DBA

A minimum of 15 senior executives from global communications companies, such as Motorola, will be undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) programme run by Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University. The DBA at Nottingham Business School is designed for senior executives to apply the latest knowledge to their own organisations. It has been run with a variety of companies in up to ten countries across the globe.

The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is an innovative programme, designed as an alternative to the PhD, for professional people who prefer a mixture of taught sessions combined with a strategic research dissertation. 

Caroline Rowland, Professor in Leadership Management and Sub Dean of the Faculty of Business, Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, explained: “Unlike most PhDs, which are normally based on one major project, the DBA will include some lectures and will be more practitioner-led, with study centred on the workplace.

The theme of the conference is 'Competing through Collaboration'.  This is intended as a broad theme which will encompass (but not necessarily be limited to) notions of collaboration with other institutions and stakeholders such as employers or sponsors.  Contributions could for example highlight case studies of sucessful collaborations and alliances.  In addition, it is intended to address through papers and plenary sessions the question of protecting and maintaining the quality of the DBA product via possibilities of collaborative activity between those institutions offering t