PhD in Management - Governance, Organisations and Accountabilities

University of St Andrews

The School of Management at the University of St Andrews is one of the UK's leading business and management schools. It has a distinctive and proud identity as a smaller school focused on research and teaching of the highest quality. The PhD is studied over three to four years (or six to seven years part-time). Students produce a thesis comprising no more than 80,000 words, excluding the bibliography and appendices.The Governance, Organisations and Accountabilities (GOA) group focuses on the ethics, mechanisms and consequences of governance and accountability in profit and non-profit organisations.Group members' research examines the social, moral, economic and environmental effects of organisational arrangements such as accounting practices, regulatory assemblages, and markets. The creation of value and the processes of valuation and classification at work are also examined. Research projects scrutinise the construction of fact, expertise and managerial agency, as well as financial institutions and investment, with studies covering a wide range of geographic and industry areas, including - sustainability and net-zero transitions, business and human rights, ethics and governance, markets and market exchange, philanthropy.

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