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business administration PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 31 business administration PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Adaptive Go-To-Market Strategy: Designing AI-Driven Market Execution Architectures

Traditional go-to-market strategies can be too slow for markets shaped by rapid demand shifts, digital platforms, AI-enabled buying behavior, and changing customer expectations. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Board-Level Technology Oversight: Designing Governance Tools for Emerging Technologies

Many boards and senior leadership teams are expected to oversee digital transformation, AI adoption, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies without always having the tools to assess strategic value, risk, or implementation readiness. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Empathy-by-Design: Designing Human-Centered Models for AI-Enhanced Service

Automation can increase speed and efficiency, but it can also weaken human connection, trust, and customer satisfaction. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of human-centered service models that integrate AI while preserving empathy, trust, and meaningful customer engagement. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Regenerative Finance: Designing Models for Sustainable Value Creation

Sustainability is increasingly moving from reporting and compliance toward measurable impact, resource regeneration, and long-term value creation. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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The Autonomous Enterprise: Designing Governance Protocols for Agentic AI

As artificial intelligence moves from decision support to autonomous action, organizations face new questions of accountability, trust, control, and human oversight. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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AI Safety and Ethical Guardrail Design for Autonomous Systems

As autonomous and non-deterministic AI systems become more powerful, organizations need stronger real-time governance, observability, and safety mechanisms. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Water Stewardship as Strategy: Designing Corporate Resource-Risk Frameworks

Water scarcity is becoming a strategic constraint for many organizations, especially in sectors where production, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, or digital operations depend on reliable water access. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Distributed Leadership: Designing Structures for High-Performance Hybrid Teams

Hybrid and decentralized work environments challenge traditional leadership models. Top-down management structures often struggle to support fast decision-making, engagement, accountability, and ownership when teams are distributed across locations, time zones, and digital platforms. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Digital Product Passports: Designing Frameworks for Value Chain Transparency

Organizations are facing growing pressure to provide transparent, verifiable, and lifecycle-based information about products, sourcing, sustainability, and supply chains. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Skills-First Talent Ecosystems: Designing Adaptive Workforce Orchestration Models

Rapid technological change is challenging traditional approaches to job design, hiring, and workforce planning. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of skills-first talent ecosystems that allow organizations to identify, mobilize, and redeploy capabilities in real time. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Digital Trust: Designing Corporate Protocols for Disinformation Security

AI-generated content, synthetic media, deepfakes, and automated misinformation are creating new risks for organizations. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of organizational protocols for disinformation security, digital trust, and corporate reputation protection. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Supply Chain Sovereignty: Designing Resilience Frameworks for Geopolitical Risk

Global supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical fragmentation, trade disputes, tariffs, resource constraints, and regional instability. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
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Pharmacokinetics Guided Natural Products Exploration for Drug Discovery, Development, Delivery and Therapy

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Natural products have emerged as a key standard in novel and safe delivery of anticancer bioactive compounds. Apart from their ease of administration and delivery, natural/phytochemicals still face several hurdles, due to their physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Wahajuddin
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Controlled Release Trans-Scleral Dissolving Microneedles for Intraocular Delivery

The Retinal diseases, such as macular degeneration, retinal detachment and diabetic retinopathy are the leading causes of vision impairment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Shaikh, Dr J Denniss, Dr S Shnyder
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Tackling oxaliplatin drug resistance in colorectal cancer by developing a novel bifunctional prodrug

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Acquired drug resistance is a considerable problem for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC), of which oxaliplatin is a key component, with little improvement in the ~65% 5-year survival rate over the past 25 years. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Shnyder, Dr G Ribeiro Morais, Prof R Falconer
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