From Practice to Publication: How Executives Can Generate Impact With Research

In this masterclass, Prof Petros Chamakiotis shares his experience of supervising PhD and GEPhD students to illustrate how executives can contribute to the advancement of scholarly work.

First, executives already have experience and skills applicable to research, enabling a fast-track approach to organisation issues surrounding the research process (from reviewing the literature through to collecting and analysing data). Second, executives often have easier access to organisations for data collection, typically through their employers/organisations and professional contacts they have developed over the years. Third, academic research in the field of management — be it qualitative or quantitative — is inextricably linked to management practice. Thus, it is always a fulfilling experience to be able to transform empirical data into theory which could influence academic, practitioners, educators, and policymakers. Throughout the programme, GEPhD students get to not only complete their doctoral work, but to also publish in journals of academic or practitioner nature, such as Organizational Dynamics and Information Systems Practice Journal.

This masterclass will be followed by a presentation of the Global Executive Ph.D., a programme for senior executives seeking an intellectual challenge worthy of their professional experience.

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