Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Management, offers program in research areas as follows:

• Management
• Finance
• Accounting

These programmes are offered as full-time and part-time modes to qualified Malaysian and International Students to do independent research supervised by at least a their respective supervisor lecturers in the related fields.

Research Thrust Areas:

Organisational Behaviour

• Strategic Management and Organisational Issues
• Workplace Attitudes and Behaviour
• Human Resource Management/Human Capital Development
• Learning Organisations
• Women in Management and Business
• Entrepreneurship and Enterprising Culture
• Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Sustainable Leadership

Internationalisation

• Internationalisation of Enterprises
• International Entrepreneurship
• Global Strategies and Competitiveness
• Cross Cultural Management
• Export Markets
• Global Strategic Management
• Strategies and Practices in MNCs
• Expatriation and Repatriation

 Marketing

• International Marketing
• Strategic Marketing
• Consumer Behaviour
• Advertising and Marketing Communications
• Retailing
• Brand Management
• Service Marketing
• Environmental Marketing
• Wellness Marketing
• Technology Marketing
• Experiential Marketing

 Operations and Production

• Productivity and Quality
• Technology Management
• Management Sciences
• Managing Information Resources
• Operations Strategies
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Logistics Management

Research Thrust Areas:

Finance

• Asset Pricing
• Behavioural Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Derivative Market
• Financial Market and Institutions
• International Finance
• Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
• Islamic Finance
• Merger and Acquisition
• Applied Mathematic in Finance

Research Thrust Areas:

Accounting

• Goods and Services Tax and Taxation Issues
• Auditing
• Management Accounting and Control
• Financial Reporting
• Accounting Information System
• Management Accounting Practices
• Behavioural Accounting Finance
• Legal Environment of Business & Accounting
• Market Based Accounting Research
• Corporate Governance
• Islamic Accounting
• Public Sector Accounting
• Accounting Education
• Social and Environmental Accounting/Corporate Social Responsibility

Expertise available in the following School: School of Management