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Programme DBA - Clermont School of Business

DBA: Doctorate of Business Administration

Bac+5
Français/English
3 years
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I encourage you to pursue our DBA program. This program allows you to be recognized as Doctors in Business Administration and serves as a privileged path to work on concrete issues with the support of experienced academic supervisors. You will develop scientific skills that will help you understand and solve management challenges.

 

The DBA offered by Clermont School of Business, an AACSB-accredited school, is a high-level degree providing professionals the opportunity to undertake in-depth research in management while continuing a corporate career. So, if you are looking for an intellectual challenge and an academic perspective, and if you wish to combine research with your professional activity, the DBA is an ideal option for advancing in your career. Don’t hesitate, get started!

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In few words

Clermont School of Business, an AACSB-accredited school, offers a Doctorate of Business Administration programme, a generalist DBA that covers the range of high-level management activities in organisations. It is designed around three ambitions.

  • An academic ambition, first of all, since the School and its partners aim to bring DBA participants, professionals and students alike, into the world of management science research in an international context.
  • A scientific ambition, then, since with this program, it is a question of bringing together major theories in management sciences and business practices, and to enable, through support, monitoring and an appropriate research framework, the conduct of research that directly concerns the professional activity of participants and the issues of their organization.
  • Finally, a shared ambition of educational commitment: that of university partners who position themselves on the international scene and of populations who wish to have access to very high-level training courses that are recognized throughout the world.

This program is therefore intended to be an optimistic bet on a richer and more fruitful future for management sciences and all its new actors. This is particularly based on one of the major specificities of the DBA at Clermont School of Business: a thought-out and mastered articulation between the imperative of rigor and the need for relevance for management research. We invite you to discover this promise in detail here.

Our differences

  • Acquire advanced theoretical skills in management sciences
  • Developing methodological research skills
  • Conducting rigorous and relevant research interesting and useful for managers and companies, become a specialist in applied and reflective research engaged toward practitioners
  • Develop an intellectually rigorous approach to management while sharpening critical thinking and inviting you to explore all possibilities
  • Produce and disseminate research on management innovation for efficient and responsible organizations
  • Valuing one’s DBA thesis in the form of publications in academic journals.

Strengths

A program over 3 years with the possibility of a one-year extension
Courses in English
Doctoral supervision, writing and defense of the thesis in French or English
On-line modules and access to resources and databases
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Program and Learning experience

The program is part-time (seminars are on weekends), over three years with the possibility of an additional year if necessary, and it is delivered fully online. The language is English for all teaching modules; however, the thesis supervisor support, the writing of the thesis and the defense can be done either in French or in English at the doctoral student’s choice.

The DBA program is made up of three sets.

  • First, a supervision by a qualified supervisor, professor from the Faculty of Clermont School of Business, available and attentive. He is specialized in the doctoral student’s field of application and is dedicated to him from the start of the doctoral journey.
  • Then, applicants are accompanied and supported throughout the process until the defense by a series of collective workshops. These workshops are dedicated to the main steps of the construction of the thesis (problem statement, theoretical framework, collection and processing of data, etc.) as well as to academic writing (writing the thesis and articles) and to the preparation for the oral defense. To note, certain optional workshops are offered in years 1 and 2 in order to deepen data processing and academic writing practices, and to discover the practice of action and collaborative research, which particularly suits to researchers involved in the world. organizations.
  • In parallel, a set of seminars, mainly in Years 1 and 2, allow students to learn the practice and methods of research and to understand the major current issues of research in the main disciplines of Management Sciences. Finally, Year 3 is more intensively dedicated to personal thesis work with fewer seminars and more workshops preparing the work of presentation and academic writing as well as the thesis defense.

The program in detail

Individual follow-up: 15 hours of follow-up meetings with the DBA Supervisor each year

Doctoral Courses

  • The fundamentals of research: epistemological posture and methodology
  • Conducting your research project, research approaches and design
    – The world of research
    – The literature review
    – The theoretical framework
    – The empirical framework
    – Writing the thesis
  • Research practice in Management Sciences (I) – Main Streams
    – Marketing
    – Organizations
    – Human Resources
    – Strategy
    – Finance

DBA Thesis Workshops

  • Research Follow-Up Workshops
    – Workshop 1: Research Statement
    – Workshop 2: Literature Review
    – Workshop 3: Theoretical Framework
    – Optional Workshop 1: Action Research and Collaborative Research
    – Optional Workshop 2: Academic Writing
  • Writing and Presentation of the 1st Researches
    – Drafting of the 1st Literature Review
    – Preparation of a Summary of the Literature Review in Publication Format
    – Presentation of the Research Statement and Theoretical Framework at the DBA DAYS

Individual follow-up: 15 hours of follow-up meetings with the DBA Supervisor each year

Doctoral Courses

  • Training in Qualitative Methods
    – Theory and Software Handing (NVivo)
  • Training in Quantitative Methods
    – Theory & Software Handling (SPSS)
  • Research practice in Management Sciences (II) – Contemporary Issues
    – Marketing
    – Organizations
    – Human Resources
    – Strategy
    – Finance

DBA Thesis Workshops

  • Research Follow-Up Workshops
    – Workshop 4: Processing Qualitative Data
    – Workshop 5: Processing Quantitative Data
    – Optional Workshop 3: In-depth practice in qualitative data processing
    – Optional Workshop 4: In-depth practice in quantitative data processing
  • Writing and Presenting Research
    – Drafting of the Methodological Approach and Results
    – Summary of Methodology and Results in Publication Format
    – Presentation of the Methodological Approach and Results at the DBA DAYS

Individual follow-up: 15 hours of follow-up meetings with the DBA Supervisor each year

Doctoral Courses

  • Training in the Valuation of Research Work
    – Presenting Your Research at Conferences
    – Publishing in Academic Journals
    – Ethics and Deontology in Research

DBA Thesis Workshops

  • Research Follow-Up Workshops
    – Workshop 6: Reflection on the Discussion and Managerial Implications
    – Workshop 7: Mock Defense of the DBA Thesis
  • Writing and presenting the DBA Thesis
    – Writing the Discussion and Managerial Implications
    – Drawing Up a Summary of Managerial Implications in a Managerial Article Form
    – Presentation of the DBA Thesis at the DBA DAYS
  • DBA Thesis Defense

Diploma requirements:

  • Writing a DBA thesis accepted by the DBA Supervisory Committee
  • Successfully defend the DBA thesis before a scientific committee of experts

Research themes

Clermont School of Business DBA is a generalist DBA which covers the range of high-level management activities in organizations. Here, as examples taken from the theses defended, is a list – of course non-exhaustive – of the many possible research themes for doctoral students depending on their orientation.

  • Management of Health care Institutions
  • Digital Economy
  • Innovation Management
  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
  • Human Resources and Talent Management
  • Strategy and Strategic Planning
  • Marketing and Branding
  • Finance and Financial Modeling
  • Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Industries
  • Banking and Financial Services
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Admission

Public concerned:

  • Candidates holding a Master’s degree (Bac+5) with a good command of English who need a doctoral degree to turn towards teaching and research, to build up a file of publications and to join a Business School.
  • Experienced professionals who need a doctoral degree to move into high level management positions, to retrain in teaching and research, and to develop academic expertise in order to set up a consulting business.

Recruitment in a two-stage process:

  • Examination of the applicant file (diplomas, CV, cover letter, letter of recommendation, professional certificates)
  • Motivation Interview

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The possibility to enter all along the semester

The process of enrolling is progressive. We have put in place a ‘start-up process along the semester’ aiming at enabling doctoral students to begin their research in the best conditions. The principle is that, as soon as the registration is confirmed within the semester (Jan-Jun 2024), a DBA supervisor is assigned to the doctoral student who can so benefits from doctoral supervision supplemented by two additional research support workshops, organized during the semester. The scheduling of seminars begins in October 2024.

Candidates therefore have the opportunity to join the program at the time that suits them during the semester preceding the courses. This allows them to benefit from additional individual supervision time with their thesis supervisor, as well as feedback from two doctoral workshops to get a head start on the reading work and the launch of their research, in particular the definition of their research questioning.

Head of Program

Marc Lecoutre
Academic Head

Teachers (selection)

 

Isaac AWUYE

Isaac Awuye holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Clermont Auvergne. He teaches Strategic Management and Financial Accounting. As a member of CleRMA (Clermont Research Management), his research focuses on the quality of financial information and the various factors that influence it.

He joined Clermont School of Business in the 2021-2022 academic year as a Permanent Professor in the Innovation and Development Department and also contributes to the Finance, Economics, Law, and Systems Department.

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Marc BONNET

Professor Emeritus of Universities in Management Sciences, at the IAE Lyon School of Management, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Since 2016, Deputy to the Director General of IAE Lyon, in charge of steering development operations as Executive Dean. Has carried out numerous research-interventions in companies and organizations of various sizes and sectors in France and abroad. His research focuses on socio-economic management, organizational development and the conditions of socially responsible capitalism, themes on which he has published several books. Research Director within the Socio-Economic Management Group (iaelyon Research Center / ISEOR (Institut de Socio-Économie des Entreprises et des Organisations). Co-founder and co-responsible until 2021 of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program supported by iaelyon and the University of Balamand (Lebanon), and is very involved at the Academy of Management (AOM).

Sébastien FOSSE

After a long international experience in Management Consulting and Digital Transformation, mainly in Germany, Austria and France, Sébastien Fosse became a Professor in Management Sciences. A member of the faculty of Clermont School of Business, he teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, qualitative methods and Corporate Social Responsibility. Previously, he taught for several years in Latin America, Spain, and France. He is currently a Invited Fellow at the Center for Information Management at Loughborough University (UK). His research focuses on the link between group identity, organizational performance and social progress.

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Helga FOURE-JOOPEN

Helga FOURE-JOOPEN joined Clermont School of Business in 1979. Working first in the field of language training, intercultural and the development of International Relations, she then joined the Organization and Management department with a thesis in science management in 2014 as Professor of Management. She works as head of several MScs, Head of DBA partnership relations with United Arab Emirates (Dubai). She publishes mainly on intra- and inter-organizational communication, knowledge sharing and trust in organizations.

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Arnaud GORGEON

Arnaud GORGEON is Professor of Information Systems at Clermont School of Business. He holds an engineering degree from the Engineering School of Polytech Orléans, an MBA from IE Business School and a PhD in Information Systems from UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research focuses on how organizations anticipate and manage the unexpected when they innovate through information and communication technologies.

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Marc LECOUTRE

Professor Emeritus in organizations and management, Academic Head of the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) Program at Clermont School of Business. Researcher at CleRMa (UCA-IAE Auvergne / Clermont School of Business), his research and teaching specialties focus, within the framework of the regime of social and organizational innovations imposed by the knowledge economy, on relational forms of cooperation, the role of social networks in the management of organizations and non-standard management practices. He recently published an article on the creativity process, published in the journal Innovations “The process of bisociation, at the heart of the making of ideas. The case of a managerial innovation”.

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Jean-Luc MORICEAU

Jean-Luc Moriceau is Professor at the Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, where he teaches Research Methods. He defends a humanist approach to organizations and research, and is a specialist in qualitative approaches, with an emphasis on inventive methods and the reflexivity of the researcher. All research must articulate true exposure to the field and theoretical equipment, drawing on the variety of management theories with an openness to other human sciences such as ethics, ethnography, philosophy or critical approaches. He regularly collaborates with Brazil, the Netherlands and Canada. He has published six books, including Recherche qualitative en sciences sociales (2019), L’art du sens dans les organisations (2019) or The Magic of Organizations (2020), around a hundred articles and chapters, and has edited seven special issues of journals.

Elda NASHO AH-PINE

Elda Nasho Ah-Pine, doctor in Political Science from Grenoble-Alpes University, is currently professor in corporate social responsibility and geopolitics at Clermont School of Business and is attached to the CleRMa (Clermont Research Management) laboratory at Clermont Auvergne University. Her work develops within the fields of social innovation and the concept of “sustainable entrepreneurship”, media coverage and corporate behavior, the transformation of values and the feeling of belonging.

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Richard SOPARNOT

Richard SOPARNOT is Dean and General Director of Clermont School of Business, and Professor of Business Strategy. He is attached to the CleRMa Research Laboratory (Clermont Research Management) at Clermont Auvergne University. He is Doctor and holds a HDR in Management Sciences. His research and teaching focus on strategic and organizational change, innovation and learning in companies, and the usefulness/relevance versus rigor of knowledge in management science. He is the author of several scientific articles and works in these fields. He has also held faculty, research and campus management positions in French management schools.

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A DBA program also offered in partnership abroad

A partnership open to the world

Clermont School of Business has a long-standing commitment to numerous partners abroad for all its programs. This is the case of the DBA program, with partners in Africa (EPIM), in the Persian Gulf region (Impacters Global Events-Dubai) and in China. Even if doctoral students accepted after selection are registered at Clermont School of Business, applications must be sent directly to the partners who carry out the selection. These partners and their information are detailed below.

Partners abroad

About our partners

 

EPIM – Afrique Subsaharienne

EPIM AFRIQUE est une société de conseil dédiée à l’accompagnement professionnel des salarié(e)s et au développement des entreprises. Elle offre une grande variété de prestations de conseils et de formations.

 

Site Web : https://www.epimafrique.com

Contact : contact@epimafrique.com

Impacters Global Events

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Impacters Global Events is an established company founded in 2005 under the previous name “HF.” It has started its operation in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, after having planned and organized more than 150 successful events throughout the GCC region such as; Istanbul, Tehran, Muscat and Dubai.

During the last 17 years the company has had the presence and support of over 300 Top tier speakers and trainees from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and lastly Australia in many international business events.

IGE is a Pioneer Event Company with the central focus on Management, Leadership training, Business Education and nonetheless, Accredited Higher Education across the GCC region.

IGE has organized seminars, conferences and forums along supplying top celebrity speakers to different events and companies as well as running educational business trips to destination such as; South Korea, Japan, Canada, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland, whilst running academic Training Programs with Internationally Accredited Universities.

 

To Contact the Impacters Global Events and learn about the MBA & DBA Degree programs of Clermont School of Business in GCC region please contact:

Tel: +971-44220567

Mob: +971-561982005

Website: www.Impactersevents.com

Email: CEO@impactersevents.com

Official Representative: Dr. Sepehr Tarverdian – CEO of Impacters Events

NEW IDEA International Education

NEW IDEA International Education was established in 2018 and is headquartered at IMT Building in Shenzhen, and now have branches in Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Chengdu.

NEW IDEA is a platform that provides higher education services at home and abroad, providing students with one-stop services and innovative education solutions for studying abroad or studying in China programs. Empowering business elites, executives of enterprises and institutions, and enterprises with degree education, cultivating management elites with global strategic vision and innovative thinking for various industries and organizations in China.

NEW IDEA has a strong and professional service team, and has become an international academy with complete master’s and doctoral programs and a considerable scale in the international higher education section. NEW IDEA is also committed to building O2O smart education and building an integrated online and offline master’s and doctoral teaching platform.

website: www.imteducation.cn

Contact : reeveshi-newidea@imteducation.cn 

Online Education

Online Education is a well-known education group in China and a leader in the field of high-end training in China. Online Education has branches in Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, Hong Kong and other cities. Since its establishment, Online Education has established exclusive strategic cooperation with more than 7 top universities and business schools in the world. Every year, more than 1,200 entrepreneurs participate in the high-end training programs of Online Education. Online Education builds a platform for Chinese entrepreneurs to understand the world and go out of the world by introducing global high-quality educational resources, and assists Chinese entrepreneurs in their development.

 

Ours specializations: MHCI – Management of Health care Institutions & IM – Innovation Management

Our partner: Guangdong Guoyan Holding (Group) Co., Ltd.

Online Education Official Website: http://online-edu-gpa.com/

RUNSHI EDUCATION GROUP (RSEG)

RSEG is headquartered in Shanghai, China. We are an international, professional, and practical high-end education and training solution platform. RSEG has maintained good cooperative relations with first-class universities and enterprises at home and abroad. We are committed to solving the education and development problems of enterprises and entrepreneurs through international education and training products, helping Chinese enterprises to improve their competitiveness accurately and efficiently, and helping entrepreneurs to solve the problems of high-quality sustainable education. At the same time, through sustainable education and integration of industry and education, to provide students and student enterprises with high-quality, intelligent education and training products and solutions.

 

Our partner: Wuxi Zijing Rongzhi Education Consulting Co., Ltd.

 

Contact: aska.edu@resg.com.cn

Shenzhen BoLing Education

Shenzhen BoLing Company of Education is a company dedicated to Education/Training/Academic Study and research. Founded on March 22, 2017, we have dedicated ourselves to the development of Chinese Education Industry through high-quality programs. BoLing Education holds the idea of “be of one heart and one mind and encourage each other to proceed” and the corporate spirit of practice and striving. With high-quality teachers and education resources, we have been promoting high-quality and licensed education programs. We concentrate on providing counselling services towards advanced educations, providing the best education resources for learners and help build talented entrepreneurs and help entrepreneurs to design the best business pattern designs.

BoLing Education is the first educational institution to open DBA programs in Shenzhen. Multiple EMBA and DBA programs have been held. BoLing is rich in resources and is the top in the industry. BoLing Education has provided the society with a lot of highly talented people. They are from multiple industries in first-tier cities such as the real-estate industry, financial industry, media, education and big data industry. BoLing has cooperated with many cooperative partners to provide an extraordinary platform for members to communicate and help each other with their careers. BoLing is the innovator and leader of high-level degree counselling.

BoLing cooperates with high-level institutions in China closely and introduces high-quality programs from foreign schools to broaden the students’ international views. The certificates are high-quality and are helpful in building a fantastic career.

The BoLing Alumni association carries the idea of “be of one heart and one mind and encourage each other to proceed” and took practical actions to help promote the development of China’s education industry. The values of BoLing Education and the social responsibilities are shown. The Government of Wangdong, Conjiang County and the International Committee of the Red Cross of Congjiang County, Guizhou gave the award and honour of “contribution of love and warm the county”.

YUKIA

YUKIA Education fait partie de YUKIA (Chine), une marque créée en 1999, qui s’est engagée à promouvoir l’éducation et la culture sino-françaises. Pour mieux servir les établissements et les étudiants chinois, YUKIA (Canton) International Education Consulting Co., Ltd a été créée à Canton en 2017. En tant que leader dans le domaine de l’éducation et de la recherche sino-françaises, YUKIA Education est un partenaire stratégique de plus de 50 institutions en Chine. Marcel Xiang est actuellement président-directeur général de Yukia Éducation et représentant général de Clermont Business School en Chine du Sud. Il est titulaire d’un doctorat en administration des affaires. Il a plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans le secteur de l’éducation en France et a une grande expérience des programmes d’études français et chinois. Il a également travaillé dans la gestion de la chaîne d’approvisionnement de grands importateurs et d’entrepôts dans les 500 premiers groupes français Peugeot et Décathlon, puis dans les trois principaux bureaux des affaires étrangères de Lyon, le bureau commercial de l’ambassade de France et le groupe CTS. En tant qu’agent général de Clermont School of Business en Chine, YUKIA a joué un rôle clé dans l’établissement d’un accord d’échange et de coopération entre Clermont School of Business et l’Université des Études étrangères du Guangdong. Cet accord concerne des programmes de double licence, de double master et de crédits de courte durée. Les programmes MIB et DBA de Clermont School of Business sont situés à Guangzhou, avec la coopération de l’éducation Bo Yan, et YUKIA est entièrement impliquée dans l’admission et la gestion de ces programmes.

 

Contact : marcel.xiang@yukia.net

Yunnan Provincial Service Center of Scholarly Exchange

Yunnan Provincial Service Center of Scholarly Exchange (hereinafterreferred to as « Exchange Center ») was registered in Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Market Supervision in June 1999. It is one of thefirsteducational institutions in China and the first one in Yunnan that hasbeen approved by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of PublicSecurity and the State Administration for Industry and Commercetoprovide consulting services for self-funded study abroad programs.

After years of accumulation, the Exchange Center has establishedlong-term and friendly cooperative relations with foreignofficial education departments and more than 1,000 well-known institutionsaround the world. It has been carrying out various kinds of study abroadprograms in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, South KoreaandThailand, without intermediate agencies. At the same time, it providesprofessional overseas follow-up services. Over the past 20 years, theExchange Center has assisted tens of thousands of all kinds of self-funded students, helping Yunnan students to fulfill their dreams of studying abroad and pursuit successful lives. The Exchange Center has experienced all stages of China’s self-fundedstudy abroad industry from the emerging, rapid development, prosperityand transformation of the industry. As the only study abroad educationagency with official background in Yunnan Province, the center hasagood social reputation and professional fame.

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