Doctoral Program in Economy and Management of Organisations 2022–2023




Introduction

The objective of the Doctorate in Economia y Gestion de las Organizaciones (Management and Marketing) is to provide the students with a solid formation that allows them to develop original quality research in the areas of Management and Marketing. As a consequence, the doctors who complete the program must be able to independently develop advanced research and consulting activities, both in academic institutions and in public and private companies.

The program includes a faculty of about fifty professors that accumulate more than 120 research six-year terms (sesenios). Students can complete their doctoral thesis in one of the research lines offered by the program. These lines include a wide range of topics within the areas of Strategy, Human Resources, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Management, Customer Management, Consumer Behavior or Social and Environmental Responsibility.

The origin of the doctoral program dates back to the late eighties, with the creation of the Department of Management and Marketing at Universidad de Zaragoza. Most of the faculty of the Department participates in the programme. This faculty belongs to different Schools at Universidad de Zaragoza, including the Faculty of Economics and Business or the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.


Outgoing Student Profile


Contact

Administrative office:

Secretary of the Department of Marketing

Faculty of Economics and Business

Doctor Cerrada 1-2 E50005 Zaragoza

 

Contact:

Academic information:           lfuente@unizar.es

Administrative information:   sed4011@unizar.es, Phone: +34 976 762 679


Academic Committee                      


Lucio Fuentelsaz (president)

Marisa Ramírez (secretary)

Victoria Bordonaba

Luis Casaló

Minerva González (doctoral student)

 



Basic Skills

The students of the program acquire the basic competences indicated in article 5 of Royal Decree 99/2011 on doctorate. They are the following:

  1. Systematic understanding of their field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
  2. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
  3. Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  4. Ability to perform a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  5. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  6. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement within a society based on knowledge.

Personal Abilities and Skills

The RD 99/2011 highlights the high professional training of doctors in various fields, especially those that require creativity and innovation. Therefore, the doctors of the program will have acquired, at least, personal skills and abilities to:

  1. Develop in contexts in which there is little specific information.
  2. Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
  3. Design, create, develop and undertake innovative and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  4. Work both as a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  5. Integrate knowledge, face complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
  6. The criticism and intellectual defence of solutions.

Other Specific Program Competences


Other competencies, specific to the program

CB01 - No additional competences are contemplated in this program.

 



General Information

The requirements for access to doctoral studies are set by the RD 99/2011, of 28 January. In general, access to the programme is open to those who hold an official Spanish Bachelor's and Master's degree or equivalent, having passed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in these two degrees.

Students with a foreign degree issued by a country included in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) may apply for admission directly (info). If the degree was issued by a non-EHEA country, the application for admission with a foreign degree that has not been recognised (info) must be submitted.

Interested parties can find more information about acceso and admission at the Doctoral School section and at the administrative office of the programme (see contact details in the general information section of the programme).


Interested students can obtain further information about


Program Specific Information

Oferta de plazas: 20


Preferred profiles:

The most suitable profile is a Master Degree (MSc) in Management, Strategy and Marketing or another with equivalent content. Interested students must apply to the Academic Committee for admission to the program within the period established in the academic calendar (normally, during the months of June and July) and according to the procedure that is determined annually. This Committee, once the documentation has been analyzed, will determine the adequacy of the candidate's profile and establish, where appropriate, the need to take training complements with the aim of homogeneize the knowledge and basic competences to all students admitted to the program. These complements will consist of the realization of up to eighteen ECTS of the MSc in Management, Strategy and Marketing (taught at University of Zaragoza).

In relation to other issues related to the admission process, you can consult the website of the Doctorate School (https://escueladoctorado.unizar.es/admisi%C3%B3n-en-un-programa-de-doctorado-puntos-clave).


Dedication regime 

The master's degree can be completed either full-time or part-time. The admission process will be common for both types of students.


Selection criteria:

Among those students who meet the established requirements and in case that the number of applications exceeds the number of places available, the Academic Committee will select the candidates according to the following criteria:

- Academic records in the degree that gives access to the program: 80%


- Previous research experience (attendance and presentations in congresses and seminars): 10%


- Other merits: 10%.



Specific Training Activities

Title: Internal seminars

Duration: 20 hours

Control procedures: The attendance of the doctoral students will be controlled and certified. In addition, the doctoral student must submit, within a period of three weeks from the conclusion of each session, a document of approximately two pages in which he or she will summarize the objectives of the work and the main results that derive from it. They will also identify both the main strengths of the research and its main weaknesses. This document will be subject to evaluation by the thesis director.


Title: Seminars of research groups

Duration: 10 hours

Control procedures:  The attendance will be controlled and certified, and will be included in the DAD (Documento de actividades del doctorando -Document of activities of the doctoral student). In addition, the doctoral student must submit, within a period of three weeks, a document of approximately two pages in which he or she will summarize the objectives of the work and the main results that derive from it. They will also identify both the main strengths of the research and its main weaknesses. This document will be subject to evaluation by the thesis director.

 

Title: Research stays

Duration: 160 hours

Control procedures: The doctoral student will present a certificate of the stay as well as a report of the activities carried out.

 

Title: Presentations in research seminar. 

Duration: 2 seminars

Control procedures:  The director of the doctoral student must issue a brief report highlighting the originality of the paper, his or her communication ability, as well as the capacity to answer appropriately to the proposed questions.


Enrolment Dates, Deadlines and Procedure

Doctoral students, as researchers in training and students of the University of Zaragoza, must register annually with the corresponding fees for the academic supervision of the doctoral programme while they continue their doctoral training. The enrolment period will be the one established for this purpose in the calendar of the corresponding academic year.

As a general rule, enrolment will be done online through the Virtual Secretariat of the University of Zaragoza, having previously obtained a personal identification number (PIN) and password from the identity management service of the University of Zaragoza. Those who are unable to enrol online will be allowed to do so in person by going to the Doctoral School Section during opening hours. For the first, second and subsequent enrolments, doctoral students will have to present various documents about their previous studies, depending on whether they have been studied in countries within or outside the European Education Area.

The website of the Doctoral School provides complete and updated information about the enrolment procedure including key points, prices, discounts and insurancelegalisation and translation of documents and various practical details.


Thesis Supervision

The procedures for the supervision of students on the programme are set out in article 11 of Royal Decree 99/2011 regulating doctoral studies. Thesis supervision is also covered by Title I of the Regulations on Doctoral Theses of the University of Zaragoza.

Doctoral students admitted to the programme will register annually for academic supervision at the University of Zaragoza. The academic committee of the programme will assign a thesis supervisor and a tutor, who may or may not coincide. The thesis supervisor will be responsible for the overall management of the student's research tasks, for the coherence and suitability of the training activities, for the impact and novelty of the subject matter of the doctoral thesis in his/her field, and for guiding the planning and, where appropriate, its adaptation to that of other projects and activities in which the student is enrolled. The tutor is responsible for ensuring that the training and research activity is in line with the principles of the programme and the Doctoral School and will ensure the interaction of the PhD student with the programme's Academic Committee, the body responsible for supervising the progress of the research and training and for authorising the presentation of the thesis of each PhD student on the programme.

The supervision of doctoral students will be set out in the Doctoral Charter which, once enrolment has been completed, will be signed by the doctoral student, his/her tutor and supervisor, the programme coordinator and the director of the School for Doctoral Studies. For further information on thesis supervision, please contact the programme's administrative office (see contact details in the programme's general information) or the programme coordinator.


Student's Follow-up and Evaluation

The mechanisms for monitoring doctoral students are in accordance with the provisions of Article 11. Doctoral supervision and monitoring of RD 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies.

Before the end of the first year of enrolment, the PhD student must present a document that includes the research plan and the personal training plan. This may be improved and detailed throughout their stay on the programme and must be endorsed by the supervisor and tutor.

The research plan shall include, at least, the methodology to be used and the objectives to be achieved, as well as the means and timetable for achieving them.

The personal training plan will contain a forecast of the different training activities to be carried out during the doctoral thesis (courses, seminars, mobility actions, etc.).

The activities document is the record of all the activities - stays, courses, attendance at conferences, etc. - that the PhD student carries out from enrolment in the doctoral programme until the submission of the doctoral thesis.

These documents, as well as the director's and tutor's reports, are managed through the doctoral management application, SIGMA.

The academic committee of the programme will annually evaluate the progress of the doctoral student in terms of his/her research plan and the activities document together with the reports that the director and tutor must issue for this purpose. A positive evaluation will be a prerequisite for continuing on the programme. In the event of a negative evaluation, the PhD student must be evaluated again within a maximum period of six months. In the event that significant shortcomings continue to occur, the Academic Committee must issue a reasoned report, after hearing the interested party, and the doctoral student will be definitively withdrawn from the programme.

Once the thesis has been completed, the PhD student must proceed to its deposit and defence in accordance with the provisions set out in the thesis regulations of the University of Zaragoza and in the procedure that develops it, available on the EDUZ regulations website


Transversal Training Activities

The Doctoral School of the University of Zaragoza offers its doctoral students various transversal training activities focused on facilitating the acquisition of the necessary skills to actively participate in the knowledge society and to successfully manage in a complex and changing labour market. The activities in module 1, Communication skills, help PhD students to effectively disseminate research and its results and to share knowledge in an attractive way, both in writing and orally. Module 2, Scientific Information Management, provides training in searching, processing and managing bibliographic information. Module 3 includes activities that improve the doctoral student's readiness to manage in a professional environment. The activities in module 4, Research and Society, provide doctoral students with a space for reflection on issues of interest to participate fully and responsibly in today's diverse, digital and global society. Module 5 contains activities on instrumental or technical aspects necessary to apply cutting-edge research methodologies.

The training offer is completed with online activities for all G9 doctoral students, teaching and research training activities organised by the Institute of Education Sciences of the University of Zaragoza and with those carried out within the framework of inter-university and international Doctoral Conferences.

The complete offer for each academic year is published here.


Specific Training Activities


Mobility

Doctoral students enrolled on doctoral programmes benefit from the mobility grants established in various national and international calls for applications. The calls of the Erasmus+ programme stand out. In the Modality Erasmus+ Studies, doctoral students can choose from a wide range of destinations as most of the agreements signed by the University of Zaragoza with other universities include places for doctoral students from all branches.

This mobility is carried out in accordance with the procedure Q-312_1. Procedure for the Management of the International Mobility of Undergraduate, Master and PhD Students.

With regard to the Erasmus+ Internships mode, doctoral students have access to two calls: the University of Zaragoza's own call and the one carried out by the Campus Iberus of International Excellence for the universities that are part of it, including Zaragoza.

Other interesting mobility calls are the Erasmus+ Short Mobility, the UNITA mobility, the external internships, those specifically aimed at Ibero-American students and those that finance international stays for pre-doctoral students, among others.

The mobility of doctoral students at the University of Zaragoza is also encouraged through the signing of co-supervision agreements with several foreign universities.


Research Lines


    Research Teams


    Academic Regulations

    The Doctoral School of the University of Zaragoza has rules, regulations and procedures to facilitate the achievement of its various objectives. It is worth highlighting the Internal Regulations of the Doctoral School, the Instruction of the Doctoral School: Requirements for access, admission, dedication and permanence in the doctoral studies of the University of Zaragoza adapted to R.D. 99/2011. 99/2011; the Procedure for the elaboration of the Report on the Quality of Doctoral Studies and its different Programmes (ICED); the Code of Good Practices for the School and the doctoral programmes; the Doctoral Charter; the Procedure and model agreement to request the mention of doctorate industrial in the thesis or the Regulation of extraordinary doctoral awards. The aforementioned documents, drawn up with the participation and consensus of the various bodies of the Doctoral School, are published on its website.

    The regulations section of the Doctoral School's website contains other important regulatory references for doctoral studies such as RD 99/2011 regulating official doctoral studies, the Regulations for Doctoral Studies (2012) and the Regulations on doctoral theses (2014), both from the University of Zaragoza.


    PhD Duration and Their Management Rules

    Rules of duration and permanence in the doctorate are established in Instrucción de23 de mayo de 2018 de la Escuela de Doctorado relativa al acceso, admisión,dedicación y permanencia en los estudios de doctorado de la Universidad deZaragoza (R.D. 99/2011).

    Full-time thesis should be complete in three years, from the date of admission to the doctoral program, although the Academic Committee of the program may authorize the extension of this period for one more year. Part-time doctoral students will have five years from their admission to the presentation of the thesis, and the Academic Committee may authorize an extension for two more years. Exceptionally, an additional year of extension can be added.

    PhD candidates may request a change in dedication (full-time / part-time) as well as the temporary withdrawal for justified reasons of the Academic Committee. They can cause a definitive withdrawal and see their file closed in these cases: if the available time to deposit the thesis is exceeded or if they receive two consecutive negative evaluations of the research plan.

    These processes are explained in detail on our website (info) and the doctoral students are told how to proceed in cases of temporary withdrawal (info).


    Academic Calendar

    Doctoral activity in an academic year is governed by the deadlines established in the specific doctoral academic calendar. This calendar, which is approved well in advance, sets the periods for application for access, admission to programmes, registration at the University of Zaragoza, presentation by doctoral students of the research plan and the activities document, as well as the deadlines for the defence of doctoral theses.

    The website of the Doctoral School publishes the calendar for the current academic year, as well as for the two previous years.


    Learning Resources

    The University of Zaragoza and the Departments of Management and Marketing, and also the research groups and Faculty involved in the doctoral program, provide the resources and suitable services for its correct execution. Among these resources should be highlighted:

    - Library and Documentation Service: The University has university libraries with extensive and easily accessible schedules. The libraries provide a wide range of services such as loan of books, access to electronic journals and documents, and spaces with computers and individual work facilities.

    - Escuela de Doctorado: It is the unit of the University of Zaragoza responsible for providing technical and administrative support to the university community regarding doctoral studies.

    - International Relations Section: the International Relations Service promotes mobility, welcomes international Doctoral students and facilitates their integration in the University.

    - Other resources: Center for mobility of researchers (EURAXESS). The University of Zaragoza, through the Vice-Rectorate for Scientific Policy, is part of the EURAXESS European Network of Aragon and is an information point that provides personalized assistance to foreign researchers they move to Aragon to develop their research work.



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