Top Ph.D Research Topics for Management & Business Students

Accounting

· Accounting standards-setting

· Analyst forecasts

· Auditing

· Corporate financial reporting issues

· Initial Public offerings

· Internal control

· Mergers and acquisitions

· Securities regulation in international capital markets

· Tax policy

· Taxes and business decisions

Corporate planning

· Aggregate Planning

· B2E Management

· Best Practices

· Brainstorming

· Business Plan

· Capacity Planning

· Decision Rules and Decision Analysis

· Decision Support Systems

· Downsizing and Rightsizing

· Barriers to Entry

· Economies of Scale

· Environmentalism and Sustainability

· Exit Strategy

· Content Management System

· Exporting and Importing

· Franchising

· Free Trade Agreements and Trading Blocs

· Diversification Strategy

· Gap Analysis

· Generic Competitive Strategies

· Globalization

· Goals and Goal Setting

· Group Decision Making

· Location Strategy

· Long Tail

· Macro-environmental Forces

· Make or Buy Decisions

· Manufacturing Resources Planning

· Knowledge-Based View of the Firm

· Market Share

· Mergers and Acquisitions

· Miles and Snow Typology

· Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

· New Product Development

· Open and Closed Systems

· Operations Strategy

· Opportunity Cost

· Order-Winning and Order-Qualifying Criteria

· Porter’s Five Forces Model

· Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle

· Production Planning and Scheduling

· Results only Work Environment

· Strategic Integration, Planning Tools

· Strategic Planning Failure

· Strategy Formulation

· Strategy in the Global Environment

· Strategy Implementation

· Strategy Levels

· Synergy

· Up selling

· Zero-based Budgeting

Management

· Creativity and innovation

· Empowerment and empowering leadership

· International expansion

· Learning & Long-term decision making

· Mergers and acquisitions

· Multi-level theory

Process

· Social networks & Corporate alliance

· Strategic entrepreneurship

· Strategic human resource management

· Teams in organizations

Legal matters

· Affirmative Action

· Computer Networks

· Computer Security

· Corporate Governance

· Corporate Social Responsibility

· Discrimination

· Diversity

· Downsizing and Rightsizing

· Due Diligence

· Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic

· Funds Transfer

· Employee Assistance Programs

· Employee Benefits

· Employee Compensation
Employee Evaluation and Performance Appraisal

· Employee Recruitment

· Employee Screening and Selection

· Employment Law and Compliance

· Ethics

· Executive Compensation

· Human Resource Management

· Insider Trading

· Intellectual Property Rights

· Job Analysis

· Leveraged Buyouts

· Management Audit

· Management Control

· Mergers and Acquisitions

· Non-Compete Agreements

· Patents and Trademarks

· Personality and Personality Tests

· Privacy, Privacy Laws, and Workplace Privacy

· Quality of Work Life

· Risk Management

· Safety in the Workplace

· Succession Planning

· Sunshine Laws

· Technology Transfer

Finance

· Asset pricing models

· Capital structure  

· Corporate governance

· Corporate management behavior

· Cost of capital

· Credit risk

· Culture and finance

· Dividend policy

· Financial distress & Risk management

· Healthcare finance

· Institutional investors

· Insurance markets

· International finance

· Macro finance

· Market efficiency

· Mutual & hedge funds

· Real estate values

Marketing

· Big data analytics

· Branding in developed and emerging markets

· Cognitive computing applications

· consumer behavior

· Consumer search and decision making

· Consumer social networks and social media

· Creativity & identity

· Digital marketing and analytics

· Digital strategies for customer relationship management  

· E-commerce and online retailing

· International marketing

· Interpersonal social networks

· Marketing-finance interface

· Mobile marketing

· Product design

· Quality and innovation

· Sales management and innovation

· Social interaction & effects

Information and operations management

· Applications of operations research

· Auction theory and applications

· Database design and security

· Database management

· Design scheduling

· Distributed computing and client/server technology

· Economics of information

· Electronic commerce

· Healthcare information systems

· Information system economics

· Management of technology

· Manufacturing systems

· Network modeling and analysis

· Optimization techniques

· Planning & strategy

· Production scheduling

· Supply chain management

· Telecommunication

1. 

A unit of social responsibility and ethical behavior in the modern world

2. 

Activist groups tactics to influence companies

3. 

Aging and work motivation

4. 

Artistic methods and business disorganization

5. 

Arts management issues in the 21st century

6. 

Balance of trade and payments

7. 

Balancing the implications of work by employees and understanding the impacts for individuals and organizations

8. 

Business imitation

9. 

Business process outsourcing management issues

10. 

Career management

11. 

Careers in transition

12. 

Challenges of implicit leadership theories for management

13. 

Change agency in 21st-century organizational life

14. 

Collaborative innovation: web-based tools for customer involvement in new product development

15. 

Comparative economic systems

16. 

Conflict management in work teams

17. 

Constraints on strategy of an organizational structure

18. 

Co-opetition: promises and challenges

19. 

Coordination in global teams

20. 

Corporate entrepreneurship

21. 

Cultural differences in perceptions of fairness in organizational contexts

22. 

Culture-sensitive global strategies

23. 

Diversity and diversity management in the age of globalization

24. 

East asian economies

25. 

Economics analyses of issues and markets

26. 

Economics of energy market

27. 

Economics of property law

28. 

Electronic monitoring of personal web use at work

29. 

Emerging areas in economics including behavioral economics

30. 

Emotion in organizations

31. 

Employee wellness programs

32. 

Environmental supply chain management

33. 

Ethical manufacturing

34. 

Ethics and economics

35. 

Ethnic and minority enterprise

36. 

Everything about microeconomics

37. 

Evolutionary economics

38. 

Evolving aspects of outsourcing to india

39. 

Excessive work and its business aftermath

40. 

Exchange rates

41. 

Experimental economics

42. 

Practical and theoretical areas of strategic pay-level decision making; External competitiveness

43. 

Facilitating mobile and virtual work

44. 

Factors inpacting women managers’ success

45. 

Family-friendly organizations

46. 

Feminist economics

47. 

Flexible labor

48. 

Fostering social and civic responsibility by organizations and their people

49. 

Future directions in labor relations with fresh perspective

50. 

Global mind-set

51. 

Global projects as new organizational form

52. 

Globalization and inequality

53. 

Government budgets and inflation focusing

54. 

Governmental impedimentation and facilitation of entrepreneurship

55. 

High technology entrepreneurship

56. 

Holistic approaches to business planning

57. 

Hospital planning for weapons of mass destruction incidents

58. 

How entrepreneurs restart their failed business and sustain it?

59. 

Hrm best practices and transfers to the asia pacific region

60. 

Human resources management in the 21st century

61. 

Improving velocity of supply-chain information, product customization and cost through extended organization applications

62. 

Information privacy in organizations

63. 

Innovation as a strategy in network markets

64. 

Integrating corporate responsibility in the management of supply chains

65. 

Integrating plurality: toward an integral perspective on leadership and organization

66. 

Intercultural communication: strategies for managing intercultural dimensions of business

67. 

International finance

68. 

International trade and trade restrictions

69. 

Internationally managing in the face of terrorism-induced uncertainty

70. 

Intrinsic motivation in public organizations

71. 

Investment management in economic theories

72. 

Knowledge management: strategy, culture, intellectual capital, and communities of inquiry

73. 

Language issues in multinational management

74. 

Leadership in interorganizational networks

75. 

Leadership style: developing a leadership style to fit 21st-century challenges

76. 

Macroeconomic models with policies

77. 

Management in developing countries

78. 

Managing creativity and innovation in the 21st century

79. 

Managing in the new economy: restructuring white-collar work in the united states, the united kingdom, and japan

80. 

Managing intangible capital

81. 

Managing philanthropic organizations for creativity

82. 

Mass customization

83. 

Matching markets

84. 

Motivating individuals and groups at work in the 21st century

85. 

Multilingual issues in global e-commerce web sites

86. 

Neuro-economics

87. 

New approaches for cultivating and nourishing communications networks

88. 

New product and service development in strategic alliances

89. 

Organization development in the 21st-century

90. 

Organizational crisis management

91. 

Organizational emergence: business start-up issues

92. 

Organizational memory: why does it matter?

93. 

Organizational paranoia; the origins and unsuitable consequences of exaggerated distrust and unreliance in the workplace

94. 

Organizational politics in management settings

95. 

Organizational security

96. 

Place and space strategies for 21st-century organizations

97. 

Planning effectiveness for internet-based interorganizational systems

98. 

Poverty salvation as a corporate issue

99. 

Remote leadership

100. 

Scope and methodology of economics

101. 

Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise

102. 

Strategic decisions in high-velocity contexts

103. 

Strategic planning in new facets

104. 

Supply chain management: integration and globalization in the age of e-business

105. 

The changing nature of mid- and late careers

106. 

The competitive advantage of interconnected firms

107. 

The economics of fair trade

108. 

The european economic and monetary union

109. 

The evolving nature of teamwork; transforming to meet the future requirements

110. 

Work of a global manager; crossing boundaries of countries, distance and inter-cultures

111. 

The merger paradox: determinants and effects

112. 

The state of organization development

113. 

Toward sustainable organizations for the 21st century

114. 

Transnational teams in knowledge-intensive organizations

115. 

Understanding and managing misbehavior in organizations

116. 

Understanding and overcoming the green wall: environmental strategy, leadership, and change management in business

117. 

Unique aspects of managing sports organizations

118. 

Important business requisite for implementing rfid?

119. 

Why catastrophic organizational failures happen

120. 

Why do firms comply with environmental regulations?

121. 

Why self-set goals may sometimes be non-motivating

122. 

Winning in asia

123. 

Work-home interaction: a challenge to human resources management

124. 

World development in historical perspective