PhD at Amrut Mody School of Management

Amrut Mody School of Management

The Amrut Mody School of Management at Ahmedabad University offers an interdisciplinary and academically rigorous Doctoral (PhD) programme in Management that prepares scholars for careers in academia and research divisions of industry. Requirements for the degree include extensive interdisciplinary course work, demonstrable expertise in areas of research, and successful completion of thesis.

Some of the recent research projects of faculty and doctoral students have been in areas of environment, sustainability, and climate change; finance and econometrics modelling; behavioural decision making; integration of natural resources and cultural and traditional knowledge systems with heritage, digital communication, technology and marketing dynamics, organisational dynamics, operations and supply chain management, amongst others. Faculty members of the School are actively engaged in research that is supported by grants from government agencies, industry and from within Ahmedabad University. Interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities are available through the various centres of the School including VentureStudio, the Centre for Heritage Management and the Global Centre for Environment and Energy. The School also has a partnership with ISB Hyderabad that provides learning opportunities for our doctoral students through relevant coursework and for research mentorship at ISB.

Curriculum Structure
There is a requirement of completion of total 36 credits (about 12 courses of 3 credits each) of which at least one course is on research methods, one in statistics, and one on written communication (or technical writing).

Year 01 would consist of common courses for building up the fundamentals on Research, Communication and area of specialisation.

Year 02 would consist of advanced research interest courses, seminar courses that would be core area level courses and customised courses by the advisor where the interests of the candidate will be actively considered. Inter-area and cross-area courses could also be designed and offered to candidate(s). After clearing all core and seminar courses, a student will have deemed to have passed requirements to appear for a comprehensive exam.

RESEARCH AREAS

Economics and Public Policy
- Economics of Innovation and Industrial Organisation; Behavioural Economics and Experimental Economics; Applied Econometrics; Environment, Energy and Resource Economics; Game Theory; Public Economics; Microeconomic Theory; Health and Development Economics; Machine Learning Applications in Economics; Political Economy; International Trade and Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics; Information Economics
Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; Energy Transition; Energy and Environmental Modelling; Sustainability Policy; Corporate Sustainability; Climate Change and Cities; Materials, Waste, and Circular Economy; Climate and Development
Finance, Accounting and Control
- Option Pricing; Bond and Portfolio Valuation; Risk Management and Financial Markets; Fintech; Financial Contagion; Financial Networks; Systemic Risk; Banking; Nonlinear Time Series Analysis; Long Memory; Adaptive Market Hypothesis; Auditing; Banking; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Earnings Management Entrepreneurial Finance/ Venture Capital and Private Equity; Environmental, Social and Governance; International Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions
Heritage Studies, Conservation and Management
- Critical Heritage Studies; Nature-Culture Linkages; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Heritage and Business Linkages; Governance; Tourism; Designing Heritage Experiences; Heritage Conservation and Management; Material Characterisation and Technical Analysis; Traditional Knowledge System in Heritage Conservation; Preventive Conservation; Innovation in Heritage Conservation; Environmental Impact on Heritage Materials; Sustainable Conservation Strategies; Biodegradation in Conservation
Management and Organisation
- Human Resources; Organisational Behaviour; Strategy; Education Organisation Management; Entrepreneurship, Technology and Behaviour; Talent Management; High Performing Work Systems; Leadership; People Analytics; Organisation Change and Transformation; Work/ Family Balance; Diversity; Ethics; Business and Society
Marketing
- Consumer Behaviour and Emotions; Morality of Consumption; Goal-Directed Behaviour and Consumer Welfare; Numerical Cognition in Consumer Judgements; Social Media; Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis; Digital Communication and Dynamics
Technology, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences
- Game Theory; Robust Optimisation; Resilient Network Design; Behavioural Operations; Graph Theory; Causal Inferences; Bayesian Inferences; Predictive Analytics with Al; Simulation Modelling; Urban Analytics: Built-Form and Spatial Structure, Land-Use-Transport Interaction Models, Public Transport Accessibility

Moreover, all faculty are involved in interdisciplinary research along with their core research areas.

Programme Must Knows

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Eligibility

Admission to the Doctoral programme in Management will be based on an applicant’s past academic record and other criteria as follows:

The applicant must have completed a master’s degree in any discipline viz. Arts, Science, Commerce, Technology, Engineering or Management with a minimum of 55 per cent marks or an equivalent grade in a point scale where the grading system is followed. Potential applicants with a bachelor’s degree are also eligible to apply for the PhD programme but they will have to complete additional course work. The School encourages graduates with significant work experience to apply for the doctoral programme. (Bachelor's and master’s degree or equivalent qualification must be from universities recognised by the MHRD/UGC or it must be from a university incorporated by an Act of Central or State legislature in India. For international students, the degree or educational qualification that is obtained from a foreign university should be recognised by the MHRD/UGC as equivalent to a bachelor’s or master’s degree.)
Shortlisted candidates will appear for a written test followed by personal interaction.
Candidates with national-level fellowships/test scorecards, such as UGC-NET, CAT, GMAT, GATE, GRE, etc., may be exempted if they have a high score from the written test and, if shortlisted, will be required to appear directly for personal interaction.

Admission

All applicants must apply through the Graduate Application Portal. Applications will be shortlisted based on the applicant’s past academic record, valid test scores, statement of research interest and other criteria as mentioned in the eligibility section. Shortlisted applicants will be called for an interview.

For more information, contact [email protected]

Phone: +91.79.61911125 | +91.9974432447

Address: Office of Graduate Admissions, Ahmedabad University, GICT Building, Central Campus, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380009

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Financial Support

Ahmedabad University awards full tuition fee waiver and financial support to full-time doctoral students. The financial support could be either as either University Assistantship or University Fellowship, or from sponsored projects. We offer University Assistantships at INR 40,000 per month plus tuition fee waiver, and University Fellowships at INR 50,000 per month plus tuition fee waiver.

Faculty

Faculty of the Amrut Mody School of Management are exceptionally well-trained from some of the best institutions in India and around the world. They have nurtured a thriving interdisciplinary research environment through their cutting-edge research and innovative teaching pedagogies and pursue research at the prominent edge of their fields. Students cultivate close working relationships with faculty devoted to the establishment of new knowledge. As they train the next generation of researchers and teachers, our faculty take the role of mentor seriously. The overall goals of the faculty are to help students acquire necessary research skills to develop original research studies that have direct applications.

Detailed faculty profiles are available through the following link:

Faculty

Doctoral Programme Policy

Policies regarding Design and Conduct of the Doctoral Programmes

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