The dissertation effort is long, and often those involved can feel like they've been abandoned to muddle through the process on their own. If not orchestrated well, the bond among student, advisor, ...

The doctoral dissertation is viewed as the capstone to the doctoral program. This study reviews the research topics and methodologies of management doctoral dissertations from 1988 to 1994 in Taiwan.

Bonham, Nathan (2023), "Empowering Participatory Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: Novel Algorithms and Interactive Tools applied to Colorado River Post-2026 Negotiations" Civil, Architectural, ...

The Ph.D. program in Management and Organizations (“MORS”) integrates psychological, sociological, economic, and complex systems perspectives on the study of organizations and their members. Faculty ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Advisor: Tamara Montag-Smit, Ph.D., Department of Management, Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell Kimberly Merriman, Ph.D., Department of Management, Manning ...

Toffel, Michael W. "Voluntary Environmental Management Initiatives: Smoke Signals or Smoke Screens?" Diss., University of California, Berkeley, December 2005. (Winner of Academy of Management. Social ...

*Updated as of Jan. 6, 2026: Since the Spring 2026 dissertation deadline to hold the defense lands during Spring Break, we modified the dissertation deadlines for Spring 2026 in an effort to make the ...

Congratulations on nearing the end of your doctoral work at The Graduate School of the Robert J. Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences! The following information is intended to assist you in ...

Students take about eight years to complete a doctoral degree -- twice the time of a bachelor’s degree. Also, the average age of a doctoral student is 33. Many doctoral students work full-time and ...