This is a research-based doctoral degree that will expose participants to an intellectually rigorous programme of study. It is designed to enable participants to synthesise and develop professional practice, theoretical understanding and reflexive capability.

 

Plymouth Business School (PBS) is offering a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) for candidates who wish to draw together both theoretical and practical aspects of leadership and managerial experience. This programme is a high level innovative qualification and a flagship programme for PBS and emanates from the recognition that a DBA is an alternative route for individuals in organisations wishing to research their professional practice at doctorate level. ​

This programme should be of interest to senior executives and managers in the private and public sectors as well as entrepreneurs and consultants. The candidate is central to the DBA and even though doctoral research of this nature concentrates on practicalities it assumes that the organisation and society are continually changing and that these can be related to wider theoretical issues. The DBA will enable candidates to further understand leadership and change and through the study of specific situations make general inferences about practical problems. High level study through the DBA will enable creative thinking regarding specific situations in relation to individual perspectives and organisational contexts.

Through theoretical consideration of practicalities within organisations new perspectives may be brought to historic problems and in some instance this may lead to solutions for organisational difficulties. The interaction between theory and practice through the DBA can provide the candidate and organisation with new perspectives that add value in terms of effectiveness, capability and efficiency.​