally and remotely (on-line), only seen in top ranked research schools, leveraging the the potential of each student in conducting a high quality research project;

• Avalaibility of funds to finance the presentation of working papers in international scientific conferences, in order to monitor and improve the quality of the research outputs.

• An organizational structure that favors networking, exchange of knowledge, experiences and work among each programme and across all programes, enriching the personal and professional experience of being a part of a PhD programme.

We invite you to learn more about our PhD programmes. You will find a commited School, faculty and staff in making each programe a lifelong unique experience and a powerfull tool to start an exciting academic career or to persue a high calibrer challenge  in the industry.